Donations to Shelley Smell Like Budget Pork Gone Bad (D-ShmellyGate)

LA Times ^ | 8/19/04 | George Skelton

[NormsRevenge]

Score one for the fiscal conservatives, the anti-tax rebels, the government bashers who gripe about "waste, fraud and abuse."

In short, the Republicans.

Waste, fraud and abuse. That old bromide. Funny thing about bromides, they tend to be rooted in truth.

A recently disclosed episode involving legislative pork, a passive state parks department, a San Francisco political powerbroker and Secretary of State Kevin Shelley represents a classic case of waste, fraud and abuse.

It's the kind of misuse of public money that makes Republicans look rational when they lecture Democrats: We won't even think about raising taxes until you rid this bloated government of all its waste….

I've always thought government waste is exaggerated and, anyway, it depends on your definition. But here is indisputable evidence that waste does exist, along with what smells very suspiciously like fraud and abuse.

[NormsRevenge]

I've always thought government waste is exaggerated and, anyway, it depends on your definition.

incredible, the gullibility and myopia that still reigns supreme as this state is taken to the cleaners

[blanknoone]

I have to say I am amazed at and surprised by the LA Times. They have managed to turn a clear case of democrat criminal abuse into an attack on Republicans...

that makes Republicans look rational

Amazing. Who still buys this rag?