Agreed. But it was enough to win a U.S. Congressional House race. And he started with less than nothing. No Name. No pull. No muscle. No juice. No magic. No big player pulling strings for him.
My amazement comes from all the people willing to do this work, run these schemes, cook the books…all with a recipe that was concocted and shared among this ‘network’. I know that D politics isn’t spotless, but my guess is there isn’t a bunch of check kiting, credit-card frauding, shell company creating, book cooking, crooked accounting wizards to choose from as the D candidate begins their rise from utter nobody to DC power player. But there IS exactly that kind of growth-medium clone-farm that will provide nurture and sustenance for even the most incompetent R boob you can pluck off a police blotter.
First – great job, TPM. I know your investigations will continue to bear fruit as the investigative team becomes an orchard.
Second – Maybe Weiner has never heard the likes of this happening in Congress, but it sure as heck was happening under all our noses by the former guy, now Inmate #PO 1135809, currently out on bail, for quite a few election cycles, before Santos was in the game.
“Jesus H. Christ on a Pogo Stick” is even madder.
“Jesus H. Fucking Christ” is madder still.
I know there are many madderesters that I will not challenge the moderators with tonight. Not sure I could come up with a definitive “Maddest”. But someone braver than I can try. I would like that.
I have a bad past from my youth. Convicted felon, all that. If I were to run for office as a Democrat, the party would say “Umm,no, we would prefer that you don’t.” Were I to run as a republican, the response would be “Sure,boy! Come on in! Let us show you how we make money from this. Heck, we might name a church after you!”.
