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Posted on 11/18/2005 6:23:51 PM PST by pittsburgh gop guy
Republican lawmakers say that ties between Rep. John Murtha (D-Pa.) and his brother's lobbying firm, KSA Consulting, may warrant investigation by the House ethics committee...
According to a June 13 article in The Los Angeles Times, the fiscal 2005 defense appropriations bill included more than $20 million in funding for at least 10 companies for whom KSA lobbied. Carmen Scialabba, a longtime Murtha aide, works at KSA as well.
KSA directly lobbied Murtha's office on behalf of seven companies, and a Murtha aide told a defense contractor that it should retain KSA to represent it, according to the LA Times.
In early 2004, Murtha reportedly leaned on U.S. Navy officials to sign a contract to transfer the Hunters Point Shipyard to the city of San Francisco, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. A company called Lennar Inc. had right to the land, and Laurence Pelosi, nephew to House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), was an executive with the firm at that time.
Murtha also inserted earmarks in defense bills that steered millions of dollars in federal research funds toward companies owned by children of fellow Pennsylvania Rep. Paul Kanjorski (D).
(Excerpt) Read more at rollcall.com ...
I agree with you about the timing, but considering what the Democrats have been doing to Tom Delay and the POTUS, I say it's time to talke the gloves off and expose every crooked Democrat we find
"While an investigation may be warranted, I think the timing is bad. Murtha is a Marine and has served his country, no doubt."
Screw this "Marine." Just because you went through it when you were younger does not give you a lifelong license to act like an asshat, and be disloyal to the President, and, in effect, disloyal to all the current armed forces. Kerry was in the military too, you know.
As for this "steering" of Pentagon contracts to firms and people he knows...he just lost any shred of "honor" he might have convinced me he had. It's all about the money and/or the politics.
Semper screw Murtha.
When the DIMs start whining bout this, republicans should (but won't) point out the number of conservative non profits that were audited by Clinton's IRS. And the left wing ones that weren't.
:)
I think the time line is reversed. This probe was already underway, I bet, before Murtha came up with his pull-out ploy.
I think the right time is now.
If they wait for a more appropriate time, they'll wind up waiting forever--as usual.
I think it's time to investigate Nancy Pelosi for campaign finance fraud, too.
That is going to leave a mark.
My, my, my.......
Another corrupt Democrat....
I hope they investigate EVERY congress critter with questionable "practices"......
Lock em all up...
Semper Fi
Murtha was the only congressman involved in the complex case to emerge without facing criminal charges. He declared he was innocent, saying he had "met with two men who I believed had a substantial line of credit that could provide up to 1,000 jobs for the district. I broke no law. I took no money." A grand jury and the House ethics panel cleared Murtha of any wrongdoing.
The reality is if you disagree with the dems or the media, they will go after you.
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"no files charged"
no charges filed (grin)
Daschle went to bed with a Boeing lobbiest every night - his wife. Nobody seemed to think that too cozy. Probably because 90% in both parties have similarly sleazy arrangements with lobbiests.
This is going nowhere. All dems have to do is threaten to investigate Trent Lott's lobbyist son or Roy Blunt's lobbyist wife.
Typical scaredy-cat Republican stance. We are at war with the dems. It doesn't matter that he was a marine. That's irrevelant now. He's a coward and a traitor NOW. Our side needs to politically defeat their enemies by any means necessary.
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