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Clarence Thomas bought a $267,000 RV using funds from a Democratic donor

www.salon.com Clarence Thomas bought a $267,000 RV using funds from a Democratic donor

The money used for the RV came from a former executive who worked alongside Thomas in the Reagan administration

A report from The New York Times details yet another luxury obtained by Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas using funds from a wealthy associate. In this instance, it's been revealed that he purchased a Prevost Marathon RV in 1999, using $267,230 received from Anthony Welters, a former executive at UnitedHealthCare who worked alongside Thomas in the Reagan administration, per the outlet. In a statement on the matter, Welters said that the funds were considered a loan and that it has since been "satisfied," avoiding the phrasing "paid off," which means it could have been a gift that would have then needed to be disclosed

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Anthony Welters, a former executive at UnitedHealthCare who worked alongside Thomas in the Reagan administration

A Democratic donor who worked for the Reagan admin? Come on now

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- It doesn’t really matter. Thomas is easily bought off and that’s the problem.
  
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  Yeah I don't think anyone was upset because they thought it was only Republicans bribing people. A bribe from a Democrat(ic/lobbyist/whatever) is the problem. Taking the money and not saying anything about it is the problem to me. His co-worker coming out and saying "yeah congress doesn't have any authority over us" last week is a problem to me. All these ruling-class college frat chums paying each other off and fucking everyone else in the process, is a problem to me.
  
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  agree
  
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- I think you misread. The article seems to refer to Thomas’ time when he served in the Reagan administration and working alongside Welters who was an executive at UnitedHealthCare at the time.
  
  I agree it’s awkwardly phrased and hard to follow.
  
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  Looks to me that Weller is an R who worked for Reagan at the time of the donation. His wife may have worked for Obama later on and could indeed be a Dem, or perhaps switched.
  
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- Probably donates so the Dems don’t do single payer.
  
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  the dates and who was actually doing the donating at the time makes a difference.
  
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- I don't care what their politics is. I hope pro publica takes this up and tracks the money to the source and prints eye watering story about it.
  
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  This is the way.
  
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- Why is that hard to believe? Trump used to be a Democrat, Biden voted for anti-LGBQT laws (eg. DOMA), Liz Cheney has recently supported LGBQT rights, etc.
  
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  Trump has never been anything other than a deranged psychopath. He's non-political. What I mean is it really doesn't matter. Corruption is just corruption. The reporting is misleading. That's what I take issue with.
  
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Man, I want a job where people just give me six figures in addition to my salary and I can do whatever the fuck I want with it.

"Good afternoon Bob.".
"Good afternoon, Soda. How's the family?".
"Doing great, not affected by anything I do at work at all.".
"That's great, Soda. Oh by the way here's $300,000"
"Nice, thank you Bob. I'll see you around."

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- That's a day in the life for members of Congress
  
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- That was a mistake on my part, i'd like that money back.
  
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Why can the SC accept donations if they are supposed to be impartial?

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- Cause they're crooked.
  
  Especially Thomas, holy cow.
  
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- There are no rules saying they can't. This is all still legal if completely immoral. SCOTUS is a co-equal branch of the government which in the past had be given to regulating itself. It's starting to look like Congress will have to step in and pass some ethics constraints since SCOTUS won't adopt one.
  
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Why would a justice need a donation? They don't have campaigns to finance. There isn't any legal justification for a "donation".

"I didn't pay that hitman, detective. I donated to him."

When articles refer to these payments as "donations", they are becoming complicit in the lie.

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It's always been rich vs poor.

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- We should set up a GoFundMe and buy our own Supreme Court Justice. Does anyone have a coupon?
  
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  Reminds me of an episode of Common Sense by Dan Carlin from yeeears ago that basically said "the system is corrupt and voters aren't able to command our politicians to do what we want, so what if we just pool money together and bribe them too?"
  
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Will this make conservatives care now?

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- Will it fuck.
  
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- THey would have cared if it was a Dem judge. It's okay for CT
  
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Not sure why this is such a big deal. He’s allowed to do it because no one will stop him. There is zero accountability in American governments.

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What a piece of shit. Fuck Clarence Thomas.

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Capitalism doesnt give a fuck about party.

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What is RV ?

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- Caravan, camper. Something that costs $200k+ would look like this and be more like a house on a bus:
  
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  $200k then is like 400k now, that's a crazy ass RV O_O
  
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- Recreational Vehicle. Like a home on wheels.
  
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