Betsy DeVos' $40 Million Yacht Set Adrift By Vandals At Ohio Dock (Congress, ethics)
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Man, c'mon people, don't be such government sycophants just because "your team" is in charge that you get outraged by minor damage to the $40 million vanity toy of someone who used her family's wealth to buy a cabinet position.
I don't even know if this was tied to political motivations at all, or an accident or a random prank or a disgruntled crew member or a pissed off yacht owner...but this mock outrage on a complete non-story is kind of weird.
It's a revolution! All criminal activity is on the table! The rest of your post is just envy.
I wonder how many yacht-unmoorings they have had at that port in the last few years.
Umm, one, maybe?
Any chance it might have been done under cover of darkness by some Antifa-style RESIST thugs? People who figure that since they have convinced themselves that Trump officials are pure evil, it's OK to harass and attack them, damage and destroy their property any time, any place, as much as they can get away with?
The police aren't saying, and say they can't comment on an ongoing investigation.
Secretary DeVos is married to the guy whose father founded Amway Corp.
Betsy DeVos' $40 Million Yacht Set Adrift By Vandals At Ohio Dock
by Hayley Miller, HuffPost
July 26, 2018
13 hours ago
A $40 million yacht owned by the family of Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos was set adrift by vandals at a dock in Ohio last weekend, causing thousands of dollars worth of damage to the vessel, according to the Toledo Blade.
The SeaQuest’s captain said his crew awoke Sunday to find the boat had been untied from its mooring at the Huron Boat Basin and was floating away, according to a police report obtained by HuffPost.
The crew was “able to gain control of the ship, but not before it struck the dock with its Starboard forward section,” the police report stated. Damage to the yacht consisted of “several large scratches and scrapes,” which the captain estimated would cost between $5,000 and $10,000 to repair, according to the police report.
Huron City Police Chief Robert Lippert confirmed to HuffPost that the yacht belonged to the DeVos family. He said DeVos had not been aboard at the time, but could not confirm whether other family members had been. Lippert would not speculate on a potential motive, citing the ongoing investigation.
It s not the Boston Tea Party but the environment is right.
Motive: hmmmm......maybe someone thought it needed to be docked in a swamp.
....he said, just before announcing that....
Claiming you're "not condoning vandalism" doesn't mean you're not condoning vandalism. It just means you're good at talking out of both sides of your mouth in the same post.
No... and I'm a "she."
Anyway... what I was saying was that I do not condone vandalism, but if vandalism occurred, I have no doubt that Mrs. DeVos has full coverage, so there's no need for anyone to be alarmed.
Where in there does it sound like I'm cool with vandalizing other folks' property?
It doesn't, because I'm not.
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Oh who cares! So someone’s boat was set adrift. Well that’s a bummer but why are you making this some catastrophic event? Do you really have nothing to fill your time but to rage about someone’s boat being unmoored? Get a grip.
That was pretty much my point. A woman of means with plenty of insurance having her boat set adrift just doesn't bother me. She's fine. Her boat is fine.
I'd find this a sad tale if it was a struggling fisherman who risked losing his livelihood due to someone tampering with his boat.
But, this is not such a tale.
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It's a revolution! All criminal activity is on the table! The rest of your post is just envy.
What a shot across the bow! If that floats your boat, captain. While you and poor Betsy navigate choppy seas over a paint scuff on her 9th yacht, it's all smooth sailing for me because I realize this story should have been dumped overboard along with the rest of the jetsam.
Stop with the Leftist thug ****. Seriously. You look like an idiot. Again, this isn't a left vs right issue, unless you're delusional enough to think teacher in Oklahoma are now "Leftist thugs" because they disagree with for profit education.
Also, care the counter why the worst colleges are all for profit and are continuing to fail, be sold etc? DeVry, University of Phoenix, ITT Tech etc.
uhm
the best colleges are for profit.... Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Columbia etc,
the best colleges are for profit.... Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Columbia etc,
No, they are not. They are private, non-profit universities.
Try again.
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