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In NH General Don Bolduc has pulled ahead of incumbent Maggie Hassan. Bolduc is the hero of the movie “12 Strong”. A movie about a horseback riding Special Forces team led by Bolduc that fought the Taliban in Afghanistan. Hassan barely won her seat 6 years ago by 1000 votes. Looks very good for Bolduc despite a 9 million ad campaign against him. Hassan has a 23 million war chest of out of state money but won’t reveal from who. Mitch McConnell had cut off campaign funds for Bolduc a couple of months ago. Bolduc is basically winging it and winning.
In Vt, 8 term Patrick Leahy is retiring and the Democrat candidate is 75 year old Peter Welch, a Cal Berkley Law Graduate. Need more? If elected, he will be the oldest person ever elected to the Senate in his first term. He was leading the Republican Gerald Malloy by a wide margin but Malloy is closing strong. Vermont is a very strange place.
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8 terms for Leahy. That’s 48 years; right?
let that sink in. We have people “serving” for 48 years.
we need term limits and mandatory retirement ages for legislators.
We also need to tax 100 percent of net revenue earned via books, appearances, apparel, board seats and speaking fees while in elected office and for 5 years after. Too much gray market cash flowing to elected officials.
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I believe book royalties are the only source of outside revenue available to those on the Federal bench?
I know leftists have been trying their best to undo ACB’s $2 million dollar book deal?
the deals are pretty public. Are you troubled by that arrangement?
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[quote quote=6593]I believe book royalties are the only source of outside revenue available to those on the Federal bench? I know leftists have been trying their best to undo ACB’s $2 million dollar book deal? the deals are pretty public. Are you troubled by that arrangement?[/quote]
Absolutely.
Any vehicle that allows for undue influence over a public official should be outlawed.
I can’t bribe an official but I can buy ten thousand copies of their book.
That’s like elementary-school level cheating and we allow it all day long on all sides of the spectrum.
Tell me why it should be ok.
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- “Tell me why it should be ok.”
The money is front loaded in the publisher’s advance before a single copy is sold.
Absent something like this, how do you attract top minds to the bench with the market for legal talent as it exists today? $5-$8 million in per partner profits is tough to compete with.
Here's a toast with one last pour, may it last forever and a minute more;
Good fortune seems to you have sung, to live and love way past long
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[quote quote=6595]
- “Tell me why it should be ok.”
The money is front loaded in the publisher’s advance before a single copy is sold. Absent something like this, how do you attract top minds to the bench with the market for legal talent as it exists today? $5-$8 million in per partner profits is tough to compete with.[/quote]
Having cake and eating it too.
Go be a judge, then retire and go back to your partnership job. Choose. It’s part of life.
The advance is based on estimated book sales, which is really just another form of royalty.
I remain unconvinced. Government service should be akin to priesthood. Put your assets in a blind trust and seek no compensation outside of your government salary and pension. Not enough? Don’t work for the government.
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