re: pork barrel: somebody smarter explain this TPA shite that just got passed

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Politicians hire their wives and daughters as assistants or consultants. Or the special interests hire the family. And politicians get to keep unspent campaign funds when they retire.

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That's not true.

None of that is true.

I'm sure you can google up an example or two, but it's not legal, and every one of those google search results will end in someone getting prosecuted for it.