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Worthwhile products sell themselves. So it’s always been strange to me that some companies selling solar power systems resort to the skeeviest sales practices imaginable telemarketing, robocalls, hyper-aggressive salespeople.
Solar power is a good thing. It’s part of the solution to climate change.
Yet some players in this industry go out of their way to come off as disreputable. Just the other day, a solar salesman I encountered while walking my dog wouldn’t take no for an answer, trying three times to get me to stop and hear his pitch.
But the following story really takes the cake.
Kevin McCarthy s strange real estate saga: A luxury condo in D.C. and a tract house in California Salon 1 hr ago House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif. Caroline Brehman/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy has evidently been living the high life when he s at work in Washington. But back in his home district in Bakersfield, California, McCarthy leads a far less glamorous existence, posing the question of how he affords his luxurious digs in the nation s capital.
McCarthy s home in Bakersfield home is a modest, middle-class residence, a 1,571-square-foot tract house built in 1987, with three bedrooms and two bathrooms, that the congressman and his wife purchased in 1996. According to Zillow, the home has an estimated market value around $300,000, and according to McCarthy s 2019 financial disclosure he has a mortgage on the home of between $50,001 and $100,000. Salon is not publishing t
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McCarthy Skirted Ethics Rules To Rent Pollsterâs Luxury Pad
A watchdog group has filed an ethics complaint against House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, accusing him of lying about a luxury apartment he rented from a top Republican pollster. This comes as he works to remove the only woman on his leadership team for telling the truth about Donald Trump.
The Campaign for Accountability asked the Office of Congressional Ethics on Friday to investigate whether the California Republican broke House rules by renting a room in Frank Luntz s Washington, D.C., condominium at below-market rates â which could have been an illegal and unreported gift.