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Get re-elected. Resign immediately. Go to work for a lobbying group. Repeat.

January 17, 2013 Gloria Shur Bilchik 2012 Election, Congress, Ethics, Politics, States Leave a comment

Political manipulation and cynicism hit a new low in December 2012, when, just 30 days after being re-elected, Jo Ann Emerson, the  ten-term Congressperson

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