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To: JohnM who wrote (391733)	12/14/2018 10:45:01 AM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 544209

Quote of the Day Political Wire by Taegan Goddard “The fact that she’s been speaker and will be speaker again is testimony to her enormous ability, her toughness, her off-the-charts work ethic, and her ability to interact with people and negotiate with people and come to a conclusion. She works harder than any human being I’ve ever known.” — Former House majority leader Richard Gephardt (D-MO), quoted by the Washington Post, about Nancy Pelosi.

To: JohnM who wrote (391733)

12/14/2018 12:27:10 PM

From: koan

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Didn't Duncan Hunter win that election?

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The Corruption of the Republican Party
Political Wire
by Taegan Goddard

George Packer: “The corruption I mean has less to do with individual perfidy than institutional depravity. It isn’t an occasional failure to uphold norms, but a consistent repudiation of them. It isn’t about dirty money so much as the pursuit and abuse of power—power as an end in itself, justifying almost any means. Political corruption usually trails financial scandals in its wake—the foam is scummy with self-dealing—but it’s far more dangerous than graft. There are legal remedies for
Duncan Hunter, the defeated representative from California,
who will stand trial next year for using campaign funds to pay for family luxuries. But there’s no obvious remedy for what the state legislatures of Wisconsin and Michigan, following the example of North Carolina in 2016, are now doing.”