Murtha’s Nephew Named a Lobbyist for Marines

NY times ^ | May 1, 2009 | DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK

[Sinschild]

WASHINGTON — Representative John P. Murtha, chairman of the House military spending subcommittee and a decorated former Marine, has long acted as a protective Uncle Jack to the Marine Corps. Brendan Hoffman/Bloomberg News A nephew of John P. Murtha, chairman of the House military spending panel, has been named a Marine legislative liaison. Now the corps has named one of his nephews, Col. Brian Murtha, to the office charged with advocating for its interests on Capitol Hill, where Representative Murtha, Democrat of Pennsylvania, helps write the military budget. In relocating to be near the Pentagon, Colonel Murtha has even moved into a unit in the same condominium building where his influential uncle lives in Arlington, Va. This convergence of the Murthas is an example of Washington’s special centrifugal force that so often brings relatives together on opposite sides of the same table.

[elpadre]

since when do the Marine’s need a lobbyist?? They have a large contingent in the Pentagon who do a super job.

[DirtyHarryY2K]

WTF?

[Oldexpat]

The curruption in our governement knows no bounds and there won’t be a peep from the GOP.

[jazusamo]

He has directed millions more in earmarks to clients of a firm, KSA Consulting, where until about three years ago his younger brother, Robert Murtha, known as Kit, worked as a lobbyist.

Colonel Murtha is one of Kit Murtha’s sons.

You just can't make this kind of stuff up. Looks to be just one big happy corrupt family.

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[Bulldawg Fan]

“has long acted as a protective Uncle Jack to the Marine Corps.” What????? I recall Murtha saying Marines were cold blooded killers in Iraq.

If this is true, I think less of the Marine Corps. Disgusting.

[Natural Law]

"...has long acted as a protective Uncle Jack to the Marine Corps."

Are you f*cin' kidding me? If my protective uncle accused me of cold blooded murder of civilians I would kick his protective ass.

[ReneeLynn]

This called for a ‘barf alert’. And it is the NYTimes after all. Oh, Uncle John. Isn’t that nice?

[erman]

well you knew that the traitors have infiltrated the USMC. Look at the persecutions of the combat Marines by REMF/JAG.

Murtha is just the face or symbol of the ROT that is now in our government.

Now we've got the passing of generation upon generation of douche bag weasels to deal with... Kennedys, Clintons, Murthas... and on and on... Biden...

Holy cr#p. I'm just shaking my head and thinking, "They no longer even make a pretense of fair play or rule of law. They (our f'ing govenment) is now just a rotten steaming pile of parasites sucking the life out of our country and the people that actually do the work and built this nation. "

F### 'em.

Time to just sit back and try to live through this mess.

[Rappini]

I second that.