Durka-Durka-Muhammed-Jihad!!
Sanders paid wife, stepdaughter for campaign effortsTom Delay does it - a 'messed up' situation IMO - and he's practically the Anti-Christ. But dollars-to-donuts that you won't see even a blip on the radar screen from anyone left-of-center on this.
WASHINGTON -- Rep. Bernard Sanders used campaign donations to pay his wife and stepdaughter more than $150,000 for campaign-related work since 2000, according to records filed with the Federal Election Commission.
Jane O'Meara Sanders, his wife, received $91,020 between 2002 and 2004 for "consultation" and for negotiating the purchase of television and radio time-slots for Sanders' advertisements, according to records and interviews.
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Jim Barrett, chairman of the Vermont Republican Party, used Sanders' family payments to highlight what he said is Democratic "hypocrisy" for fiercely attacking DeLay. "It's the standard hypocrisy from the left," Barrett said. "When a Republican does it, it's inappropriate and front page news. But now it turns out, our own Bernie Sanders has been doing it for a long time."
He added: "If it's corruption when Tom DeLay does it, then it's corruption when Bernie Sanders does it."
I'm not going to defend Delay for this - IMO it's bad politics and it smacks of Jesse Jackson putting his entire family on the dole of the Rainbow Coalition (I think that's the group), but before anyone starts to froath-at-the-mouth and sputter inconsistent sentences about the 'evil that is Tom Delay', they'd better take a serious look at their own houses and make sure they're in order.
Make issue of significant instantances of crappy politics, but for the love of Mikey, stop slinging crap just for the ripple-effect in the pond, huh?
I just came off like a dick, sorry about that. I don't think any family members should be on the
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Mad Mikey said:
DeLay, last I read, can't account for the mopney...
Well, I hadn't known about the
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scroff said:
Bernie Sanders is the only Independent in the House. His wife & stepdaughter were paid, between t
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Bernie Sanders is the only Independent in the House. His wife & stepdaughter were paid, between the two, about $150,000 over the last four or five years and can account for the money, some of which wasn't 'pay' but expenses for advertising.
DeLay, last I read, can't account for the mopney and just screams VLWC VLWC!!
He's a dickhead and lots of republicans want him to go too.
He says he wants to go before the House Ethics committee, but gee, the Republicans castrated that committee just a few months ago.
He's a turd.
|| Posted by scroff, April 13, 2005 09:41 AM ||DeLay, last I read, can't account for the mopney...
Well, I hadn't known about the lack-of-accountability but IMO this would be a concern for the FEC and the regulations that govern PACs, not political fodder.
I was trying to impart that I do not agree with the principle of keeping family members on the payroll and (attempting) to not touch on the aspects of using this as political ammo. My apoligies.
|| Posted by Mad Mikey, April 13, 2005 10:54 AM ||I just came off like a dick, sorry about that. I don't think any family members should be on the payroll, it's only ripe for problems...
but DeLay? I'll keep any further opinions to myself about this bible thumpin jayzus luvin tongue speekin snake charmin snake oil salesman...
|| Posted by scroff, April 13, 2005 07:18 PM ||