Lets not hold our breath till Pelosi encourages Mahoney to resign:
Congressman's $121,000 Payoff to Alleged Mistress
Tim Mahoney Elected to Remove 'Ethical Cloud' of His Disgraced Predecessor, Mark Foley
This is pretty shoddy behavior.......Pelosi needs to encourage him to resign.
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She wanted to put Alcee Hastings on the House Intel Committee - didn't only because of a national outrage.
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Then there's "Freezer" Jefferson:
Pelosi defends Jefferson appointment at ASU stopPhoenix Business Journal - by Mike Sunnucks The Business Journal
Print Email Reprints RSS Feeds Add to Del.icio.us Digg This CommentsU.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi defended her appointment of a New Orleans congressman suspected of corruption to a key congressional security panel during a Monday stop in Tempe.
Pelosi has appointed Congressman William Jefferson, D-La., to the U.S. House Homeland Security Committee, sparking criticism from Republicans.
Jefferson is being investigated by federal authorities in a possible bribery case involving a telecommunications deal in Africa. The FBI found $90,000 in cash in Jefferson's freezer in a search of the congressman's home in 2005.
Pelosi -- who was then House Minority leader -- took Jefferson off of the House Ways & Means Committee after that search. Jefferson won reelection in a heavily Democratic district last year and Pelosi on Monday appointed him to the anti-terrorism panel.
The Democratic Speaker said Monday Jefferson's appointment was part of a final round of committee selections. She said Jefferson represents New Orleans and that city and its citizens have some security needs that need to be considered in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.
Republicans question Jefferson's appointment to the high-profile panel that deals with anti-terrorism and emergency management efforts when Pelosi and other Democrats campaigned on ethics issues in the 2006 elections.
Democrats won the 2006 congressional elections and the San Francisco liberal became speaker in January.
Pelosi was in the Phoenix area Monday for a reception with other Democrats and town hall style event at ASU with Congressmen Harry Mitchell, Raul Grijalva and Ed Pastor. The event focused on college financial aid but Pelosi also talked about liberal Democratic themes such as "fairer economic growth" and putting college financial aid spending above tax cuts for the wealthy, as well as immigration reforms that include a guest worker program, legal paths for illegals already in the U.S. and allowing illegal immigrant students to attend state universities and get discounted in-state rates.
Pastor said that so-called 'Dream Act' would be part of federal immigration plans favored by Democrats. Last year, Arizona voters approved Proposition 300 which restricts illegal immigrants access to state colleges and county community colleges and prohibits them from receiving public financial aid and discounted in-state tuition rates.
Pelosi also commended President Bush, Mesa Congressman Jeff Flake and Arizona Sen. John McCain (all Republicans) for their support for more moderate immigration reform. She went as far as to "commend" Bush for his immigration positions which match more with the business community and moderates than harder-line conservatives.
Gov. Janet Napolitano did not appear with Pelosi or the three Arizona congressional members at the ASU event. Tucson Democratic Congresswoman Gabby Giffords is currently in Iraq along with GOP Arizona Sen. Jon Kyl.
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Then there's hubby:
Nancy Pelosi Paid Husband From Political Action Committee Fund
Oct. 1, 2008 ( delivered by Newstex) -- Nancy Pelosi has directed $99,000 from her political action committee (PAC) to her husband's real estate and investment firm over the last decade. Since Paul Pelosi took over as treasurer for the PAC in 2007, payments have quadrupled.Last year Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House for the U.S. House of Representatives, supported a bill that had it passed, would have banned the practice of paying for services rendered by a spouse of a politician using monies given as political donations.As the Washington Times , according to Federal Election Commission records, Financial Leasing Services Inc. (FLS), owned by Paul F. Pelosi, has received $99,000 in rent, utilities and accounting fees from the speaker's "PAC to the Future, over the last 9 years.According to the report, FLS "on track to take in $48,000 in payments this year alone - eight times as much as it received annually from 2000 to 2005, when the committee was run by another treasurer."Lawmakers' frequent use of campaign donations to pay relatives emerged as an issue in the 2006 election campaigns, when the Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal gave Democrats fodder to criticize Republicans such as former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay of Texas and Rep.
John T. Doolittle of California for putting their wives on their campaign and PAC payrolls for fundraising work. While not an illegal practice since the bill that would have banned this practice passed the house with a voice vote but did not get out of a Senate committee, therefore was never implemented into law, Melanie Sloan who is the executive director of the Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), a nonprofit ethics and watchdog group, calls these payments from Pelosi's PAC, to her husband, "problematic," and goes on to explain "From what I understand, Mr. Pelosi doesn't need the money, but this isn't the issue. ... As speaker of the House, it sends the wrong message. She shouldn't be putting family members on the payroll." Nancy Pelosi's spokesman, Brendan Daly, defends the payments saying "She's followed all the appropriate rules and regulations in terms of records and paperwork. When [former treasurer] Leo McCarthy became ill, she thought that it was best that that firm did the accounting and she's paid fair market value in San Francisco." From 1999 and 2006, FLS was receiving $500 a month in rent, utilities and equipment, and in early 2007 when Paul Pelosi took over the job of treasurer, those payments quadrupled to $2,000 per month. Paul Pelosi also receives $24,000 per year for accounting work, all together totaling $48,000 a year paid.Mr. McCarthy, the previous treasurer, had done the work as a volunteer, according to FEC documents and Jennifer Crider, a senior adviser to Mrs. Pelosi and spokeswoman for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. She said FLS' accounting fees are in line with costs for other PACs. In the first six months of 2008, Nancy Pelosi's husband's company, FLS, was the largest vendor for Nancy Pelosi's PAC.According to the Washington Times report Political action committees are designed "to help politicians contribute to other candidates and build influence with colleagues."This is not the first time one of Nancy Pelosi's PACs has been in trouble. In 2004, another of Pelosi's political action committees, named Team Majority, was fined $21,000 by the FEC for accepting over the legal limit donations and Team Majority was closed down after that fine was imposed. Newstex ID: DIJO-0001-28488692
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Nancy Pelosi is Sponsoring a bill That will Benefit Her Husband
Posted on March 5, 2008 by Mr Pink Eyes
Nancy Pelosi is sponsoring a bill that would allow HIV-positive patients who do not have AIDS to qualify for Medicaid. This bill has support on both sides of the aisle and it sounds fair enough, doesn’t it? At least it does if you think the government should be in the health-care business, but that will be a discussion for another day after November’s election when we have national health-care again in the spotlight. Anyway, it sounds fair, but there is a small problem with Nancy Pelosi sponsoring this bill. Her husband owns $250,000 worth of stocks in a company that stands to benefit from this legislation.
That is not the only problem however. Her campaign was given $20,000 by Amgen in July, one week later Pelosi introduced a bill that had been previously been stopped, the bill I mentioned above. This bill would benefit Amgen as they make the AIDS drug that would now be covered under Medicaid, this would also benefit Pelosi’s husband as this is the company he owns all these stocks in.
An ethical issue pops up as a result of her investment in Johnson & Johnson,” Fitton told Cybercast News Service. “Obviously she should explain whether or not her contributions from Amgen and its executives are influencing her position on the HIV bill in an inappropriate way.”
Being a Democrat has it’s privileges though and so she will never be held accountable for this. But this isn’t the only money she has received from Amgen.
In addition to the 28 separate contributions Pelosi received last July from Amgen, seven other contributions were made by executives in the months of July and August, for a total of $30,050 to Pelosi’s re-election campaign. Also, AmgenPAC (political action committee) gave Pelosi’s campaign a total of $10,000 last year.
She needs to answer these questions. This is one of the issues that the Democrats ran on in 2006, the culture of corruption, and it is now possible that Nancy Pelosi has been caught up in it.
“It’s not three or four steps removed,” Fitton said. “The drug presumably would be covered under the bill. So will any Democrat or Republican ask for an investigation of this, whether she violated the rules? On the face of it, she seems to be bringing discredit on the House as a result of this apparent conflict of interest.”
It will be interesting to see if anything becomes of this but I think we all no where this is headed. Nowhere.
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