Posted on 09/21/2023 9:47:06 AM PDT by bitt
It pays to be married to the "Squad."
As Democratic Reps. Ayanna Pressley (Mass.), Ilhan Omar (Minn.), and Cori Bush (Mo.) rage against capitalism from within the halls of Congress, their husbands bring home the bacon, raking in millions through consulting firms, vineyards, and private security operations. The husbands of the "Squad," who appear to be friends in their own right, have seen their financial fortunes rise in line with their wives' political stardom.
Here's how they did it.
Mr. Ayanna Pressley
Three days before Pressley took office in January 2019, her husband, Conan Harris, left his $92,500-per-year position as public safety adviser to then-Boston mayor Marty Walsh (D.) to launch his own consulting business. A convicted felon who served 10 years in prison for drug trafficking, Harris said he launched his firm to provide him more "flexibility professionally."
The move has paid off for Harris. By 2021, he more than tripled his annual salary, earning $350,000 by consulting for nonprofits and businesses in the Boston area. Harris in 2022 earned up to $1.05 million from his consulting businesses, according to Pressley's financial disclosure.
Experts warned at the time that Harris's transition into consulting could pose ethical problems, as it created the appearance that he was trying to profit off his wife's political success. But Harris has shown he isn't afraid to get his hands dirty to bring in business.
(Excerpt) Read more at freebeacon.com ...
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They look like grifting faggots.
The US govt is now a looting/grifting operation. They get rich bankrupting us & our families.
This corrupt system isn’t worth defending.
Of course. They are getting rich off the taxpayers. Capitalism has nothing to do with that.
The squad were all raised in foreign cultures and have the morals of thieves ignoring all laws of the land. They never should have been allowed to run for office.
Studies show if you feel your boss is stealing and getting away with it, it encouages theft down the ranks.
Same thing is happening in our country. DC is setting the stage... for this crap. Say NO to Biden and his goons and to Obama who’s administration started this ‘look away from theft’ crap...
That’s all small potatoes (or rotten tomatoes), I’m more interted in how Obama made his sudden fortune, also McConnell, Schummer, et al.
I’d hold on. Good meal ticket.
Did I read this story and am I remembering it right from about 20 years ago.
Mooshelle was on the board of a hospital in Chicago. Making about 160,000, Her husband elected to the senate. He puts funds into a bill for the hospital, her salary doubles.
guess who wears the vagina in those families.
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ROFL!!!
Exactly!
Guess who gets “pegged” on a nightly basis in those “families”.
Other than the danger of tripping over their aprons while doing the dishes they only have to fear being ridiculed and turned into a punchline. And loss of man cards.
And “Not tonight. I have a country to fundamentally transform into a Marxist-Leninist tyranny.” “Yes, dear.”
No doubt. While the other 2 watch
At the time, she held a lawyer's license and was hired because of it but was not on the board of directors. Who knows what the hell she did.
Once Obama was elected and they moved to DC, she left her $300K job and the hospital never replaced her.
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Well since I haven’t posted this in a couple of weeks I’ll repost it:
Soviet Acknowledged Obama One of Them
https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2122714/posts
Soviet Acknowledged Obama One of Them
National Writers Syndicate ^ | 10/31/2008 | Tom Fife
Posted on 11/2/2008, 2:15:25 PM by thefife
The First Time I Heard of Barack
During the period of roughly February 1992 to mid 1994, I was making frequent trips to Moscow, Russia, in the process of starting a software development joint-venture company with some people from the Russian scientific community. One of the men in charge on the Russian side was named V. M.; he had a wife named T.M.
V. was a level-headed scientist while his wife was rather deeply committed to the losing Communist cause - a cause she obviously was not abandoning.
One evening, during a trip early in 1992, the American half of our venture were invited to V. & T.’s Moscow flat as we were about to return to the States. The party went well and we had the normal dinner discussions.
As the evening wore on, T. developed a decidedly rough anti-American edge - one her husband tried to quietly rein in.
The bottom line of the tirade she started against the United States went something like this:
“You Americans always like to think that you have the perfect government and your people are always so perfect. Well then, why haven’t you had a woman president by now? You had a chance to vote for a woman vice-president and you didn’t do it.”
The general response went something along the lines that you don’t vote for someone just because of their sex. Besides, you don’t vote for vice-president, but the president and vice-president as a ticket.
“Well, I think you are going to be surprised when you get a black president very soon.”
The consensus we expressed was that we didn’t think there was anything innately barring that. The right person at the right time and sure, America would try to vote for the right person, be he or she black or not.
“What if I told you that you will have a black president very soon and he will be a Communist?”
The out-of-the-blue remark was met by our stares. She continued, “Well, you will; and he will be a Communist.”
It was then that the husband unsuccessfully tried to change the subject; but she was on a roll and would have nothing of it. One of us asked, “It sounds like you know something we don’t know.”
“Yes, it is true. This is not some idle talk. He is already born and he is educated and being groomed to be president right now. You will be impressed to know that he has gone to the best schools of Presidents. He is what you call “Ivy League”. You don’t believe me, but he is real and I even know his name. His name is Barack. His mother is white and American and his father is black from Africa. That’s right, a chocolate baby! And he’s going to be your President.”
She became more and more smug as she presented her stream of detailed knowledge and predictions so matter-of-factly - as though all were foregone conclusions. “It’s all been thought out. His father is not an American black so he won’t have that social slave stigma. He is intelligent and he is half white and has been raised from the cradle to be an atheist and a Communist. He’s gone to the finest schools. He is being guided every step of the way and he will be irresistible to America.”
We sat there not knowing what to say. She was obviously very happy that the Communists were doing this and that it would somehow be a thumbing of their collective noses at America: they would give us a black president and he’d be a Communist to boot. She made it quite obvious that she thought that this was going to breathe new life into world Communism. From this and other conversations with her, she always asserted that Communism was far from dead.
She was full of little details about him that she was eager to relate. I thought that maybe she was trying to show off that this truly was a real person and not just hot air.
She rattled off a complete litany. He was from Hawaii. He went to school in California. He lived in Chicago. He was soon to be elected to the legislature. “Have no doubt: he is one of us, a Soviet.”
At one point, she related some sort of San Francisco connection, but I didn’t understand what the point was and don’t recall much about that. I was just left with the notion that she considered the city to be some sort of a center for their activity here.
Since I had dabbled in languages, I knew a smattering of Arabic. I made a comment: “If I remember correctly, ‘Barack’ comes from the Arabic word for ‘Blessing.’ That seems to be an odd name for an American.” She replied quickly, “Yes. It is ‘African’”, she insisted, “and he will be a blessing for world Communism. We will regain our strength and become the number one power in the world.”
She continued with something to the effect that America was at the same time the great hope and the great obstacle for Communism. America would have to be converted to Communism and Barack was going to pave the way.
So, what does this conversation from 1992 prove?
Well, it’s definitely anecdotal. It doesn’t prove that Obama has had Soviet Communist training nor that he was groomed to be the first black American president, but it does show one thing that I think is very important. It shows that Soviet Russian Communists knew of Barack from a very early date. It also shows that they truly believed among themselves that he was raised and groomed Communist to pave the way for their future. This report on Barack came personally to me from one of them long before America knew he existed.
Although I had never before heard of him, at the time of this conversation Obama was 30+ years old and was obviously tested enough that he was their anticipated rising star.
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