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Rep. Ross Blames 'Left-Wing, Special Interest Conspiracy' For Pharmacy Sale Story
Justin Elliott | September 25, 2009, 12:26PM
Rep. Mike Ross (D-AR)
The AP has now taken a crack at the story of the sale of Rep. Mike Ross's family pharmacy, for a possibly inflated price of $420,000, to a big drug store chain.
And it elicited yet another response from Ross, Democrat of Arkansas, on the 2007 sale of the pharmacy. He can't remember how he and USA Drug settled on the price for the land and the building. From an interview with AP:
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Mike Ross
Rep. Ross Responds Further To Pharmacy Sale Story, Again Attacks News Org
Justin Elliott | September 24, 2009, 5:54PM
Rep. Mike Ross (D-AR)
After spending much of yesterday attacking as "leftist" the news organization that published the story about the 2007 sale of his family pharmacy, Rep. Mike Ross (D-AR) today released a fuller response and a letter from the buyer.
The new responses don't address the key question of whether the pharmacy chain USA Drug paid an inflated price of $420,000 for the land and pharmacy building owned by Ross and his pharmacist wife, which was significantly more than the county's $263,000 assessment and a price tag of $198,000 from an appraiser hired by ProPublica this year.
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Mike Ross
Rep. Ross Lashes Out At News Org As 'Leftist Group' After Pharmacy Sale Story Runs In Politico
Justin Elliott | September 23, 2009, 7:01PM
Rep. Mike Ross (D-AR)
Yesterday, Politico and ProPublica published a story suggesting Rep. Mike Ross (D-AR) sold his family pharmacy in Prescott, Arkansas, to a big drug store chain for above market value.
In response, Ross, who is the lead Blue Dog Dem working on the health care bill, has responded only partially to the story's substance, without denying the key issue, and has repeatedly attacked ProPublica as illegitimate and "leftist."
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