Why did the journalist state it was as high as " $149 million in various assets in her new disclosure filing released Saturday morning "? If that’s accurate, is that a problem?
“149” appears in only one spot in the linked article: “Rice, who is among the wealthiest members of the Biden White House team, dramatically increased her wealth since her previous White House job during the Obama administration, reporting between $36 million and $149 million in various assets in her new disclosure filing released Saturday morning.”
You appear to be cherry picking the very highest possible amount when in reality the source OP cites it as the upper limit of a range.
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I gave the other end of the spectrum to the one sided post I was responding to.
Not to mention it would be a voluntary agreement, want the job, agree not to lobby for x amount of time.
So how would it be enforced?
More than you’d think.
Specifically, what “corruption” means, in a legal context.
Lots of goofy generalizations here.
Who are “they”? The left as a whole? Liberal politicians?
Or the actual specific people this thread is ostensibly about? If that’s the case, by all means - support your claims.
How so?
Both Citizens United and the issue of how to deal legally with lobbying address the same Constitutional question.
In the interest of preventing corruption and the appearance thereof, to what extent it an imposition on the First Amendment permitted?
In both cases, the question becomes - what is corruption?
Citizens United defined it very narrowly - as a quid pro quo transaction exclusively.
Citizens United was a 1st Amendment issue.
So is lobbying.
The “corruption” addressed in Citizens United was a claimed threat of future corruption made by the FEC. It hasn’t happened. In fact the opposite has.
Was Citizens United lobbying?
No, the corruption - or the appearance/potential of it - addressed in Citizens United is the influence of money on political decisions.
No. Lobbying is petitioning the government. Citizens United was petitioning the people.
Potential future influence as claimed by the FEC in making their case.
The narratives of White Privilege and Systemic racism is constantly used by the Left - from politicians, those on TV, and people here - to talk about how unfair America is and how that keeps people down. Do you follow politics much?
Income inequality is another narrative used by the Left to promote how unfair America is as well.
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Citizens United was not petitioning the people.
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Sure they were. They were petitioning the people to disapprove of Hillary Clinton.
Why is it that you complain about people broadbrushing you as a Trump supporter - in a thread where your entire thesis is to broadbrush the entire left?
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Come on man.
What do you think they were doing?
