ImAFarmerLikeNunes trends after report Devin Nunes' 'farm' is about '100 square feet'
Delaney Marsco, legal counsel on ethics for the nonpartisan watchdog group Campaign Legal Center, toldthat it appears as if Nunes may have improperly filed his financial disclosures in the past, or that the representative may have purchased the so-called"farm" recently.
"Either he had a tiny stake in this farm all along and he's been improperly filing financial disclosures, or he bought a tiny, tiny farm this year in order to protect his reputation as a farmer in his district," Marsco explained. During last year's midterm elections, retired Tulare County farmer Paul Buxman joined with Democratic groups to officially challenge the GOP congressman's description of himself as a farmer. However, California Secretary of State Alex Padilla dismissed the challenge.
Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee Devin Nunes speaks to reporters after leaving a closed meeting with fellow committee members, on Capitol Hill March 23, 2017 in Washington, D.C.But even with Nunes' latest disclosure, the small plot of land does not necessarily fit with the definition of a farm used by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Although Nunes' family used to own a dairy farm in California, it was relocated to Iowa back in 2006 and 2007 and is controlled by his brothers,
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