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sanitation@lemmy.today to politics @lemmy.world · 2 days ago

The list of homes owned by Texas’ Ken Paxton grows, adding to his political problems | James Talarico accused his Republican rival of owning 11 homes. As it turns out, he was understating matters

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The list of homes owned by Texas’ Ken Paxton grows, adding to his political problems | James Talarico accused his Republican rival of owning 11 homes. As it turns out, he was understating matters

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sanitation@lemmy.today to politics @lemmy.world · 2 days ago
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  • Brkdncr@lemmy.world
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    Dude makes $150k a year and owns 11 homes, 3 condos, a plot of land in Hawaii. Some of those condos he bought were deeded to an address of some woman.

    Where did that money come from?

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      Maybe he’s a magical pinata and if we hit him money will come out.

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        There’s really only one way to find out…

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      Pay him and he’ll tell you.

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      I wish that money went even a quarter of that far

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      Usually rich people’s money comes from intergenerational wealth. So probably it came from his parents.

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        Sounds like he made his first $1m from an investment. Then he moved it all into a blind trust that might not have been blind while he went into politics .

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    https://thehill.com/opinion/lindseys-lens/5986426-ken-paxton-walks-out-of-press-conference-avoids-tough-questions/

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    The New York Times’ latest reporting advanced the story, noting the apparent fact that the Republican Senate hopeful, despite making $153,000 a year as attorney general, “recently bought three condominiums at a luxury resort in Utah.” From the article:

    Mr. Paxton, 63, purchased the condos, worth a total of $1.6 million, in February, according to local property records, and transferred them to his blind trust. On the deeds, Mr. Paxton listed his address as a Dallas-area home. Police records indicate a woman who is not his wife lives there.

    “A woman who is not his wife”. lol

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    Fucking pigs

  • TryingToBeGood@reddthat.com
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    Wtf?

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    I would expect that every multimillionare owns several homes. Why is this shocking? If I was so rich, I’d invest in real estate too.

    Billionares meanwhile probably own hundreds of homes. And farms. And other forms of real estate investments

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