Obama HQ (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
Thirty-two Republican House members who represent districts President Obama won in 2008, voted against health insurance reform last weekend. Mitch Stewart sent an email OFA volunteers and supporters in those 32 districts this morning, asking them to visit their GOP member’s office and express their support for reform in person. That effort is gaining wide notice: From the St. Pete Times : U.S....
The Buzz Florida Politics (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
U.S. Rep. C.W. Bill Young's Pinellas County office may get a bit busy over the next few days. Democratic activists upset with his "no" vote on the House health care bill are asking people to stop by and voice their...
The Buzz Florida Politics (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
The Democratic National Committee said today that it will target "vulnerable" Florida Republicans C.W. Bill Young and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen for voting against the House health care plan despite Barack Obama winning their districts in 2008. "You would think a member...
Pushing Rope (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Ben Smith reports Organizing For America have sent out emails to voters in Republican districts that voted for Barack Obama. Smith reports the Democratic National Committee launched the attack on Republicans voting against health care reform. However, Mitch Stewart of Organizing For America is responsible for sending out the email. An unnamed Democrat expresses a sentiment I wholeheartedly agree with....
GovIntegrity (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
The Washington Post caused a little stir reporting on an inadvertantly leaked House Ethics Committee report revealing that over 30 lawmakers and aides are being investigated for financial dealings and campaign donations. The document, the Committee's "Weekly Summary Report," names seven members serving on the House Defense Appropriations Subcommittee in its ongoing investigation into the...
Dad29 (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
Ethics problem-list : John Murtha , D-Pa., and Democratic members Jim Moran of Virginia and Peter Visclosky of Indiana had previously surfaced in connection with the inquiry. The document adds the names of Norm Dicks , D-Wash.; Marcy Kaptur, D-Ohio; ranking subcommittee Republican C.W. Bill Young of Florida and Todd Tiahrt , R-Kan . That list is only about 520 members short. By the way, Murtha, a member...
Chlorinated Liberty (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
“This leadership team will create the most honest, most open, and most ethical Congress in history” – Speaker-Elect Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), Press Release, November 16, 2006 Yet again, evidence has surfaced that shows Pelosi and other Democrats remain on shaky ground with their continuing claims that they are running the House with what she termed ‘great openness and transparency.’...
NewsBusters (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
All three network morning shows on Friday skipped a Washington Post report revealing that powerful congressional Democrats such as John Murtha, James Moran and others on a defense panel are the subject of an ethics investigation for a relationship with a lobbying firm. The Democrats, and some Republicans are under intense scrutiny for steering over $200 million in earmarks to clients of a company...
Corruption Chronicles (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
Under fire for failing to act against corrupt lawmakers, the notoriously remiss House Ethics Committee is in fact scrutinizing dozens of legislators, according to a highly confidential memorandum that mysteriously appeared this week. Washington D.C.’s largest newspaper reports that an internal memo, inadvertently placed on a publicly accessible computer network, indicates that the ethics committee...
Magic Negro Watch (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
From Michelle Malkin: Readers of this blog are quite familiar with the corruption scandals involving California Democrats Maxine Waters and Laura Richardson. Back in March 2009 , I spotlighted Waters, her husband, and their smelly involvement with minority-owned bank called OneUnited. And dating back to May 2008 through July 2009 , this site chronicled the financial shenanigans of Richardson, who defaulted...
FLA Politics - Front Page (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
After reading the hard copy of your hometown newspaper, you should start your web-day with the Florida Progressive Coalition . Our digest of, and commentary on today's Florida political news and punditry follows. Young under ethics investigation "About half the members of the House subcommittee in control of Pentagon spending are under investigation by the House ethics committee and the Office...
Florida Politics (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
"About half the members of the House subcommittee in control of Pentagon spending are under investigation by the House ethics committee and the Office of Congressional Ethics, a new investigative arm of Congress, for possibly accepting contributions or other items of value from the PMA Group in exchange for official acts", including the ranking member, Florida's own, Republican "C.W....
The Whig (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
Washington Post: 7 on defense panel scrutinized Separate probes focus on ties to lobbying firm founded by Hill aide Nearly half the members of a powerful House subcommittee in control of Pentagon spending are under scrutiny by ethics investigators in Congress, who have trained their lens on the relationships between seven panel members and an influential lobbying firm founded by a former Capitol Hill...
The Buzz Florida Politics (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
U.S. Rep. C.W. Bill Young, R-Indian Shores, has been under scrutiny by House ethics investigators looking at wider ties between defense appropriators and lobbyists, the Washington Post reported late Thursday. The document, posted online by a House staffer who has...
The Buzz Florida Politics (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
WASHINGTON -- Rabbi Jacob Luski of Congregation B’nai Israel in St. Petersburg is giving the opening prayer in the U.S. House this morning. Luski is a guest of Congressman C.W. Bill Young, R-Indian Shores. In a speech, Young notes that...
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