Posted on 09/15/2010 5:05:08 PM PDT by ipa2tf
A couple weeks ago, House Member Eleanor Holmes Norton made a fundraising call to a lobbyist. The lobbyist wasn’t available, so Holmes Norton left a voicemail.
We have been given a copy of that message. The audio is below.
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Say, could this be the “Big News” to excite Democrats nationwide that we were told about yesterday? :)
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HUMMMMMMMMMMMMMM, who put the pressure on her to get her to make this call. sounds like Nasty made a call.
Do Dums have to give a list to Nasty and she checks who they haven’t called. WOW just WOW
This is, uh, Eleanor Norton, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton. Uh, I noticed that you have given to uh, other colleagues on the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee. I am a, um, Senior Member, a twenty year veteran and am Chair of the Sub-committee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management. I’m handling the largest economic development project in the United States now, the Homeland Security Compound of three buildings being built on the uh, old St. Elizabeth’s hospital site in the District of Columbia along with uh, fifteen other, uh, sites here for, that are part of the stimulus . I was, frankly, uh, uh, surprised to see that we don’t have a record, so far as I can tell, of your having given to me despite my uh, long and deep uh, work. In fact, it’s been my major work, uh, on the committee and sub-committee it’s been essentially in your sector. I am, I’m simply candidly calling to ask for a contribution. As the senior member of the um, committee and a sub-committee chair, we have (chuckles) obligations to raise, uh funds. And, I think it must have been me who hasn’t, frankly, uh, done my homework to ask for a contribution earlier. So I’m trying to make up for it by asking for one now, when we particularly, uh, need, uh contributions, particularly those of us who have the seniority and chairmanships and are in a position to raise the funds. I’m asking you to give to Citizens for Eleanor Holmes Norton, PO Box 70626, DC, 20024. I’ll send you a follow-up note with appreciation for having heard me out. Thanks again.
Ya gotta give them Dems credit. They don’t beat around the bush but tell you how SHOCKED they are that you didn’t pony-up after all I’ve done for you. “Obligations” you know.
Eleanor Holmes Norton ... unplugged!
Holder will be right on top of this one............ you betcha!
Is this what Breitbart’s been talking about?
Typical, she probably thinks she’s entitled to the money.
This is the big scoop? Hel-lo! She’s African-American. She can do no wrong.
OK, so this is a bit blatant, but is anything she talking about illegal?
Congressmen and senators work the phones for donations. What am I missing?
Waiting for this net story Eleanor Holmes Norton to show up on ‘google search’.
Isn’t shaking down lobbying groups illegal? If so we should start making calls.
So, do you think he got the tape from the Lobbyist? or the lobbyists’s secretary? Mmmmm
Did you go to link and read the rest of this juicy piece?
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