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Kennedy, Kerry flew private jets
WPRI/AP ^

Posted on 02/13/2006 4:24:22 PM PST by hole_n_one

Kennedy, Kerry flew private jets

WASHINGTON The state's two U-S Senators enjoyed several flights on corporate-owned jets last winter. Those perks are getting new attention as Congress embraces lobbying reforms amid the Jack Abramoff corruption scandal.

In one trip, Senator Edward Kennedy was whisked to Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic aboard a Fisher Scientific International corporate jet.

Senator John Kerry and two political aides flew from Salt Lake City to a retreat for campaign donors and staff at his family's Idaho vacation home on a plane supplied by a real estate financing and investment firm.

Private air charters can cost thousands of dollars per hour. Under Senate rules, lawmakers are only required to pay the equivalent of first-class commercial airfare.

One reform proposal would force lawmakers to pay the full charter cost when flying on corporate jets.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
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1 posted on 02/13/2006 4:24:24 PM PST by hole_n_one
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To: hole_n_one

Doncha know... the rules don't apply to them.


2 posted on 02/13/2006 4:27:18 PM PST by BigFinn
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To: hole_n_one

They already got their talking points from Arianna --- the planes were going there anyway.


3 posted on 02/13/2006 4:28:34 PM PST by doug from upland (A dead body means one more chance for Democrats to have another funeral-op)
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To: hole_n_one
Well, Teddy wasn't in the Pilot's seat.
Kennedy's, Pilot seats, and water are a very bad mix.
4 posted on 02/13/2006 4:29:40 PM PST by theDentist (Qwerty ergo typo : I type, therefore I misspelll.)
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To: BigFinn

All I know is Ted Kennedy's car has killed more people than Dick Cheney's shotgun.


5 posted on 02/13/2006 4:29:48 PM PST by csmusaret (Urban Sprawl is an oxymoron)
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To: hole_n_one

These two tools could get caught naked with a live boy AND a dead girl in their beds and still get re-elected in that socialist utopa.


6 posted on 02/13/2006 4:30:42 PM PST by Buckeye Battle Cry (Life is too short to go through it clenched of sphincter and void of humor - it's okay to laugh.)
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To: hole_n_one
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7 posted on 02/13/2006 4:30:44 PM PST by MarineBrat (Talk is cheap because supply exceeds demand.)
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To: hole_n_one

They were private, but it doesn't count because they own the companies. What's more interesting is that they each take their own private jet, instead of flying with each other. They waive to each other from the jets as they are waiting on the tarmac.


8 posted on 02/13/2006 4:33:02 PM PST by Brilliant
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To: hole_n_one

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9 posted on 02/13/2006 4:36:23 PM PST by VOA
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To: hole_n_one

Kerry should be used to Private Jets.


10 posted on 02/13/2006 4:37:08 PM PST by jw777
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Did the pilots let Kerry come into the cockpit to play?


11 posted on 02/13/2006 4:40:39 PM PST by Fintan (Proudly wasting FReepers time since 1998...)
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To: hole_n_one
Senator John Kerry and two political aides flew from Salt Lake City to a retreat for campaign donors and staff at his family's Idaho vacation home on a plane supplied by a real estate financing and investment firm.

Musta been hard working (before he was not ) on the project "How to burst Real Estate Bubble" we bin hearing soooo mmmmuch. Oh, and he was in Vietnam and got three purple faarts.

12 posted on 02/13/2006 4:45:47 PM PST by Leo Carpathian (ffffFReeeePeee!)
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To: Fintan

"you ever seen a grown man naked?"


13 posted on 02/13/2006 4:46:15 PM PST by fhlh (Polls are for strippers and liberal spinsters.)
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Hey Timmy do you like movies about gladiators?


14 posted on 02/13/2006 4:50:30 PM PST by hford02 (we want indictments for NSA leaks)
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To: hole_n_one

What did Kennedy fly in, a 747 freighter?


16 posted on 02/13/2006 4:56:27 PM PST by TaMoDee
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ROOOOOFFFL!!!!!!!!!!!! That's just dammed funny!!!!!!!

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!


17 posted on 02/13/2006 4:57:59 PM PST by KoRn
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To: fhlh

"Ever been to a Turkish prison??"


18 posted on 02/13/2006 5:05:26 PM PST by RightOnline
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To: hole_n_one

I'd just like to know why the International Union of Bricklayers needs a corporate jet in the first place ???


19 posted on 02/13/2006 5:08:01 PM PST by USMA '71
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To: hole_n_one

Maybe dizzy tizzy wouldn't let flip flopper on her plane anymore.


20 posted on 02/13/2006 5:15:16 PM PST by OldFriend (The Dems enABLEd DANGER and 3,000 Americans died.)
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