The first served in the early 19th century and left no likenesses behind. The second. Is eliot spitzer. Every day in every state across the country, our political system is bankrolled by an army of fundraisers, pulling in millions of dollars a race. Sometimes it looks like you might imagine knocking on doors, calling every name in the phone book, and emailsso many emails. But for all those little fish throwing 100 to their local race, its the whales those Campaign Fundraisers really need powerful, rich individuals and companies. And when they donate 25,000, 100,000, a million dollars, they want a favor. Or 10. It should be obvious thats corrupt, but with a wink and a nod, political deals toe the bribery line every single day. And we may never have noticed that if a certain illinois governor hadnt flung back the curtain with an unrepentant ego, a political corruption crime spree, and a set of unprecedented Audio Recordings that shined a bright light on the inner workings of american pol
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families of seniors who died of covid-19 in nursing homes. a letter from a group called voices of seniors saying it is clear that you put your own political reputation and personal profit above the well-being of our most vulnerable family members. the cuomo administration has denied any wrongdoing. same goes for the michigan governorship of gretchen whitmer who tells an nbc reporter she s proud how the state handled the pandemic, but the nbc report goes on that covid positive patients were placed as fox news @ night s negative patients. did end that practice after the first six month of the pandemic. the reporter claims whitmer s policy compares from new york cuomo, instead whitmer incentivize the process by taking homes to take patients who contracted covid-19. where defends what you said by saying that there was a national strategy. the quarantines will continue plus facts are that nearly half of debts were happening in nursing homes. and as for former president trump,
growing list of bipartisan lawmakers and the family of seniors who died of covid-19 in nursing homes. a letter from a group called voices for seniors saying, quote, it is clear you put your own political reputation and personal profits above the well-being of our most vulnerable family members. the cuomo administration has denied any wrongdoing, same for the democratic administration of gretchen witmer who told local nbc reporter she is proud of how her state handled the pandemic. the nbc report goes on to detail how covid-19 positive patients were placed in the same facility as covid negative patients. the report explains, quote, the policy different from andrew cuomo because witmer didn t force them to reside with covid negative patients. but incentivize the process by paying homes, she she defends what she did by saying there wasn t a national strategy. the facts are that european studies show half of the deaths were happening in nursing homes. on march 16th of last year d