JD Vance’s team had water level of Ohio river raised for family’s boating trip
JD Vance’s team had the army corps of engineers take the unusual step of changing the outflow of a lake in Ohio to accommodate a recent boating excursion on a family holiday, the Guardian has learned.
The request from the US Secret Service was made to “support safe navigation” of the US vice-president’s security detail for an August outing on the Little Miami River, according to a statement by the US army corps of engineers (USACE).
Vance was spotted in the south-western Ohio area on 2 August, his 41st birthday, according to social media posts that noted he was seen canoeing on the river, a tributary that Caesar Creek Lake feeds into.
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small government. fiscal responsibility.
Royal privileges.
And these asshats have the gall to say federal employees are the ones wasting government tax dollars...
Well yes, they're wasting the money they need to raise rivers for boat trips.
He is a federal employee, no?
I think he just assumes other people are as irresponsible with the nations purse as he is.
A federal employee isnt an elected official. He's a politician. Federal employees apply to jobs and interview for them, and get them (mostly) based on merit just like everyone else in the corporate world and elsewhere.
This guy didnt get interviewed for his job. He got hand picked bcz of things he's said and done in the past that indicate he is a piece of shit. Definitely not the same as being a federal employee.
I just turned 41 also. I didn't make a big deal about it because I am not an entitled shit head that needs validation.
This fuckface likes to vacation every other week, huh?
We should be reporting that JD owns one of the largest farm corporation that is buying up all the farms he and Trump put out of business.
source?
https://www.farmlandgrab.org/post/32430-jd-vance-funded-acretrader-here-s-why-that-matters
theres so much nefarious stuff goung on and this is the topic you decided to care about? lmao, no wonder i havent heard of that. Did my dd before but couldnt believe that the investment fond is what you were referring to.
You obviously didn't read the whole article, your reading comprehension is lacking, or you just cherry picked a small part.
What the fuck?
Please kill all rich people as quickly as possible. This is fucking bullshit.
That's not even about being rich. That's public money he is spending.
This would have destroyed an administration pre-2014
Imagine if Kamala had done this. Faux News would still be talking about it on a daily basis
They're just like us!
What a fucking asshole.
He had to do it or his family would've seen all the couches he had thrown in to the river.
James Donald Bowman is a fetid bowl of feces.
And u will deadname him in every circumstance I encounter his name.
I’m the hillbilly now. How the tables have turned.