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Congressman drew $15,000 in salary from his campaign (yet another corrupt Dem)
The Hill, Washington, DC ^
| 2009-11-15
| Michael O'Brien
Posted on 11/15/2009 10:37:34 AM PST by rabscuttle385
A first-term congressman drew a salary from his campaign for office last fall, his office said.
Rep. Eric Massa (D-N.Y.) pocketed about $15,000 in campaign funds, the Buffalo News reported Sunday, while his wife was paid $18,000 for her work as campaign treasurer.
"Eric did draw a meager salary at the end of the 2008 campaign to cover expenses after campaigning full-time for four years," Massa's spokesman told the News. "There aren't many people who have spent more time or effort working for the privilege of serving the families of their congressional district's than Rep. Massa."
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Politics/Elections; US: New York
KEYWORDS: 111th; corruptdems; corruption; cultureofcorruption; democrats; ericmassa; massa; ratcorruption; thief
To: rabscuttle385
DemoRat Culture of Corruption — there will be no end to it.
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posted on
11/15/2009 10:38:40 AM PST
by
EagleUSA
To: rabscuttle385
A first-term congressman drew a salary from his campaign for office last fall, his office said. Legally it will be responded with: "I thought it was my petty cash fund!"
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posted on
11/15/2009 10:43:45 AM PST
by
EGPWS
(Trust in God, question everyone else)
To: rabscuttle385
Democrat Party parasites always end up as multi-millionaires by the end of their thieving “careers” in the House/Senate/Presidency.
The most successful were te Clintons who were a pair of pennyless Arkansas grifters in 1988.
By 2008, the Clintons had a net worth of $150 million, all without any private sector employment.
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posted on
11/15/2009 10:46:07 AM PST
by
FormerACLUmember
(Socialism is an opportunistic infection of the body politic. It occurs when defenses are low.)
To: rabscuttle385
Rep. Eric Massa (D-N.Y.) pocketed about $15,000 in campaign funds, the Buffalo News reported Sunday, while his wife was paid $18,000 for her work as campaign treasurer. $33,000.
Don't EVER use the words "double dipping".
Oh, did I say that?
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posted on
11/15/2009 10:46:28 AM PST
by
EGPWS
(Trust in God, question everyone else)
To: EGPWS
Legally it will be responded with: “I thought it was my petty cash fund!”
The Sheila Dixon (mayor of Baltimore) defense for using gift cards meant for the poor on her own wardrobe and other goodies like a big screen is: “I thought they were mine.”
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posted on
11/15/2009 10:47:35 AM PST
by
PaleoBob
To: FormerACLUmember
... all without any private sector employment.Where did the money come from?
It isn't like the country is bankrupt or anything, is it?
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posted on
11/15/2009 10:48:12 AM PST
by
EGPWS
(Trust in God, question everyone else)
To: PaleoBob
The Sheila Dixon (mayor of Baltimore) defense for using gift cards meant for the poor on her own wardrobe and other goodies like a big screen is: I thought they were mine.And it takes a voting public with a lesser I.Q. to keep the likes of Sheila in office sadly enough.
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posted on
11/15/2009 10:51:28 AM PST
by
EGPWS
(Trust in God, question everyone else)
To: EGPWS
Where did the ($150 million in Clinton) money come from?$150 million worth of bribes disquised as fees (for books no body buys or reads, endless $200,000 "speakers free," and no lose guaranteed sweet heart investment opportunities.
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posted on
11/15/2009 11:25:13 AM PST
by
FormerACLUmember
(Socialism is an opportunistic infection of the body politic. It occurs when defenses are low.)
To: FormerACLUmember
Lippo Group?
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posted on
11/15/2009 11:26:29 AM PST
by
EGPWS
(Trust in God, question everyone else)
To: rabscuttle385
And so the revenge begins against those Rats who voted against Pelosi’s health destruction bill. Federal election laws permit drawing a salary from the campaign equal to the salary of the federal office they are seeking, a salary the person is able to draw for each year they actively seek that office, and may be drawn after the fact so long as it doesn't exceed contributions retained from the period of seeking office.
Hence why we've always got the same faces running in the early primaries each presidential election, so they can pocket the 400k, and why many campaigns start a year and a day before the election (so they can draw two years of salary.)
This is a hit piece, revenge, and the setup for a revenge primary for failing to support Pelosi’s bill.
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posted on
11/15/2009 11:27:13 AM PST
by
kingu
(Party for rent - conservative opinions not required.)
To: EGPWS
Lippo Group?
Yeah and l;oads of other bribers. The Communist Chinese snuck a lot of the $150 million into the Clinton’s coffers I am certain for missle and nuclear technologies.
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posted on
11/15/2009 11:30:14 AM PST
by
FormerACLUmember
(Socialism is an opportunistic infection of the body politic. It occurs when defenses are low.)
To: rabscuttle385
This is nothing unusal from the Buffalo area. I know this first hand. In my earlier days I worked with the Buffalo Democratic machine. To this day they still cannot figure out why Buffalo is broke every year. They couldn’t figure out why the state stepped in to take over their finances.
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posted on
11/15/2009 11:46:31 AM PST
by
rstark56
To: rabscuttle385
The only reason this guy was voted in was because Randy Kuhl voted
for the Porkulus after voting
against it.
Massa'll be toast, too, after the next election.
But I'll be amazed if the district's still around after the next census, so I doubt Massa really gives a dang about what he does or how he votes.
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posted on
11/15/2009 11:50:09 AM PST
by
mewzilla
(Voter fraud is treason.)
To: rabscuttle385
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posted on
11/15/2009 11:53:31 AM PST
by
mewzilla
(Voter fraud is treason.)
To: rabscuttle385
and the RATS, take another one in the..............................HA ha!!!
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posted on
11/15/2009 12:08:31 PM PST
by
Chode
(American Hedonist *DTOM* -ww- I AM JIM THOMPSON!)
To: mewzilla
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posted on
11/15/2009 1:50:06 PM PST
by
mewzilla
(Voter fraud is treason.)
To: rabscuttle385
"There aren't many people who have spent more time or effort working for the privilege of serving the families of their congressional district's than Rep. Massa." That's a career changing statement.
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posted on
11/15/2009 2:56:33 PM PST
by
This_far
(Mandatory insurance! I thought it was about health care?)
To: rabscuttle385
Aahhhh. The Costanza Defense. It never gets old, does it?
Was that wrong? Should I not have done that? I tell you, I gotta plead ignorance on this thing, because if anyone had said anything to me at all when I first started here that that sort of thing is frowned upon... you know, cause I've worked in a lot of offices, and I tell you, people do that all the time.
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posted on
11/15/2009 3:24:29 PM PST
by
mountainbunny
(Mitt Romney: Would you buy a used car from this huckster?)
To: EagleUSA
Massa spokesperson:
“There aren't many people who have spent more time or effort working for the privilege of serving the families of their congressional district's than Rep. Massa.”
Massa:
F’em. I'm taking the cash.
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posted on
03/03/2010 1:49:49 PM PST
by
Gabrial
(The Whitehouse Nightmare will continue for as long as the Nightmare is in the Whitehouse)
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