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Dick Durbin's wife discovered to be a Lobbyist
American Thinker ^ | October 5, 2014 | James Longstreet

Posted on 10/05/2014 10:21:41 AM PDT by jazusamo

The Chicago Tribune headlines that Dick Durbin’s wife is a lobbyist, and that there may have been instances in which her clients received federal funding. We are quickly told that this was just a coincidence (and that our fly is open).

Durbin explained that he and his wife “take pains” to be certain there are no conflicts of interest. The imagery of sleepless nights and “Honey, what shall we do?” conversations wrought with forehead wiping and hand wringing come to mind. How could they ever get in such situations?

The Tribune reports that despite all the painstaking efforts assuredly taken by Durbin and his wife to avoid conflicts,” Loretta Durbin’s clients have received federal funding promoted by her husband….” How could this be?

The Tribune continues,

Among the areas of overlap in the Durbins’ careers: her firm getting a one-year contract with a housing nonprofit group around the time the senator went to bat for the organization and others like it; a state university receiving funds earmarked by Durbin when his wife was its lobbyist; and Durbin arranging federal money for a public health nonprofit when his wife was seeking state support for the same group.

They are doing “good work” it appears. We are lucky to have them, right?

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: corruption; dickdurbin; lobbyist; lorettadurbin; theturbin
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Not only is Durbin's wife a lobbyist but a successful one and with federal money. Dick seems to know nothing about it.
1 posted on 10/05/2014 10:21:41 AM PDT by jazusamo
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To: jazusamo

I’m shocked. Shocked


2 posted on 10/05/2014 10:25:00 AM PDT by CPT Clay (Follow me on Twitter @Clay N TX)
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To: jazusamo

“Unexpected”. Surprise! Surprise! Surprise!


3 posted on 10/05/2014 10:25:13 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Stop flooding our schools with unaccompanied illegal aliens. Do it for the children!)
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To: jazusamo
The Democrat Party is a criminal organization. ALL of its members should be brought up on racketeering charges, and then punished appropriately.
4 posted on 10/05/2014 10:26:15 AM PDT by TruthFactor (Tag-free, for now.)
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To: jazusamo
We are quickly told that this was just a coincidence (and that our fly is open).

Good line.

5 posted on 10/05/2014 10:26:24 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Stop flooding our schools with unaccompanied illegal aliens. Do it for the children!)
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To: jazusamo

So there won’t be any reason to look for family or friends among the employees of the “non-profits,” right? No Michelle Obama’s going from $80 K to $300 K overnight?


6 posted on 10/05/2014 10:32:54 AM PDT by gusopol3
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Don’t know if you read the entire article but Durbin’s son is also a lobbyist, it must be a family tradition.


7 posted on 10/05/2014 10:35:36 AM PDT by jazusamo (Sometimes I think that this is an era when sanity has become controversial: Thomas Sowell)
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Please bump the Freepathon or click above to donate or become a monthly donor!

8 posted on 10/05/2014 10:37:22 AM PDT by jazusamo (Sometimes I think that this is an era when sanity has become controversial: Thomas Sowell)
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“Don’t know if you read the entire article but Durbin’s son is also a lobbyist, it must be a family tradition.”

Yep, slobbering at the government trough.


9 posted on 10/05/2014 10:39:39 AM PDT by headstamp 2
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To: jazusamo

If Durbin were a pubbie....the DOJ would be hot on his trail ....

I am waiting with baited breath for Reid to file ethic charges....


10 posted on 10/05/2014 10:40:15 AM PDT by Popman (Jesus Christ Alone: My Cornerstone...)
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To: CPT Clay

Isn’t that what Barney Frank said when he found out a male prostitution ring was being run out of his home???


11 posted on 10/05/2014 10:40:28 AM PDT by peteyd (A dog may bite you in the ass,but it will never stab you in the back.)
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To: jazusamo

There was a time when the republicans would have been all over this.


12 posted on 10/05/2014 10:49:08 AM PDT by VerySadAmerican (Liberals were raised by women or wimps. And they're all stupid.)
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For many businesses in the US right now, the highest ROI is a campaign contribution, or hiring a politically connected lobbyist.

Like the construction firm in Chicago that received bupkis in contracts for years until they placed Daley's brother on a $250K per year retainer.

Shazaam! Instant contract.

13 posted on 10/05/2014 10:49:44 AM PDT by pierrem15 ("Massacrez-les, car le seigneur connaît les siens")
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“Isn’t that what Barney Frank said when he found out a male prostitution ring was being run out of his home???”

No. Blarney thought he’d died and gone to homo heaven.


14 posted on 10/05/2014 10:52:54 AM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra (Don't touch that thing Don't let anybody touch that thing!I'm a Doctor and I won't touch that thing!)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

You know, I can understand how there could be reasonable persons who have a different, more liberal view of things than I do.

What I CANNOT understand is how those people can apparently indefinitely tolerate being lead by blatant thieves and crooks.


15 posted on 10/05/2014 10:54:42 AM PDT by The Antiyuppie ("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.")
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To: pierrem15

Yep, that’s the Chicago way and even 0bummer learned it well.


16 posted on 10/05/2014 11:00:32 AM PDT by jazusamo (Sometimes I think that this is an era when sanity has become controversial: Thomas Sowell)
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To: jazusamo

Crony socialism...and the Chicago way.


17 posted on 10/05/2014 11:03:27 AM PDT by newfreep ("Evil succeeds when good men do nothting" - Edmund Burke)
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Big Mouth Dick Durbin

Just another lying democrat crook playing the angles to scam taxpayers - who woulda’ thought????


18 posted on 10/05/2014 11:12:59 AM PDT by Iron Munro (We can make it work with only one square per restroom visit -- Sheryl Crow)
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To: jazusamo

And the islamist lobbyist all call Durbin, Uncle Turbin!


19 posted on 10/05/2014 11:16:15 AM PDT by PoloSec ( Believe the Gospel: how that Christ died for our sins, was buried and rose again)
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-— Don’t know if you read the entire article but Durbin’s son is also a lobbyist, it must be a family tradition. -—

What are the chances? And the poor guy didn’t even know about it. I tell ya, it isn’t easy being a public servant.


20 posted on 10/05/2014 11:17:04 AM PDT by St_Thomas_Aquinas ( Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
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