Posted on 02/17/2009 7:40:04 PM PST by icwhatudo
WASHINGTON — Three lawmakers said Tuesday that they were returning campaign contributions from donors listed as employees of the PMA Group, a Washington lobbying firm whose founder is under investigation for purportedly funneling money through bogus donors.
The decision by the three lawmakers — Senator Bill Nelson of Florida, and Representatives Zoe Lofgren of California and Peter J. Visclosky of Indiana, all Democrats — puts new pressure on others who received cash from the PMA Group and its founder, Paul Magliocchetti.
Other big beneficiaries include Representative John P. Murtha, the Pennsylvania Democrat who is chairman of the House defense appropriations subcommittee; Representative James P. Moran, a Virginia Democrat on the panel; and Representative Alan B. Mollohan, the West Virginia Democrat who is chairman of the appropriations subcommittee that oversees the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, among other things.
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If these had been Republicans, they would have already been kicked out of the U.S. House by now.
I don’t know all of them that well, but I do know Murtha and Moran and they are card carrying A-Holes. Why didn’t these upstanding people give the money back before PMA got outed? They knew they were being investigated and they had played pay to play with PMA. I thought that is what got the GOP in trouble in 06 and 08.
A bunch of organized criminals are making our laws and spending our money. And their organization is toobig to fail.
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