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Media’s Love Affair With Murtha Ignores His Pork-Filled Past

Own the Beachfront Home of Your Dreams! Just Call John Murtha

When the Republicans ruled Congress, there were certain lobbying firms and individual lobbyists known to be especially plugged-in with GOP leaders and who hence signed up droves of clients. These included Copeland Lowery Jacquez Denton & White (tight with California Congressman Jerry Lewis), the Alexander Strategy Group (buddies with Tom DeLay), and, of course, Jack Abramoff. With Democrats back in charge, there are new lobbying kings in town and among the best connected is the PMA Group, a firm I’ve discussed before. Now I’ve learned the story of how PMA and a New Jersey-based defense electronics firm called DRS Technologies Inc. have teamed up to extract at least hundreds of millions of dollars in earmarks—the polite term for pork—for a single program, all with the help of Congressman John Murtha, head of the House defense appropriations subcommittee.

http://harpers.org/archive/2007/04/sb-beachfront-home

DRS Laurel Technologies is an ISO 9001:2000/AS 9100 leader in the electronic manufacturing services marketplace, providing contract manufacturing and engineering services to major U.S. Department of Defense prime contractors. The company has products on key weapons systems on most major defense platforms, which are integral in supporting today's war fighter and the Global War on Terrorism.

Which means you have a whole lot of executives making decisions on things they have no idea what they are and the people who actually do all the hands on work get crapped on everyday but are the ones who perfect the product !

I speak from Experience ISO Programs are the most usless wastes of paper and time on the planet implimented to destroy American Buisnesses and build up pork barrel spending and prop up federal dollars ...