Posted on 12/07/2009 12:05:46 PM PST by opentalk
What would a “state director” have to do with overseas Senate junkets? It apparently helps if the state director is dating the Senator who takes the junket.
The Hill reports that Melodee Hanes, Max Baucus’ girlfriend and his state director, traveled with Baucus on taxpayer funds to the United Arab Emirates and Vietnam in 2008, just before Baucus nominated her to be a US Attorney (via Libertarian Republican):
Former U.S. attorney nominee Melodee Hanes traveled abroad with Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.) and six other staff members twice at the end of 2008, both times as a member of the lawmaker’s office.
Those two trips — to the United Arab Emirates and Vietnam — occurred while Hanes was serving in an official capacity as the state director for the Montana Democrat, but before Baucus recommended her for an attorney position she later turned down. …
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A typical dem, Baucus knew he’d get away with it. Come his next re-election in 2014, it’ll all be old, old news.
So she was a “staff member”? Hmmmm.
I’m shocked!! shocked!!!
And this amounts to how many 40 to 50 year old mammograms that will be eliminated?
Yes, in the sense that she was “on his staff”. So to speak.
The democrat party can turn this into a win. The complaint has been noted that all of the democrats now under ethics investigations are black. Add Baucus to the mix, and the democrats can take a giant step toward the diversity they love so much.
At least Tiger spent his own money.
He’s a pillar of the Senate!
Or on a fact finding junket to Argentina?
Cheers!
If nothing else Baucus should be charged with transporting pigs without a license.
Baucus. The one telling us just who is going to manage our healthcare and run our lives!
So i guess he divorced the woman who threw the hissy fit at the Garden Center over the bag of mulch? am i remembering correctly that it was Mrs Baucus who was brawling over mulch at Johnsons Garden center?
Do you know I believe you are absolutely correct! Great catch!
I thought it was hilarious at the time— no wonder it stuck with me. But i really didn’t know they’d subsequently divorced. He picks winners, obviously! LOL!
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