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Here’s an article on their front page today on a few thousand dollars in campaign contributions, no allegations of fraud or anything illegal: https://www.propu
by twoodfin 7mo ago
Here’s an article on their front page today on a few thousand dollars in campaign contributions, no allegations of fraud or anything illegal:
https://www.propublica.org/article/sean-duffy-michael-alfonso-congress-transportation https://www.propublica.org/article/sean-duffy-michael-alfons...
The Teamsters bailout was something like a million times that, from a Democratic president to a critical Democratic constituency.
- toomuchtodo 7mo agoTeamsters members in a majority voted for Trump. Google it. Biden helped people who didn’t value it. You blame Biden for “buying support” when it didn’t help Democrats; he did it because it was the right thing to do to protect the retirement promises made to union workers. Can’t fix uneducated, unsophisticated voters I suppose. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/sep/18/election-teamsters-endorsement-harris-trump https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/sep/18/election-tea... https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/sean-obrien-sold-labor-to-trump-and-got-nothing https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/sean-obrien-sold-labor-t...
- twoodfin 7mo agoI’m not arguing the merits of the policy. I’m arguing that if the Big Beautiful Bill contained a $70B slush fund for the administration to hand out to its tech buddies, ProPublica would have gone wall to wall.