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House's Former Black Caucus Chairwoman Reportedly Gave Scholarships to Relatives
FoxNews.com ^
| August 30, 2010
Posted on 08/30/2010 6:41:03 PM PDT by topher
Relatives of Texas Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson and a top aide reportedly won scholarship funds from a Congressional Black Caucus Foundation program in violation of the group's rules.
The Dallas Morning News reported Monday that Johnson awarded nine to 11 scholarships per year from 2005 to 2008, which are the years the Morning News had available for review, and in each year, three or four winners were related to Johnson or her district director, Rod Givens.
Johnson, an influential Democratic member of Congress and former Congressional Black Caucus chairwoman, told the newspaper that she "unknowingly" violated nepotism rules when she gave two grandsons, two great-nephews and her district director's two children scholarship money.
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: blackcaucus; congress; eddiebernice; texas
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To: topher
Johnson wins in Landslide!
-Nov Headline
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posted on
08/30/2010 8:19:19 PM PDT
by
Tzimisce
(No thanks. We have enough government already. - The Tick)
To: mastervisa; Blood of Tyrants
Lets not forget Corinne “Lexus”, “Sandbag” Brown (Jacksonville, FL).
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posted on
08/30/2010 8:55:47 PM PDT
by
mcenedo
(lying liberal media - our most dangerous and powerful enemy)
To: Blood of Tyrants
Its not just the ones in Office, this whole thing is really going backwards at a High rate of speed.
To: topher
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posted on
08/30/2010 10:45:28 PM PDT
by
NoLibZone
(Communities regularly fight the construction projects, Walmarts Starbucks and even tree removal.)
To: topher
One look at her face and I can see the problem.
Fetal alcohol syndrome.
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posted on
08/30/2010 11:20:11 PM PDT
by
kik5150
To: Chode
make the silly fat cow pay back every single penny!!!From the salary she gets from working at the prison laundry.
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posted on
08/31/2010 1:10:40 AM PDT
by
metalurgist
(I Want your country back? It'll take guns and rope. Marxists won't give up peaceably.)
To: Stultis
Maybe she is a student of the propaganda used by Nazi Germany and believes in using propaganda as a political tool just as it was used in Nazi Germany...
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posted on
08/31/2010 5:39:49 AM PDT
by
topher
(Let us return to old-fashioned morality - morality that has stood the test of time...)
To: West Texas Chuck
I hope that the Rev. Stephen Broden will win. But I fear that the people of her congressional district (mostly black district) do not know how to filter information about politicians.
Lambs being led to the slaughter.
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posted on
08/31/2010 5:42:29 AM PDT
by
topher
(Let us return to old-fashioned morality - morality that has stood the test of time...)
To: topher
Ho hum. Another day, another corruption.
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posted on
08/31/2010 6:23:06 AM PDT
by
crosshairs
(If I agreed with a liberal, then we would BOTH be wrong.)
To: mastervisa
Let’s see. Maxine Waters— Charles Rangle— William Jefferson —Alvin Greene of Georgia,Texas Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson. Is there a pattern here?
You racist! Thats just a bizarre coincidence. /sarc
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posted on
08/31/2010 6:24:32 AM PDT
by
crosshairs
(If I agreed with a liberal, then we would BOTH be wrong.)
To: topher
Corruption in the Congressional Black Caucus
Well we're movin on up,
To the east side.
To a deluxe apartment in the sky.
Movin on up,
To the east side,
We finally got a piece of the pie.
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posted on
08/31/2010 8:57:44 AM PDT
by
oh8eleven
(RVN '67-'68)
To: topher
Can you tell us anything we didn’t ALREADY KNOW? LOL!
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