Senate aide's (to Specter) spouse gets a windfall

WASHINGTON — Sen. Arlen Specter helped direct almost $50 million in Pentagon spending during the past four years to clients of the husband of one of his top aides, records show.

Specter, R-Pa., used a process called "earmarking" 13 times to set aside $48.7 million for six clients represented by lobbyist Michael Herson and the firm he co-founded, American Defense International. The clients paid Herson's firm nearly $1.5 million in fees since 2002, federal lobbying records show.

Herson's wife, Vicki Siegel Herson, is Specter's legislative assistant for appropriations. She deals with Specter's work on the Senate Appropriations Committee and its defense subcommittee, where all the earmarks originated. Siegel, who uses her maiden name at work, is a former lobbyist for defense contractors who has worked for Specter since 1999.

Earmarks are a way for powerful members of Congress to specify how federal money must be spent. They have been the subject of attention on Capitol Hill because they played a role in recent scandals, including the bribery conviction of former representative Randy "Duke" Cunningham, R-Calif.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2006-02-15-specter-earmarks_x.htm

All GOPrs are fucking crooks.

If you are a true Christian (whatever that means to you), I'd suggest you get straight with God, because this might be the end of the line for you spiritually and physically, as well as many other GOPshits.

I used to think you were a great guy, but now I know better. You are just a two-faced politico with too much power wielded in all the wrong places.

Good night and good luck.

Radio_Lady

Don't all governmental departments have their own purchasing people to determine how best to spend federal money? Don't congressmen and women have so many more important things they should be doing instead of getting into the nuts and bolts of which companies are awarded contracts?

Ever since he defended LONG DONG SILVER THOMAS and trashed Anita Hill

AND HERE IS LONG DONG HIMSELF

:puke: I'll never forget that trial either. Too think that crumb is a supreme court judge.

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Long Dong Silver (Birthname: Daniel Arthur Mead ? see external link) is the alias of a black actor in several pornographic films in the early 1980s, famed for the size of his penis (reputedly 18 inches = 45.72 centimeters), although it is generally accepted to have been extended with a prosthetic sheath. The name is a takeoff on the fictional pirate Long John Silver, in Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island.

He achieved brief notoriety when mentioned during Clarence Thomas's confirmation hearings for the United States Supreme Co

LINKS

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Dong_Silver


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence_Thomas