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prestigious_delay_7 t1_j1glzv8 wrote

Reply to comment by V1198 in Chris Sununu Possible Presidential Campaign by LoveForAll245

What kind of deal could he possibly have made? MA wants to take money from people. It's what they do.

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V1198 t1_j1h8nkm wrote

That’s the job. And he failed at it. Could have made a deal for half…anything really…he was dealing with someone in his own party. Instead he launched a very thin lawsuit.

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prestigious_delay_7 t1_j1if1ms wrote

This is an incredibly stupid take.

  1. Why would Baker have accepted half of what thought he could get? There's hundreds of millions of dollars at stake.
  2. Just because they're in the same party doesn't mean they don't have diametrically opposed goals. Sununu is responsible to his constituents in NH, a group that does not want to pay income taxes. Baker is responsible to his constituents in MA, a group that does not want to lose substantial tax revenue to fund it's social programs.
  3. If Sununu accepted half, that would piss off his own constituents even more. You either believe you are in the right and take it to court, or you don't. He did, and the SCOTUS declined to take up the case.
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V1198 t1_j1igeeo wrote

  1. Because it’s better than the NOTHING he walked away with
  2. Seems to be part of being a politician for the effective ones anyways
  3. I’m a constituent. Half would have been better than nothing.

What a stupid response.

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