Lobbyist's Brother Guided House Bill

LA Times ^ | June 13, 2005 | Ken Silverstein and Richard Simon

[FlipWilson]

Culture of Hypocrisy PING!!!

[Semper Paratus]

LA Times ran this? Reads like old fashioned investigative reporting.

[UB355]

Well Well.........

[Txsleuth]

Yessir...Pelosi and Reid have been spouting the "culture of corruption" phrase for months...

WE, our side, needs to use your saying "culture of hypocrisy" as our talking points...and you can use the hypocrisy label in many, many ways regarding what the dems say vs. the way they act...

[proudmilitarymrs]

can you say S C A N D A L?

[Wolfie]

Government is pretty much the world's largest wealth engine.

[ncountylee]

Murtha should go down but he won't go easily.

[Wolfie]

My guess is this isn't even illegal. More probably its how the system was designed so our Congresscritters could get rich.

[theDentist]

I hear he has a sister named Kaboodle who helps keep the levees up to snuff in Louisiana.

[george76]

Maybe we can help him some.

[bkepley]

Hmmm...could this be the reason he made this big anti-war splash all of a sudden..knowing sh#t was going to hit the fan in the LA Times over conflict of interest?

[msnimje]

Will the pull-out of US troops benefit his brother's company?

This needs to be investigated, HARD.

[george76]

Good Offense is better than a good defense?

Murtha also has raised some watchdogs’ concerns because his brother Robert “Kit” Murtha runs KSA Consulting, a lobbying group that represents some 10 smaller defense companies.

In 2004, Murtha’s brother was able to secure $20 million in the defense-spending bill for his clients.

Kit Murtha repeatedly has denied working directly with his brother’s office.

In comparison to Rep. Murtha, Rep. Bill Young (R-Fla.), who chairs the Defense Appropriations Subcommittee, receives far fewer political contributions from the defense industry, ...

“The other reason you see Murtha get so much is because Young does not ask for very much,” Ashdown said.

In the 2006 cycle, Young does not rank among the top 20 beneficiaries of defense industry political donations

http://www.hillnews.com/thehill/export/TheHill/News/Frontpage/101805/spending.html

[hophead]

Murtha is getting his name out there now and prominently so when he is being investigated, he and the Dems can say, "Here we go again, another of our members criticize the President and now he is being investigated by the White House and their cronies just for speaking out against the war."

[Let's Roll]

Way to go, George!

[Chode]

this is why he's been out there running his mouth last couple weeks was to get his sympathy level up so he can play the victim when this hits the news cycle... kinda like a prevent defense

[OldFriend]

Murtha got away with being an unindicted co-conspirator in the ABSCAM matter.

Perhaps, this time, justice will prevail.

[MNJohnnie]

From the LAT????? How this slip by the Editors???

[MNJohnnie]

Yep there is DECADES of material to use to illustrate the Democrat's Culture of Hypocrisy. Which ever Freeper dreamed this termn up deserves a medal. It just nails it.