Everything that is wrong with Washington in three sentences

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Near the end of an otherwise fine editorial slamming Democratic candidate for Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe for his alleged abuse of the EB-5 visa program, the Washington Post editorial board writes:

Mr. McAuliffe is a renowned fundraiser and a wealthy man. He’s leveraged his extensive political network with some of his money-making ventures, and he tried to do the same with GreenTech.
That’s not particularly disturbing …

Let me stop you right there. Leveraging an “extensive political network” for private “money-making ventures” is absolutely disturbing since it is the epitome of everything Americans hate about Washington.

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