Specter's 'reluctant' vote helped firm with ties to his wife

Pittsburgh Tribune Review ^ | February 26, 2009 | Walter F. Roche Jr.

[buccaneer81]

Specter's 'reluctant' vote helped firm with ties to his wife By Walter F. Roche Jr. TRIBUNE-REVIEW Thursday, February 26, 2009

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On Oct. 1, after a critical vote on a $700 billion financial industry bailout package, Sen. Arlen Specter issued a two-paragraph statement explaining why he "reluctantly" voted, along with 73 colleagues, for the measure.

Before the year was over, a Delaware-based bank holding company that counts the senator's wife as a nearly decade-long director got a $45.2 million infusion from the bill.

[buccaneer81]

As Gomer Pyle would say, "Surprise, Surprise, Surprise!"

[lilylangtree]

Just another day in the political world of graft & corruption.

[LibLieSlayer]

Typical corrupt POS pol.

LLS

[WayneS]

One of 73 “yea” votes?

Couldn’t he have abstained for decency’s sake?

Oh wait!...

[WellyP]

That thieving son of a bitch! REMOVE HIM FROM OFFICE! Now, what was is the real story of the payoffs (political or otherwise) to Snowe and Collins? I doubt that they are as dirty as Spector but there had to be something going on.

[KansasGirl]

Specter is a scumbag traitor!

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

Meanwhile: "Another Spectre is Haunting Europe" http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2194649/posts (spec·tre (spĕk'tər) noun Chiefly British. Variant of specter.)

[RC2]

Yup......we need to shut them all down.

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

Let me try it with formatting:

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Meanwhile: "Another Spectre is Haunting Europe"

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2194649/posts

(spec·tre (spĕk'tər) noun Chiefly British.

Variant of specter.)

[LearsFool]

They’re selling the rights to collect on our labor, like we were slaves on the auction block. They’re selling our children and grandchildren as futures contracts.

[Sparky1776]

A bribe in the old days, business as usual in DC nowadays.

[dblshot]

Look a Spectra of honesty in a smoke filled room. Naw, just my imagination. There is no such thing as an honest Specter, er spectra...whatever

[RummyChick]

sheesh..isn’t this pay to play?..or pay for quid pro quo..or something illegal.

[sordo]

Does anyone remember that Specter”s wife was a Clinton
appointee? If all fails follow the money.

http://tinyurl.com/bpuanp

[kenmcg]

We don’t need this corrupt piece of garbage to represent pubbies in the US Senate. The pubbies should drum this traitor out of the party forthwith.

[buccaneer81]

Ms. Joan Specter, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, has balanced successful careers in both business and public service. Initially, she founded three cooking schools, became a Food Columnist and Radio Consumer Reporter. She then started and built a wholesale frozen pie company, with distributors in thirty states that supplied pies to a major restaurant chain.

Like Obama's people, she wanted her pie.

[justiceseeker93]

Notice that it took a “conservative” newspaper to “out” the RINO Specter on this.

[upchuck]

Does anybody besides me remember Specter telling the Fox News hottie that he wouldn’t vote for Porkulus unless the Nationalized Healthcare provisions were removed.

Specter is a liar. Pure and simple.

[ridesthemiles]

Just another day in the political world of graft & corruption.”

The threads of corruption, graft, lies and stealing are long & twisted in the world of Washington DC, and everywhere else that long time politicians are congregated.

Another reason the strict term limits.

[JerseyHighlander]

They’re selling the rights to collect on our labor, like we were slaves on the auction block. They’re selling our children and grandchildren as futures contracts.