out-of-control developers

It must be nice to be so rich:

“Any pension received from the state is given to charity,” Pittenger said in an email. “As you know I have stated that I will not take a federal pension and will donate my Congressional salary.” In a disclosure statement filed with Congress, he lists assets of between $25 million and $50 million in the Robert Pittenger Co., and a 2011 salary from the real estate investment company of between $1 million and $5 million.

And before you say it, I know there isn't a snowball's chance in hell of a Dem taking this seat. But I'd rather have a retired Sheriff in there than a land baron: