was over a 4-5 year period. There's no difference between what Delay does and what every other politician in DC does. (almost all, see my note at the end). I can't sit here any more and act like the Democratic party is pure and innocent. The whole trips, and lobbyists, and tit-for-tat is a big game to them. It all makes me sick to have our country run by these people.
From the story:
the wife and daughter of House Majority Leader Tom DeLay had been paid more than $500,000 since 2001
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Here's some about Harry Reid from 2003:
http://www.latimes.com/la-na-sonsday223jun23,1,1120739.story?ctrack=1&cset=true>>>snip<<<<
What Reid did not explain was that the bill promised a cavalcade of benefits to real estate developers, corporations and local institutions that were paying hundreds of thousands of dollars in lobbying fees to his sons' and son-in-law's firms, federal lobbyist reports show.
The Howard Hughes Corp. alone paid $300,000 to the tiny Washington consulting firm of son-in-law Steven Barringer to push a provision allowing the company to acquire 998 acres of federal land ripe for development in the exploding Las Vegas metropolitan area.
Barringer is listed in federal lobbyist reports as one of Hughes' representatives on the measure that his father-in-law introduced.
Other provisions were intended to benefit a real estate development headed by a senior partner in the Nevada law firm that employs all four of Reid's sons — by moving the right-of-way for a federal power-transmission line off his property and onto what had been protected federal wilderness.
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And this from wirlednutdrooly: (it's actually a good article, because it is critical of the pandering and lobbying of ALL politicians in DC)
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=16340>>>snip<<<
Then influential House Republican anti-impeachment leader, Rep. Chris Shays, was able to avoid public notice when his wife Betsy quietly accepted a six-figure appointment as Director of Ameri-Corps from close Clinton confidant and early damage-control aide Mark Gearan, now director of the Peace Corps. The job came through on Oct. 8, 1998 -- just eight weeks before the actual House impeachment vote. And these are the appointments that are known.
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So why am I putting this out there? Stirring up trouble? A 'hidden freeper'? Nope, just tired of politicians in general. All of them. They are all corrupt money loving power hungry carnivores.
Well, almost all of them. If you'll notice - you will never find Kucinich's name in any of these messes. Why? In my opinion, he's not for sale. The problem with that? He can't win because he's not for sale. Alas, at least he can sleep well at night. 98% of the others can't.