Saturday, May 14, 2005~~~~I'm a Travelin Man...(err...Woman?)
Ok, you just gotta love this. You know all the flap about that big bad ol' Tom Delay and his travels? Well take a guess where he ranks among the members of Congress taking privately funded trips in the last five years... C'mon just a guess...
You think the top ten? No... Top twenty? Nope, not there either. Ok, ok top 100 at least! Sorry... Not there either. Try number 123 with 14 trips.
So, you say that is pretty high up there considering that it is the upper 1/4 of Congress eh? Wonder where some members of the NW delegation end up?
Jim McDermott, (D) Washington, (you know he is the guy that was caught illegally taping another member of Congress but since he is a democratICK Congressman from Washington he is allowed to break the law), comes in at number 11 with 39 trips.
Earl Blumenauer, (D) Oregon ranks number 36 with 29. I wonder how much of his travel was on a bicycle?
Larry Craig, (R) Idaho ranks 52 with 25 trips.
Finally we have Norm Dicks (D) Washington, ranking 67 with 21.
Funny thing is, is that all of the top ten travelers are democratICK politicians. With the number ONE traveler being... drum roll please....... Congresswoman Maxine Waters!! (and the crowd goes wild)... yeahhh.... shshshs.... whooo... aahhh....
There is heap big more information over at politicalmoneyline.com. Or go to the Federal Election Commission website at fecinfo.com .
posted by I am Coyote at 6:36 AM
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From 2000 to winter 2005, the ranking of Members taking privately-funded trips (aka Gifts of Private Travel)
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KLP Note:
--Note some of the "travel costs" for some of these folks, especially the travel costs for the person and the others they took...
--Why would an overnight lodging cost in Syracuse for Joe Biden be over $1200??? paid by Lawyers...
--Who funds the Aspen Institute??? This group has funded over $3,100,000++ of expenses for this group!!
And there are more things of interest on this list and its links! |
