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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSen. Lindsey Graham and Sen Thom Tillis caught in a pay-to-play scheme: Corruption!
Link to tweet
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/10/busted-two-gop-senators-up-for-re-election-pushed-for-a-controversial-casino-after-receiving-donations-from-gop-megadonor-indicted-for-money-laundering/
malaise
(268,949 posts)Rec
liberal N proud
(60,334 posts)ananda
(28,858 posts)I hope he wins!
OhNo-Really
(3,985 posts)Roger Sollenberger is a staff writer at Salon. Follow him on Twitter @SollenbergerRC.
Roger did all the work on this explosive investigative journalism.
Raw Story always just copies other journalists work.
Link to original story
https://www.salon.com/2020/10/28/lindsey-graham-thom-tillis-pushed-for-controversial-casino-after-donations-from-gambling-mogul/
scarletwoman
(31,893 posts)OhNo-Really
(3,985 posts)Sherman A1
(38,958 posts)Not Little Leningrad Lindsey, he would never do such a thang.........................
My Pet Orangutan
(9,241 posts)that is all
spanone
(135,828 posts)C'mon SC, lindsey thinks you folks are mighty stupid and will re-elect him again....PROVE HIM WRONG.
whttevrr
(2,345 posts)Is there any hope that this could prevent republicans from voting for these guys?
Native
(5,942 posts)A drop in the bucket compared to other corruption schemes. Though there was probably other money that made its way into the senators' private accounts, somehow, someway.
Duppers
(28,120 posts)It's a fact that rethugians will vote for any p.o.s. with an R behind their name.
whttevrr
(2,345 posts)I hope they get caught in the wave and lose.
GoCubsGo
(32,080 posts)if ever. At least, Graham's won't It wouldn't matter to them, anyway. IIOKIYAAR. He has an "R" after his name. That's all that matter to them. These are these are the same people who re-elected an obviously senile Strom Thurmond when he was 100 years old.
jaxexpat
(6,818 posts)bucolic_frolic
(43,139 posts)Congress investigated it in the 1950s, that's what led to regulation so it became impossible for casinos to go bankrupt.
2naSalit
(86,569 posts)I hope they both have their asses handed to them, wrapped in a shit sandwich.
icwlmuscyia
(296 posts)Roland99
(53,342 posts)essaynnc
(801 posts)Burr and Tillis involved. I guess they think that this type of action is okay. This is not the first questionable deal that either one of them has been caught in.
And all the Tillis has on Cunningham for a campaign message is "oh my God he had sex!"
volstork
(5,400 posts)Not.