Posted on 11/18/2005 6:23:51 PM PST by pittsburgh gop guy
Republican lawmakers say that ties between Rep. John Murtha (D-Pa.) and his brother's lobbying firm, KSA Consulting, may warrant investigation by the House ethics committee...
According to a June 13 article in The Los Angeles Times, the fiscal 2005 defense appropriations bill included more than $20 million in funding for at least 10 companies for whom KSA lobbied. Carmen Scialabba, a longtime Murtha aide, works at KSA as well.
KSA directly lobbied Murtha's office on behalf of seven companies, and a Murtha aide told a defense contractor that it should retain KSA to represent it, according to the LA Times.
In early 2004, Murtha reportedly leaned on U.S. Navy officials to sign a contract to transfer the Hunters Point Shipyard to the city of San Francisco, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. A company called Lennar Inc. had right to the land, and Laurence Pelosi, nephew to House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), was an executive with the firm at that time.
Murtha also inserted earmarks in defense bills that steered millions of dollars in federal research funds toward companies owned by children of fellow Pennsylvania Rep. Paul Kanjorski (D).
(Excerpt) Read more at rollcall.com ...
I assume a man and his wife sleep in the same bed. Do you have information that they sleap in twins?
This has the potential, given the spinmeisters of the left's ability to control news, to blow up all over GOP faces. Timing stinks, whether or not there is anything to it. It just looks bad.
Democrat scumbags attacking Tom DeLay is no reason for pubbies to be as sleazy.
SO9
If we waited for Democrats to stop being asses before we investigated them, they'd never get investigated at all.
See link at #145....
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