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Title: Meet Congress' "King Of Pork"
Post by: Chris_ on April 07, 2008, 10:45:48 PM
Meet Congress' "King Of Pork" (http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/04/04/assignment_america/main3994689.shtml)

“Every private entity that received an earmark from Rep. Murtha gave him a contribution. A campaign contribution,” Ryan Alexander for Taxpayers for Common Sense told CBS News correspondent Sharyl Attkisson.

More mysterious is Murtha's million-dollar earmark to the "The Center for Instrumented Critical Infrastructure."

“We don’t even know if it even exists,” says anti-earmark Congressman Jeff Flake (R-AZ).  Back in July 2007, Flake had questions when he found no record of the Center. Murtha wasn’t there, so a colleague spoke for him.  The response to the question of whether the Center actually exists came from Congressman Pete Visclosky, D-Ind.: “At this time I do not know. But if it does not exist, the money cannot go to it.”

Congressman Murtha wouldn't tell CBS News if the Center exists... or agree to an interview.

His most notorious project is the government agency that the government doesn't want: The National Drug Intelligence Center, also in Murtha's hometown. Every year the White House tries to close it because they already have a Drug Intelligence Center. But Murtha keeps the duplicate open using half-a-billion dollars in earmarks.

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http://www.mudvillegazette.com/milblogs/archives/2008/04/07/#029906
Title: Re: Meet Congress' "King Of Pork"
Post by: Chris_ on April 07, 2008, 10:54:26 PM
I do wonder where that money has gone.  Maybe the Center is Murtha's version of Clintonian "charity"...

Clinton Charitable Contributions Went To Clinton Foundation (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/05/us/politics/05clintons.html?_r=1&hp=&adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1207407943-3oLWqUeYU/w15C2GtleTjQ&oref=slogin)
Title: Re: Meet Congress' "King Of Pork"
Post by: delilahmused on April 09, 2008, 01:18:43 PM
Quote from: Chris on April 07, 2008, 10:54:26 PM
I do wonder where that money has gone.  Maybe the Center is Murtha's version of Clintonian "charity"...

Clinton Charitable Contributions Went To Clinton Foundation (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/05/us/politics/05clintons.html?_r=1&hp=&adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1207407943-3oLWqUeYU/w15C2GtleTjQ&oref=slogin)

Hopefully, he'll have to use every last dime to pay a lawyer.

Cindie