Want to Become a Multi-Millionaire Get Elected to Congress

Apparently, serving the public is one of the easiest and most lucrative ways to make your fortune, especially if you champion causes being pushed by the "feel good" environmental scammers, who promote transportation and energy projects that stall prosperity for the many and enrich the few.

Arguably one of the safest seats in Congress, Portland's CD3 is held by career politician, Representative Earl Blumenauer, who has amassed a great fortune of nearly 7 million dollars without ever working outside of elected office. Quite an accomplishment, when you consider he rarely even breaks a sweat to actually campaign. To date Congressman Blumenauer has refused to agree to debate any of his GOP Congressional opponents since being elected to Congress in 1997.

In 2010 Congressman Blumenauer was caught on camera calling anti-ObamaCare demonstrators "Weasels" before quite literally running away from a young man asking him questions about his record in Congress.

http://ballotpedia.org/Earl_Blumenauer

Prior offices
Commissioner of Public Works, Portland City Council
1986-1995
Commissioner, Multnomah County Commission
1978-1986
Oregon House of Representatives
1973-1978
Education
Bachelor's	Lewis and Clark College, 1970
J.D.	Lewis and Clark College, 1976
Personal
Birthday	August 16, 1948
Place of birth	Portland, Oregon
Profession	Attorney
Net worth	$6,809,015
Religion	Non-denominational Protestant

U.S. House, Oregon, District 3
Incumbent
In office
1997-Present
Term ends
January 3, 2015
Years in position	17
Party	Democratic
Predecessor	Ron Wyden (D)
Compensation
Base salary	$174,000/year
Elections and appointments
Last election	November 6, 2012
Cost per vote	$3.71 in 2012
First elected	May 21, 1996
Next general	November 4, 2014
Campaign $	$5,926,769

This Ballotpedia page tells Portlanders everything they should know about their Congressman Blumenauer, who earns just $174K per year, yet after 17 years as their Representative, Earl is apparently worth nearly 7 million dollars. That makes this liberal  Washington insider a secret member of the richest 1% of Americans. Portland voters have unwittingly enabled Congressman Blumenauer to enrich himself with millions, while forcing Oregonians to sacrifice millions of precious life hours stuck in traffic on small outdated narrow highways. 

Maybe this year, Portlanders will grant Earl a new title as "Former Congressman Earl Blumenauer" and finally afford him the opportunity to learn what it is like to earn money the old fashioned way, outside of elected office.