Tag Archives: Corruption

GOP Rep. Joe Barton apologizes to BP

Posted on June 18, 2010 by Featheriver

Joe Barton (R-TX) was on the House Energy and Commerce subcommittee yesterday when BP officials appeared in Congress. Barton made the following remarks to the BP company. I think it is a tragedy of the first proportion that a private … Continue reading →

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Jack Abramoff Out of the Joint

Posted on June 11, 2010 by Featheriver

Jack Abramoff, disgraced former lobbyist, was transferred Tuesday from prison to a Maryland halfway house to serve out the remainder of his sentence. [CREW] He is scheduled for release on December 4. Abramoff, once a high-rolling Republican lobbyist, pleaded guilty … Continue reading →

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Free showing of Capitalism: A Love Story in Pahrump

Posted on March 22, 2010 by Featheriver

Citizens of Pahrump will be treated to a free showing of Michael Moore’s new documentary Capitalism: A Love Story. Capitalism: A Love Story is a 2009 American documentary film directed, written by and starring Michael Moore. The film centers on … Continue reading →

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Why there is no single-payer public option

Posted on February 27, 2010 by Featheriver

Amy Goodman on Democracy Now stated “Republican lawmakers remained staunchly opposed to using the federal government to regulate health insurance.” Republicans want the current health care bill dumped in the trash and to start all over. Goodman interviewed Trudy Lieberman … Continue reading →

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Mexico Drug Cartel Tunnels into US

Posted on December 12, 2009 by Featheriver

Remember all the controversy a few months back about building a fence along the US border with Mexico to keep out illegal immigrants? Some $2.4 billion has been spent since 2005 on a still-unfinished project to erect more than 600 … Continue reading →

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Broke, blind and trying to survive

Posted on October 14, 2009 by Featheriver

The following story appeared in the St. Petersburg Times: Monique Zimmerman-Stein and her husband, Gary Stein, have Blue Cross/Blue Shield insurance through Stein’s job at the Hillsborough County Health Department. They pay $90 a week for coverage. But the insurance … Continue reading →

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Ensign support deserting him

Posted on October 8, 2009 by Featheriver

Campaign contributors, current and former staffers and even lobbyists may be re-considering their ties to a man who once served as the GOP’s primary fund-raiser in the Senate. At least three high-profile staffers have left Ensign’s orbit after the news … Continue reading →

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Ensign: In a new bind re Hampton affair

Posted on October 1, 2009 by Featheriver

Early last year, Senator John Ensign contacted a small circle of political and corporate supporters back home in Nevada — a casino designer, an airline executive, the head of a utility and several political consultants — seeking work for a … Continue reading →

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Senator Ensign voted against public option

Posted on September 30, 2009 by Featheriver

Senator Ensign of Nevada is no friend of Nevadans. He posted the following on his website: Photo from the Las Vegas Sun: Senate Finance Committee members Sen. John Ensign, R-Nev., left, and Sen. Kent Conrad, D-N.D., talk Tuesday on Capitol … Continue reading →

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Baucus-Grassley rake $ in from health industry

Posted on September 21, 2009 by Featheriver

The Gang of Six, three Republican and three Democratic senators in the group, all of them members of the Senate Finance Committee, received an average of $74,600 from health industry lobbyists, according to The San Francisco’s Chronicle’s analysis of records … Continue reading →

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