Democratic Corruption
In the latest installment of Democratic corruption, we find
a legislator
ordering his congressional staff to babysit his kids and
a congressional candidate
not reporting in-kind campaign contributions. But in Nancy Pelosi's feeble mind, it's the GOP that's corrupt. Only in the mind of an idiot liberal. Let's take a closer look:
Conyers might well have gotten caught in a difficult situation with him being busy with legislation and his wife attending law classes in Oklahoma. That doesn't give him the right to have taxpayers pay for babysitting his children. He's paid good money as a representative. Let him pay for a live in nanny. They're available. This isn't difficult.
Then there's this corruption:
Cross-posted at California Conservative
Posted Friday, April 14, 2006 10:50 AM
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Sydney Rooks, whom Conyers hired as a legal adviser in his Detroit office, recalls the lawmaker brought his two young sons into her office several times, saying, "Rooks, they're your responsibility for right now. I'll be back later."Remember that these staffers were ordered to babysit Conyers' children. Remember that these staffers were being paid to babysit Conyers' children by taxpayers. Does that sound ethical? Conyers won't comment on this, either. Big surprise, huh?
She said later could be a few minutes or an hour. "Later could be frantically calling around trying to find him because it was now 8 or 9 p.m. or later in the evening and not knowing what to do with the children," she said.
Deanna Maher, who was deputy chief of staff in Conyers' Downriver office, says her baby-sitting duties turned into a stint as a full-time nanny. "He handed me the keys to his car and his house, [said] take care of my child Carl and everything," Maher told CNN from her western Michigan home. Maher says she moved into Conyers' Detroit home. She took care of his elder son for several weeks, she says, while the congressman was in Washington and his wife attended law classes in Oklahoma.
Conyers might well have gotten caught in a difficult situation with him being busy with legislation and his wife attending law classes in Oklahoma. That doesn't give him the right to have taxpayers pay for babysitting his children. He's paid good money as a representative. Let him pay for a live in nanny. They're available. This isn't difficult.
Then there's this corruption:
The Washington State Republican Party has filed a complaint against a Democratic congressional candidate, saying she violated federal law by failing to report campaign contributions. The complaint filed with the Federal Election Commission says Darcy Burner, a candidate for a 8th District House seat, did not report contributions from Eastside Democracy for America. The 18-page complaint says Mrs. Burner did not disclose as in-kind contributions on federal paperwork that the group hosted a campaign event for Mrs. Burner at the Northwest Arts Center and produced a video promoting her campaign.A challenger getting a $5,000 boost isn't a tiny matter. It's huge and it's completely unsurprising. Think of it as corporate "walking around money." Democrats have been doing that since before I was voting age. And I've been voting since 1974.
The Republicans say Eastside produced and distributed a video for the event, "the cost of which likely exceeds the $5,000 contribution limit" for political action committees. Burner campaign Chairman Zach Silk called the attack "frivolous." He said the campaign did not distribute physical copies of the video and did not coordinate with Eastside. FEC spokesman Ian Stirton said the charge is being investigated.
Cross-posted at California Conservative
Posted Friday, April 14, 2006 10:50 AM
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