Will Dems fight this GOP intrusion or just let it slide? This Really Sucks.

Will they do the right thing or do we need to remind them? And I hear it's illegal.



Commerce, Treasury funds helped boost GOP campaigns
By Marisa Taylor and Kevin G. Hall | McClatchy Newspapers

* Posted on Fri, August 17, 2007



Millions in federal money went to battleground congressional states and districts. | View larger image

WASHINGTON — Top Commerce and Treasury Departments officials appeared with Republican candidates and doled out millions in federal money in battleground congressional districts and states after receiving White House political briefings detailing GOP election strategy.

Political appointees in the Treasury Department received at least 10 political briefings from July 2001 to August 2006, officials familiar with the meetings said. Their counterparts at the Commerce Department received at least four briefings — all in the election years of 2002, 2004 and 2006.

The House Oversight Committee is investigating whether the White House's political briefings to at least 15 agencies, including to the Justice Department, the General Services Administration and the State Department, violated a ban on the use of government resources for campaign activities.

Under the Hatch Act, Cabinet members are permitted to attend political briefings and appear with members of Congress. But Cabinet members and other political appointees aren't permitted to spend taxpayer money with the aim of benefiting candidates.

During the briefings at Treasury and Commerce, then-Bush administration political director Ken Mehlman and other White House aides detailed competitive congressional districts, battleground election states and key media markets and outlined GOP strategy for getting out the vote.

Commerce and Treasury political appointees later made numerous public appearances and grant announcements that often correlated with GOP interests, according to a review of the events by McClatchy Newspapers. The pattern raises the possibility that the events were arranged with the White House's political guidance in mind.

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http://www.mcclatchydc.com/227/story/19034.html

So some fundy wack-job shows up at the Heritage Foundation and tells them they
got fired for helping repubs get elected.

"You're hired!" :grr:

Right, at least shut the crap down. What destructive freaks these (R)s be.

I think we need some sort of legislation to recup our $ from these crooks and start rebuilding our infrastructure with a sort of FDR jobs plan. Now that would piss off * and his crony thieves.

I've given up...I see the bunch of democrats in congress as a bunch of spineless hypocrites. Too scared of bush and rove (still) to do a darn thing.

to make it better. That's our course. Always.

For four to six years, every single federal government department was operating on marching orders to get more GOPers elected, and DC Dems didn't know? Federal taxpayer money was given out as incentives to get GOPers elected, and DC Dems didn't have a clue?

I don't believe it. However if I am wrong and they didn't know, then how helpless are these so called Dem political elite?

I thought our message was clear, we got your back... but I was wrong

William Wallace fighting for freedom, while his fellow Scot "nobles" struck deals & took bribes from the English, betraying their country again & again. Reminded me of our Congressional Dems selling us out again & again for their own interests and cowardice.

That would be a good idea.