Posted on 10/15/2008 2:59:31 AM PDT by markedmannerf
Democratic vice-presidential candidate Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr. has paid more than $2 million in campaign cash to his family members, their businesses and employers over the years, a practice that watchdogs criticize as rife with potential conflicts of interest.
Getty Images FAMILY: Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr.'s son, Hunter Biden, was at a campaign stop with his father in December. The candidate's sister, Valerie Biden Owens, is his longtime campaign manager.
The money largely flowed from the coffers of Mr. Biden's failed presidential campaign during the past two years to a company that employs his sister and longtime campaign manager, Valerie Biden Owens, according to campaign disclosure filings.
The senator from Delaware also directed campaign legal work to a Washington lobbying and law firm founded by his son R. Hunter Biden, the disclosures show.
Putting family members and their companies on the political payroll is legal if the work is legitimate and charged at market rates, according to the Federal Election Commission. Still, public watchdog groups have long criticized such arrangements.
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LOL, could you imagine if it was Palin that did this? The MSM would hound her and the family members till election day.
Thought you might be interested in this article.
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Biden has his own Lobbyist Dynasty (his brother and his 2 sons are all lobbyists) and yet Obama runs a campaign against “lobbyists.”
The Press is too stupid (or corrupt) to notice the disconnect.
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Obama Voted ‘Present’ on Mortgage Reform
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2105967/posts
“While there has been significant deregulation in the U.S. economy during the last 30 years, none of it has occurred in the financial sector.”
[If Sen. Obama had been asked for an example of “Republican deregulation,” he would probably have cited the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act of 1999 (GLBA), which has become a popular target for Democrats searching for something to pin on the GOP. This is puzzling. The bill’s key sponsors were indeed Republicans, but the bill was supported by the Clinton administration and signed by President Clinton.”
Support for Same-Sex Marriage Ban in California Grows
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2105953/posts
Obama Pushed on Our Kids in Grade School Lit Textbook
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2106077/posts
Isn’t this SOP for most campaigns?.... You deal with and hire people you know, family works on the campaign, etc. I’d bet that many of the politicans from the lower city/county offices to the top do the same.
Obama raised $1 million for foreign thug’s election
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2106022/posts
Raila Odinga Motto: “Change”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2106057/posts
He doesn’t need to appear on SNL to look stupid. He just has to step out in front of a crowd.
There are a lot of reasons why the drive-bys and old fish wraps are beginning to report things now [with reluctance]. But as for new media — a lot of us were more concerned about Hillary. We needed to make certain that she didn’t pull a coup in the primary.
Oh but please don’t get me wrong, the Washington Times is a very independent minded paper.
So does Nancy Pelosi...but nary a word from the Drive By’s.
1960’s Michigan Coed: William Ayers 1965 Gang Rape [WARNING: GRAPHIC LANGUAGE]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2106113/posts?page=1
Ex-FBI Agents Outraged at Obama-Ayers Ties
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2105759/posts?page=36
Obama raised $1 million for foreign thug’s election
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2106022/posts
Nothing to see here. Pelosi’s PAC paid her husband’s real estate company over a million dollars. They’re Demonrats...that’s okay.
BREAKING: OBAMA CAMPAIGN ISSUES TALKING POINTS TO MEDIA AHEAD OF DEBATE [Drudge]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2106158/posts
Obama’s Oil For Food Connection [Auchi]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1981233/posts
Nadhmi Auchi and the New Statesman
[The billionaire who threatened reporters — a list of yanked reports]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2104717/posts
From Bagdad to Chicago: Rezko and the Auchi empire (by former senior State, DOD official)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2103201/posts
Key word: Auchi
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/auchi/index
VOTE FRAUD: SEND IN THE FEDS (ACORN fraud corrupting elections)
New York Post
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2106052/posts
Obama and Ayers sat on a panel together in 1997 (Michelle Obama asked Ayers to speak!)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2106063/posts
WSJ’s Thomas Frank Defends His Aspiring Mass Murderer Friend Bill Ayers
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2105994/posts
My Friend Bill Ayers - Once wanted by the FBI, he’s since become a model citizen (Barf Alert)
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/ayers/index
Kurtz:CAC Funds Go To Afro-Centric Programs [Annenburg Files]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2105791/posts
“I think I’ve figured out what’s had the Obama camp so worried about the Chicago Annenberg Challenge records. It goes way beyond Bill Ayers. In fact, it connects the dots between Ayers, Jeremiah Wright, and Obama’s own early radicalism.”
Obama And Ayers’ Annenberg Failure
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2105770/posts
“After spending $160 million, Chicago’s children were still being left behind.”
I’m Growing Convinced that Bill Ayers Did In Fact Ghostwrite Barack “Rara Avis” Obama’s Book —Ace
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2105696/posts
Not a word about this in the MSM. And not a word about it from McCain.
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