Are you a masochist? If so, you might want to checkout Eric Cantor's interactive video Adventure.Eric's little Adventure is perhaps the worst video produced since those driver ed droning horror movies so many of us had to sit through.
Adventure is a hamhanded, poorly-acted interactive video that is equally as painful to sit through.
Cantor's video is an attempt to undermine efforts to more fairly tax profits at private equity partnerships (to treat their rewards as salary rather than capital gains ... which is costing the nation billons).
Now, what does the Republican Study Committee (RSC) blog have to say about Eric's Little Adventure?
Republican Chief Deputy Whip (and potential Senate candidate in Virginia?) Eric Cantor, an RSC member, has been extremely active against Democrat attempts to raise taxes. "Any increased cost to the managers is going to be passed on to those who benefit from the service," he said. "We are now headed down the road to a Democrat-engineered tax increase of the highest degree.Today, Rep. Cantor's office launched a new feature, which can best be described as an interactive film, on their website to bring attention to the hearing and the tax issues. I have never seen this type of interactive, issue based tool before in politics, and certainly not in Congress. Make sure to check it out today.
Hard to see how Cantor's adventure is going to be some form of great tool for driving Congressional decision-making.
On the other hand, the Adventure does raise a different question. Is Eric Adventuring into the land of illegal use of government resources for grassroots activity? Is Eric using his House website (which all of US paid for) for grassroots activity? Does this violate the rules? And, if it does, is anyone going to do anything about it?
Forty-nine-year-old Diana Cantor--the wife of 7th District Congressman Eric Cantor--is going to work for New York banker Howard Milstein and his New York Private Bank & Trust.
The bank like clients with 50 million or more. I can't honestly say co-direct investing includes private equity partnerships but someone needs to investigate to find out. This could be a major conflict of interest.
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