• skozzii
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    11 days ago

    TLDR

    First time she filed she was single and had low numbers, second time she filed including her husbands business assets value, which he is a partner in so the numbers are higher than reality.

    People get married and assets go up. Once you learn the details almost everything the right says is misleading.

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      10 days ago

      People get married and assets go up

      Her husband being a multi millionaire is no minor detail. But then multi millionaires are the only ones with the leisure and resources to run for office.

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        But then multi millionaires are the only ones with the leisure and resources to run for office.

        So much this, especially when you layer in things like low term limits. Low term limit caps resulted in two things here: politicians having to run for a different positionevery few years and an outsized share of millions running for office. In either case you wind up with a lot of green elected officials every election and none of the reelected ones have strong networks. This seems to have lead to lobbyists having even more sway than usual along with an increase in partisanship.