Congressman Gill doesn’t know what a conflict of interest is. A company gives money to a groups that advocates a government program that benefits the company. An advocacy organization accepts contributions from a company to help fund its advocacy. What’s the conflict?
“Most people” who think Gill has described a conflict of interest don’t know what a conflict of interest is…just like Gill.
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Gill is usually pretty good at questioning witnesses. However, in this case the better argument was making the comparison that this is no different than complaining when oil or tabaco companies fund studies that support their interests in fossil fuels or cigarettes.
What irritated me was that he should have challenged one witness who claimed he was focusing on sugary drinks when so many are going hungry. It seems to me that those consuming expensive sugary soft drinks and highly caffeinated energy drinks would be less hungry if they purchased lower cost nutritionally dense foods like raw potatoes, ground beef, chicken bread and vegetables. For the price of one can of Red Bull I can buy 5 pounds of potatoes or almost a pound of ground beef.
Brandon Gill should have asked her whether she wants to solve the hunger issue or does she want the recipients of government food stamps to be able to buy nutritionally deficient foods/
For me, there is no greater rhetorical offense than further confusing the public about the crucial concept of conflicts of interest. I asked a lawyer friend about that performance and she said, “We are governed by idiots, voted into power by idiots”