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The state of Illinois recently had a promotional campaign about this.
The state treasurer— who overcame (but didn’t convincingly put to bed) questions of past corruption— made the rounds of the morning news shows.
There he grandiously handed out oversized checks bearing his signature that had been made out to fawning citizens... who verily gushed over the generosity of the state for giving back to them what was theirs to begin with.
It was essentially a campaign commercial for this schmuck
Makes you want to puke