Subject: Re: New Speaker Has No Bank Accts
What's hilarious here is that you're criticizing him for not being corrupt enough.

No, they're not.

The criticism is essentially that he made material omissions in his financial disclosures. That any grown adult with a job that pays as much as a House Rep (about $174K per year, plus benefits) would have to have a bank account which would need to be disclosed under the House rules.

I mean, the limits are super low for someone in that salary range. It's just $1K. I don't know whether members get paid biweekly or monthly, but his take-home paycheck has to be at least $5K per pay period. How could he not have a bank account that had a balance of $1K - anywhere? I mean, even just a checking account so that he can pay his mortgage and whatnot?

It strains credulity that someone who makes that much to be completely unbanked. Which is the criticism.