• some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
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    4 days ago

    “He did not seek to be greedy. He lived a very frugal life …,” Madigan attorney Dan Collins said. “The rhetoric wants to make Mike responsible for the long history of corruption in Illinois. He is not, Judge. He is one man.”

    He accumulated $40m throughout his career as a public servant. That’s not the least bit greedy. /s

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    Ahh, a self serving congressman. We need one of the signs that keeps track of the time since the last screwup. “It’s been 0 days since a congressman put their interests above those of the people they serve.” Wonder what the record would be. A week?

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      Depends if the sign is measuring the act or the detection of the act. If it’s just the act, it’d be minutes or hours… Not weeks