Coburn slams 'improper' grants (Explains Himself)

The Daily Oklahoman ^

[ConservativeMan55]

Coburn slams 'improper' grants

Sen. Tom Coburn (R) Muskogee, said he was the lone vote against the Homeland Security Department spending bill this week because it funded questionable grants in some lawmakers home states and didn't include enough money to fight illegal immigration.

"Congress undermines our Homeland security when we fail to prioritize spending based on actual risks, and when we fail to secure our borders."

"Homeland security dollars should be prioritized based on the greatest terrorism risk facing our country. Unforunately too many members of Congress are putting their political security ahead of Homeland Security"

Coburn said improper uses include

$30,000 dollars used by officials in a Tennessee county to help a high school buy a defibrillator for a basketball tournament.

$63,000 spent on decontamination unit that is now stored in a warehouse in rural Washington state because the state does not have a hazordous materials unit to use it.

$98,000 spent on training courses in incident management by a fire department in Michigan that no one attended.

Coburn said, "The Senate also failed to fulfill its pledges to hire an additional 2000 border Patrol Agents and fund 8000 new detention beds for illegal aliens.

It is inexcusable to not properly fund this obvious security threat while politicians spend half-a-million dollars on homeland security equipment in North Pole, Alaska. -- a town of 1,570 -- which no expert considers to be a front in the war on terror."

[ConservativeMan55]

Medicine Man Ping!!!



Let me know if you'd like on or off this ping list!

[Travis McGee]

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U.S. Constitution Article 4 Section 4:

"The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government,

and shall protect each of them against Invasion;"

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Invasion: \In*va"sion\, n. [L. invasio: cf. F. invasion. See Invade.] [1913 Webster]

1. The act of invading; the act of encroaching upon the rights or possessions of another; encroachment; trespass.

[ConservativeMan55]

Senator Coburn exposes vaste waste.


Coburn Lone Opponent For Security Bill.


Senator Coburn on Fox and Friends.


Senator Coburn criticizes Supreme Court.


Senator Coburn introduces Parents right to know act.


Coburn freely placing holds. (Pet Projects Beware)

[ConservativeMan55]

"Coburn said, "The Senate also failed to fulfill its pledges to hire an additional 2000 border Patrol Agents and fund 8000 new detention beds for illegal aliens."

At least somebody is saying it!!

[Travis McGee]

All of the rats and rinos and quislings will find excuses to shoot down any border security and anti illegal immigration bill. "It didn't have this. It had that. It was too hot. It was too cold."

And the immivasion goes on, millions of criminal invaders a year.

[ConservativeMan55]

Dr. Coburn ping! Over here!

[ConservativeMan55]

I think there's a strong movement to close down the border. Its getting bigger..and soon our politicians won't be able to ignore it.

[ConservativeMan55]

bttt

[Torie]

Just say no, and throw some sand in the wheels, and then do it some more. I, the atheist secular moderate, of sorts, just love this guy. He needs to do what he is doing, and then do it some more.

[angelsonmyside]

"$30,000 dollars used by officials in a Tennessee county to help a high school buy a defibrillator for a basketball tournament."

Thanks for the post. Do you have any ideas how I might find out what county this was for?

[ConservativeMan55]

Dr. Coburn ping!

[ConservativeMan55]

You might e-mail him to find out.

I'm gonna do some searching tonight, and if I find it I'll post it on this thread.

[ConservativeMan55]

Lake County, Tennessee

[angelsonmyside]

Thanks I just found it, but I have not been able to find out who (or at what level) requested it. Please add me to your ping list if you have the time.

[ConservativeMan55]

I added you to the ping list!

I'll keep looking to see if I can find out who requested it.

Possibly a local official there.

[OKIEDOC]

Thank God that Coburn won against odds to be another good Oklahoma Senator.

Wished the rest of those numbnuts would do the same.

One thing for sure Coburn ain't no John McCaniac.

Allen/Corburn for president 08.

[ConservativeMan55]

I found it.

These state minimums ensure that disproportionate allocations go to areas where risk is low and that neither requested nor need the funds.

For example, $44,000 of Yadkin County, North Carolina’s Homeland Security award went to the purchase of a new state-of-the-art mobile decontamination trailer complete with warm showers. Yadkin County’s emergency-services director said “we’re trying to get equipment that we could use for events that could happen at any time,” he said.

“I’m not preparing for Osama because I’m not sure he’s coming to Yadkin County.” $30,000 in Homeland Security dollars helped fund a defibrillator for a high school in Lake County, Tennessee. Lake County mayor Macie Roberson thought it would be good to have on hand for the district basketball tournament

[ConservativeMan55]

I'll bump to that!

We need more like the good Dr. in the Senate!

[ConservativeMan55]

"Lake County mayor Macie Roberson thought it would be good to have on hand for the district basketball tournament"

Anybody have any more info on this Macie Roberson?