Mastriano is a dick!

Exactly what I expected. When education, housing, healthcare if for profit, this is what you get. It's all about profit, and nothing to do with the service being provided.

Once again it is the lying that is so disgusting and offensive. He should be in jail.

If he knew, then

>I didn't get any money from that train network

Is a lie. If he didn't know, then

>I know my own finances

Is a lie. Either way, the traitor lied.

All of the GOP candidates have IPC codes on their backs.

The company has been criticized for lobbying against stricter regulation of the rail industry, including a rule proposed during the Obama administration — and rescinded by the Trump administration — that would have required trains carrying hazardous chemicals to be outfitted with more advanced brake technology, The Washington Post reported.

Sums it up right there.

Would he have signed off on the burn off and gone to the Super Bowl forgetting about the entire thing? Cause that’s what Shapiro did. How could it have been worse? Get out of your bubble dude

Look at a map and reconsider your question.

IIRC unprocessed goods should be covered by homeowners insurance, or umbrella. One of the two. It's been a minute since we looked into doing it so agreed, worth it to call your insurance company.

PA is really genuinely friendly towards cottage industry in this way.

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Unfortunately, ignorance of one's own actions is a major component of shamelessness. What needs to happen is that Norfolk Southern needs to be split up like Ma Bell was back in the day. As for Mastriano, losing the election so badly should have reduced some of his cred.

Your argument was making laws against pedophiles won’t stop them. I suppose that is correct, but the “justice” system is currently setup to protect rich pedos and not get justice for their victims. That has to change.

That's the thing. The way the system SHOULD work is companies give what they can to candidates they agree with.

Candidates don't know or care where the money is coming from and their actions don't change.

If you're a company, you give your money to the politician(s) that would make running your company easier. Hopefully that helps them win.

I'd argue it means this is another item on a list non-issue bullshit details that this subreddit is making a fucking mountain out of and that the manufacturered outrage does more harm than good.

I'm near the effected area of this derailment and the only helpful bit of information I've gotten so far has been from a republican congressman (Mike Kelly, shared info on free water/air testing for people in the area). At this point republicans have literally done more to help Pennsylvanians than the daily threads about the derailment and bipartisan bullshit that get posted here on the Pennsylvania subreddit.

I’ve kept my old plates

> There are a million real things to criticize him for. He’s a giant piece of shit. I don’t necessarily think this is one of them.

Agree with this take - there are so many other low hanging fruits to call this guy out for - this one seems like its grasping at straws.

I'm not a fan of Doug Mastriano, but I could believe he didn't even know he received that $1k. That's not a lot.

Dude never held office in Ohio, or anywhere. It's weird this article is trying to put some blame on him for the derailment like they gave him one thousand bucks to go loosen some bolts or something.

Rabbit Hole Run up in Healey best fish around

Political financing is weird.

Are you supposed to have someone on staff who goes through every penny and make sure to turn down any money that you may disagree with?

The issue comes when they are big enough that it affects your policies to try to keep them happy for next election.

We need a compete overhaul of the system, but taking 1k isn't a major issue.

Fair enough. I’m not up in arms about this quote from him anyway. To claim he knows his finances and then he’s wrong just proves he at least doesn’t know his finances.

I wish we’d just stay with standard time, but either way, not monkeying with the clocks and screwing up sleep would be good.

His quote was "I know my own finances. I didn't get any money from that train network."

And he received $1,000 from Norfolk Southern’s political action committee, the Good Government Fund.

There’s a very real chance that he didn’t lie and was just wrong. He may not have known that the Good Government Fund is associated with Norfolk Southern.

There are a million real things to criticize him for. He’s a giant piece of shit. I don’t necessarily think this is one of them.

ouch. not what i wanted to hear. Thanks.

LOL. This is how it went in my brain... Look at old messages with seller... OK... On feb 1st he said yesterday. Carry the 2, March is next to February, March 31st.

Lol. I'm an idiot. January 31st is when he went to the notary. That stinks though. 3-4 months is brutal.

I wish people showed one tenth of the concern for the millions poisoned by the DoD with PFAS that they do for East Palestine. Literally one-tenth.