The handsome profit I made was because of the unique nature of the business I sold. A number of factors contributed to the final sale including prime location (at the corner of the only stop light and adjacent to the only gas station/titty bar), a monopoly on the pharmaceutical business in the high growth potential market of Prescott, my good looks, and several others.

Please don't make me ask Obama to tell you to stop picking on me.

This sets the bar pretty high for a health care vote reversal by a representative in a major metropolitan area.

St. Louis representatives should go for $3 million and a Miami rep may be worth as much as $5 million. Place your bets! Play along at home!

On average, if every rep's vote could be bought for $2.5 million then the entire Congress could be had on any given vote for a little over $1 billion. Hmm, what other industries could afford to do this?

The figures seem excessive for a location in town of 3686 people (2000 Census) and a median income of $21,612.

Pelosi should drop the hammer on Ross. He's corrupt, and he needs to lose any leadership positions that he currently holds.

If House Dems don't come down hard on their corrupt members, then they'll be seen as more of the same (this comment applies to Rangall too).

big surprise, huh?
nope.

mike ross is a big pharma puppet, has always been one.
he does not give a crap about his arkansan constituents.

"... town of 3686 people..."

You forgot to say, "Yaaa-hooo!"

Ross sounds like someone we really need negotiating health care reform. His past dealings with the pharmaceutical industry shows he knows how to extract a good deal from them.

qwerty, you sound just like Al...

Question: What's the difference between Congress and EBay?
Answer: They tell you how much people were paid for something on EBay.

I've been using the term "Business Dogs" instead of "Blue Dogs" for awhile now, but boy howdy, Mike Ross has taken the meaning of the term to a whole new level. Business Dog, you betcha!

Masochist Voter: "Please hit me!"

Sadist Congressman: "No!"

Masochist Voter: "Thank you!"

(Repeat every voting cycle or indictment, which ever comes first)

Plus his wife is still on the payroll as the pharmacist. And her name is still on the business "Holly's Pharmacy". Given that $100,000 to $200,000 non-compete clause seems just to be gilding the lily on this already sweet deal.

pj:
There might be INDIVIDUALS who could afford to buy a billion dollar Congress. Or groups of individuals.

It's probably already been done.

This sounds a bit like what got Duke Cunningham in trouble...

How soon till he's known as Progressive, liberal congressman Ross?
Fox are you out there??

the numbers aren't out of line. I'm guessing the pharmacy netted around 200k per year. a sale price between 1 mill and 1.5 mill isn't anything to get excited about. what is disturbing is the timing, the buyer and the hypocrisy. its a very poor area and likely has a higher than normal percentage of the purchases funded by the government in some way. Taxes "bad". Taxes to pay me for something i am selling "good".

holy mackerel!!! this smells nasty!!!

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