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To: Sully- who wrote (77891)	2/24/2010 10:53:47 PM
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Another Day, Another Corrupt Democrat By Mark Noonan on House Democrats As I’ve said, it is endemic to the Democrat party: <<< Rep. Solomon Ortiz (D-Texas) has accepted tens of thousands of dollars’ worth of trips to China from a development corporation in his hometown that he aided by securing earmarks and other federal assistance worth millions of dollars. Ortiz has also traveled on at least one of these trips with his former chief of staff, Lencho Rendon, who was working for Ortiz when he secured a $5 million earmark for the Robstown Improvement Development Corp. The corporation has now hired Rendon as a consultant. Robstown Improvement is a nonprofit, city-chartered corporation that uses sales tax revenue to try to spur economic development in the city. >>> Just more of the usual back-and-forth. Ortiz claims he’s just being helpful – in which case, he wouldn’t have had money spent on himself to go to China. But, hey, a vacation is a vacation and who could pass up the opportunity to have one paid for by the organization you lavished taxpayer funds on? This more fun than a traditional bribe as you’re essentially bribing yourself – and with taxpayer money! In an era of growing public anger over earmarks and lavish travel for Congressmen, that Ortiz would even think of doing this sort of thing indicates both how out of touch Democrats are as well as their supreme confidence that the rank-and-file Democrats will not punish them for it. Is there to be a primary challenger to Ortiz? Extraordinarily doubtful. The almost-certain outcome of this is that Ortiz will be re-elected and continue to do this sort of thing – and provide an example for all other Democrats on just what you can get away with if you have a “D” after your name and will make noises about social justice and such nonsense from time to time. Its a taxpayer funded bonanza and the Democrats are living it up. We do, of course, have a chance to change this in November. blogsforvictory.com