Posted on 12/14/2006 5:16:03 PM PST by Clintonfatigued
With community activists packed into the Monrovia Community Center one winter night in 2000, U.S. Rep. Gary Miller (R-Diamond Bar) implored City Council members to purchase 165 acres he owned in the foothills and turn the land into a wilderness preserve.
Earlier that day, according to interviews with former Miller staff members and official correspondence reviewed by The Times, Miller asked one staffer to find a way to place one of the councilmen — a pawnshop owner with no parks experience — on the prestigious National Park System Advisory Board.
The aide said he was told to "make it a priority."
Miller then continued to push for the councilman's appointment even after staff members warned him that trying to secure the park board seat for the councilman could appear to be a bribe, internal memos show.
The move was one of many that Miller has made over the years in which he brought his congressional muscle to bear on personal business matters, according to the former staff members and the correspondence from Miller's congressional office — handwritten notes, letters on Miller's congressional letterhead and e-mails.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
If it's false, the GOP should rally around Miller. If it's true, than he needs to retire or be ousted in the primary.
So, what's unusual about this? These MSM clowns expect me to believe that this is unique?
You'd be hard pressed to find a politician who didn't do this sort of thing.
Say I had an interest in 165 acres in Laughlin Nv. now say someone made a earmark to built a bridge across the river near my property so I could sell it a for a 100 times more than I paid for , what is my name.
And since the Democrats do it better... they are now in charge.
"So, what's unusual about this?"
That's a valid point, but the GOP went along with it in 2006, and the results speak for themselves. Also, conservative voters expect more from their representatives than voters on the left do.
Agreed.
FYI, in a follow up piece by AP, Miller refuted some of the allegations in the Times story, but not all.
Rep. Miller disputes report he used office for personal benefit
Miller granted an on air interview to KFI radio in Los Angeles and spoke very convincingly to every question raised by the story in the L.A. Times. Having heard him address the issues I would say that, barring further evidence, the story in the Times was a hit piece.
This wasn't the first piece... and it wasn't only coming from the LA Times.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=garymiller
Did he justify the land deals? Those are the ones that really stink, IMO.
Another one of these no-scandal scandals. In three or four years we'll find out the Congressman did nothing wrong - after the fake news media has run the story through the mill a hundred times.
Sounds like something Harry Reid would do. It's also pretty close to the corruption exposed by Jimmy Stewart's characted in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.
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