Corruption is an Equal Opportunity Sport

[jgaffney]

Speaker nancy Pelosi has just been revealed to have been paying her husband out of her PAC funds. The WashTimes has this:

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has directed nearly $100,000 from her political action committee to her husband's real estate and investment firm over the past decade, a practice of paying a spouse with political donations that she supported banning last year.

Financial Leasing Services Inc. (FLS), owned by Paul F. Pelosi, has received $99,000 in rent, utilities and accounting fees from the speaker's "PAC to the Future" over the PAC's nine-year history.

The payments have quadrupled since Mr. Pelosi took over as treasurer of his wife's committee in 2007, Federal Election Commission records show. FLS is on track to take in $48,000 in payments this year alone - eight times as much as it received annually from 2000 to 2005, when the committee was run by another treasurer.

Lawmakers' frequent use of campaign donations to pay relatives emerged as an issue in the 2006 election campaigns, when the Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal gave Democrats fodder to criticize Republicans such as former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay of Texas and Rep. John T. Doolittle of California for putting their wives on their campaign and PAC payrolls for fundraising work.

I firmly believe that, in the event that the Dems retain the majority in the House, Speaker Pelosi will be forced to give up the gavel. It was a milestone having a woman as the Speaker, but she has proven to be just as corrupt as the rest of them, if not more so.

[subdjoe]

If the Dems retain a majority, expect Queen Nancy to keep her job as SotH. To boot her out would be to admit to the mistake, something the Dems can't afford to do. An aside, I first read it as "It was a MILLSTONE having a woman as the Speaker..."

Also, if they do retain the majority, as I expect they will, look for them to trumpet it as a "mandate" and "clear message" for them to continue their socialist politics. Even if they lose seats.

The best thing we can do is vote all the capons out of office and start fresh. That would be REAL change.

Lordy, this election is a true charlie foxtrot.

[jgaffney]

Oct 1, 2008 16:31:58 GMT -5 subdjoe said:

The best thing we can do is vote all the capons out of office and start fresh. That would be REAL change.

How the hell can we do that when the brain-dead libs in the 6th District keep sending Lynn Woolsey up unopposed? Doesn't anyone remember her $20 million earmark for Port Sonoma? Or her letter asking for leniency in the rape conviction of one of her staffers?

[jgaffney]

Even Barack Obama, the Savior of the Left, is not above corruption. This is from the Chicago Sun-times, the only paper that's not afraid to print the truth about Obama:

A $100,000 state grant for a botanic garden in Englewood that then-state Sen. Barack Obama awarded in 2001 to a group headed by a onetime campaign volunteer is now under investigation by the Illinois attorney general amid new questions, prompted by Chicago Sun-Times reports, about whether the money might have been misspent.

The garden was never built. And now state records obtained by the Sun-Times show $65,000 of the grant money went to the wife of Kenny B. Smith, the Obama 2000 congressional campaign volunteer who heads the Chicago Better Housing Association, which was in charge of the project for the blighted South Side neighborhood.

Smith wrote another $20,000 in grant-related checks to K.D. Contractors, a construction company that his wife, Karen D. Smith, created five months after work on the garden was supposed to have begun, records show. K.D. is no longer in business.

Attorney General Lisa Madigan -- a Democrat who is supporting Obama's presidential bid -- is investigating "whether this charitable organization properly used its charitable assets, including the state funds it received," Cara Smith, Madigan's deputy chief of staff, said Wednesday.

In addition to the 2001 grant that Obama directed to the housing association as a "member initiative," the not-for-profit group got a separate $20,000 state grant in 2006.

Madigan's office has notified Obama's presidential campaign of the probe, which was launched this week. But Obama's actions in awarding the money are not a focus of the investigation, Smith said.

Questions about the grant, though, come as spending on local pet projects has become an issue in Obama's campaign against John McCain.

Hold your breath until the national media picks up on this story. Hint: ain't goona happen!

[subdjoe]

Oct 1, 2008 16:55:24 GMT -5 jgaffney said:

Oct 1, 2008 16:31:58 GMT -5 subdjoe said:

The best thing we can do is vote all the capons out of office and start fresh. That would be REAL change.

How the hell can we do that when the brain-dead libs in the 6th District keep sending Lynn Woolsey up unopposed? Doesn't anyone remember her $20 million earmark for Port Sonoma? Or her letter asking for leniency in the rape conviction of one of her staffers?

I didn't say it would happen, even though I wish it would. I said it would be the best thing. At all levels - Federal, State, County, City - turn 'em all out and start fresh. Only problem is the Senate, it doesn't all turn over at once.