It looks like he landed on his feet.
[Cantor’s] new compensation package is worth $3.4 million a year. He now has an office in New York City and he’s opening up a new branch of the Moelis & Co. investment bank in DC. He’ll also be on their board of directors.
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As of 2010, the House Majority Leader makes $193,400 annually, so Cantor is now making more than seventeen times as much money as he was making in Congress.
He did have to step on a lot of other people to get there, of course.
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Why Republicans Hate Their Leaders: Eric Cantor Edition, Paul Waldman, The American Prospect, June 12, 2014 (h/t BooMan)
As far as that activist base is concerned, every Republican politician should be nothing but an agent of chaos and destruction, or at least pretend that’s who he is. It’s not only incompatible with governing, it’s barely compatible with holding office. Anyone who actually tries to accomplish anything is quickly turned from hero to traitor, as Marco Rubio was when he attempted to devise an immigration plan; Tea Partiers who once celebrated Rubio now view him with contempt. The only kind of legislator who can stay in their good graces is one who never bothers legislating, like Ted Cruz. Writing laws is for compromisers and turncoats; what matters is that the revolution continue forever.
All things considered, Eric Cantor probably lost because he’s a dick, TBogg, The Raw Story, June 11, 2014 Continue reading
