Just when you think a member of the republican party can't get any more hypocritical than being a "Christian Conservative" while banging a hooker, loving on a hot wise Argentina woman, or having an affair with your 22 year old intern, Congressman Pete Session comes forward as a candidate for republican hypocrite of the week.Turns out Session, from Dallas, who called earmarks “a symbol of a broken Washington to the American people.” received $1.6m for a blimp company in Chicago, using an address for the request to Congress in Dallas, an address that happens to be the address of a close friend of the owner of the blimp company.
If Pete is going to put his name in the hat for Hypocrite of the Week and $1.6m of tax dollars, he should. at the very least. request funding within his own district. The story gets much worse according to Politico:
Pete Sessions. republican Hypocrite of the Week. At least he didn't have sex with anyone or bust into flames while doing it.Yet in 2008, Sessions himself steered a $1.6 million earmark for dirigible research to an Illinois company whose president acknowledges having no experience in government contracting, let alone in building blimps.
What the company did have: the help of Adrian Plesha, a former Sessions aide with a criminal record who has made more than $446,000 lobbying on its behalf.
3 comments:
Pete Sessions, hopefully next on the chopping block for the 2010 election.
We don't know that he's NOT having an affair with his intern.
Pete Session gets my vote for Republican hypocrite of the week. My question is--do Republicans care?
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