Protest at the Steak House.

Catseye3

Oy. How do you know this, Jon? Is there a source for public disclosure for candidates? Is $200K one of those numbers that looks worse than it is for a man in his income class, what with mortgages and so on?

Did we have this information during his confirmation hearing?

jon-nyc

Yes it was on disclosure forms when he was a circuit court judge. To be fair, 200k was the upper bound, the lower bound of the debt was 90k. So somewhere between the two.

Horace

I heard he made a profitable bet on cattle futures.

Jolly

That's a substantial steak in a new venture.

Doctor Phibes

@Horace said in Protest at the Steak House.:

I heard he made a profitable bet on cattle futures.

Sounds like a load of bull to me.

Mik

@jon-nyc said in Protest at the Steak House.:

@Jolly said in Protest at the Steak House.:

@jon-nyc said in Protest at the Steak House.:

He might do it, remember he has financial issues

In Washington?

What's the matter with him, is he honest?

Unclear. 200k in credit card debt and 92k in country club dues managed to get paid off in 2017 …. somehow.

In 2017 his salary as a circuit court judge was $217,600. The credit cards mentioned could have been as low as $52K in total according to his disclosure forms.

His wife was town manager of Chevy Chase, bringing in a low 6 figure salary. She's a financial manager.

Both of them are of an age where inheritances would not be unusual. If the FBI didn't find anything, Mother Jones is unlikely to.

Jolly

Wasn't he also moonlighting as a prof at that time?

LuFins Dad

https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/supreme-court-nominee-brett-kavanaugh-piled-up-credit-card-debt-by-purchasing-nationals-tickets-white-house-says/2018/07/11/8e3ad7d6-8460-11e8-9e80-403a221946a7_story.html

jon-nyc

Yep, spokesman said he spent scores of thousands on Nats tickets, carried the debt at credit card interest rates, and then one year his friends all paid him back!

That’s pretty normal, right? That’s how my buddies and I do these things.

Horace

Typical rabid pro lifer.

jon-nyc

Interesting that Kavanaugh ~~plead the fifth~~ never commented. Only the Trump Whitehouse did.

Jolly

And...Why is this important?

jon-nyc

You brought up his ‘honesty’, you tell us.

Jolly

It was a response to a comment.

Gee, who made that comment?

jon-nyc

You thought his “honesty” was relevant when it could be assumed, but when the evidence is a bit ambiguous suddenly your attitude is “why does this matter?”

That’s on you, man.

Jolly

Nope.

I figure that somebody paid his debt off, as they aligned him for bigger things. It's Washington, it's politics and it's money. That kind of stuff is ubiquitous.

Now, is it dishonest or unethical?