Posted on 10/22/2010 8:50:39 AM PDT by FromLori
All indications are that 15-term Democratic congressman Barney Frank is in the political race of his life against Republican Sean Bielat.
How deseperate?
He is hitting up those around the banks he bailed out, after promising he wouldn't do so.
The Boston Herald reports: U.S. Rep. Barney Frank, in an intensifying clash with GOP upstart Sean Bielat, has pledged not to take campaign cash from lenders that got federal bailouts — yet has raked in more than $40,000 from bank execs and special interests connected to the staggering government loans, a Herald review found.
Frank vowed in February 2009 that he wouldn’t accept campaign donations from banks that received money under the $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) or political action committees tied to such institutions.
But Frank has hauled in thousands from top execs at Bank of America, Citizens Bank, Wainwright Bank, JP Morgan Chase and other institutions that received billions in TARP money.
Just yesterday, Frank made new campaign finance disclosures showing he received $17,000 from top executives of Bank of America — including $2,000 from CEO Brian Moynihan. B of A received $45 billion in bailout money. In all, Frank has hauled in at least $27,000 since 2009 from bank execs — and $13,000 from PACs — connected to banks that received TARP funding, including:
• $5,000 earlier this month from the Bank of America Corp. Federal PAC;
• $10,000 in August and September from the Bipartisan PAC/Bank of New York Mellon Corp.; Mellon received $3 billion from TARP;
• $2,000 in June 2009 from the Financial Services Roundtable PAC, which counts TARP recipients B of A, JP Morgan Chase and Wells Fargo among its members; and
$1,000 in March from U.S. Bancorp PAC; the Minnesota-based bank received more than $6 billion in TARP funds Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to FacebookShare to Google Buzz
Now THAT is a scary headline.
lol I hadn’t thought of it like that back door barney and all
According to Larry Sinclair, our first gay President, odumbi - is stumping with the FreddieFannie thief, Mr. Franks.
you can’t make this up.
I figured they closed all the gay bars in DC...
Brings a warm smile to my heart......
Did you ever read the one Washington Insider say’s obama is a member of gay mens club?
Maybe bawney belongs to the same club
Isn’t there a House rule (or is it gone) that no member can accept campaign contributions from any entity that is overseen by a committee that the member serve on? Or am I dreaming?...............
Republican’s should using this against them this is a huge issue people are furious with the bank bailouts.
I thought he liked being tied up?
I live one town away from this clowns district.
That’s always been fine by me and all but i wish i could have the opportunity to help vote this creep out come Nov.
Consider what it says about America that a significant percentage of our fellow voters keep endorsing this scum of the earth degenerate horde.
I wouldn’t know about that...but it’s the twain twacks that twouble him...
I am sure Rachel Madcow will get right on this and try to get at the truth in an interview with Barney. She will ask all the hard hitting questions of Barney. (/sarcasm)
Poster boy for the GLAD identity cult politics, he and they deserve the rotten tomatoes for destroying our country.
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