DEMS, THE BANKSTER-OWNED PARTY of ILLEGALS,
HAS LONG USED A DIRTY LITTLE DEAL OF SIPHONING OFF CAMPAIGN BRIBES FROM THE SPECIAL
INTERESTS THEY SERVE TO FAMILY MEMBERS.
FEINSTEIN’S LAP-BITCH, THE UTTERLY WORTHLESS
BARBARA BOXER BEGAN ELECTED OFFICE WITH NOT ONE CENT. NOW SHE HAS MILLIONS!
SHE TAKES HER BRIBES AND SALTS THEM AWAY AS “CONSULTANT
FEES” TO HER SON, OAKLAND LAWYER, DOUG BOXER.
ONE OF BOXER’S BIGGEST BRIBSTERS IS FEINSTEIN’S
PIMP HUSBAND’S, RICHARD C. BLUM. HE LIKES THE FACT BOXER VOTES FOR ANYTHING THAT
FEINSTEIN IS PUSHING IN THE SENATE THAT WILL PUT MORE MONEY IN BLUM’S POCKETS!
“I’ll
whore for FEINSTEIN and more campaign bribe “consultant fees”!” Senator Barbara
“FEINSTEIN’S LAP-BITCH” BOXER
Sen. Barbara Boxer (D‑Calif.), for example, paid her son
Douglas $320,409.17 in campaign donations through his company Douglas Boxer and
Associates from 2001 to 2006, CREW found. Douglas Boxer is a lawyer and a 10‑year
veteran of her political team, a Boxer spokesman said.
BOXER DID RUN FOR OFFICE, AND
WAS REELECTED BY ILLEGALS DUE TO HER OBAMA – FEINSTEIN – PELOSI PLATFORM OF NO
E-VERIFY, NO WALL, OPEN BORDERS, DREAM ACTS, AND NO ID REQUIRED OF ILLEGALS
VOTING!
To no one's surprise, Boxer is running for re-election
This just in
from the state Democratic Party convention: Sen. Barbara Boxer announced she's
running for re-election in 2010.
Now a lot of
people are probably scratching their heads and wondering if they'd missed
something: Wasn't she already running for re-election?
Well,
yes. As a matter of fact, the three-term senator brought
then-Illinois Sen. Barack Obama to San Francisco in February
2007 for a 2010 re-election fund-raiser at the St. Francis Hotel. And her campaign website has been up and running for months.
But, to quote
from the senator's speech today, "I'm formally announcing, in front of
this convention, that I am running again for the United States Senate."
There were
plenty of yellow and black "Boxer 2010" signs in the hall and the
delegates were happy enough to wave them and cheer the announcement, so no harm
done. And it did give the senator a chance to plug her new line of campaign
clothes, on sale at her campaign table. It includes a bib for "Babies for
Boxer" and neckwear for dogs, also known as "Barkers for Boxer.''
"You
should buy the new Boxer merchandise so you can be on the cutting edge of
fashion,'' she told the crowd.
So far, Irvine
Assemblyman Chuck DeVore is Boxer's only GOP challenger, although former
Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina has made noises about running.
"Don't
listen to anyone who says our race will be easy,'' Boxer said. "My races
are never easy.''
That depends on
your definition of easy.
In 2004, she
ran against former Secretary of State Bill Jones, who never raised enough money
to run a television ad. A couple of weeks before the election, Boxer was doing
a campaign swing through rural California. An October campaign appearance
before a dozen people at a home in Amador City, population 196, shows just how
concerned she was about re-election.
The final
total: Boxer 58 percent, Jones 38 percent, which is definitely landslide
territory.
But Boxer is a
fierce campaigner who takes no prisoners. She's tough on the stump and more
than willing to defend any of her positions and rip apart those of her
opponents.
"I hope no one runs against me,'' she
told reporters after her speech to the convention. But if someone does, she
warned, "You'll face a tough race and I'll win re-election. So think about
it.''
*
"I
see no evidence of anything improper in this body," said Senate Rules and
Administration Chairwoman Dianne Feinstein (D‑Calif.) during the floor debate.
Senators
Diverting Campaign Funds to Kin
Loophole
in Ethics Rules Is One That the Senate Did Not Close Last Year
By Shailagh Murray
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. Barbara Boxer (D‑Calif.), for example,
paid her son Douglas $320,409.17 in campaign donations through his company
Douglas Boxer and Associates from 2001 to 2006, CREW found. Douglas Boxer is a
lawyer and a 10‑year veteran of her political team, a Boxer spokesman said.
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 FUCKERS 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.
Yet some lawmakers are seeking to restrict payments to some
family members as part of a broader effort to eliminate opportunities for
conflicts and improprieties ‑‑ an effort urged by watchdog groups such as CREW
after ethics scandals over the past two years, including several cases
involving lawmakers' family members on political payrolls who may or may not
have performed much work.
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.
...........................
From the Los
Angeles Times
Opinion
Meet the new political bosses, worse than the old political
bosses.
Democrats wallow
in a 'culture of corruption'
Jonah
Goldberg
May 5, 2009
Some days you have to ask yourself, my God, what if these people were Republicans?
Democrats took back Congress in 2006 and the presidency in 2008 in no small part because of their ability to bang their spoons on their high chairs about what they called the Republican "culture of corruption." Their choreographed outrage was coordinated with the precision of a North Korean missile launch pageant. And, to be fair, they had a point. The GOP did have its legitimate embarrassments. California Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham and lobbyist Jack Abramoff were fair game, and so was Rep. Mark Foley, the twisted Florida congressman who allegedly wanted male congressional pages cleaned and perfumed and brought to his tent, as it were.
Of course, it wasn't as if Democrats were without sin. Louisiana Rep. William Jefferson was indicted on fraud, bribery and corruption charges in 2007, after an investigation unearthed, among other things, $90,000 in his freezer. Then-New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer was busted in a prostitution scandal.
But that's all yesterday's news. Let's look at the here and now. Barack Obama, who vowed he'd provide a transparent administration staffed with disinterested public servants with the self-restraint of Roman castrati, appointed an admitted tax cheat to run the Treasury Department -- and he's hardly the only one in the administration.
New York Rep. Charles Rangel, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, is under investigation for, among other things, failing to report income from his Caribbean villa. Meanwhile, Sen. Christopher Dodd, chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, got sweetheart deals from subprime lender Countrywide and has yet to adequately explain his too-good-to-be-true deal on his million-dollar "cottage" in Ireland, which he may have gotten in exchange for finagling a pardon (from President Clinton) for a felon. Oh, Dodd also secretly protected those AIG bonuses that raised such a ruckus last month.
Rep. Jack Murtha of Pennsylvania, Nancy Pelosi's moral authority on military matters during the Iraq war, has been revealed as a kleptomaniac of sorts, delivering as much of the federal budget as possible to various cronies and lobbyists.
John Edwards, who had an affair even as he was scoring Oprah-points as the supportive husband during his wife's battle with breast cancer, is being investigated by the feds for the improper use of campaign funds. It looks like the silky haired champion of the little guys may have used their donations to bribe the alleged "baby mama" into silence.
And it would be a shame to let it pass that Obama's Senate seat was put up for sale by the then-Democratic governor of Illinois, Rod Blagojevich, and Illinois Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. is under investigation for trying to buy it.
But you know what? We ain't seen nothing yet. For starters, the real corruption isn't what the media are ignoring or downplaying as isolated incidents. It's what the media are hailing as bold, inspirational leadership. The White House, as a matter of policy, is rewriting legal contracts, picking winners (mostly labor unions and mortgage defaulters) and singling out losers (evil "speculators") while much of the media continue to ponder whether Obama is better than FDR.
If a Republican administration, staffed with cronies from Goldman Sachs and Citibank, was cutting special deals for its political allies, I suspect we'd be hearing fewer FDR analogies and more nouns ending with the suffix "gate."
Take Obama's "car czar," Steven Rattner. According to ABC's Jake Tapper, Rattner is accused of threatening to use the White House to smear a Chrysler creditor if it refused to back the administration's bankruptcy plan. He's also connected to a massive pension fund scandal involving the investment firm he used to run. One allegation is that conspirators used investments in the low-budget movie "Chooch" to expedite their alleged chicanery. Chooch, by the way, is Italian slang for "jackass," which just happens to be the Democrats' mascot.
More to the point, political corruption is inevitable whenever you give hacks -- of either party -- too much discretion over public funds. Businesses look to Washington for profits instead of to the market. The thing is, this has become the governing philosophy of the Democratic Party, from banking and cars to healthcare and now student loans. The federal government is taking over, and the culture of corruption inevitably trickles down. That in itself should be a scandal. Call it "Choochgate."
May 5, 2009
Some days you have to ask yourself, my God, what if these people were Republicans?
Democrats took back Congress in 2006 and the presidency in 2008 in no small part because of their ability to bang their spoons on their high chairs about what they called the Republican "culture of corruption." Their choreographed outrage was coordinated with the precision of a North Korean missile launch pageant. And, to be fair, they had a point. The GOP did have its legitimate embarrassments. California Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham and lobbyist Jack Abramoff were fair game, and so was Rep. Mark Foley, the twisted Florida congressman who allegedly wanted male congressional pages cleaned and perfumed and brought to his tent, as it were.
Of course, it wasn't as if Democrats were without sin. Louisiana Rep. William Jefferson was indicted on fraud, bribery and corruption charges in 2007, after an investigation unearthed, among other things, $90,000 in his freezer. Then-New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer was busted in a prostitution scandal.
But that's all yesterday's news. Let's look at the here and now. Barack Obama, who vowed he'd provide a transparent administration staffed with disinterested public servants with the self-restraint of Roman castrati, appointed an admitted tax cheat to run the Treasury Department -- and he's hardly the only one in the administration.
New York Rep. Charles Rangel, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, is under investigation for, among other things, failing to report income from his Caribbean villa. Meanwhile, Sen. Christopher Dodd, chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, got sweetheart deals from subprime lender Countrywide and has yet to adequately explain his too-good-to-be-true deal on his million-dollar "cottage" in Ireland, which he may have gotten in exchange for finagling a pardon (from President Clinton) for a felon. Oh, Dodd also secretly protected those AIG bonuses that raised such a ruckus last month.
Rep. Jack Murtha of Pennsylvania, Nancy Pelosi's moral authority on military matters during the Iraq war, has been revealed as a kleptomaniac of sorts, delivering as much of the federal budget as possible to various cronies and lobbyists.
John Edwards, who had an affair even as he was scoring Oprah-points as the supportive husband during his wife's battle with breast cancer, is being investigated by the feds for the improper use of campaign funds. It looks like the silky haired champion of the little guys may have used their donations to bribe the alleged "baby mama" into silence.
And it would be a shame to let it pass that Obama's Senate seat was put up for sale by the then-Democratic governor of Illinois, Rod Blagojevich, and Illinois Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. is under investigation for trying to buy it.
But you know what? We ain't seen nothing yet. For starters, the real corruption isn't what the media are ignoring or downplaying as isolated incidents. It's what the media are hailing as bold, inspirational leadership. The White House, as a matter of policy, is rewriting legal contracts, picking winners (mostly labor unions and mortgage defaulters) and singling out losers (evil "speculators") while much of the media continue to ponder whether Obama is better than FDR.
If a Republican administration, staffed with cronies from Goldman Sachs and Citibank, was cutting special deals for its political allies, I suspect we'd be hearing fewer FDR analogies and more nouns ending with the suffix "gate."
Take Obama's "car czar," Steven Rattner. According to ABC's Jake Tapper, Rattner is accused of threatening to use the White House to smear a Chrysler creditor if it refused to back the administration's bankruptcy plan. He's also connected to a massive pension fund scandal involving the investment firm he used to run. One allegation is that conspirators used investments in the low-budget movie "Chooch" to expedite their alleged chicanery. Chooch, by the way, is Italian slang for "jackass," which just happens to be the Democrats' mascot.
More to the point, political corruption is inevitable whenever you give hacks -- of either party -- too much discretion over public funds. Businesses look to Washington for profits instead of to the market. The thing is, this has become the governing philosophy of the Democratic Party, from banking and cars to healthcare and now student loans. The federal government is taking over, and the culture of corruption inevitably trickles down. That in itself should be a scandal. Call it "Choochgate."
IF
YOU HAVE ISSUES WITH BOXER’S CORRUPTION, SEND A COPY OF THIS TO HER SON, AND RECIPIENT
OF HER BRIBES.
(AS LISTED IN CA STATE BAR)
DOUGLAS BOXER
300 FRANK H OGAWA PLZ, No 500
OAKLAND, CA 94612-2040
FAX 510-835 0415
SEN. DIANNE FEINSTEIN, AND HER LAP BITCH BARBARA BOXER, HAVE
VOTED FOR ANY AND ALL WARS FOR MUSLIM DICTATORS, WHILE THEY DEMAND THAT OUR OWN
BORDERS BE LEFT OPEN AND UNDEFENDED AGAINST NARCOMEX.
KEEP YOUR MOUTH SHUT ABOUT MY WAR PROFITEERING WHORE WIFE’S
MANSIONS! HERE’S A BRIBE TO DO SO!
“Since the
2000 election cycle, Blum has contributed over $75,000 to the Democratic
Senatorial Committee, and thousands more to individual Democrats, including
John Kerry, Robert Byrd, Joe Lieberman, Ted Kennedy, and Barbara Boxer.”
*
March 1,
2006 The Democrats' Daddy Warbucks
Feinstein
family war profits, part II
Sen. Dianne Feinstein's husband, Richard Blum,
could well be called the Democrats' Daddy Warbucks. He's scored bundles from
war contracts. He has recently purchased a $16.5 million crib in San Francisco
and along with his wife has handed hundreds of thousands of dollars over to
fellow Democrats. Since the 2000 election cycle, Blum has contributed
over $75,000 to the Democratic Senatorial Committee, and thousands more to
individual Democrats, including John Kerry, Robert Byrd, Joe Lieberman, Ted
Kennedy, and Barbara Boxer. Richard Blum's history as an entrepreneur began at
the ripe age of 23 when he began to work for the San Francisco brokerage firm
Sutro & Company. Blum quickly climbed the ranks and became a partner by the
age of 30. According the San Francisco Chronicle, "Blum proved that he had
an eye for fixer-upper properties when he led a partnership that acquired the
struggling Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus for $8 million – then
sold it to Mattel Inc. four years later for $40 million." In 1975, Blum
went out on his own and formed a brokerage agency. Today, Blum's lofty firm,
Blum Capital, holds positions in more than 20 companies, including real estate
giants, credit bureaus, and yes, even military contractors. Blum sees himself
as an altruistic capitalist, claims one of his ex-employees: "He likes to
go after companies that are down and out, and bring their stock back to life.
He thinks he's doing good." Blum shares a large stake in Perini, a civil
construction company that is happily employed in Iraq and Afghanistan. But not
all of Blum's war profits come from Perini. In 1975, his venture capital firm
went after fledging construction and design company URS when the business was
about to be bought out by another corporation. Since then, Blum has increased
his stock in URS, capitalizing on its recent military contracts. Unlike Blum's
dabbling with Barnum & Bailey, his current profits aren't so safe for child
consumption. Here are the basics to date: Blum currently holds over 111,000
shares of stock in URS Corporation, which is now one of the top defense
contractors in the United States. Blum is an acting director of URS, which
bought EG&G, a leading provider of technical services and management to the
U.S. military, from The Carlyle Group in 2002. Carlyle's trusty advisers, past
and present, include former President George H.W. Bush, James Baker, and ex-SEC
Commissioner Arthur Levitt, among other prominent neoconservatives and
Washington power brokers. URS and Blum have since banked on the Iraq war,
scoring a phat $600 million contract through EG&G. As a result, URS has
seen its stock price more than triple since the war began in March 2003. Blum
has cashed in over $2 million on this venture alone and another $100 million
for his investment firm. "As part of EG&G's sale price," reports
the San Francisco Chronicle, "Carlyle acquired a 21.74 percent stake in
URS – second only to the 23.7 percent of shares controlled by Blum
Capital." The Carlyle Group has long been accused of exploiting its
political connections to turn a profit. And if Carlyle can come under the
microscope for its government ties and war profiteering, as it did in Michael
Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11, than surely Blum's URS ought to be subject to the same
scrutiny. Owen Blicksilver, Blum's spokesman, claims his boss and Sen.
Feinstein have never talked shop at home in their gated mansion: "Mr. Blum
and Sen. Feinstein have never had any discussions about outsourcing, government
contracts, or URS." If this were a Republican senator's spouse scoring
bundles off the spoils of war and passing it along to fellow Republicans, the
liberals would be up in arms. But since Dianne Feinstein is a leading Democrat,
mum's the word. Partisanship trumps ethics. The Byrne Report Hawk Tale By Peter
Byrne ON JAN. 18, California senator Dianne Feinstein introduced Dr.
Condoleezza Rice at a Senate nomination hearing for Secretary of State in terms
so saccharine that molasses seemed to ooze out of her mouth. She was a
precocious child, Feinstein purred. She has skill, judgment and poise. She
loves football. Bush loves her. "The problems we face abroad are complex
and sizable. If Dr. Rice's past performance is any indication, though, we can
rest easy." That very same day, Feinstein's husband, Richard Blum, took
advantage of a spike in the price of his URS Corporation stock. He sold a third
of his holdings in the defense contractor for $57 million, according to filings
with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. With Rice confirmed, the
business of death and occupation looks rosy as hell for Feinstein, who--let's
get real--benefits tremendously from sharing community property with Blum. URS'
largest customer is the U.S. Army, which accounted for 17 percent ($587
million) of its cash revenue in 2004. In 2001, URS enjoyed a mere $169 million
in defense contracts. Now, its war contracts total more than $2 billion.
According to its annual report, the San FranciscoĆbased URS anticipates that
profits will rocket up in 2005, because "operations in the Middle East are
expected to generate increased work related to the development of weapons
systems, the training of military pilots and the maintenance, upgrade and
repair of military vehicles." Provided, of course, that our hawkish
leadership remains as poised and lovable as the new Secretary of State.
Feinstein, who sits on the Defense Appropriations Subcommittee, is an advocate
of first-strike warfare, even though it flouts international law and the
standards of common decency. Interestingly, her Financial Disclosure Report for
2003 was more than three times the size of her 2002 disclosure (Feinstein's
2003 disclosure numbers 133 pages, compared to Sen. Barbara Boxer's six-page report).
The Feinstein-Blum portfolio is crammed with multimillion dollar investments in
the military-industrial-financial complex and corporations that heavily exploit
Third World peoples. The senator has a lot to lose should the neoconservative
war machine falter. Hubby holds a controlling interest in another engineering
firm, Perini Corporation of Framingham, Mass. Perini ranks No. 6 by dollar
amount in war-related government contracts in the Middle East. According to its
annual report, "Perini proudly supports the U.S. government with global
rapid response capabilities for defense, reconstruction and security."
Perini builds military facilities and roads in Afghanistan, electrical
infrastructure in Iraq and U.S. embassies around the world. After the Senate,
Feinstein included, approved Bush's war plans in 2002, Perini's defense
contract awards soared from negligible to $2.52 billion. But, as with many of
the sole-source, open-ended contracts awarded to politically connected firms,
there are problems with accountability. Last summer, Department of Defense
auditors determined that Perini could not adequately justify its costs in Iraq
as fair and reasonable. That's government-speak for: They're gouging the #!$%
out of us. Perini is heavily engaged in military and municipal public works
projects inside the United States; at least two are also under investigation
for contract fraud. For example, the city of San Francisco has sued general
contractor Perini--which was in a joint venture with the Tutor-Saliba construction
firm--for $100 million in cost overruns at a San Francisco International
Airport project. The lawsuit alleges that the joint venture engaged in "a
sophisticated pattern of fraud," including inflating costs, fabricating
delays and setting up minority front companies to exploit affirmative-action
preferences. The attorney general of Massachusetts is looking into alleged
false claims made by a Perini joint venture in the "Big Dig" urban
highway construction boondoggle in Boston. Ron Tutor, owner of Tutor-Saliba and
CEO of Perini, bought into the latter company, along with Blum, as it teetered
on the edge of solvency in the mid- 1990s due to a bad real estate investment.
It rebounded, thanks to the firm's sudden ability to obtain lucrative U.S.
military and government contracts, which, of course, had nothing to do with the
fact that Blum's powerful wife has her hands on the military's purse strings.
Remarkably, Perini grossed $1.37 billion in 2003, up 27 percent from the
previous year, before the U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq. Perini
attributes its rocketing profits to "increased volume of work in Iraq and
Afghanistan." As a risk factor, the firm notes that continued demand for
its military services depends upon "the political situation in Iraq,"
which, logically, means that it desires the bloody war and useless occupation
to continue indefinitely--a wish that hawktails with the foreign policy
positions of Bush, Rice, Rumsfeld and Feinstein. I almost forgot: Perini Corp. is the nation's most
active builder of Indian-fronted casinos. That explains a few things about Sen.
Feinstein and the politics of gambling, soon to be revealed in greater detail
in this space.
IF YOU HAVE ISSUES WITH
BOXER’S CORRUPTION, SEND A COPY OF THIS TO HER SON, AND RECEPIENT OF HER
BRIBES.
(AS LISTED IN CA STATE BAR)
DOUGLAS BOXER
300 FRANK H OGAWA PLZ, No 500
OAKLAND, CA 94612-2040
FAX 510-835 0415
510-286-2937
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