Posted on 02/19/2009 9:09:43 AM PST by smoothsailing
"The close ties between Rep. John Murtha and a Washington lobbying firm raided by the FBI have put the powerful Pennsylvania Democrat under greater scrutiny. The lobbyists at PMA Group have been Murtha's fifth most generous campaign donor over time, but he is just one of 284 members of the 111th Congress who have collected money from the firm, which specializes in securing federal earmarks for its clients. In total, PMA Group's employees and its political action committee have given current members of Congress $3.4 million since 1989, with 79 percent of that going to Democrats."
For a complete list of all 284 members, click on link below and scroll down.The highlighted names sit on defense committees and sub-committees.
http://www.opensecrets.org/news/2009/02/embattled-lobbying-firm-pma-ta.html
MURTHA WATCH PING!
That’s not possible. President Obama got rid of all the lobbyists.
Nothing to see here, Move on...
Nothing of interest to report in the papers here, what’s Britney doing?
Ohhhhhh.
This all happend BEFORE our new savior got rid of all the lobbyists.
My mistake.
Well, at least we can rest assured nothing like this will ever happen again!!
:-)
bttt
Can we impeach the ‘mouth murtha’ yet???? Let me know, I have popcorn and beer waiting for the show....
This rotten SOB has GOT to be voted out of office.
Jaz, this really caught my attention...
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No Overhead?
Curiously, in the last four election cycles, PMA’s political action committee reported expenses of only $18, according to federal campaign finance reports compiled by CQ MoneyLine.
It reported no payroll costs.
The $18 was for re-ordering checks and another bank fee.
The sooner the better! I like beer!
Now wouldn't that be a shame. Are those crickets coming from the oval office.......or from the offices of White House Press Corps, I mean the offices of the White House PomPom Club?
Not likely. Not if he truly represents his constituents.
Pigs get fed, but hogs get slaughtered. He won’t escape jail this time. He won’t be able to, no matter how many D’s go down with him.
Most importantly, the three Congressional leaders on the left only got a little, and did little for it, save Pelosi.
If this sees the light of day, Murtha’s done. I suspect Geithner’s still not save either. You should see what happened on CNBC this AM. There was a revolt on the floor of the CBOT over the Generational Theft Act (Porkulous).
Popcorn poppin’ time.
Not much of a stretch to think of this as the Mafia in the House of Representatives with Murtha as Godfather and Magliocchetti the consiglieri, or vice versa.
To be added to the Murtha Watch ping list please notify myself or RedRover.
Amen! That jumped out at me too.
Seems his lobbyists may have been private contractors for him. I don't know anything about the workings of a lobbyist organization but with the amounts of money involved in this it screams of illegal activity.
Many congressmen are like mine, Mark Kirk (RINO-IL). He says that he opposes earmarks, but he ensured that the federal government spent at least $5 million, each, for education, city police depts., an a commuter train system, in our district. He’s a hypocrite and a liar, since he only opposes earmarks for other districts.
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