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To: steve harris who wrote (255065)	10/12/2005 10:26:17 PM
From: American Spirit	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1572298

I'm neither a left-winger nor a big union supporter. I believe workers should be able to organize, but dislike all forms of corruption, corporate, governmental or union-oriented. If a union is doing something wrong they deserve to be taken on. But right now unions are weak and the Bushie corrupt corporate aristocracy is in charge of everything. So they are the ones we need to take on and defeat. Which is in the process of happening. Remember the days conservatives fought against the "welfare state"? Well now far more money is being handed over to the corporate and fat cats in the form of corporate welfare and relief for the upper class. This is outrageous and must stop.

To: steve harris who wrote (255065)	10/12/2005 11:14:26 PM
From: paret	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572298

Former N.C. Congressman Gets Four Years Oct 12 7:10 PM US/Eastern Breitbart/Associated Press Excerpt: By EMERY P. DALESIO Associated Press Writer ELIZABETH CITY, N.C. Former Rep. Frank Ballance was sentenced Wednesday to four years in federal prison for conspiring to divert taxpayer money to his law firm and family through a charitable organization he helped start. Ballance, a 63-year-old Democrat who was a state senator before being elected to Congress in 2002, also agreed to repay $61,917 and to forfeit $203,000 in a bank escrow account in the name of the John A. Hyman Memorial Foundation. The forfeited funds will be returned to North Carolina taxpayers, federal prosecutor Dennis Duffy said. "I want to apologize to my family and all the people I represent for what, I call them mistakes, but they were violations of the law," Ballance said before he was sentenced. Ballance, who represented the 1st Congressional District in northeastern North Carolina, reached a plea bargain last November in which he acknowledged conspiring to commit mail fraud and launder money. Ballance had resigned from Congress in June 2004, citing ill health, without completing his first term. According to a 51-page indictment, Ballance channeled $2.3 million in state money from 1994 to 2003 to the nonprofit foundation he operated to help poor people fight drug and alcohol abuse. "He ran that foundation like a private piggy bank," Duffy said. "No one in the Hyman Foundation even knew how much they were getting." Read Full Story