Posted on 10/12/2008 10:04:08 AM PDT by Psycmeistr
Edited on 10/12/2008 10:09:38 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Jack Murtha is undoubtedly not only the most corrupt member of congress, but the most arrogant.
When complaints arose that it is still difficult to find information regarding earmarks embedded in legislations, Murtha had a wonderful answer to those Americans who wish to know where their tax dollars are going:
Last year, Congress promised to shed light on the secretive process. But the lists of earmarks are still buried in obscure documents that are difficult to find and search. Until Congress put them online a couple of weeks ago, the House disclosure letters, linking lawmakers to companies, were thick volumes of paper kept in a cabinet in the offices of the House Appropriations Committee.
When a reporter for Congressional Quarterly pointed out how difficult it remains to pull all the information together, Rep. John Murtha, D-Pa., chairman of the committee that drafts the defense bill, had a quick answer: “Tough s***.”
His constituency is getting the government they deserve.
Truly hope this POS gets defeated. He’s the House equivalent of Ted Stevens.
I don’t know why the mod edited out the title and story. Murtha actually said it and it’s posted in the Winona Daily News and other sources verbatim.
At any rate... use your imagination.
LTC Bill Russell is going to send him packing!!!
LTC Bill Russell is going to send him packing!!!
If you go to Johnstown and ask around, not anecdotally, you would find the man is NOT being elected by the constituents. If you asked how he is getting in, there is evidence of vote fraud, the electorate reelecting incumbents and something ( I don’t what) that keeps him in. Most of the so-called “employment” coming to this area from his pork, are filled by Washington, DC -intonians, NYC Democratic hacks and whoever else they can import. Just my two cents.
For the c h i l d r e n ..........
Ping
The Favor Factory | Despite reforms, Congress hides $3.5B in defense earmarks
The hero of the Code Pinko brigades.
How long is PA-12 going to put up with this ignorant A-Whole?
He will hold that seat until he doesn’t want it anymore or is lead out by a box. I have family members in this district and they love him. I can’t figure it out. My Uncle and Aunt think he is the great ever...barf!
Voters to Jack Murtha: ‘Go F yourself’
Safetgiver, thank you for your service. I live in SW PA and what you've said here is completely on the mark. It's exactly as you say. You nailed it!
From the source article...
(A pet project in Pennsylvania reveals how Congress tries to hide earmarks using the semantic loopholes.
Latrobe Specialty Steel of Latrobe, 40 miles east of Pittsburgh, makes specialty steel for aircraft parts.
In 2006, its parent company, Timken, spent $2.9 million lobbying Congress on various issues and persuaded lawmakers to ban the Defense Department from buying any products using foreign-made specialty steel. As the sole U.S. producer of certain kinds of specialty steel, Latrobe saw its orders climb. Timken then sold Latrobe to a group of investors in a $250 million deal.
But the buy-American restrictions for specialty steel caused serious problems for the Air Force, creating a 17-month lag in getting spare parts for aircraft used in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
In May 2007, Latrobe said it needed to expand, but complained of high electric bills and publicly threatened to build a new plant in Virginia or West Virginia instead. Pennsylvania offered grants and tax credits to the company worth $1.2 million.
In Congress, lawmakers were quietly lining up a much sweeter package.
In the defense bill passed in December, someone had inserted language that ultimately directed $18.4 million for “domestic expansion of essential vacuum induction melting furnace capacity and vacuum arc remelting furnace capacity.”
“Latrobe Specialty Steel is the only domestic producer of that steel,” Army Lt. Gen. William Mortensen said at a hearing.
A month after the bill passed, Latrobe began a $62 million expansion in its home state.
No one in Congress has admitted sponsoring the Latrobe earmark.
One congressman’s fingerprints, however, weren’t so easy to conceal. Latrobe sits in the congressional district of Rep. John Murtha, a Democrat who chairs the subcommittee that drafts the defense bill and wields the most power over defense earmarks.
Latrobe’s officials have given $5,000 to Murtha’s re-election fund in the past two years.
Also, Murtha had talked about giving taxpayer dollars to Latrobe. “We’re trying to get together to see how we can work out an increased capacity for that particular company,” Murtha said at a subcommittee hearing in April 2007. “I’ve talked to that producer. And what I’d like to see is them put some money in, us put some money in, and reduce the time it takes to get those spare parts out.”.....
....The company would not comment on any discussions it had with Murtha.)
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