LA RAZA PELOSI:
“How many other terrorist suspects may have
slipped through the system because Leftists like Pelosi oppose any meaningful
screens? Instead she continues to advocate our recognition of the flimsy,
non-validated ID card that the Mexican consulates provide to illegal aliens
before they cross over our border, called the “matricula consular”, which gives
them phony documentation to set up bank accounts, apply for jobs, obtain social
benefits, board airplanes, identify themselves to police, enter buildings that
require IDs, obtain drivers’ licenses and then perhaps use those drivers’
licenses to try to illegally register to vote in our elections.”
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"As we’ve shown again and again in ‘Minutemen,’ the Democrats aren’t just hypocrites, but are working actively to subvert our legislative system to their own ends. Their only goal is votes, votes and more votes, no matter where they come from, no matter if they’re cast legally, no matter whether the person casting them is dead, alive, a citizen or an illegal alien."
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"As we’ve shown again and again in ‘Minutemen,’ the Democrats aren’t just hypocrites, but are working actively to subvert our legislative system to their own ends. Their only goal is votes, votes and more votes, no matter where they come from, no matter if they’re cast legally, no matter whether the person casting them is dead, alive, a citizen or an illegal alien."
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THE CA ATTORNEY GENERAL HAS
ANNOUNCED THAT NEARLY HALF OF ALL MURDERS ARE BY MEXICAN GANGS!
WELFARE FOR ILLEGALS IN CA IS NOW UP
TO $20 BILLION PER YEAR!!!
ON TOP OF THIS, HOSPITALS PUT OUT
$1.2 BILLION IN “FREE” HEALTHCARE FOR MEXICO’S BIGGEST EXPORT: POVERTY AND
PREGNANT WOMEN!
THE COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES PUTS OUT
$600 MILLION PER YEAR IN WELFARE TO ILLEGALS….
AND PELOSI, FEINSTEIN, AND BOXER ALL
WANT OPEN BORDERS, NO-STRING AMNESTY, OR AT LEAST CONTINUED NON-ENFORCEMENT
UNTIL THERE ARE SO MANY ILLEGALS VOTING, THERE WILL NO LONGER BE ANY TALK OF “AMNESTY”..
BUT ONLY OF EXPANDING LA RAZA SUPREMACY WITH “DREAM ACTS” THAT WILL INDUCE MORE
ILLEGALS GO HOP OUR BORDER AND JOBS TO KEEP WAGES DEPRESSED.
PELOSI HAS LONG HIRED ILLEGALS AT
HER NAPA WINERY!
FEINSTEIN HAS LONG HIRED ILLEGALS AT
HER S.F. HOTEL, ONLY MILES FROM HER $16 MILLION DOLLAR WAR PROFITS MANSION.
BOXER WAS REELECTED WITH THE MONEY
(BRIBES SHE SIPHONS OFF THROUGH HER SON, LAWYER DOUGLAS BOXER) OF THE SPECIAL
INTERESTS THAT BENEFIT FROM “CHEAP” LABOR ILLEGALS, AND THE ILLEGALS’ VOTES!
WE CAN’T FIX OUR STATE UNTIL WE RID
OURSELVES OF THESE CORRUPT WOMEN!
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WHEN E BARACK OBAMA WAS CALLED A
LIAR! ON THE SENATE FLOOR WHEN HE LIED THAT OBAMAcare DID NOT INCLUDE ILLEGALS,
HE AND PELOSI HAD RIGGED THEIR SYSTEM SO THAT IT WAS ILLEGAL TO ASK AN ILLEGAL
WHAT THEIR STATUS IS!
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CNN INTERVIEW OF LYING LA RAZA PELOSI ON HEALTHCARE TO
ILLEGALS
“If you’re in this
country illegally, should you be able to get health care?” CNN’s John King
asked Mrs. Pelosi.
“No, illegal immigrants are not covered by this plan,” she replied.
Mrs. Pelosi’s remarks are downright deceptive, according to Congressman Lamar Smith (R-Texas), who points out that the proposed health care legislation “ contains gaping loopholes that will allow illegal immigrants to receive taxpayer-funded benefits .”
These loopholes, Rep. Smith maintains, are “no accident.” He maintains that the proposed legislation, despite months of debate, still contains no mechanism for verifying if applicants are legal residents or not.
The Republican members of the Ways and Means Committee attempted to address this loophole by an amendment proposed by Congressman Dick Heller (R-Nevada) which would have required applicants for government provided or subsidized health care to demonstrate eligibility through the Income and Eligibility Verification System (IEVS) and the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) systems.
“No, illegal immigrants are not covered by this plan,” she replied.
Mrs. Pelosi’s remarks are downright deceptive, according to Congressman Lamar Smith (R-Texas), who points out that the proposed health care legislation “ contains gaping loopholes that will allow illegal immigrants to receive taxpayer-funded benefits .”
These loopholes, Rep. Smith maintains, are “no accident.” He maintains that the proposed legislation, despite months of debate, still contains no mechanism for verifying if applicants are legal residents or not.
The Republican members of the Ways and Means Committee attempted to address this loophole by an amendment proposed by Congressman Dick Heller (R-Nevada) which would have required applicants for government provided or subsidized health care to demonstrate eligibility through the Income and Eligibility Verification System (IEVS) and the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) systems.
LA RAZA DEMS EXPANDING THE MEXICAN WELFARE STATE:
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But, on July 29, the Heller Amendment was soundly defeated by the following 26 Majority Members of the House Ways & Means Committee: Xavier Becerra (Calif.), Shelley Berkley (Nev.), Earl Blumenauer (Ore.), Joe Crowley (N.Y.), Artur Davis (Ala.), Danny Davis (Ill.), Lloyd Doggett (Texas), Bob Etheridge (N.C.), Brian Higgins (N.Y.), Ron Kind (Wis.), John Larson (Conn.), Sander Levin (Mich.), John Lewis (Ga.), Jim McDermott (Wash.), Kendrick Meek (Fla.), Richard Neal (Mass.), Bill Pascrell (N.J.), Earl Pomeroy (N.D.), Chairman Charlie Rangel (N.Y.), Linda Sanchez (Calif.), Allyson Schwartz (Pa.), Pete Stark (Calif.), John Tanner (Tenn.), Mike Thompson (Calif.), Chris Van Hollen (Md.), and John Yarmuth (Ky.).
The Federal for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) believes the legislation is now purposefully self-contradictory in order to ensure that the millions of illegal Latinos will receive coverage. FAIR points out that while one provision of the proposed health care reform bill states illegal immigrants will not be eligible for benefits, the legislation remains without any system of verification for determining if a patient is a legal or illegal U. S. resident.
Moreover, Fair insists, the bill leaves open the possibility that if one citizen family member is eligible for benefits, then the entire family — including illegal immigrants — is also eligible for the benefits.
“At a time when the federal government is running trillion dollar deficits, and the projected costs of the proposed health care overhaul seem to grow with each passing day, the committee that writes our tax laws wants Americans to pay for the health care costs of illegal aliens,” says FAIR President Dan Stein. “Given the opportunity to close loopholes that would cost the public billions of dollars each year, Democrats on the committee unanimously rejected an amendment that would bar illegal aliens from a national health care program.”
The cost of treating illegal aliens amounts to nearly $11 billion a year, according to calculations done by the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), a non-profit group that opposes illegal immigration. And that cost is not expected to go away if a health insurance reform bill becomes law.
According to FAIR’s Director of Special Projects Jack Martin, illegal immigrants presently cost U. S. taxpayers $10.7 billion a year for health care. The numbers are contained in a report that FAIR plans to publish in the near future.
“The current health care bill is looking as if it is leaving a very large loophole for medical coverage being provided to illegal aliens,” Martin said.
So again, yes, the speaker of the House can say: "We've made no provision for Health Care for Illegal Aliens". But, is she in fact telling you the WHOLE truth or only half a truth. I am an independent voter and I, at this point, have my opinion. You be the judge for your own opinion.
But, on July 29, the Heller Amendment was soundly defeated by the following 26 Majority Members of the House Ways & Means Committee: Xavier Becerra (Calif.), Shelley Berkley (Nev.), Earl Blumenauer (Ore.), Joe Crowley (N.Y.), Artur Davis (Ala.), Danny Davis (Ill.), Lloyd Doggett (Texas), Bob Etheridge (N.C.), Brian Higgins (N.Y.), Ron Kind (Wis.), John Larson (Conn.), Sander Levin (Mich.), John Lewis (Ga.), Jim McDermott (Wash.), Kendrick Meek (Fla.), Richard Neal (Mass.), Bill Pascrell (N.J.), Earl Pomeroy (N.D.), Chairman Charlie Rangel (N.Y.), Linda Sanchez (Calif.), Allyson Schwartz (Pa.), Pete Stark (Calif.), John Tanner (Tenn.), Mike Thompson (Calif.), Chris Van Hollen (Md.), and John Yarmuth (Ky.).
The Federal for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) believes the legislation is now purposefully self-contradictory in order to ensure that the millions of illegal Latinos will receive coverage. FAIR points out that while one provision of the proposed health care reform bill states illegal immigrants will not be eligible for benefits, the legislation remains without any system of verification for determining if a patient is a legal or illegal U. S. resident.
Moreover, Fair insists, the bill leaves open the possibility that if one citizen family member is eligible for benefits, then the entire family — including illegal immigrants — is also eligible for the benefits.
“At a time when the federal government is running trillion dollar deficits, and the projected costs of the proposed health care overhaul seem to grow with each passing day, the committee that writes our tax laws wants Americans to pay for the health care costs of illegal aliens,” says FAIR President Dan Stein. “Given the opportunity to close loopholes that would cost the public billions of dollars each year, Democrats on the committee unanimously rejected an amendment that would bar illegal aliens from a national health care program.”
The cost of treating illegal aliens amounts to nearly $11 billion a year, according to calculations done by the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), a non-profit group that opposes illegal immigration. And that cost is not expected to go away if a health insurance reform bill becomes law.
According to FAIR’s Director of Special Projects Jack Martin, illegal immigrants presently cost U. S. taxpayers $10.7 billion a year for health care. The numbers are contained in a report that FAIR plans to publish in the near future.
“The current health care bill is looking as if it is leaving a very large loophole for medical coverage being provided to illegal aliens,” Martin said.
So again, yes, the speaker of the House can say: "We've made no provision for Health Care for Illegal Aliens". But, is she in fact telling you the WHOLE truth or only half a truth. I am an independent voter and I, at this point, have my opinion. You be the judge for your own opinion.
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The politics of Healthcare Reform
from the AP -
"Immigration analyst James R. Edwards Jr. reported last week in National Review that "no health legislation on the table requires federal, state or local agencies -- or private institutions receiving federal funds -- to check the immigration status of health-program applicants, so some of the money distributed via Medicaid and tax credits inevitably would go to illegal aliens." Moreover, the Senate Finance Committee plan creates a preference for illegal aliens by exempting them from the mandate to buy insurance.
That's right. Lawabiding, uninsured Americans would be fined if they didn't submit to the ObamaCare prescription.
Lawbreaking bordercrossers and deportation fugitives would be spared.
For years, advocates of uncontrolled immigration have argued that illegals aren't getting free health care, and that even if they were, they'd not be draining government budgets. The fiscal crisis in California gives lie to those talking points. In March, the Associated Press reported that Sacramento and Contra Costa counties were slashing staff and closing clinics due to the prohibitive costs of providing nonemergency health services for illegals.
"The general situation there is being faced by nearly every health department across the country, and if not right now, shortly," Robert M. Pestronk of the National Association of County and City Health Officials, told the AP."
from the AP -
"Immigration analyst James R. Edwards Jr. reported last week in National Review that "no health legislation on the table requires federal, state or local agencies -- or private institutions receiving federal funds -- to check the immigration status of health-program applicants, so some of the money distributed via Medicaid and tax credits inevitably would go to illegal aliens." Moreover, the Senate Finance Committee plan creates a preference for illegal aliens by exempting them from the mandate to buy insurance.
That's right. Lawabiding, uninsured Americans would be fined if they didn't submit to the ObamaCare prescription.
Lawbreaking bordercrossers and deportation fugitives would be spared.
For years, advocates of uncontrolled immigration have argued that illegals aren't getting free health care, and that even if they were, they'd not be draining government budgets. The fiscal crisis in California gives lie to those talking points. In March, the Associated Press reported that Sacramento and Contra Costa counties were slashing staff and closing clinics due to the prohibitive costs of providing nonemergency health services for illegals.
"The general situation there is being faced by nearly every health department across the country, and if not right now, shortly," Robert M. Pestronk of the National Association of County and City Health Officials, told the AP."
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Pelosi's Stake in Illegal Immigration
http://frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=25180
The Minuteman Project, founded by Jim Gilchrist (who is also the co-author of the book Minutemen: The Battle to Secure America’s Borders), is made up of citizen volunteers who watch our border with Mexico and report illegal entry to the border patrol. For performing that thankless task in full compliance with the law, Gilchrist and his colleagues have been falsely maligned as fascists, racists, and even murderers. They have been driven off the speaker’s platform at Columbia University and vilified by Leftist politicians and their handmaidens in the liberal press.
So it was no surprise that the mainstream media chose to ignore a recent press release, issued by his publisher, in which Gilchrist asked the question about Nancy Pelosi’s ethics that should be on the minds of every law-abiding American – including those immigrants who are following the law to become citizens here the proper way: “Do we really need a House Speaker whose every action is calculated to enhance her own financial interests, instead of focusing on how porous borders will affect the security of everyday American citizens?”
Gilchrist did not stop there. He demanded an investigation into Pelosi’s “economic stake in just the kind of illegal alien exploitation that we deplore in Minutemen.” But you would never know it from the liberal media, who - while ignoring this demand - have had no compunctions in calling for Speaker Hastert’s head in the wake of the Foley page controversy.
Gilchrist was reacting to my report several weeks ago in FrontPage Magazine that Pelosi – who owns non-union vineyards in Napa Valley where grape-picking depends chiefly on the availability of cheap foreign labor – is doing everything she can to help open the floodgates to more illegal immigration. And she wants the American taxpayers to pay their way. As even more proof of this than I previously reported, Pelosi does not want employers like her to be required to pay the cost of illegal aliens’ hospital care. She voted against a bill that would make employers liable for the reimbursements if an undocumented employee seeks medical attention. And she voted in favor of rewarding illegal aliens from Mexico with Social Security benefits.
At the same time, Pelosi has led the Democratic opposition to any effective border controls or documentation requirements. She opposed the Secure Fence Act of 2006, signed into law by President Bush, and voted against final passage of a border security and enforcement bill in 2005 which required that all businesses must use an electronic system to check if all new hires have the legal right to work in this country. She voted against a bill to bar drivers' licenses for illegal aliens in 2005. This year she opposed legislation requiring presentation of a legitimate government-issued photo ID to prove eligibility to vote, claiming that “there is little evidence anywhere in the country of a significant problem with non-citizen voters.” She is dead wrong. For example, an accused terrorist by the name of Nuradin Abdi was just recently reported to have illegally registered to vote at the Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles. Nuradin Abdi was indicted earlier this year as part of a conspiracy to blow up the Columbus Mall.
How many other terrorist suspects may have slipped through the system because Leftists like Pelosi oppose any meaningful screens? Instead she continues to advocate our recognition of the flimsy, non-validated ID card that the Mexican consulates provide to illegal aliens before they cross over our border, called the “matricula consular”, which gives them phony documentation to set up bank accounts, apply for jobs, obtain social benefits, board airplanes, identify themselves to police, enter buildings that require IDs, obtain drivers’ licenses and then perhaps use those drivers’ licenses to try to illegally register to vote in our elections.
Pelosi also believes in giving sanctuary to illegal aliens. She opposed legislation to deny federal homeland security funding to state and local governments who refuse to share information they learn about an individual's immigration status with Federal immigration authorities. Pelosi’s hometown of San Francisco is one of the sanctuary cities she voted to protect for the benefit of illegal aliens. Pelosi even voted against strengthening our immigration law with regard to the deportability of alien terrorists.
Jim Gilchrist cut to the chase with this devastating observation that the mainstream media does not want you to read:
"As we’ve shown again and again in ‘Minutemen,’ the Democrats aren’t just hypocrites, but are working actively to subvert our legislative system to their own ends. Their only goal is votes, votes and more votes, no matter where they come from, no matter if they’re cast legally, no matter whether the person casting them is dead, alive, a citizen or an illegal alien."
Pelosi sees Jim Gilchrist’s Minutemen Project as a threat to her pro-illegal alien agenda. More illegal aliens mean more votes for the Democrats and more grape-pickers for Napa Valley vineyards like hers. So she even voted against a measure that would have cut off the use of U.S. taxpayers’ funds to tip off illegal aliens as to where the Minutemen citizen patrols may be located! She obviously wants to see the Minutemen put out of business – permanently. She can count on the liberal press to distort the work of the Minutemen and to keep out of the public eye Gilchrist’s pointed questions about her motivations for helping illegal aliens during the run-up to the mid-term elections that may make her the next Speaker of the House.
Gilchrist, of course, is accustomed to being vilified and prevented by the Left from getting his message out. In early October, he was prevented from finishing his speech at the "Minutemen Forum" sponsored by the Columbia College Republicans. Gilchrist had spoken for just a few minutes and managed to utter the words “I love the First Amendment” when a group of radical protestors took the stage and interrupted him, displaying a big banner saying "There are no illegals." More protestors then stormed the stage. Chaos erupted and the audience members who had come to hear Gilchrist speak never got the chance, which was precisely the protestors’ objective. As reported online by the staff of Columbia’s undergraduate newspaper, “a mosh pit of triumphal students and community members danced and chanted outside, "Asian, Black, Brown and White, we smashed the Minutemen tonight!" They also put out a statement declaring:
“The Minutemen are not a legitimate voice in the debate on immigration. They are a racist, armed militia who have declared open hunting season on immigrants, causing countless hate crimes and over 3000 deaths on the border. Why should exploitative corporations have free passes between nations, but individual people not? No human being is illegal.” (Emphasis added)
We have come to the point in this country where a bunch of radical protestors get to decide who is and who is not a legitimate voice in the debate on as critical a public policy issue as immigration. Such Leftists think that migration in a borderless world is a basic human right. They want no barriers, no guards, and no proof of lawful residency. They certainly do not want the Minutemen watching the border and reporting illegal entry to the authorities.
Leftist slogans like “no human being is illegal” are red herrings. It is not the human being who is illegal; it is what the human being does that may be illegal. One’s conduct is the test, not simply who one is. Immigrants who follow our rules are welcome here. Those who do not abide by our laws have no right to be here. A person who breaks into your house without your permission does not deserve room, board and a job as a reward, even if the intruder may be much poorer than you. He has broken the law and deserves to be punished for what he has done. Our country’s boundaries and rules for entry and residency similarly define who is permitted to be here and how we choose to protect ourselves. We are a land of immigrants, but we are also a land of laws with certain core values. Those seeking to enter our country and remain here must learn to accommodate to our laws and values, not the other way around. That is the way prior generations of immigrants did it, including those who passed through Ellis Island. Why should the law be thrown aside now?
What we are witnessing is a frontal challenge to our nation’s sovereignty. Mexico’s Foreign Secretary wants to drag us before the United Nations for intending to build a fence on our side of the border with our money to keep out aliens who seek to enter our country illegally. They will probably get a sympathetic ear as some UN bureaucrats believe there should be no such thing as “illegal” immigrants in the first place. For the first time in our history, Americans are being asked to cede the right to decide how we define ourselves as a nation and protect our own borders to a globalist governance body. Will Pelosi lead her liberal loyalists as House Speaker to support the UN against America’s right to control its own borders? Do we really want to risk finding out?
It is high time, as Jim Gilchrist demanded in the press release ignored by the mainstream media, that Pelosi come clean under oath as to her personal stake in the illegal immigration issue before she can do even more damage as House Speaker.
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SIPHONING OFF SPECIAL INTEREST CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTION BRIBES.
THE DEMS HAVE IT DOWN TO A SCIENCE (BARBARA BOXER HAS BUILT A FORTUNE OF
MILLIONS FROM THESE TYPE BRIBES. SHE AND FEINSTEIN HAVE VOTED HELL NO! TO END
THIS BRAZEN CORRUPTION!)
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House Speaker Pelosi Used Political Donations to Pay Husband's Firm
Wednesday, October 01, 2008
WASHINGTON — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi paid her husband's real estate and investment firm nearly $100,000 from her political action committee over the past decade, a practice that she voted to ban last year and that her party condemned as part of the "culture of corruption" when Republicans did it.
The Washington Times is reporting that the California Democrat's husband, Paul F. Pelosi, owns Financial Leasing Services Inc., which has received $99,000 in rent, utilities and accounting fees from the speaker's "PAC to the Future" over the PAC's nine-year history.
Last year, Pelosi supported a bill that would have banned members of Congress from putting spouses on their campaign staffs. The bill banned not only direct payments by congressional campaign committees and PACs to spouses for services including consulting and furndraising, but also "indirect compensation," such as payments to companies that employ spouses.
The bill passed the House in a voice vote but died in a Senate committee.
Last week, Pelosi's office defended the payments, saying they were legal because she is compensating her husband at fair market value for the work his firm has performed for the PAC.
Ethical watchdogs called Pelosi's arrangement "problematic."
House Speaker Pelosi Used Political Donations to Pay Husband's Firm
Wednesday, October 01, 2008
WASHINGTON — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi paid her husband's real estate and investment firm nearly $100,000 from her political action committee over the past decade, a practice that she voted to ban last year and that her party condemned as part of the "culture of corruption" when Republicans did it.
The Washington Times is reporting that the California Democrat's husband, Paul F. Pelosi, owns Financial Leasing Services Inc., which has received $99,000 in rent, utilities and accounting fees from the speaker's "PAC to the Future" over the PAC's nine-year history.
Last year, Pelosi supported a bill that would have banned members of Congress from putting spouses on their campaign staffs. The bill banned not only direct payments by congressional campaign committees and PACs to spouses for services including consulting and furndraising, but also "indirect compensation," such as payments to companies that employ spouses.
The bill passed the House in a voice vote but died in a Senate committee.
Last week, Pelosi's office defended the payments, saying they were legal because she is compensating her husband at fair market value for the work his firm has performed for the PAC.
Ethical watchdogs called Pelosi's arrangement "problematic."
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THE MOST CORRUPT WHORE IN CONGRESS, DIANNE FEINSTEIN:
"I see no
evidence of anything improper in this body," said Senate Rules and
Administration Chairwoman Dianne Feinstein (D‑Calif.) during the floor debate.
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, February 24, 2008; A04
Under long‑standing congressional ethics rules,
corporations, unions and other large organizations cannot directly pay senators
stipends. But their contributions to senators' election campaigns can be paid
without limit to the children, spouses, in‑laws and other relatives of the
lawmakers, in a practice that has aroused controversy but is fully legal.
Since 2000, at least 20 members of the Senate dipped into
their campaign contributions and wrote more than half a million dollars in
checks to their own relatives, typically as payment for fundraising and other
campaign work, according to a new report by the watchdog group Citizens for
Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW).
Sen. Mike Enzi (R‑Wyo.) paid his daughter‑in‑law Danielle
Enzi $306,718.18 from his campaign accounts over the same period, according to
the report. She was a fundraiser before she married into the Enzi family, an
Enzi spokesman said. Sen. Jim Bunning (R‑Ky.) paid his daughter Amy Towles
$138,933.37 over six years, CREW found. Bunning's office said it was for
campaign accounting.
"It is an area that's ripe for abuse, for someone who
wants to turn campaign funds into personal use," said Craig Holman, a
lobbyist for the nonprofit group Public Citizen. Although most lawmakers do not
abuse the practice, he said, "those campaign funds always come from
special interests, and those special interests are always looking for something
in return."
Information about the practice is not easy to find, because
senators are required to disclose such payments only in the minutiae of their
periodic public statements of campaign finance expenditure and do not flag the
recipients as relatives. CREW staff compiled the data over nine months by
looking at microfiche and electronic records for the 2002, 2004 and 2006
election cycles, and by tracing names.
None of these arrangements appears to violate federal
election law (THESE mUCKERS MAKE THE LAWS!), noted Melanie Sloan, CREW's
executive director. Although lawmakers are barred from hiring relatives as
staffers in their legislative offices, family members may perform campaign work,
as long as the pay is reasonable and the individuals are qualified.
The senators' family payments were relatively small,
compared with the $5.1 million that 72 House members paid from campaign funds
to relatives or to relatives' companies or employers during the same period,
according to CREW. "We found much worse stuff in the House," Sloan
said.
Yet the Senate has become a roadblock to changing the rules
on family employment. The House, in contrast, approved legislation last July to
ban payments from campaign or leadership funds to candidates' spouses and to
require the disclosure of campaign payments to other immediate family members.
The bill was sent to the Senate, where it has stalled indefinitely.
The House acted after disclosures that former lobbyist Jack
Abramoff organized campaign contributions or other payments that wound up in
the hands of several lawmakers' relatives. Rep. John T. Doolittle (R‑Calif.),
who announced his retirement from the House last month, is under federal
investigation along with his wife, Julie, in part related to employment for her
provided by Abramoff and other lobbyists.
BOXER VOTES AGAINST STOPPING BRIBES SIPHONED THROUGH
RELATIVES!
Senators took up the issue before passing the Honest
Leadership and Open Government Act on Jan. 18, 2007. The law tightened rules on
accepting meals, private plane rides and other perks from lobbyists. But an
amendment to ban the practice of paying relatives for their campaign work was
rejected 54 to 41, with Boxer voting "present."
Even senators with no relatives listed in the CREW report
criticized the measure, offered by Sen. David Vitter (R‑La.), as overly harsh.
"I see no evidence of anything improper in this body," said Senate
Rules and Administration Chairwoman Dianne Feinstein (D‑Calif.) during the
floor debate.
But Rep. Adam B. Schiff (D‑Calif.), who sponsored the House
bill, said he thinks "there's some serious self‑interest involved" in
the Senate's refusal to go along. Keeping a spouse on the payroll, Schiff said,
"just struck me as an inherent conflict of interest. Most people are
shocked that it's not a crime, and it should be outlawed." He is still
seeking a senator to take up the cause in that chamber.
Some Senate family members do work for bargain prices, at
least by Washington standards. Towles, who lives in Kentucky, has kept her
father's campaign books since the 1990s, said Bunning spokesman Mike Reynard.
He described her as "a one‑person office." Towles's Citizens for
Bunning salary rose from $19,589.10 in 2001, according to CREW, to $23,180.60
in 2006. She received an additional $4,999 through the separate Political Hall
of Fame PAC, the group found.
Enzi spokesman Coy Knobel said Danielle Enzi works as a
contract fundraiser for the Wyoming senator and has other political and
nonprofit clients. "I think it's essential to point out the work Danielle
does for Senator Enzi is paid for by donors to his campaign," as opposed
to public funds, Knobel said. "If the donors don't agree with something,
then they don't have to give."
The campaign political director for Sen. Michael D. Crapo (R‑Idaho),
whose wife, Susan, was paid $78,514.50 over six years, said Susan Crapo
"has always been the top campaign hand." Jake Ball described her
duties as "organizing and carrying out big events," along with
keeping Crapo's schedule and driving him to events.
"She's able to make decisions and act on things that
other campaign workers would not feel as bold at doing," Ball said.
"Any dollars she's paid are dollars she has earned."
Other names on the CREW list include Senate Foreign
Relations Committee Chairman Joseph R. Biden Jr. (D‑Del.), whose sister,
Valerie Biden Owens, has managed all of his Senate campaigns, dating back to
1972. She was paid $51,286.27 in 2002, according to CREW. Her daughter
Catherine Owens, also known as Casey, was paid $3,618.51 for her job as a field
organizer.
Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D‑Mass.) has paid nephews Joseph and
Matthew Kennedy, who co‑chaired his 2006 reelection campaign, a total of
$50,073.87 from his Kennedy for Senate 2012 campaign fund.
Sen. Richard Burr (R‑N.C.) reached to a farther branch of
his family tree, employing Mary T. Fauth as the treasurer of his leadership
political action committee, the Next Century Fund. Fauth is the wife of Burr's
wife's brother, according to a spokesman for the senator, and earned $32,013
over six years, the report found.
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JUDICIAL WATCH’S TEN MOST
CORRUPT............................................ 2007
Unfortunately the corruption of these politicians noted is
only a drop in the bucket of what they’re guilty of.
One common ground for all of them is they will all protect
and cover each other’s crimes.
1. SENATOR HILLARY
CLINTON D-NY: In addition to her long and sordid ethics record, Senator
Hillary Clinton took a lot of heat in 2007 – and rightly so – for blocking the
release her official White House records. Many suspect these records contain a
treasure trove of information related to her role in a number of serious
Clinton-era scandals. Moreover, in March 2007, Judicial Watch filed an ethics
complaint against Senator Clinton for filing false financial disclosure forms
with the U.S. Senate (again). And Hillary’s top campaign contributor, Norman
Hsu, was exposed as a felon and a fugitive from justice in 2007. Hsu pleaded
guilty to one count of grand theft for defrauding investors as part of a
multi-million dollar Ponzi scheme.
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CLINTON IS A MAJOR LA RAZA SUPPORTER AND ADVANCED BUSH’S BIT
BY BIT AMNESTY ALONG WITH HER OWN CHAIN MIGRATION WHICH IS CALCULATED TO DOUBLE
THE 40 MILLION ILLEGALS ALREADY HERE.
CLINTON IS ALSO VERY MUCH IN BED WITH THE SAUDIS WHOM GAVE
10 MILLION TO BILL CLINTON’S LIBRARY. NO COMMENT ON THE FACT THE SAUDIS ARE
MAJOR FINANCIERS OF TERRORISM, INCLUDING BOMBERS IN IRAQ KILLING OUR PEOPLE, OR
THE SAUDI FUNDED WAHHABI SCHOOLS WHICH PROMOTE ULTRA-FASCIST MUSLIM IDEOLOGIES.
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2. Rep. John Conyers (D-MI):
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3. Senator Larry Craig (R-ID):
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4. SENATOR DIANNE
FEINSTEIN (D-CA): As a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee's
subcommittee on military construction, Feinstein reviewed military construction
government contracts, some of which were ultimately awarded to URS Corporation
and Perini, companies then owned by Feinstein's husband, Richard Blum. While
the Pentagon ultimately awards military contracts, there is a reason for the
review process. The Senate's subcommittee on Military Construction's approval
carries weight. Sen. Feinstein, therefore, likely had influence over the
decision making process. Senator Feinstein also attempted to undermine ethics
reform in 2007, arguing in favor of a perk that allows members of Congress to
book multiple airline flights and then cancel them without financial penalty.
Judicial Watch’s investigation into this matter is ongoing.
YOU SAW FEINSTEIN, AND HER PIMP-HUSBAND, RICHARD C
BLUM, AT OBAMA’S INAUGURAL. BLUM KEEPS
DEM POLS MOUTH CLOSED TIGHT ON FEINSTEIN’S SELF-SERVING CORRUPTION, PIMPED BY
BLUM, BY HANDING OUT MONEY LEFT AND RIGHT. BLUM HAS PAID LEGAL BRIBES TO – BOXER – KERRY – KENNEDY – CLINTON
– OBAMA – AND THE OTHER WAR WHORE, JOE LIEBERMAN.
DIANNE FEINSTEIN IS THE PAID ADVOCATE FOR RED CHINA IN
CONGRESS.
FEINSTEIN TRADED TWO (BOXER’S) NO IMPEACHMENT PROMISES TO
GEORGE W. BUSH FOR HER PIMP’S ACCESS TO THE CARLYLE BIG BUSH SAUDI OIL WAR
PROFITEERING CLUB. WITH HER FIRST WAR PROFITS CHECK FEINSTEIN WENT OUT AND
PURCHASED A $17 MILLION DOLLAR MANSION IN SAN FRANCISCO. FEINSTEIN RANKS AS ONE
OF THE MOST CORRUPT POLITICIANS IN AMERICAN HISTORY WHICH MADE HER ATTRACTION
TO BOTH BUSH AND OBAMA OBVIOUS.
FEINSTEIN HAS LONG BEEN ENDORSED BY THE FASCIST MEXICAN
SUPREMACIST POLITICAL PARTY OF LA RAZA, AND TIRELESSLY WORKS FOR NO AMNESTY, NO
WALL, NO ID FOR ILLEGALS TO VOTE, NO ENFORCEMENT OF LAWS PROHIBITING THE
EMPLOYMENT OF ILLEGALS, AND NO E-VERIFY.
FEINSTEIN HAS LONG ILLEGALLY EXPLOITED “CHEAP” LABOR
ILLEGALS AT HER SAN FRANCISCO HOTEL.
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5. Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani (R-NY):
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6. Governor Mike Huckabee (R-AR
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7. I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby: Libby, former Chief of Staff to
Vice President Dick
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8. SENATOR BARACK
OBAMA (D-IL): A “Dishonorable Mention” last year, Senator Obama moves onto
the “ten most wanted” list in 2007. In 2006, it was discovered that Obama was
involved in a suspicious real estate deal with an indicted political fund
raiser, Antoin “Tony” Rezko. In 2007, more reports surfaced of deeper and
suspicious business and political connections It was reported that just two
months after he joined the Senate, Obama purchased $50,000 worth of stock in
speculative companies whose major investors were his biggest campaign
contributors. One of the companies was a biotech concern that benefitted from
legislation Obama pushed just two weeks after the senator purchased $5,000 of
the company’s shares. Obama was also nabbed conducting campaign business in his
Senate office, a violation of federal law.
FEW HAVE TAKEN MORE MONEY FROM WALL STREET BANKSTERS THAN
OBAMA, AND FEW HAVE DONE MORE FOR THEM TO PROTECT THEM FROM PROSECUTION, AND
CONTINUE THE TRANSFER OF THIS ONCE GREAT NATION’S ECONOMY OVER TO THE CORPORATE
CLASS WHICH OWNS HIM.
OBAMA IS A MAJOR HISPANDERER AND HAS PROMISED WALL STREET
AMNESTY FOR 38 MILLION ILLEGALS TO KEEP WAGES DEPRESSED AND PROFIT MARGINS
SWOLLEN. NO WORD FROM OBAMA ON MEXICAN GANGS MURDERING BLACKS IN COLD BLOOD IN
LOS ANGELES. DO SEARCH LOS ANGELES TIMES.
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9. REP. NANCY PELOSI
(D-CA): House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who promised a new era of ethics
enforcement in the House of Representatives, snuck a $25 million gift to her
husband, Paul Pelosi, in a $15 billion Water Resources Development Act recently
passed by Congress. The pet project involved renovating ports in Speaker
Pelosi's home base of San Francisco. Pelosi just happens to own apartment buildings
near the areas targeted for improvement, and will almost certainly experience a
significant boost in property value as a result of Pelosi's earmark. Earlier in
the year, Pelosi found herself in hot water for demanding access to a luxury
Air Force jet to ferry the Speaker and her entourage back and forth from San
Francisco non-stop, in unprecedented request which was wisely rejected by the
Pentagon. And under Pelosi’s leadership, the House ethics process remains
essentially shut down – which protects members in both parties from
accountability.
PELOSI HAS LONG HIRED
ILLEGALS TO WORK HER 20 MILLION DOLLAR NAPA WINERY. SHE HAS SUBSTANTIAL
INVESTMENTS IN SUNKIST WHICH HAS A POLICY AGAINST PAYING LIVING WAGES OR HIRING
LEGALS. SHE WORKS BEHIND CLOSED DOORS
WITH THE OTHER LA RAZA SUPPORTERS, FEINSTEIN, BOXER, ESHOO, LOFGREN, SANCHEZ,
WAXMAN, KENNEDY, HARMAN, BACA, HONDA, FONG, BECERRA AND REID TO KEEP THE BORDERS OPEN. SHE HAS
WORKED TIRELESSLY TO SABOTAGE THE WALL TO PROTECT US FROM NARCO-MEX.
10. SENATOR HARRY
REID (D-NV): Over the last few years, Reid has been embroiled in a series
of scandals that cast serious doubt on his credibility as a self-professed
champion of government ethics, and 2007 was no different. According to The Los
Angeles Times, over the last four years, Reid has used his influence in
Washington to help a developer, Havey Whittemore, clear obstacles for a
profitable real estate deal. As the project advanced, the Times reported, “Reid
received tens of thousands of dollars in campaign contributions from
Whittemore.” Whittemore also hired one of Reid’s sons (Leif) as his personal
lawyer and then promptly handed the junior Reid the responsibility of negotiating
the real estate deal with federal officials. Leif Reid even called his father’s
office to talk about how to obtain the proper EPA permits, a clear conflict of
interest.
ON BEHALF OF HIS BIG GAMBLING BRIBE-STERS, REID WORKS WITH
THE CALIFORNIA LA RAZA GIRLS FOR OPEN BORDERS, AMNESTY AND NO LAW ENFORCEMENT
AGAINST ILLEGALS. HIS STATE IS NOW 25% ILLEGAL, AND NEXT TO CALIFORNIA, HAS THE
HIGHEST RATES OF FORECLOSURES.
SENATOR BARBARA BOXER,
CA. Although Boxer did not make the TOP TEN CORRUPT in 2007, it’s probably only because there wasn’t
enough room. Boxer is as corrupt as they come. She has used her elected office
to collect a staggering fortune labeled “CONSULTANT FEES”, which she then
siphoned off to her son, lawyer DOUGLAS BOXER. Senator Barbara Boxer voted NO
to stop this form of corruption, and keeps herself on the SENATE’S NO ETHICS
COMMITTEE to sabotage any investigations into FEINSTEIN’S massive corruption.
Other politicians that collect special interest bribes they refer to as
“CONSULTANT FEES” are Kennedy and JOE BIDEN who has collected big money from
BIG BANKERS. This made the clown an obvious choice to be VICE PRESIDENT for
OBAMA pandering for more BANKSTERS BRIBES.
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