Posted on 02/26/2009 11:14:46 AM PST by 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.
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Well put.
Sounds like it RummyChick, at the very least the Republicans should kick him out of the party - NOW!
Where’s the downside? There is no none.
Thanks justiceseeker93.
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