Democrat Seeks Probe of Bush Aides' Travel

[Rose Siding]

WASHINGTON - The chairwoman of the House Democrats' homeland security task force is asking Congress' independent auditors to examine travel by senior Bush administration officials in light of recent trips to hotly contested states in the 2004 presidential election.



In a letter sent Friday to the General Accountability Office, Rep. Carolyn Maloney (news, bio, voting record), D-N.Y., said she wants the GAO to look at the number and cost of trips taken by national security adviser Condoleezza Rice (news - web sites), Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge and Treasury Secretary John Snow.


Recent media reports indicated the three officials have spent increasing amounts of time in states key to the presidential election. Maloney wants to know if the trips were free of political considerations and if they were paid for by taxpayers or by the Bush-Cheney campaign.


The Associated Press reported this week that nearly three-fifths of Ridge's travel since the March 2 Super Tuesday primaries has been to one of the 17 most competitive states in the election, or one-third of the country.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=694&ncid=696&e=4&u=/ap/20041022/ap_on_el_pr/administration_travel

[glitch]

1. Using taxpayers money to campaign rather than serve and protect

I'd bet on it.

[ogradda]

2. GREAT question

this taxpayer wants to know!

[nosmokes]

3. not the sqWorm?!?

assWipes.

[maddezmom]

4. another tax payer would like to know

[MADem]

5. Let the sleazeballs campaign

...in complete disregard for our American political tradition. Let them preach, let them lie, let the lame stream media cover the fawning and the horseshit.

But let them take LEAVE to do it.

And let the goddamn RNC PAY FOR IT.

Just one more outrage to toss on the Weecowboy's "EGREGIOUS EXCESS" pile. They really DO have no sense of propriety, nor a sense of SHAME.

[DeadManInc]

6. Democrat Seeks Probe of Bush Aides' Travel

Put all three together and you still wouldn't have a complete brain.