me of any section there that would apply to adult children of the president or VP (since where I see them mentioned they're listed as exceptions to the new regulations she's proposing)?

https://www.warren.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/2018.08.21%20Anti-Corruption%20and%20Public%20Integrity%20Act%20Bill%20Text.pdf

Didn’t see one on the website. Don’t recall him even talking about one.

trotting out one plan or another (most of which she'd be unlikely to ever get through Congress) her trademark. (Well, except for a health care plan, since not having one spares her having to spell out how much taxes would rise, and also leaves her some wiggle room if she decides MFA isn't tenable for the general election, if she gets that far.)

My question was about whether any of this very long bill applies to presidents and VPs (other than requiring tax returns be released). As far as I could tell skimming it quickly, there's absolutely nothing there to stop members of a president or vice president's family from doing what Hunter Biden's done.

And I assume it isn't there because she knows how unworkable any restrictions like that would be. Adult family members can't be controlled, and you can't very well ask a president or VP to step down or recuse themselves from some area if one of their adult family members does something that creates an appearance of a conflict of interest.

Now if the president or VP does anything unethical themselves, they can of course be impeached.

But judging by this piece of proposed legislation, Warren is well aware that it would be ridiculous to try to institute rules controlling adult members of a president or VP's family.

Not her problem that she has made an issue that helped Trump get elected in 2016, is at the center of the current impeachment drama and will again dominate the political landscape in 2020 her number one priority while your candidate, among others, has whiffed on it.

ways to deal with some of the issues that helped Trump in 2016:

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/11/27/foreign-dark-money-joe-biden-222690


Warren has trotted out lots and lots of plans.

IMO her plans basically amount to detailed campaign promises, very appealing to wonks, but the majority of them unfeasible.

And that was before Hunter Biden’s $50k/mo insider capitalism gig became common knowledge. What’s become unfeasible for 2020 is to argue that Joe Biden is anywhere near our best messenger on fighting corruption and changing the way Washington works. I’m sure he supports HR1 and would say the right things, but he has not made fighting corruption a priority.

This is a big deal:

almost all the primary polls, some of which include Democratic-leaning independents, and he's also leading in almost all the general election polls of various candidates against Trum, beating Trump by wider margins than any other candidate.

So apparently voters find him to be the messenger they want and the president and leader they'd trust, as well as the Democratic candidate who would do best against Trump.

to bring down Joe Biden.

Link to tweet

Going from "do other candidates have X like Warren" to "this is about Warren... leave the other candidates out of it" in two posts.

That may be a new Moving-The-Goalposts record!

Good to see you here.

Have you thought about starting your own positive thread about Joe Biden’s plans to fight corruption?

with "..it's not a priority for him..".

Not Working, BG.

Obama went 8 years without a whiff of a scandal or hint of corruption. He never had to hire any personal lawyers either.

Can you post it as the OP has Warren’s so we can compare?

How about that? Hire upstanding, ethical employees and you don't have to deal with corruption. Biden was the VP in the most ethical administration in the history of this country. I have no qualms about him running an ethical government. He already knows how that works.

Long overdue and badly needed, it needs big teeth to ensure compliance.

Trump has made it necessary for all kinds of new laws because of his lack of ethics and morals.

stand up and be counted against Trump’s all-out assault on the 202O election through an attack on
Joe Biden. If all goes according to her wishes, she will be next. And we know Joe would be among
those who would defend her—by name.

No, don’t give me the anti-corruption fighter excuse. There is no excuse.

Is a virtue.

I can’t think of any Warren supporters here who would show up on thread after thread demanding that other candidates defend her when she is perfectly capable of defending herself, as she has had to do plenty of times in the past.

Don’t you feel Biden is doing a good job of defending himself? I do. And said that I disagree with the NYT article that took the opposite view. Perhaps you don’t have confidence in Biden to handle this. I do.

And as for whether our candidates should defend one another when one comes under attack by Trump -- that's something that was brought up on CNN and answered properly by Cory Booker.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/1287301637

I'm standing up for emmaverybo..

and says nothing about her.

Like Senator Corey Booker said..

Link to tweet

don’t feel it is enough. None of your friends here think it is enough. Your friends jump into every Warren thread to attack her and demand that Warren defend Biden the way YOU want to hear him defended.

But, of course, I’m the one who’s being nasty. You don’t see me hopping onto every Biden thread and posting against him. I wouldn’t do that out of respect for him and for his supporters.

What angers your friends is when I answer their attacks on Warren. They want to hop on my positive threads about my primary candidate and attack her without pushback.

Good luck with that.

I will continue to support Warren, and I’ll continue to support Biden and our other candidates in their campaigns without attacking them needlessly.