This is none of your damn business
Posted on 06/11/2009 5:28:51 PM PDT by Shellybenoit
Congressman John Murtha, the King of Congressional Pork acts may be losing his Teflon coating. A few months ago, the FBI raided the offices of the PMA group, a lobbying group founded by a Murtha aide, and one of the Pork King's favorite Lobbying firms. What they found out suggested that Murtha and his buddies at the PMA Group operated their own little Earmark Factory. Another report suggested that the FBI may be zeroing in on the relationship between Murtha and PMA.
No worries for Mr. Murtha, despite the FBI putting the heat on his PMA relationship, the Porkmeister is is still accepting money from PMA clients and still getting them earmarks. As recently as April Murtha posted on his site, a list of $134 million dollars worth of earmarks he requested, $20 million of it to clients of PMA, the very firm that is being investigated:
After months of this scandal brewing in the press the House Ethics Committee is taking up a review of PMA and its relationship with some members of Congress, including its very best friend, John Murtha:
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Here comes the whitewash.
Absolutely nothing will happen to this guy. It will be said that “everyone does this.”
All this will serve to do is make him more popular among the band of idiots who keep re-electing him. They see it as going to the ends of the earth to bring federal dollars to their communities.
You are so correct, it’s just smoke and mirrors and a giant waste tax payers money.
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