SCHUMER’S NEWEST FULL-TIME PART-TIMER TAKES CHECK

In Iowa’s latest civic pageant, Republican Senate nominee Ashley Hinson is treating Democrat Josh Turek’s attendance record like a moral collapse worthy of emergency cable coverage, after a report says he missed 58% of House votes this year while collecting more than $20,000 in taxpayer-funded per diem payments. It’s a beautiful little government fable: the people’s business, apparently, can be done mostly by not doing it, so long as the mileage and meals are handled with proper bureaucratic dignity. Hinson has now branded him an “absentee legislator,” which is the sort of phrase that sounds like it came from a reformer and a television ad had a very serious baby, and Democrats, who see the seat as important to Chuck Schumer’s Senate hopes, must now explain why “hardly showed up” is not the ideal campaign slogan for a party selling accountability like it’s a premium streaming service.

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