If Moms for Freedumb and their ilk continue their attacks on other people's kids and the public schools, the result is that the curious (99% of the teenage population) will get their curiosity satisfied in the dark corner of the web or in a closet instead of learning about these things in the somewhat controlled environment of the school library.

>Stop trying to defend and protect pedos

The issue re SOL and "the people's business" relates directly to the work of Shapiro, Rozzi and others as to coverups within the Catholic Church. Not about Epstein, Clinton, donnie dumpster fire, Gaetz or any Windsor. Does the proposed amendment even affect those guys? Your reddit front page is irrelevant.

Yes, accepting $100,000 in political bribes is a great example of the amount of money thrown into politics like it’s nothing- the idea that these political bribes are so effective in dictating policy that spending 6+ figures in campaign donations is economically viable for companies. And yes, the idea that NS only offered him $1,000 and expected that to be enough of a political bribe to sway his policies means that Mastriano can be bought out for that cheap of an amount. Accepting any amount of money as a political bribe is bad- but if you’re going to do it, you’d think you would want more, or reject lower offers on principle alone. Taking 1k is the equivalent of agreeing to suck someone off in the walmart parking lot for a gallon of DEF & a pack of newports.

Maybe try the “hurr durr Reddit CriNgE! fuNnY! hE hE ho Ho!” meme with something else instead, because it doesn’t make any sense here.

Just remember: it’s not news if you don’t like it!

you have any idea how cheap it is to bribe a politician nowadays.

who cares what that loser says.

Just because you don’t like their content or skew doesn’t mean the individual fox stories aren’t accurate. Fox News news desk is a perfectly respectable outlet. They made that call on Arizona and regularly put out well sourced news. It’s true that it has a conservative bent and as an outlet make the editorial decision not to do news that doesn’t help conservatives. However, that doesn’t mean you can write off the accuracy of a very well sourced story just because you don’t like it.

It’s right in Norfolk Southern’s own filings on their political activities webpage.

To be fair, that’s a pretty immaterial amount in terms of the overall funding he received.

God I hope not. Having lived places that had it, then eliminated it, then kept switching time zones to try to make it work all year…just change the clocks, but do it Friday night instead of Saturday.

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It's also worth noting that prior to his 2022 run for Governor he was kind of an unimportant fringe figure in the state GOP. Republican leadership in the state legislature hated him and stripped him of committee chairmanship after various public feuds, including over pushing too hard on the election fraud craziness.

He probably wasn't seen as important enough to influence, he was just another rank and file Republican who got the standard donation. Of course once Republican primary voters handed him the nomination in 2022, Republicans fell in line because that's what they always do.

Doesn't look like the NS fund posted their contributions for 2022 yet...

Yeah, that’s my take as well. With as much grifting as he was doing it’s hard to keep track. “And the money kept rolling in”- Evita

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> That's not true, according to campaign finance records. Since 2019, Mastriano has in fact received $1,000 from Norfolk Southern's political action committee, the Good Government Fund, per filings with the Pennsylvania Secretary of State. The last contribution, amounting to $500, came in 2020 when he was running for reelection to the state Senate.

Searching for the NS "Good Government Fund" finds this page on their website where they disclose their contributions:

http://www.nscorp.com/content/nscorp/en/about-ns/government-relations/political-activity-and-political-contributions.html

Seems like they only allocate about a half million per year to these activities, but it's spread out over like 20 pages of candidates. Looks like $500 per cycle is a pretty common amount for them to allocate to state legislative candidates.

http://www.nscorp.com/content/dam/nscorp/get-to-know-ns/government-relations/Political-Activities-Report/2020/2020-political-contributions-report.pdf

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I emailed Brian Fitzpatrick about the Sunlight Protection Act. Needless to say, he did not respond.

I am not surprised. Mastriano is a liar and horrible person in general.

Doug Mastriano is easily bought.

No. The US Senate passed a bill last year, but it got no further and died on the vine. There’s no big push to revive the effort.

The source is god awful trash that is constantly peddled across subs on this site masquerading as “news.”

He’s given 100,000$ Reddit: He’s corrupt! Burn him at the stake!

He’s given 1,000$ Reddit: The corporation didn’t think he was worth much, tee hee!

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Just don't send it in. I never have and nobody's banging my door down looking for my historical license plate decoration keepsakes.