Majority Leader Blunt: Ineffective and and as ethically corrupt as Delay

"The Washington Post reported in June 2003 that just hours after DeLay elevated Blunt to be House majority whip, Blunt tried to insert into a bill creating the Department of Homeland Security a provision that would have benefited Philip Morris USA. Blunt had close ties to the tobacco company, which contributed heavily to him, and was at the time dating one of its lobbyists, whom he later married.

House Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Illinois, and DeLay pulled the provision from the bill once it was brought to their attention, the Post reported.

Blunt reportedly also has had an uneasy relationship with DeLay, who has been his political mentor and rival. Several Republican lawmakers and staffers, speaking on condition of anonymity, said DeLay viewed Blunt as unable to deliver on some key votes during his tenure as whip -- a post at which DeLay was a master before he became majority leader.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/09/30/MNGHSF0EJ11.DTL

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