Wednesday, April 25, 2018

QOTD - Pay To Play Politics


We had a hierarchy in my office in Congress,” Mr. Mulvaney, a former Republican lawmaker from South Carolina, told 1,300 bankers and lending industry officials at an American Bankers Association conference in Washington. “If you’re a lobbyist who never gave us money, I didn’t talk to you. If you’re a lobbyist who gave us money, I might talk to you.” -- OMB Director/ CFPB Director/ former ultra- right South Carolina Rep. Mick "Dick" Mulvaney, saying the quiet part loud. Mulvaney got almost $63,000 from payday lenders while in office.  Guess he talked to them a lot.

3 comments:

donnah said...

These guys, Mulvaney, Pruitt, Zinke...pure corruption. The reason Pruitt's still in there is that he's making a real show of gutting the EPA and everything protecting us from pollution, global climate change, and energy independence. They each have goals to destroy their departments in the administration and they aren't even playing innocent about it. They're braggarts and con men, just like their boss. They're a mob family.

DivaNewYork said...

Fucking Tea Party scum.

W. Hackwhacker said...

donnah - the affinity of these grifters to the Grifter in Chief is all based on how much damage they can do on behalf of their plutocrat mentors, all the while living large on the public dime.

Diva - Mulvaney scores the swamp critter trifecta with his Tea Party, Freedumb Caucus and Shutdown Caucus membership. He's as bad as they get.