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No stock trading, a hefty home mortgage, and more than $120,000 from Liberty University: Here's what we know about newly-elected Speaker Mike Johnson's personal finances
Business Insider via Yahoo ^
| October 26th, 2023
| Bryan Metzger
Posted on 10/26/2023 9:48:54 AM PDT by Mariner
House Speaker Mike Johnson is much less wealthy than other members of Congress.
He doesn't trade any stocks and has a home mortgage valued between $250,000 and $500,000.
He's made more than $120,000 since 2018 teaching online classes at Liberty University.
The new speaker of the House is not as wealthy as most of his colleagues.
That's perhaps the biggest insight one can draw from eight years of financial disclosures filed by Rep. Mike Johnson since 2016, when he first ran to represent Louisiana's 4th congressional district.
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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: attemptedscandal; desperate; establishment; smearcampaign
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They may have found the last honest man in Congress.
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posted on
10/26/2023 9:48:54 AM PDT
by
Mariner
To: Mariner
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posted on
10/26/2023 9:50:06 AM PDT
by
Chickensoup
(Genocide is here. Leftist extremists are spearheading the Genocide against conservatives. )
To: Mariner
Being “poor” is not a sign of honesty. Honesty is a sign of honesty.
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posted on
10/26/2023 9:50:40 AM PDT
by
Sacajaweau
( )
To: Mariner
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posted on
10/26/2023 9:50:58 AM PDT
by
ifinnegan
(Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
To: Mariner
these fake news CLOWNS will probe this guy 10,000 times more than they did Hunter or Joe or fake doctor Jill or Schumer or Pelosi or Newsome.
His crime: being a conservative.
I won’t be surprised if some jackball prosecutor in New Orleans brings charges against him just like the moronic charges against Trump in NYC.
Lawfare against conservative Republicans is now part of the landscape until there are severe consequences for the Demon Rats.
To: Mariner
Geez, where is the deep dive into the finances of Democrats when they take office?
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posted on
10/26/2023 9:53:17 AM PDT
by
fhayek
To: Mariner
He should rush out and put down $2.75M for a house. In cash. See if the media thinks that’s at all odd. Would that sort of behavior deserve an investigation? [shrug] Who is to say?
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posted on
10/26/2023 9:53:52 AM PDT
by
ClearCase_guy
(They say "Our Democracy" but they mean Cosa Nostra.)
To: Mariner
A guy like this doesn’t belong in the swamp. That must be why the swamp creatures hate him.
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posted on
10/26/2023 9:54:07 AM PDT
by
dforest
To: Mariner
He’s gonna get the biggest anal-ysis probe of his life.................
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posted on
10/26/2023 9:54:45 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
To: Mariner
What a fantastic idea, let’s see financial details for all of our elected officials.
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posted on
10/26/2023 9:55:17 AM PDT
by
everlast
To: Mariner
Meanwhile, Sandy Cortez went from raiding the tip jar in a cheap dive to being a multi-millionaire in just a couple of years of being a congressthing.
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posted on
10/26/2023 9:55:29 AM PDT
by
NorthMountain
(... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
To: Mariner
The deep state will make every effort to find dirt on the new speaker. Then they will start creating it. Expect accusers to start coming forward to report malfeasances shortly. The allegations will be old enough and sufficiently vague as to make denying them almost impossible. Count on it.
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posted on
10/26/2023 9:56:51 AM PDT
by
Spok
(It takes a lot of learning to understand how little we know. (Paraphrasing Thomas Sowell.))
To: Recovering_Democrat
Here's what we know about newly-elected Speaker Mike Johnson's personal finances
and this is relevant because ...?
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posted on
10/26/2023 9:57:07 AM PDT
by
canuck_conservative
(there would be no more need for NATO, if Russia could just stop attacking its neighbors)
To: Mariner
Lots of good signs about this guy Johnson so far - we may have gotten lucky.
To: canuck_conservative
and this is relevant because ...?
Because this guy has a direct impact on our taxes, as do all members of Congress. I'd like to see financial reports on every single one of them - how are they making their money? Who's paying them? Are they rich and if so, how did they get their money? Was it at our expense?
To: Mariner
I am shocked.
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posted on
10/26/2023 10:00:41 AM PDT
by
Harmless Teddy Bear
(Keep America Beautiful by keeping Canadian Trash Out. Deport Jennifer Granholm!)
To: Mariner
Business Insider via Yahoo - read no further.
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posted on
10/26/2023 10:01:39 AM PDT
by
gibsonguy
( )
To: dforest
Mr Smith Goes to Washington
(Only, as a Rep/Speaker, not a Senator :)
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posted on
10/26/2023 10:01:42 AM PDT
by
Jane Long
(What we were told was a conspiracy theory in ‘20 is now fact. Land of the sheep, home of the knaves)
To: Mariner
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posted on
10/26/2023 10:02:51 AM PDT
by
stars & stripes forever
(Blessed is the nation whose GOD is the LORD. (Psalm 33:12))
To: Sacajaweau
He is not poor.
But he does seem to have shunned the traditional, more then slightly shady, ways that most congresscritters choose to enrich themselves.
It has always puzzled me how people can go into government in debt and in less then a decade become multimillionaires.
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posted on
10/26/2023 10:03:22 AM PDT
by
Harmless Teddy Bear
(Keep America Beautiful by keeping Canadian Trash Out. Deport Jennifer Granholm!)
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