Discussion: 5 Of The Most Damning Revelations That Preceded 'Downton Abbey' Rep's Resignation

The house thing is not exactly as presented. He bought the lot for 123K (which seems high for Peoria) and sold the house he built, although he received more than comps when he sold the dwelling to that doner.

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Number 6 on the list: Personal photographer named Jonathon With an O making about $70k/yr.
Number 9 on the list: Fact that photographer Jonathon With an O is always IN the pictures.

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All our houses should rise almost $800,000 in value in a little over a decade. Yep, nothing to see there.

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People like this are the same ones who would vote to cut food stamps, and head start.

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Enabling transfer of privately acquired debt onto the public ledger and theft of public assets = Rising GOP star

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Ab Fab Schock

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While itā€™s unclear what exactly prompted the resignation

Exactly the ho-hum tone of the CBS report with the same selected ā€˜outrageā€™ offerings. So, I guess this is the sum total of what weā€™ll know barring an examination by a comedy show.

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Oh please, leave race out of this. Howā€™s Charlie Rangel doing?

You got it. Just like the Catholic church, if you raised good money they ignored your ā€œdeedsā€. If not, you were one of the ones they threw under the bus to cover for the others.

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Vehicle reimbursement is typically a little over 50 cents per mile. For 90,000 miles, thatā€™s about $50k of outright stealing.

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FFS, are we seriously giving Taylor Swift credit for ā€œhaters gonna hateā€ now? That phraseā€™s existence nearly predates her own!

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I think most of them lack ā€œvision,ā€ unless vision refers to picturing oneself at the top of the heap, taking whatever one wants. This guy seemed to think a job in government was a blank check, and when someoneā€™s greed and ambition is so upfront, coupled with what I suppose is an appealing face and personality, to the GOP thatā€™s a star! They donā€™t care for vision, they care for really good salesmen who can keep the gravy train going. I think they saw that in him; he just wasnā€™t established enough for anyone want to protect him when he went too far, and he clearly wasnā€™t very good at hiding his sins.

The GOPā€“Grifters on Parade!

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why isnā€™t this cook in jail???

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GOP fiscal responsibility on display. Now the taxpayers will have to pay for a new election to fill his seat. Is anybody surprised that this grifter was on the GOPā€™s list for a future Presidential candidacy?
Public service is for suckers. Gotta get yours and live large. Screw the people.

i canā€™t believe how stoopid the press sec. was/is. havenā€™t they heard that everything can be retrieved?

Maybe there was a schocking story about Teh Ghey rumors. Corruption doesnā€™t seem to faze these grifters.

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You mean, like Martha Stewart was and Paula Deen deserves to be?

Headline:

Taxpayers reimbursed him for 90,000 more miles car than he actually drove in his personal car

Can anyone find something wrong with that? I realize that editing isnā€™t really a thing anymore, but stillā€¦

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4 He had a near-replica of President Obamaā€™s lectern

Followed by two big gray areas labeled ā€œContent unavailableā€.

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Fiscal CONservative, alright!

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