Discussion: Ex-Speaker Boehner Lands New Gig On Board Of Tobacco Company

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Next, heā€™s shooting for the Board of the Orangeomatic Tanning Bed Company, then Kleenex Tissue.

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The headline like many other recently reads like its from the Onion.

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Clearly Johnny is trying to make up for all those years in Congress by taking on a new career that allows him to maximize the good he is doing for the worldā€¦

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And as the spokesman for Oranginaā€™s new wine spritzer offeringā€¦

Iā€™ll tell you what thoughā€¦I bet he is making BANK in this new job.

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Smoking causes cancers of the lung, esophagus, larynx, mouth, throat, kidney, bladder, liver, pancreas, stomach, cervix, colon, and rectum, as well as acute leukemia. But surely Big Tobacco and Big Orangeman know that.

@maximus The Kleenex will come in handy when heā€™s coughing up a lung. Or to wipe his widowā€™s eyes when he dies.

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Yep, he was never a healthy looking gent to start with. Iā€™m sure the free cases of tobaccky product heā€™s get wonā€™t help him.

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ā€œThank You for Smokingā€ā€¦who knew the movie was a futuristic documentary?

Or, perhaps GOPers lack the depth to see movies that portray bad things as actually bad things and rather see them as instructive for how to live their lives as bad people.

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Does he still have his check-issuing privileges on the House floor?

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Now, thereā€™s a surpriseā€¦

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This is what wingnut welfare looks like at the top end. About $62K a year in cash compensation, an initial award of roughly $150K in stock, and subsequent yearly awards of roughly $85K in stock. For a couple weeks work a year.

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and, notice, that this gig includes a position on the ā€œsustainability committee.ā€ What exactly is being sustained?

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Tobacco farming, which in itself if done wrong will kill the farmer because of the pesticides used in harvesting their cropā€¦

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The ex-SotH is living in the Mad Men '60s and wants everyone to know it. (And how appropriate, given how climate change deniers use the same methods as tobacco/nicotine health impact deniers.) Perhaps heā€™ll endorse aerosol deodorant next.

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ā€œBoehner will also serve on the boardā€™s corporate governance, nominating and sustainability committee, according to the release.ā€

The quintessential smoke-filled rooms.

Wondering if Paulieā€™s ā€˜missingā€™ JBā€™s smoke-----and mirrors?

How much do you want to bet smoking is banned in the boardroom?

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Iā€™m Shocked. SHOCKED I TELL YOU!
ā€¦you know the rest.

Smoking has been banned from RJ Reynoldsā€™ offices since 2014.

No irony there, huh?


I wonder if they have a big tent set up outside ala Governator Schwarzenegger?
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isnā€™t he the shitheel who was giving envelopeā€™s of money right before a vote on tobacco legislation??