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The search of "Squad" Rep. Ilhan Omar's home should extend to her bank account.
While the feds are at it, scrub Rep. Ayanna Pressley's, too.
Omar reports assets falling between $20,006 and $125,000, according to Congressional financial disclosure reports.
Pressley's total reported asset range is $2,250,005 to $7,501,000, the Congressional site states. Both Congresswoman, fellow Squad members, have husbands who are high earners.
Omar has valued her husband Tim Mynett's venture capital management firm, Rose Lake Capital LLC, at $5 million to $25 million, and his winery, eStCru LLC, at between $1 million and $5 million, according to Forbes.
Pressley's husband, Conan Harris, co-owns the Boston firm CoJo Partners along with the interim Executive Director of the Massachusetts Convention Center Authority (MCCA), John Barros.
Harris is part of the development arm of the $2 billion Springfield courthouse project, as the Herald has reported. That project has been backed from the governor on down but is still mired in a legal challenge by the losing bidders.
Looking in from the outside are taxpayers, and that's what's wrong with this picture.
Who is looking out for the interests of those who need to calculate how the state's tax burden will eat into their paycheck? The Herald is sure trying, but it is getting worse.
President Donald Trump announced that he will no longer use taxpayers' money for ads that promote his political achievements. That cost exceeds $20 million, according to political ad tracker AdImpact. U.S. District Judge Jennifer L. Rochon in New York sided with Common Cause, ordering those ads off the air pronto.
The Omars, Pressleys, and even Trumps of the nation need to cease focusing on their bank accounts and try working for the voters who elected them.
We can debate the politics of it all at a later date, but today, with the cost of just about everything rising, it's time to demand that our elected officials make their money in the private sector and opt to serve for the greater good — not enrich themselves.
Omar has done backflips to distance herself from her husband's wealth. Pressley will lash out at just about anything as long as her husband's dealings remain off-topic.
Both parties are guilty. The U.S. House passed the Stop Insider Trading Act (H.R. 7008) in July, and that's a start. Omar and Pressley voted against it, according to the Congressional roll call vote. Luckily, it still passed 232 to 198. The bill did include an unrelated provision requiring photo identification to cast a ballot in federal elections. That said, the legislation did not apply to the president.
But ask someone in the gas line or at the checkout counter if they care about the nuances of the bill. Getting rich should not be a perk of being elected — and that goes for everyone!
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