[Enchante]

[Norton]: "I’m handling the largest economic development project in the United States now, the Homeland Security Compound of three buildings being built on the uh, old St. Elizabeth’s hospital site in the District of Columbia along with uh, fifteen other, uh, sites here for, that are part of the stimulus."

She EXPLICITLY links her power over appropriations for HOMELAND SECURITY and for the so-called "stimulus" bazillions (which as many of us have pointed out is one of the worst 'Rat slushfund cesspools in American history).

This is certainly a most unethical shakedown, an obvious "pay-to-play" kind of sleaze.... granted, far too much of US politics is greased by this sort of thing at least implicitly, but I wonder how many pols dare to make such brazen linkages between their areas of power and appropriations, the lobbyist's focus, and the *need* for financial contributions???

She certainly violated House ethics rules and probably the law ---- time to focus the bright lights on the Demagogues' culture of CORRUPTION.

[mkjessup]

"I’m handling the largest economic development project in the United States now, the Homeland Security Compound of three buildings being built on the uh, old St. Elizabeth’s hospital site in the District of Columbia"

Nobody sees the irony of a Homeland Security Compound on the grounds of a former insane asylum.

Looks like the inmates are still in charge.