Hey all this isn't the real George rr Martin and his tweets are almost tweet of God level bad pic.twitter.com/hiJuYxiYOe
— WARNING: Ed Zitron (@edzitron) February 3, 2015
Monday’s Washington Post article on Rep. Aaron Schock’s new Downton-themed office appeared in the Style section, but Tuesday’s update was relegated to the gossip column:
… Because it is a day ending in “y,” Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) wasted little time asking the Office of Congressional Ethics to investigate whether Schock (R-Ill.) broke House rules by accepting professional interior design work for free. House Ethics rules prohibit lawmakers from accepting free “gifts of services.”…
USA Today politics editor Paul Singer went through Schock’s public office expenditures from previous years and found he’d spent around $100,000 on office furnishings. Those totals wouldn’t include this new renovation if he did use taxpayer dollars to pay for his fancified office.
ETA:
My congressional office always had more of an unintentional Antiques Roadshow kind of decor to it, really.
— John Dingell (@JohnDingell) February 3, 2015
That would be this John Dingell: “Having served for over 59 years, he has the longest uninterrupted Congressional tenure in U.S. history”.
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Apart from quibbling about tastefulness and/or value for money, what’s on the agenda for the remnants of the day?
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