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shraby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-28-05 03:01 PM
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Rawstory: Senior scam run by group who bankrolled Delay
EXCLUSIVE MONDAY BOMBSHELL: GROUP THAT PAID $134,000 FOR HOUSE GOP LEADER'S TRIPS RAISED MONEY SCAMMING SENIORS ON SOCIAL SECURITY

2/28/2005
Social Security “fright mail” targeting seniors helped fund GOP leader’s trips to UK, Asia
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Social Security scams helped fly House GOP leader on London, Moscow junkets

RAW STORY EXCLUSIVE

By John Byrne and Larisa Alexandrovna | RAW STORY Staff

A think tank which raised money by targeting elderly Americans with Social Security scare letters paid for more than $130,000 in travel expenses for the House Republican leader, his wife and his staff, RAW STORY has learned.

The National Center for Public Policy Research, a highly controversial and little-known conservative think tank which has been sending Social Security “fright mail” for years, paid for two posh trips for House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-TX) in 1996 and 2000, each at the cost of at least $64,000.

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<http://rawstory.com/news/2005/index.php?p=134>
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BOSSHOG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-28-05 03:07 PM
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1. Isn't it a shame or seem extremely odd that
the MSM hasn't uncovered this information which seemingly would not take much effort to discover? We have to depend on Rawstory and other blogs to find out the truth when those making millions spend their time primping and looking good while Rome burns.
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Al-CIAda Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-28-05 04:07 PM
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5. Isn't it the truth...the corporate media is DEAD. Thank you Rawstory.
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jdots Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-28-05 03:14 PM
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2. Tele Evangelists have prayed on seniors for years
The method to thier madness was started in traveling tent shows spreading the hidden word of greed and deception.
Liberals may be less prone to being hypnotized by some jerk in a shiny suit with bad hair.
Senior abuse is no different than child abuse except some seniors have money to be stolen by these criminals.
For the seniors that live day to day on social security this may be murder.
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BOSSHOG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-28-05 03:19 PM
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3. And years and years
My grandmother, god rest her soul, got a little pension money from my grandfather and a little social security money but she would send Oral Roberts money every month and no one could talk her out of it. She truly loved her Lord and listened to that scum on the radio every Sunday.
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yellowcanine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-28-05 07:03 PM
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8. That's "preyed". I doubt their "praying" was sincere.
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Tandalayo_Scheisskopf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-28-05 03:38 PM
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4. And remember...
Drill down in all of this and it leads to one person:

Paul Weyrich.

If you don't know who he is, why not? You should.
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DoYouEverWonder Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-28-05 04:19 PM
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6. Funny thing I'm starting to notice with all these attacks
behind them all is the Free Republic Network.
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quaoar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-28-05 06:31 PM
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7. Why hasn't Tom DeLay
Edited on Mon Feb-28-05 06:31 PM by quaoar
done the perp walk yet? Why isn't this sleazeball in prison yet?

If a Democratic congressman did this it would be all over cable news and there would be Ethics Committee hearings and O'Reilly and Hannity would be in full throat about how this shows how corrupt the Democratic Party is.
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