Weeks before introducing a bill to streamline data center development across Pennsylvania, [Republican] State Sen. Greg Rothman’s real estate firm quietly collected a fee from the $30 million sale of land now hosting the state’s largest proposed data center. Whether that sequence amounts to a conflict of interest — or simply an uncomfortable overlap — depends entirely on who you ask and what standard you think elected officials should be held to.
Gadgetreview.com doesn’t mention that Rothman’s a Republican until the 2nd to the last paragraph for some strange reason. His website doesn’t say ‘Republican’ anywhere on the ‘Home’ or ‘About’ tabs either.
If he were a Democrat it would almost certainly be in the headline or first paragraph.
Gosh, so weird.
I remember some conservative I worked with being butthurt to find out two things - and naturally, he acted like the “liberal media” (lol. rotflmao, even.) was working to “cover it up”.
Those were
Hickenlooper was a Democrat.
Jared Polis was gay. Not that this guy was going to vote for him any way, but he thought more people should know, HEY THIS GUY IS GAY! Because he thought that there is no way he should be allowed in office because of that. He thought that any coverage of Jared should put that in the headline and pretty much only cover that he’s gay.
Meanwhile, I think it’s been most of my life where I’ve seen headlines where some politician is committing a crime, and I have to read the article to find out they are a REPUBLICAN. Even if I can probably guess that, yes, they are a Republican, because it seems that if they are a Democrat, that’s in the headline.
I got a pamphlet in the mail for Cliff Bentz and that did not say ANYWHERE on it that he is a Republican.
They don’t like who they are.
IMO they love who they are, but they also know the majority of voters despise them and what they stand for.
Seems like they made the wrong career move somewhere along the line.
I know a guy that hated people but he bought a motel. Didn’t work out in the long run.
This guy made between $600K - $1.2M on the sale if he only represented the buyer, and that’s without the additional quid pro quo that’s very likely coming his way. Walking away with more than 9x the average U.S. salary (and possibly far more than that) makes me think it’s working out quite well for him.
Crime does pay if you are a conservative.
Crime pays if you get away with it. Being a conservative isn’t the only way, but it sure seems an effective one.