You Don't Know Jack

[L. Coyote]

CREW Releases You Don't Know Jack - A Map to Rep. Murtha's Web of Corruption
http://www.crewsmostcorrupt.org/you-dont-know-jack

On May 28th, CREW released You Don't Know Jack, an interactive graphical guide to Rep. John Murtha's (D-PA) infamous web of earmark corruption. For years Rep. Murtha, who has appeared on CREW's Most Corrupt Members of Congress list three times and counting, has used his position on the House Defense Appropriations Subcommittee to reward lobbyists, defense contractors, and family members with money and power in exchange for campaign contributions and personal favors. CREW's new graphic allows visitors to explore each of these crooked connections, visualizing Rep. Murtha's network of deals and providing background.

Rep. Murtha has been receiving national attention recently as a result of federal investigations into entities linked to him, the PMA Group and the Kuchera Corporation, reports of nepotism involving Rep. Murtha's nephew, and the recent revelation that the congressman has earmarked millions for an under-used, airport named after him in his western Pennsylvania district. Also this month, CREW filed a FOIA request with the Department of Justice to learn if the Justice Department suddenly began supporting the National Drug Intelligence Center's request for funding - after years of trying to shut it down - because it is one of Rep. Murtha's pet projects.

In light of the criminal probe and the ever-increasing number of reports of Rep. Murtha's unethical conduct, CREW has called for Rep. Murtha to step down from his chairmanship of the House Defense Appropriations Subcommittee.

Click here to visit You Don't Know Jack
http://www.crewsmostcorrupt.org/you-dont-know-jack

[monmouth]

1. That airport of his with no flights (rarely) in or out, no traffic of any

kind is a disgrace. He needs to be ridden out on a rail..

[Pat Riot]

2. yeah, but

At least he's not a chickenhawk. I looked this up about a month ago when my ultra right wing mother-in-law insisted on telling me "he's a crook." And CREW appears to be non- or bi-partisan as there were a few more Republicans than Democrats on the list, including Tim Murphy, #22 right in front of Murtha at 23. I would say CREW appears to define corruption only in terms of pork. Murtha was and IMO still is better than the alternative.

I wanted to say this to all the disillusioned Obama people too. I first voted in 1976, for Carter against Ford. That was the first, not sure if it was the last, time I voted for somebody because he was a good man. Ever since then it was a choice of who would be the least of all evils. I would still pick a guy who's maybe too pork-happy against a goose-stepping Republican whose campaign was mostly about attacking Murtha's patriotism and service to the country (2 purple hearts, a bronze star, some other awards I forget; if anyone had the right to say anything about those marines on trial, it would be Murtha, or Wes Clark, or one of those heroes.)

[L. Coyote]

3. yeah, but

beware the military-industrial complex.

[Pat Riot]

4. too late for that, it's here, it's queer, get used to it

Ironically, it was Ike, a Republican, who first issued that warning and coined that term. When they used to stand for what they say they stand for.