So like most of you I woke up reading the feed thinking a woman beat Trumps pick for North Carolina's 11th District but upon further investigation it was in fact a dude. I did some more digging on this dude and as it turns out he, like many of the members of his party, is well off and might just be a white nationalist. You can read the bio on this guy but a TL;DR from my research is that he was going to join the Naval academy then got in an accident, became partially paralyzed, got slapped with $3MM in medical debt but is now CEO of a real estate holding company, SPQR Holdings LLC. You can find their corporate filing crap HERE. If you Zillow the address of that company you'll find a house that sold for $440,000 in 2018. Big chunk of change for a 22yo buried in debt, allegedly. It's important to realize that in this wave of emerging white nationalists have sought to tether themselves to greco-roman origins. Ben Shapino's got a big chunk of that kind of discussion in his book. Pharos project has done a good job of discussing the relationship of fascists and that time period HERE. I found this quote from a slate article interesting: Spoiler: here's a photo of the candidate If you'll notice in the picture, there's a warrior helmet (don't @ me on the greek city state it came from; it doesn't matter) that you can find associated with the SPQR crap. I want to know where the money came from to go from -3MM to being CEO of a holding company. Its probably just some investors So this dude is now the face of the GOPs anti-healthcare movement and he's younger than AOC. Dems got owned yet again. TL;DR I'm pretty sure the dude that upended Trumps pick for NC-11th is probably worse than Trump's pick. He's totally normal and wants you to have choices for healthcare, not actual healthcare. NYGator Name P. Redacted @other libs lmk if this check out.
Chumbolone as our resident expert in getting multiple $MM of real estate, what have you heard in your circles about this guy
I would be speculating and I know nothing of the circumstances here, but often in instances where someone is injured in an accident and it is someone else's fault, auto liability insurance settlements/judgments from the at-fault driver(s) and the injured person (if they have uninsured/under-insured motorist coverage) are used to satisfy the outstanding medical bills. Additionally, amounts actually charged by doctors and hospitals are often settled for far less than the sticker price. So I would not be surprised to learn this guy received a settlement that paid his bills (at a reduced amount) and maybe put money in his pocket, but that he conveniently forgets to mention that in his inspirational story. It is, of course, also possible he has been funded by interests groups, in addition to or instead of the above explanation. Edit to add, looks like his friend fell asleep at the wheel and got involved in a single car accident. I would be surprised if the total available insurance was more than $1 million, and quite possibly less. Still would be plenty to settle his medical bills and put a lot of money in his pocket for his age. https://www.blueridgenow.com/article/NC/20140806/News/606028457/HT
I think they cap how much that shit pays out and it’s probably not more than $3MM plus but I’m just a dude and I don’t know.
The GOP put a younger person in congress than the libs so they got owned. He’s also got the wheelchair power up which defeats the minority woman power up
It's similar to the brief celebration people had when Steve King got primaried in favor of a more palatable racist. Woo hoo, a piece of shit lost! Oh... this guy who beat the piece of shit is also a piece of shit just with better packaging. Cool.
Are we sure that this guy really isn’t the representative from District 2 who was devoured by wolves in the Hunger Games.
he can’t even walk to the top of the lincoln memorial I like politicians who can walk to the top of the lincoln memorial
Brad Ledford https://www.linkedin.com/in/brad-ledford-96210a181/ strangely his linkedin doesn't mentioned paralyzing his friend while probably driving drunk alledgedly
I heard him on morning joe this morning and Joe was swooning over him. He said something that completely put my guard up to what you are saying. (paraphrasing) As a Republican I believe that personal responsibility is the most important thing when it comes to determining policy. I think we all know these coded themes, so yes it seems very plausible.
Don’t know about white nationalist, but if you name a fucking real estate company SPQR, you’re definitely a shithead. but maybe I shouldn’t cast stones as the proprietor of Molon Labe Florists
How can someone who knows firsthand how quickly medical debt can spiral out of control and fuck your life up be against reasonable solutions to the problem? I swear half of politicians are sociopaths.
In NC, even if you can’t negotiate your medical bills under your settlement, there’s a statutory right to satisfy the lien by paying out a third each to your attorney, the providers, the client. That’s a lien on the settlement funds only, so you can theoretically go for a deficiency against the excess balance, but in practice that’s rarely used. The state also permits policy stacking in the right circumstances, so the potential fund could include more than just the primary liability policy. At least that was the situation up until 2 yrs ago, I haven’t kept up with it since we moved.
SPQR is some literal Stormfront shit and just another example of the crippling fragility of those in the movement because they have to compare themselves to the Romans and Spartans to feel mighty
Sounds about right for a moron like Joe who makes something like $5 million a year and is utterly clueless
I’m shocked, shocked I tell you that you’re sticking up for the white nationalist. I can’t believe it. Who could have seen this coming.
i enjoy trump supporters who try to "by your logic" a really mild ableist joke theres zero ground to stand on there bud
This isn't directed at you, but can we stop treating Joe Scarborough as a legitimate media personality?
The fact this guy lived instead of died from that accident is just more proof there is no god and if there is he really does hate us all. This is the dangerous kind of fascist we have to watch out for.
Between him and the cyclops Dan Crenshaw, the GOP softball team is looking rough for 2021-2022 season.