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 ...
Two words: Harry Reid.
Barr Laboratories also makes blood thinners for Heart Attack and Stroke victims, contraceptives etc.
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.
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...
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!
...er, just where was it "debunked" as he reluctantly recently agreed to an ethics panel probe of the stock option irregularities.
What did do wrong???
"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
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).
Here are the FACTS about the stock story:
Associated Press blows smoke, pretends it's a fire
and here:
meandog, if you find and document a quote where Allen ever said that I'll send you $25.
Wow! He owns stock in a drug company! What a "sleeze"!
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 ...
Yeah, this is almost as bad as being part of the Keating Five.
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!)
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
*yawn*
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