Hacker News Reader

Comment by 0x0nyandesu | Hacker News Reader

I love how it's totally legal for the governor of Florida to send lucrative drug testing contracts to his wife's owned company but a guy getting a few stock options from a client is illegal.

I guess we'll just go back to big wads of cash in an envelope instead.

View on HN

> I guess we'll just go back to big wads of cash in an envelope instead.

Uh so wait are you saying that because the elected official isn't held responsible that we should then lower the bar to permit all bribery? That doesn't make any sense.

The sense comes from that part of growing up when you come to the realization that it happens whether you want it to or not so not participating and acting holier than thou about it just makes you a sucker.

I had to look that up because I’m not familiar with the story, but it seems illegal in most other states. This Netflix case, by contrast, is federal. Still makes the Gov. actions seem sketchy

Florida politics is sketchy be definition as they are an outgrowth of representing 'Florida Man'

This comment does not belong on HN

You know “Florida Man” is really just an outcome of Florida criminal records being open and creating an availability bias, right?

If other states had open records, there’d be much more fodder to create a “Wisconsin Man,” “California Man” etc.

Florida is a state in which white collar criminals form a powerful voting bloc.

Whataboutism

Reply on news.ycombinator.com