I see a lot of irony in the basic concept that, if you have an income of $174,000 and assets worth (let’s say) $30M, people will shrug it off. Nothing to see here.
BUT, if you have an income of $174,000 and assets worth $0, people are quick to jump up and see something wrong. How come you ain’t rich? You must be corrupt.
But I do get it — the woman probably is rich but she filled out paperwork saying she isn’t. That’s wrong. I see it. But it’s just funny that the small assets are noteworthy and big assets are a yawn.
She will have justified the statement by something like saying all of her assets are in a revocable trust or something like that. Promise you, she has a wiggle way around this. It may not be right but in her mind it is.
What bugs so many of us is that people with modest assets get elected to Congress and quickly become worth seven figures on that upper middle class Congressional salary.