The momentum in this race is with Diana Irey. She is poised to win if we all help, and here are eleven excellent reasons to go to her website and donate some time and money:
• Congressman Murtha said that U.S. Marines in Iraq had, and I quote, “killed innocent civilians in cold blood,” end quote, before any soldier had been charged and convicted. (12 percent more likely, 40 percent less likely)
• Congressman Murtha said we could redeploy U.S. armed forces from Iraq to Okinawa, Japan, 5,000 miles away. (11 percent more likely, 36 percent less likely)
• Congressman Murtha voted to strip U.S. intelligence and law enforcement authorities of stronger tools to fight the war on terror when he voted against extending the USA PATRIOT Act. (14 percent more likely, 43 percent less likely)
• Congressman Murtha’s brother is a lobbyist who represents at least ten clients who have received tens of millions of dollars in government contracts from the 2005 Defense Appropriations Bill Congressman Murtha wrote and pushed to passage. (6 percent more likely, 39 percent less likely)
• Since Jack Murtha became a Member of Congress 32 years ago, Congress has raised its pay 20 times – and Congressman Murtha voted 12 consecutive times to raise his own salary. (8 percent more likely, 43 percent less likely)
• Congressman Murtha’s starting salary as a Congressman was $42,500 per year; it is now $165,200 per year. (7 percent more likely, 37 percent less likely)
• Congressman Murtha tried to create a new law that would have required taxpayers to pay for the legal expenses of Members of Congress and congressional staffers who have been convicted of taking bribes. (8 percent more likely, 57 percent less likely)
• Congressman Murtha hosted a “welcome back” party in his congressional office for a powerful former congressional staffer who was guilty of taking money illegally from a lobbyist seeking legislative favors. (7 percent more likely, 48 percent less likely)
• In 1980, Congressman Murtha was named by the U.S. Department of Justice an “unindicted co-conspirator” in ABSCAM, the largest congressional corruption scandal in history. (8 percent more likely, 40 percent less likely)
• When questioned by the press about his role in the ABSCAM congressional scandal, Congressman Murtha insisted that FBI agents, and I quote, “didn’t offer me any money” – despite the fact that they had a tape showing them offering him a bribe. (7 percent more likely, 45 percent less likely)
• When undercover FBI agents offered Congressman Murtha a $50,000 bribe, he was heard on an FBI tape saying, and I quote, “At this point, you know, we do business together for a while. Maybe I’ll be interested and maybe I won’t … Now, I won’t say that some day, you know, I, if you made an offer, it may be I would change my mind some day.” (5 percent more likely, 49 percent less likely)
Thanks for posting that, I went over and read it a while ago and thought it would be good to post it here.
Diana Irey is going to win this!
This needs to be made into a campaign flyer and mailed to the home of all registered voters WHO VOTE in PA's 12th Congressional District.
(No sense mailing it to non-voter addresses. Save that money for other campaign activities.)