"Well-worn tropes"
Abdul el-Sayed with a purveyor of "well-worn tropes". Michigan "Democratic" senate candidate Abdul el-Sayed released his financial disclosure on Monday. In the documents, it was revealed that he has rental properties in Dubai, Bangalore, and Ann Arbor. The Dubai and Bangalore properties are in his wife's name, while they own the Ann Arbor property jointly. Now, look. I don't much care about this, aside from the hypocrisy of a "working class hero" being part of the rentier class which he and his co-factionalists excoriate. The Dubai and Bangalore properties were part of an inheritance, and many people own both a domicile and a rental property in the US. None of this concerns me. But while researching this piece, I came across a quote I found rather interesting: El-Sayed of Ann Arbor indicated the properties listed in his disclosure were inherited by his wife’s family and put in the names of her parents and siblings. “I wonder why they’re so focused...
