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[W:293] Elijah Cummings, dead at 68

tres borrachos said:
That is not rich at all. $1.1 million in holdings and assets. My house is worth 3/4 of that.
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Housing is cheaper here, but yeah, spending that many years in the sewer that is D.C. and only amassing around $1 million in wealth takes some actual effort to NOT be corrupted. If he contributed at all to his federal pension, that's the rest of it, easy.

The assholes dancing on his grave are just showing their own colors here, and they are not pretty.
 
Pound4abrown said:
Maybe not me? Well then you shouldn't have called me out.
The rest of your bull**** is bull****.
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You'd know what that would look like if you ever bothered to read what you say to others in this forum on a daily basis.

Good day, my liberal friend.
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JasperL said:
If you want to make allegations, show the smallest amount of integrity and back them up while you're dancing on a dead man's grave.
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Cut me a break. There's no dancing in Chez Acadia. But you go ahead and lionize the man who left his district rat, (very violent)gang and drug infested, and his constituents far worse off after his 2+decades of living off the taxpayer.
 
Threegoofs said:
Just because you read crappy ‘news’ sites doesn’t mean it’s true.

And he was not a very very rich man.

Elijah E Cummings- Net Worth - Personal Finances • OpenSecrets
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Elijah Cummings’s Wife Used Her Charity To Pay Her For-Profit Company, Documents Show

"House Oversight Chairman Elijah Cummings’s wife has funneled hundreds of thousands of dollars from her charity to her private for-profit organization, according to a previously undisclosed cost-sharing arrangement that multiple experts said raises red flags.

Maya Rockeymoore Cummings’s charity, the Center for Global Policy Solutions (CGPS), paid her for-profit venture, Global Policy Solutions LLC, over $250,000 in “management fees” between 2013 and 2015, according to the charity’s audited financial statements covering those years. The management fees were paid in addition to a cost-sharing agreement where the charity pays for its share of equipment, personnel and other expenditures.

Rockeymoore Cummings’s charity is funded by companies with interests before her husband’s congressional committee, according to the Washington Examiner.

“It’s self-dealing. It’s taking the charity’s resources and turning them into personal profits,” National Legal and Policy Center (NLPC) investigator Tom Anderson told The Daily Caller News Foundation. “IRS law doesn’t allow a charity for this purpose. This isn’t for the public interest, this is for her personal interest. You can’t do that.”

Cummings, a Maryland Democrat, listed his wife’s LLC on his most recent financial disclosure reports as an asset worth between $250,001 and $500,000.

The NLPC filed an IRS complaint against Rockeymoore Cummings’s charity and LLC in May, alleging that companies with interests before the House Oversight Committee are potentially buying favorable treatment from the congressman through their donations to the charity."

FYI.

Cutouts are very popular in congress these days if you have not noticed.
 
TurtleDude said:
and used political spoils and graft to get rich. Ambition, yes, hard work, yes, politically corrupt-yes.
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He wasn't rich, but if you need to lie about the man to attack him, it's all we need to know.

The American way is to be born to a rich daddy. Shame he didn't go that route and he'd have been lionized by many attacking him in this thread.
 
TurtleDude said:
some of them are bible thumping benighted control freaks. Some of them are brilliant machiavellians. One of the Reagan Administration's smartest people was an agnostic Jewish Woman I knew well. I asked her WTF did she oppose abortion and gay rights when she wasn't infected with the bible thumping bigotry. And she noted that by attacking those"rights" she kept leftist feminists on the defensive.

But I have almost as much tolerance for Christian bigots as I have for gun banning lefties.
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Of course, gun banning being your hot button issue.
 
yankintx said:
And as long as a GOP corrupt politician supports the 2nd you could care less about corruption? Lets call it what it is TD.
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I will pick the politician who I believe is most likely to advance my interests or is least likely to harm my interests. If you want to pretend you are different, go ahead.
 
yankintx said:
Of course, gun banning being your hot button issue.
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That, and economic freedom and thwarting the creeping crud of collectivist authoritarianism.

I find those who want to ban guns are the same scum bags who want to impose more and more government control on people. Those who trust honest citizens to be well armed, don't seem to be as enamored with the nanny state as much as gun banners.
 
Acadia said:
Cut me a break. There's no dancing in Chez Acadia. But you go ahead and lionize the man who left his district rat, (very violent)gang and drug infested, and his constituents far worse off after his 2+decades of living off the taxpayer.
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Cut you a break for acting like an asshole making unfounded accusations on the day a man died? I'll just point it out and exit the thread I think. This **** isn't worth the trouble.
 
JasperL said:
He wasn't rich, but if you need to lie about the man to attack him, it's all we need to know.

The American way is to be born to a rich daddy. Shame he didn't go that route and he'd have been lionized by many attacking him in this thread.
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very few people in the USA who are rich can trace their lineage back to rich people for more than 1-3 generations. Most Millionaires in the USA are first generation millionaires.

Remember what the late great Joe Strummer said


Some is rich, and some is poor
And that's the way the world is
But I don't believe in laying back
Sayin' how bad your luck is
 
TurtleDude said:
very few people in the USA who are rich can trace their lineage back to rich people for more than 1-3 generations. Most Millionaires in the USA are first generation millionaires.

Remember what the late great Joe Strummer said


Some is rich, and some is poor
And that's the way the world is
But I don't believe in laying back
Sayin' how bad your luck is
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What does any of that have to do with you lying about Cummings?
 
JasperL said:
He wasn't rich, but if you need to lie about the man to attack him, it's all we need to know.

The American way is to be born to a rich daddy. Shame he didn't go that route and he'd have been lionized by many attacking him in this thread.
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Funny. No one raised the emoluments clause about Cummings, or Obama, or Pelosi, or Sanders, etc. I give Bernie credit. He seems embarrassed to be a one percenter.
 
TurtleDude said:
I will pick the politician who I believe is most likely to advance my interests or is least likely to harm my interests. If you want to pretend you are different, go ahead.
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I have more than one priority, you on the other hand, support a buffoon.
 
trixare4kids said:
You'd know what that would look like if you ever bothered to read what you say to others in this forum on a daily basis.

Good day, my liberal friend.
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I know full well what I post daily.
I am not the one that suffers from acute self-awareness problems.
I also ****ing voted in 16.
You were quick to try to chastise what I'd say in the event of the death of Trump
but nary a ****ing word to the soulless friends you associate with who feel compelled to dance on a grave.
That is your short-coming, no matter how you want to self-aggrandize your position here at DP.
 
akyron said:
FYI
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From your source:

Elijah E Cummings
Rank: 148th in the House

with an estimated net worth of $1,010,005 in 2016.
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For a 68 year old man who's been making a decent living in Congress for more than 20 years, that's just about the bare minimum. It's a house and a small retirement plan.

My own LAMAR!! turned a career in public service into $15-20 million. That's how it's done!
 
Hicup said:
Maybe the folks in Baltimore have a decent shot with their next congressman elect, and I feel for the family, much as it is, he had one, but let's not conflate his political career with his personal. He was noit an honorable man who respected the constitution, please. He was, as most of them are, a piece of crap, and only cared about one singular thing.


RIP, and good ridden.


Tim-
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Classy. What do you for an encore, pee on graves of the deceased?

People like you don't deserve to be in a civil society.
 
JasperL said:
What a sad, pathetic life one must lead to have their day improved by another man's death.
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One fewer racist bigot who did little to serve the people who benefitted him, and harmed the country with his actions, is a good thing in my book.

Couldn't care less what you think about that.
 
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