Naming names in the Wilkes / MZM Scandals ...

[Zen Democrat]

This is from December, but with Wilkes up front and center regarding the new Watergate scandal, it appears that this thing is bigger and dirtier than the original Watergate:

http://cannonfire.blogspot.com/2005/12/deeper-into-wilkesmzm-scandals-updated.html

So which candidates got chunks of that taxpayer money earmarked for "defense"?

Henry Bonilla, Roy Brown, Rick Clayburgh, Duke Cunningham (of course!), John T. Doolittle, Maria Guadalupe Garcia, George W. Gekas, Lindsay Graham, Duncan Hunter, Darrell Issa, Samuel Johnson, Thaddeus G. McCotter, Constance Morella, Devin Nune, Steve Pearce, Bill Van de Weghe Jr., Jerry Weller.

All Republicans, of course. As the scandal unfolds, the pundits will try to convince us that "both sides do it." That simply is not true.

[napi21]

1. OH MAN! You just made me choke on my beer!!!!

Lindsay Graham, Duncan Hunter, Darrell Issa!!!! How much better can this story get!!!


This is TERRIFIC NEWS!

[calimary]

3. darrel issa?????? Oh PLEEEZE let it be so!

ASSHOLE. ASSHOLE. ASSHOLE. ASSHOLE. ASSHOLE.

He's the one who went after Gray Davis, in the first place, engineered and bankrolled the recall out here, and then cried like a baby when der Gropenazi broke through as the most-likely-to-succeed instead of himself. Cried like a baby all over the evening news. Cried ME a river, he did. Oh Dear God does he deserve some MAJOR LEAGUE comeuppance! Maybe he'll cry for us again, then, if this is true!

:toast:



:headbang:

[Sydnie]

2. Lindsay Graham got my attention!

Get him! Take his smarmy ass down!

[napi21]

4. Well, out of the list of the 3 I mentioned, Duncan Hunter is the one

I want to go down FIRST! That arrogant AH always talks like he knows EVERYTHING, and if you don't agree with him, you're just stupid and dead wrong! Every time I see him on TV I want to kick the damn set!

[Zen Democrat]

5. And it gets better ...

"Other recipients of Wilkes' largesse: President Bush, Katherine Harris, Tom Delay, Virgil Goode Jr. and Elizabeth Dole -- whose husband, as you may recall from yesterday's post, lent his name to Reverend Moon's "stamp out the cross" crusade. Talk about being on the Dole!

Did all these pols understand the ultimate source of the funds? Perhaps not. However, we know that Duncan Hunter -- chairman of the House Armed Services Committee -- was a big ADCS pusher:

'Since 1994, Wilkes and ADCS gave $40,700 in campaign contributions to Rep. Duncan Hunter, a San Diego Republican who now chairs the House Armed Services Committee. Hunter has acknowledged that he joined with Cunningham in 1999 to contact Pentagon officials who reversed a decision and gave ADCS one of its first big contracts, for nearly $10 million.' (USA Today, 11/29/05)

And then there's Republican Appropriations Committee Chairman Jerry Lewis, who ordered continued funding of ADCS even after the DOD raised objections.

Obviously, Hunter and Lewis must go under the microscope. Even so, you're missing the point if you waste much time castigating the above-named politicians for receiving the money. What is significant is the device itself -- using "false fronts" to translate IRS-collected revenues into Republican campaign commercials."