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Source-https://www.politico.com/story/2019/08/20/paul-ryan-returns-to-washington-1468994
Paul Ryan moving his family to Washington from Wisconsin
The former speaker is renting a home in the Maryland suburbs. He is not planning to sell his Janesville residence.
By NATASHA KORECKI and JAKE SHERMAN
08/20/2019 05:01 AM EDT.
So what's up there? Ryan made it a point to sleep in his office.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,869 posts)LonePirate
(13,431 posts)Always more room in the swamp for these Republican alligators.
Liberal In Texas
(13,580 posts)hlthe2b
(102,379 posts)Botany
(70,589 posts)Lobbyist no doubt.
All aboard the Gravy Train.
never forget https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/paul-ryan-keeps-it-family-kevin-mccarthy-russia-trump
Greybnk48
(10,176 posts)Another reason for the move could be that he's not exactly beloved in Wisconsin. I'm sure he's o.k. in Waukesha County, but not many other places.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)For many pols, it's very much "How Ya Gonna Keep 'em Down on the Farm After They've Seen Paree?"
DC as a world center of power and wealth is addictive. And not just pols, also journalists and many others who'll do a lot to be able to stay and associate in whatever circles they've managed to achieve. Intrinsically corrupting.
Cracklin Charlie
(12,904 posts)Not outside the realm of possibility these days.
Ask the mooch.
marble falls
(57,275 posts)Dale Neiburg
(698 posts)diva77
(7,659 posts)I'd be if it weren't so
kskiska
(27,048 posts)who claimed he lived in a small house in Pennsylvania, while actually living in a huge house in Virginia.
imanamerican63
(13,817 posts)davsand
(13,421 posts)That probably means Pence is DOA, if the festering anal wart holds to his previous pattern. I guess maybe Ryan could actually be in line, I dunno. He really is a skeevy mo-fo.
Will he and Lindsey have some kind of showdown for the job?
Laura