Cornyn Corruption Watch

From Sean Paul at The Agonist:



San Antonio Express-News

Here's a question for my local paper, the Houston Chronicle: do you plan on investigating this and/or covering it yourselves or are you just going to rely on the wire reports?

So far, the Austin American Statesman has an identical wire story. Houston Chronicle, nada. Dallas Morning News, zip.



You gotta go read the whole thing.

Has his office ever replied to a letter you sent? He is just another corrupt hypocritical RW zealot, now Ralph Reed is a special case.

during his campaign for the Senate in 2001, asking him to return Enron's cash.

Got a letter back from one his minions which said "John Cornyn has not accepted any Enron money for his Senate campaign". Of course, the donation was for his run for Texas Attorney General the previous year. I wrote back Staffer Sycophant and told him he was a duplicitous lickspittle for sending me a response like that.

Since then, I have written, called, and e-mailed a hundred times without one single acknowledgement of any kind.

This is the definition of taxation without representation.

It's not just that Crony-n is a sockpuppet for the religious zealots and the corporations. He's actually one of the leading advancers of the God/CEO/GOP agenda nationally. Every time they need a battle fought, whether it's absolving themselves of Abu Ghraib, saying nice things about Harriet Miers or Sam Alito, or whatever this week's dirty Bush job is that needs cleaning up, he's there with a pooper scooper and a smile. A Christian corporate soldier, hoping to have his loyalty rewarded with a Supreme Court seat one day.

Of all of the miserable Republicans in this state, John Cornyn is now the most dangerous. That's right; more than than DeLay, Rick Perry, KBH... worse than all of them.

Bill White is going to whip his ass in 2008, and I'm going to laugh about it loud enough for Senator Torture to hear me in D.C.

I had a similar experience, albeit without the reply to the staffer. I guess one answer is all they deign to offer. I will certainly do everything I can to remove him (provided I'm still here).

btw, I totally agree with your assessment of Cornyn.

always get one three months later from Hutchison, but zip from Crony-n.

From the Online Newshour, 2002 Texas Senate Race
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/vote2002/races/tx_cornyn.html



1. Tax Cuts – On the backs of working, poor and elderly Americans who can least afford to do without.
2. Welfare reform – to put more single mothers and kids on the street. Frees up more money for tax cuts.
3. reduction of U.S. dependence on foreign energy supplies – “If you don’t have an oil well, get one. You’ll love doing business with KBR Iraq”. (New locations opening soon!)
4. Religious-based programs – Democracy and Christianity joined at the hip...tax free to boot. These new “assets” also come with evangelicals and buses to GOTV.
5. Social Security reform – Privatization to feed the coffers of more Neo-con Cronies.
6. ending “frivolous” law suits – Corporate America’s answer for minimization of corporate collateral damage.
7. War on terrorism – still waiting on that to really get started. Too many old scores to settle and Halliburton employees who need new shoes.
8. overthrowing Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein – invasion of a sovereign country for oil and domination of the middle east.
9. Texas values – we saw their version of this on Prop 2 voting earlier this week.
10. expand the war on terror to countries the president said were part of an "axis of evil," such as Iraq – PNAC’s anyone?

Thanks PDittie. This scumbag needs lots of "watching"

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=1919558&mesg_id=1919558

When speculation was happening regarding who dimson would nominate for the SC, Cornyn's name was mentioned. That scared the heck out of me!
Yep, repugs imploding, enjoy!

The states election system is a travesty (well…only if one considers accuracy and verifiability important).
Wonder if the 76% Prop 2 landslide had the taps opened up just a little.
Nah…it’s gotta be the buses.

http://www.votewatch.us/forums/general/670164918799



Calibrations my ass. Part of my work entails calibration of complicated instrumentation and systems. Countin' aint complicated folks. Without a verified election next time, this article could just as easily be used again for the next senate race.....if Ron Kirk ran again of course.

edited to "bold" names because I can

which was over a year ago:

http://www.offthekuff.com/mt/archives/006386.html

Lots of links to follow at the link above.

Just like the rest of this admin. No surprise. They will do anything for money. It's the only thing they value. That along with power, which brings them money.

How I wish we could speed up the Abramoff investigation and trial and get "cromag" Cornyn under oath.



I want Cornyn to say that under oath, because I don't believe a word of it.

Sonia

Sonia

He's my rep and his office is on my speed dial. The girl that answers always says, "Are you the one on xxx road?" kinda pissy. :evilgrin:

Don't know if you are aware of this?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abramoff-Reed_Indian_Gambling_Scandal

Senator John Cornyn
(R-Texas) On November 12, 2001, Reed sent Abramoff an e-mail stating, "get me details so I can alert cornyn and let him know what we are doing to help him" . Similarly, on November 13, Reed wrote "I strongly suggest we start doing patch-throughs to perry and cornyn . We're getting killed on the phone." Also, on January 7, 2002, Reed sent Abramoff an e-mail stating "I think we should budget for an ataboy for cornyn" .

When John Cornyn ran for Senate, Abramoff contributed $1,000, the maximum amount legally allowed. Cornyn, who has spoken out against gambling, also received $6,250 in contributions from Las Vegas casino interests who oppose Indian gaming, some of which were made at the same time Cornyn was pushing to close the Tigua's casino.