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Gorge-eous George
Free-Lance Star ^ | 10-12-06

Posted on 10/12/2006 10:58:01 AM PDT by meandog

Gorge-eous George

Sen. Allen's appetite for corporate goodiesis larger than his discretion

ALOT OF PEOPLE like money, but only 100 of them are U.S. senators, who help steer the nation's policies. Self-aggrandizement should not factor into shaping those policies, and perhaps in Virginia Sen. George Allen's case it has not. But the necessity for the word "perhaps" stems from the merry indifference Mr. Allen has shown to juxtaposing private gain and public affairs.

In early 2005, as Mr. Allen prepared to take a seat on the Senate's Energy and Natural Resources, only the goading of press reports persuaded his wife, Susan, to resign as a paid director of energy giant Dominion Power, which often has issues before that panel. A wise senator would not have needed to be goosed by the media to point his spouse toward some other line of work.

This year, Virginians of the right-to-life persuasion dismayingly learned that Mr. Allen, one of their champions, held stock in the drug company that makes Plan B, a "morning after" pill that many pro-life people consider an abortifacient. Mr. Allen retains the stock in Barr Laboratories, for which he also retains affection. As governor, he had enticed Barr to Virginia, where it created hundreds of jobs around Lynchburg.

(Excerpt) Read more at fredericksburg.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Editorial; Politics/Elections; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: 44; allen; dirtbag; neocondarling; virginia
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Sheech! And there are some here who want this sleeze to be the next W.H. occupant!
1 posted on 10/12/2006 10:58:01 AM PDT by meandog
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To: meandog

Two words: Harry Reid.


2 posted on 10/12/2006 11:00:56 AM PDT by widowithfoursons
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To: meandog

Barr Laboratories also makes blood thinners for Heart Attack and Stroke victims, contraceptives etc.


3 posted on 10/12/2006 11:02:13 AM PDT by theDentist (Qwerty ergo typo : I type, therefore I misspelll.)
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To: meandog

Already debunked. Stock options were disclosed, then were worthless. Barr labs IS a major Virginia business, Allen brought them here, they make lots of stuff, and frankly Plan B is a legal prescription medicine and is NOT RU-486 (the abortion pill).

People's wives employment are not regularly a problem with ethics, although it's always fun to point to them when it's good for our side (for example, Dashle's wife's job as an airline lobbyist).

Nice try though. By nice I mean not, and by try I mean fail, and by though I mean dog.


4 posted on 10/12/2006 11:09:46 AM PDT by CharlesWayneCT
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Barr labs IS a major Virginia business, Allen brought them here, they make lots of stuff, and frankly Plan B is a legal prescription medicine and is NOT RU-486 (the abortion pill).

Ooooo-kay, soooo-o-o-o, how does Plan B still square with his stated adamant position that "I strongly believe life begins at conception and will never vote for anything that is counter to that belief"?

People's wives employment are not regularly a problem with ethics, although it's always fun to point to them when it's good for our side (for example, Dashle's wife's job as an airline lobbyist).

Exactly! As Allen has on many occasions...

5 posted on 10/12/2006 11:18:45 AM PDT by meandog (While Bush will never fill them, Clinton isn't fit to even lick the soles of Reagan's shoes!)
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I guess you want a NE RINO or the Manchurian Candidate because you are posting democrap trash that has been debunked.
6 posted on 10/12/2006 11:34:20 AM PDT by HuntsvilleTxVeteran ("Remember the Alamo, Goliad and WACO, It is Time for a new San Jacinto")
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What is your beef with Allen??


7 posted on 10/12/2006 11:38:04 AM PDT by KevinDavis (Nancy you ignorant Slut!!!!!)
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What is your beef with Allen??

He's a sleezebag unworthy of the "Next Conservative Darling" label many here give him...he'd be the next "Richard Nixon" if ever elected to the highest office in the land. The sooner he's out of Virginia and national politics the better!

8 posted on 10/12/2006 11:41:53 AM PDT by meandog (While Bush will never fill them, Clinton isn't fit to even lick the soles of Reagan's shoes!)
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I guess you want a NE RINO or the Manchurian Candidate because you are posting democrap trash that has been debunked...

...er, just where was it "debunked" as he reluctantly recently agreed to an ethics panel probe of the stock option irregularities.

9 posted on 10/12/2006 11:43:52 AM PDT by meandog (While Bush will never fill them, Clinton isn't fit to even lick the soles of Reagan's shoes!)
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To: meandog; All

What did do wrong???


10 posted on 10/12/2006 11:58:11 AM PDT by KevinDavis (Nancy you ignorant Slut!!!!!)
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"He's a sleezebag unworthy of the "Next Conservative Darling" label many here give him...he'd be the next "Richard Nixon" if ever elected to the highest office in the land. The sooner he's out of Virginia and national politics the better!"

You're obviously thinking of the Olde Dominion's SENIOR Senator!

Allen is a pretty good guy and a reliable conservative voice (and vote). The RINO, on the other hand...

I don't think Allen is Presidential at this stage of his career, but he's a good Senator.

TC


11 posted on 10/12/2006 12:14:32 PM PDT by Pentagon Leatherneck
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Allen is a pretty good guy and a reliable conservative voice (and vote).

LOL...that's a good one. The only uniforms George "Student Deferred" Allen has ever respected were the football ones his Hall of Fame daddy coached...try getting him to respond to a grieving mother/wife who has lost a loved one in the GWOT in a timely fashion (it seems his aids and autopens are always at the busy doing something else).

12 posted on 10/12/2006 12:25:31 PM PDT by meandog (While Bush will never fill them, Clinton isn't fit to even lick the soles of Reagan's shoes!)
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To: meandog; EDINVA; iceskater; xyz123; Mudboy Slim; Corin Stormhands; jla; Flora McDonald; ...
And there are some FReepers who are simply here to troll for the RATS, reading out of their daily playbook.

Here are the FACTS about the stock story:

Associated Press blows smoke, pretends it's a fire

and here:

Worthless journalism

13 posted on 10/12/2006 12:25:36 PM PDT by Corin Stormhands (http://wardsmythe.com)
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Ooooo-kay, soooo-o-o-o, how does Plan B still square with his stated adamant position that "I strongly believe life begins at conception and will never vote for anything that is counter to that belief"?

meandog, if you find and document a quote where Allen ever said that I'll send you $25.

14 posted on 10/12/2006 12:27:10 PM PDT by Corin Stormhands (http://wardsmythe.com)
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To: meandog

Wow! He owns stock in a drug company! What a "sleeze"!


15 posted on 10/12/2006 12:27:25 PM PDT by ozzymandus
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What did do wrong???

Said "yes sir, yes sir, three-bags full, sir!" too many times on issues such a Dubai Ports, Harriet Myers, and Rummy's Iraqi policies ...

16 posted on 10/12/2006 12:30:01 PM PDT by meandog (While Bush will never fill them, Clinton isn't fit to even lick the soles of Reagan's shoes!)
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To: meandog

Yeah, this is almost as bad as being part of the Keating Five.


17 posted on 10/12/2006 12:31:23 PM PDT by dirtboy (Good fences make good neighbors)
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To: Corin Stormhands

Interesting that you post directly from Felix's "Full of Falsity" website instead of an independent one (same as someone from the alcohol industry posting from Ted Kennedy's site, IMHO!)


18 posted on 10/12/2006 12:33:14 PM PDT by meandog (While Bush will never fill them, Clinton isn't fit to even lick the soles of Reagan's shoes!)
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So you just want to hand one of our Senate seats over to Born Idiot? You want Dingy Harry to be Majority Leader? Rat majorities on all the committees? You want to make sure that we NEVER get ANOTHER conservative judicial appointment through in 2007-09?

Come on, man. You can't really believe that George Allen is worse for this state and country than Born Idiot, can you?

}:-)4


19 posted on 10/12/2006 12:35:58 PM PDT by Moose4 (They caught me white and nerdy.)
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To: meandog

*yawn*


20 posted on 10/12/2006 12:36:12 PM PDT by Corin Stormhands (http://wardsmythe.com)
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