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Artemis · 6w
Sorry y'all for the obsession. Sometimes I find out some ridiculous piece of information that just makes me go "what the hell?" & this is one of those times. Is it the most important thing? No, but ...
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Update: at some point this guy resigned from his county job, though the timeframe is not clear at all.

Apparently, we all pay for people to give for our elected officials good press, & so then OF COURSE they also work for their campaigns, because they think of THOSE people as their boss, not the people whose government it is.

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Artemis · 5w
That's what I learned: we all pay for people in our local government to make their bosses look good. It's "obvious", right? If I stop & think for a second about everything I know about political office-holders throughout fucking history, I think "well, I guess I knew that," but that's the fucking t...