1170 Compromise Is an Art

Now Pompeo actually said that he would investigate this road. Isn't this to investigate the lifeblood of their family?

This makes McCarthy feel unacceptable...

And this road was proposed by his father, and later on, every generation of politicians in his family benefited from it.

Almost every generation of their family enters the political arena, they will mention this road and promise to keep this road going.

Although the starting point of this road is in an inexplicable forest, the end point is still unclear.

But it is such a muddle-headed road that has not been completed for decades, and it also makes the people of Virginia love and hate it.

Hate him because, for many Virginians, this road is their nightmare.

Because of this road, their tax dollars are swallowed up all the time.

And I love him because this road has been built for more than 40 years and has provided at least hundreds of thousands of job opportunities to the people of Virginia.

And it has also saved hundreds of small and medium-sized enterprises in Virginia.

Because as long as you build roads, you will have various supporting measures for services.

Large to various special vehicles, such as asphalt transport vehicles, road rollers and so on.

From work clothes, work boots and so on, all of which are sourced from Virginia.

And this indirectly stimulated Virginia's economic prosperity.

You must know that as a state next to Washington, DC, Virginia's economic situation has not been very good, and it can only be ranked in the middle in the United States.

So they also need such a large-scale intercontinental project to stimulate employment and the economy.

Because everyone knows that building such a road will eat up a lot of tax dollars for the people of Virginia.

But this only accounts for 30% of the road construction cost, and the other 70% is paid by the federal government.

And that money is a transfer payment from other wealthy states.

This is also the main reason why California and Texas, two tax-paying continents, always have to separate from the federal government.

And this highway means even more to the McCarthy family.

On the one hand, this road is a good tool for them to win over voters.

On the other hand, they can also use this highway to continuously extract profits from afar.

In the past 40 years, the construction of this road alone has cost 1.5 billion U.S. dollars, which does not seem to be much.

Compared with the Boston pit that Thomas Lauren made before, it is simply incomparable.

But in fact, their family made a lot of money from this road.

For example, he first made his fortune when he started a supercar club at Yale University.

There are all kinds of rich children gathered in it. Many of these second generations are avid supercar enthusiasts when they are in college.

But in the United States, they are also facing the same problems as H country.

First of all, the supercar is too eye-catching, and it is too dazzling to drive out at ordinary times.

This is not in line with the idea that their adults want them to keep a low profile, after all, they are the second generation.

Not everyone's family members work on Wall Street and don't care what the outside world thinks.

Many families hope that their children can keep a low profile.

So even if you buy supercars for them, you seldom let them drive out on the road.

As for young people, after buying a supercar, they naturally like to go out and bomb the streets.

But once the supercar is on the road, you can't help but drive fast.

In this way, it is very easy to have accidents in downtown areas or urban areas.

The supercars of the second generation need a venue that can run fast, and those ordinary racing tracks can no longer satisfy them.

So McCarthy thought of the Route 48 that his father advocated.

This road has been repaired for decades and is hundreds of kilometers long, but it has not yet opened to traffic.

Because this road has no end, and it also has no beginning.

Many people outside the state don't even know that Virginia has such a highway.

So from the beginning of the construction of this highway to the present,

There were no people or cars on the road at all.

Then what place is more suitable for drag racing than this road?

So he gathered those second generations and formed a supercar club. Every weekend and holiday, he would come to this road for racing.

So the most common ones on this road are super sports cars like Corvette, Porsche, Ferrari, and Lamborghini.

And McCarthy also made his first pot of gold by providing services to these second generations.

Now this supercar club is run by him and his son.

He usually mainly contacts his friends who are politicians. If there is a need for racing, he will go racing on that road.

And his son followed his old path and established a supercar club at Princeton University...

Over the past few decades, their father and son have earned two to three hundred million dollars just by relying on this road.

What could be more secure than this business?

Now that Pompeo suddenly said that he wanted to investigate this road, isn't this going to destroy their family's jobs?

McCarthy was naturally angry!

This guy Pompeo is completely lying and bullshitting.

What the hell, terrorists want to use this road for aircraft take-off and landing training.

Why don't you say that terrorists are preparing for the moon landing!

I have been driving supercars on this road for decades, and I haven't encountered any terrorists.

Didn't you put eye drops on me face to face!

The veins on McCarthy's neck were already popping out, and the eyeballs were even more red.

If he hadn't been concerned about his status, he probably couldn't help rushing up to give this guy two punches.

"Okay, don't go around in circles, Mr. Pompey, tell me, what do you want to stop this farce!"

McCarthy's fist clenched and then loosened, and then clenched and unclamped.

After a lot of difficulty, he tried to let out a sigh of relief, and then asked Pompey.

Pompey, who had been keeping a cold face before, finally showed a smile on his face.

"That's right! As a qualified politician, compromise is an art. I think Mr. McCarthy understands this better than me..."

McCarthy was also about to cry at this time, so what else could he say when he compromised?

"I want you to end, to investigate me, to end any hostile actions against me."

Pompey smiled and said to McCarthy, and McCarthy immediately put on a bitter face when he heard this.

"Mr. Pompeo, you know that this task is very difficult."

"In fact, there is no personal grievance between us at all, and the reason why I launched an investigation on you is entirely because of the apportionment within the pie..."

McCarthy began to pour bitter water on Pompey, and his words were half true and half false.

The reason why he met with Pompey was partly because he was indeed a big boss inside the Donkey Pie, and he hoped that he and Richard could stand up and cause trouble for Pompey and the Elephant Pie.

On the other hand, it was because he and Richard wanted to gain a good reputation in front of the Donkey Pie boss.

Now their first round of investigations against Pompeo has failed, but he and Richard have no intention of giving up.

Because they also know that this Pompey is relatively arrogant because of his low background.

Therefore, there must be many loopholes in his body, and there must be many enemies in him.

If you can catch a hole or two, you can take this guy down.

This is a great achievement for the donkey faction, and both he and Richard will benefit in their future political careers.

But now Pompeo actually wants him to suspend his job for investigation, which makes him slam on the brakes.

If this is not handled well, it will not only offend the big bosses in the faction.

Even Richard, his sympathetic ally, might turn against each other.

So this made McCarthy feel very embarrassed.

At this time, Pompeo smiled at McCarthy: "You just need to be responsible for communicating with the big bosses in your faction, and we will be fine in the future. As for Richard Daly, I will go to persuade him he."

Hearing what Pompeo said, McCarthy felt that the difficulty of the task was greatly reduced.

It is relatively easy to persuade the big guys in the faction to give up attacking Pompeo.

It is rare to let his partner Richard give up and continue to find fault with Pompey.

Because as far as he knew, there was a personal enmity between Richard and Pompey.

Pompey's current wife was the object of Richard's crazy pursuit in the past, but it was a pity that Pompey later took her away.

Although it was many years ago, Richard seems to have never opened this knot.

So Richard was very concerned and serious about investigating Pompeo this time.

And he never intended to give up, even if their first hearing ended in a big defeat.

If Richard couldn't reach an agreement with himself on this point, then no matter how much he said in front of the big bosses in the faction, it would be useless.

Because that guy will always find a way to drag his legs...

"Are you really sure to convince him? After all..."

Thinking of this, McCarthy still couldn't help asking Pompey.

At this time, Pompey laughed again, and the smile on his face looked very strange at this time.

"Don't worry, since I can find Route 48, I will definitely be able to find a way to 'persuade' Richard."

"Okay then, you can talk to Richard. If you can persuade him, then I will send the bosses in the house to propose a truce agreement."

Pompey nodded with a smile, and then he stopped talking nonsense and got up to leave.

After leaving McCarthy's villa, he got into the car and asked the driver to drive him directly to Shinan District.

richard. Daly's house is right here.

After getting in the car, Pompeo dialed Xiao Feng's phone number: "Haha, Xiao, McCarthy has already done it. Thank you very much. The information I found is really useful."

"That's good. Are you going to 'convince' Senator Daly next?"

"That's right, I'm on my way to convince him now. Do you have anything I can use?"

Pompei cautiously asked Xiao Feng that it was Xiao Feng's people who found out the information on Route 48 this time.

So now he is very convinced of Xiao Feng's intelligence gathering ability...