Ben Cline

I found an unexpected $90 in our online bank statement. It must be my wife’s Trump Medicare Bribe, because POTUS sent her a nice letter.

No other president has offered a bribe for our votes, not even Tricky Dick Nixon.

Our $90 goes to our Democratic congressional candidate, Beth Macy. Yours could also.

Let’s compare our bribe with corporate donations to MAGA Congressman Ben Cline.

Google gave $2,000 to Cline’s campaign. A $90 bribe is 4.5 percent of Google’s donation.

Google’s contribution could bribe 22.2 voters. Ben’s vote is cheap.

Ben claims he favors a moratorium on data center construction. Yet he spent a recent weekend in California, meeting with representatives of Google and other tech companies.

Google is now building a data center in Cline’s home of Botetourt County. This could not happen without the congressman’s blessing.

It is disgraceful that Botetourt’s Board of Supervisors has a nondisclosure agreement with Google. How can voters know whether the Board is acting in their best interests? Where is the transparency in government?

Democratic Gov. Abigail Spanberger has prohibited state agencies from entering into NDAs.

Cline says he favors “local control” of data centers. That is code for the Republican “divide and conquer” strategy, and will lead to conflicting rules ripe for exploitation. Regulating data centers is a nationwide issue that calls for uniform standards everywhere.

Cline is a partner in Trump’s corruption. Democrats will work for us.

The select media panel empaneled by the ACC couldn’t decide on a single quarterback of the week, so it gave us two – twice as nice.

The damage Donald Trump has inflicted on this country and the world is incalculable.

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