• chiliedogg@lemmy.world
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      8 hours ago

      It’s both.

      I used to be close family friends with a man who is now a Congressman. He was my air conditioning repairman when I was little, and when he moved to DC without the wealth many other politicians had, he had a hard time paying for things like having houses in DC and back in the district.

      He ended up doing little favors here and there to help pay rent, and it was a slippery slope to him bec9ming super corrupt.

      We no longer speak.