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U.S. Rep. Clyburn (Gerrymandered Dem, SC) secures $25 million (in pork)
The Morning News (Florence, SC) ^
| Nov 26, 2004
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Posted on 11/27/2004 8:28:59 PM PST by SC Swamp Fox
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This......is my congressman. </shame>
To: SC Swamp Fox
From the article, which shamelessly quotes from his press release:<p?
Clyburn has secured...Clyburn received...he secured...Clyburn secured.
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posted on
11/27/2004 8:36:28 PM PST
by
SC Swamp Fox
(Aim small, miss small.)
To: SC Swamp Fox
You can console yourself that Congressman Clyburn still hasn't reached the heights that Congressman John Jenrette and his wife Mrs. Rita Jenrette managed to.
To: SC Swamp Fox
At least you only have one joker now that you got rid of Foghorn Leghorn. It could be worse. I'm stuck with Carl Lenin and Debbie Stabmenow in the Sinate.
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posted on
11/27/2004 8:43:48 PM PST
by
Dan from Michigan
("now we got this guy in the Oval office who don't take no sh*t from no gimpy little countries!")
To: SC Swamp Fox
Every Congressman, except Paul brings home the bacon and we pay the bills.
To: SC Swamp Fox; 2A Patriot; 2nd amendment mama; 4everontheRight; 77Jimmy; AJ Insider; ...
South Carolina Ping List
Add me to the ping list. Remove me from the ping list.
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posted on
11/27/2004 8:48:16 PM PST
by
SC Swamp Fox
(Aim small, miss small.)
To: SC Swamp Fox
Does Pork that is brought home by Republican Congressmen taste any better?
To: SC Swamp Fox
I don't see what you're ashamed of..
There's nothing frivolous or wasteful about water and sewer projects that covers a multi-county area, or for the maintenance of harbor facilities, or river facilities/marine shipping corridors..
They are all vital parts of a growing economy..
Even funding education and studies in nuclear energy is proper use of funding..
Just because your senator / congressman pulls federal money into the state's economy doesn't make it bad..
Now, if he were grabbing $20 mil for studying the sex habits of the South Carolina Fruit Bat, I'd be ashamed...
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posted on
11/27/2004 8:50:21 PM PST
by
Drammach
(Freedom; not just a job, it's an adventure..)
To: snowsislander
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posted on
11/27/2004 8:50:32 PM PST
by
SC Swamp Fox
(Aim small, miss small.)
To: SC Swamp Fox
cutting-age scientific education
That 'cutting-age' edjamacashun shure werked four mee.
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posted on
11/27/2004 8:52:26 PM PST
by
visualops
(Freedom is worth fighting for, dying for and standing for: the advance of freedom leads to peace-GWB)
To: pete anderson
Every Congressman, except Paul brings home the bacon and we pay the bills. ...and we need to shine the light of day on the practice and speak out against it.
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posted on
11/27/2004 8:55:10 PM PST
by
SC Swamp Fox
(Aim small, miss small.)
To: Drammach
Federal funds for the harbor facilities might be justifiable, I believe the rest of it is pure pork.
I am wondering why South Carolina's best engineering school, Clemson University, was left out of the Southeast Universities Reactor Project. Could it be that Clemson is well outside of the 6th district?
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posted on
11/27/2004 9:02:56 PM PST
by
SC Swamp Fox
(Aim small, miss small.)
To: SC Swamp Fox
A part of that $388 Billion Appropriations Bill was to fund the building of a moat around the Downtown area of Fort Worth, TX. Which essential is adding a southern route of the Trinity River, so that it creates a loop around downtown. The project to supposedly expanded the downtown area and revitalize the expanded area. As the logic goes, if the private sector is unwilling to invest/build in an area then what makes people think that government investing in the area will revitalize it. I think the government should of looked at the other failed City funded ventures in and around the downtown area first before buying into this project.
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posted on
11/27/2004 9:37:57 PM PST
by
neb52
To: SC Swamp Fox
I notice you say "gerrymandered Dem." I suspect that, because it's done to elect a black member of congress, that his district couldn't be tampered with even if the Republicans were able to?
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posted on
11/27/2004 9:41:14 PM PST
by
Galactic Overlord-In-Chief
(Congratulations to Senator-elect David Vitter, the first GOP senator from LA since Reconstruction!)
To: SC Swamp Fox
I have no doubt the congressman helps to fund the universities in his district, and would love to have them become as successfull as Clemson..
Indeed, it would be a feather in his cap if they were to become real "competition" for the title of South Carolina's most prestigious universities...
You just stated the obvious..
Clemson is well outside his district..
He gains no benefit from funding Clemson, but does gain political points for funding 6th district schools and universities..
He gains points from grateful universities, students, professors, alumni, district locals...
I have no idea what district Clemson is in, but funding for that school is the "responsibility" of that district's congressional representative and your senators..
My new Rep. is a LibSocialistDem of the worst kind, ( Emmanual Cleaver (D)... )
Kansas City MO has gotten one of America's worst enemies of the republic going to Washington..
He is virulently anti-gun, and the worst type of political oppurtunist.. And, a dyed in the wool yellow dog democrat.. ( and a rev-rund, to boot.. )
But I wouldn't spit on him for bringing that kind of money / prestige to the Kansas City MO area...
What we will probably end up with is some sort of United Nations Urban Center Status.. $30 mil for "diversification" projects and funding for mosques and such.. or welfare housing projects, or "self esteem" programs, or "midnight basketball", or... (see where I'm going? Your tax dollars went for something at least worth-while..)
I don't know if your Dem Rep is a total Liberal or moderate, or worse, but your complaints fall on deaf ears here..
Just thank God the money wasn't totally wasted on some sort of PC crap, and will actually help the district's economy..
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posted on
11/27/2004 9:46:48 PM PST
by
Drammach
(Freedom; not just a job, it's an adventure..)
To: Galactic Overlord-In-Chief
Correct. In the continuing campaign to remove nationally embarrassing cartoon characters from Congress, he's one of the harder ones to get out of office due to his district being set up as favorable to only electing liberal Democrats.
To: neb52
I was in Ft. Worth a couple of years ago.. Got lost on the interchange every day for 4 days straight.. Coming in and going out..
I went through some of those "blighted" areas trying to find my way onto the turnpike back to Dallas..
They were seriously in bad shape.. ( and when I say bad, I don't mean good, I mean stinkin' moldy, rotting unto death bad.. )
Something needed to be done with that area, and something drastic..
Like, scraping it down to bedrock and starting over..
I agree though, that Fed money, Fed Ideas, and Fed oversight will gain nothing, if the Local Community is not fully involved...
Maybe a nice City Park ?
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posted on
11/27/2004 9:55:06 PM PST
by
Drammach
(Freedom; not just a job, it's an adventure..)
To: Galactic Overlord-In-Chief
I suspect that, because it's done to elect a black member of congress Exactly. The 6th district snakes it's way through the state in such a way that it is just slightly majority black. This gives the democrats 2 seats in congress from SC where they would normally have only one if the districts were drawn for compactness or using logical geographic boundaries.
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posted on
11/27/2004 9:57:02 PM PST
by
SC Swamp Fox
(Aim small, miss small.)
To: SC Swamp Fox
The 6th district snakes it's way through the state in such a way that it is just slightly majority black Does this explain the article's comment about the Interstate I-95 corridor ?
Does his district sort of follow the Interstate ?
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posted on
11/27/2004 10:02:27 PM PST
by
Drammach
(Freedom; not just a job, it's an adventure..)
To: Drammach
I don't know if your Dem Rep is a total Liberal or moderate Chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus. Member of the "Progressive" wing of the Democratic party.
You are right, this money may not be totally wasted, but the tone of the congressman's press release and the way the Florence Morning News simply reprinted it struck me as irksome.
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posted on
11/27/2004 10:05:33 PM PST
by
SC Swamp Fox
(Aim small, miss small.)
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