25 years in Congress = 1.3 to 2.9 million net worth with a million dollar home in PR and a 70,000 a year pension. Not bad.
Wasn’t he a cab driver before coming to Congress?
Yes, he was, but he was able to give up cab driving when Mayor Harold Washington groomed him for a spot on the City Council and appointed him to a city commission with a salary before the aldermanic election.
Imagine being a poor passenger stuck in a taxi cab with Guitierrez as the foul mouthed driver!