GET ME REWRITE: Slumlord Robin Vos receives housing award from big GOP donor

 

Headline and pic: Speaker Vos email blast

Contributions:  Wisconsin Democracy Campaign

Here's how Vos frames his selection.

The award recognizes my work during the 2021-22 legislative session to reduce the cost of housing for Wisconsin families.

Yeah, right!

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 1/7/2020

According to Merriam-Webster dictionary, the first-known use of 'slumlord', as in a landlord who receives unusually large profits from substandard, poorly maintained properties, occurred in 1953.

Other coinages from the same year include:

• bleep
• cluster headache
• goof-off
• male-pattern baldness
• off-the-wall
• second banana
• testicular feminization