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Earmarks and Murphy
BREAKING NEWS 2: Second Murphy contributor who received large
earmarks is a criminal. Pleads guilty to receiving illegal
kickbacks from federal subcontractor.
BREAKING NEWS:
Murphy contributor who received a $2.4 million taxpayer funded
earmark is a convicted felon
Read the story from the Bucks County Courier Times
There are now at least 2 documented incidences where men who donated
large sums of money to Pat Murphy (and who got their families to as
well) have turned out to be criminals. Worse yet Murphy steered our
tax dollars to these criminals in the form of earmarks.
Murphy has been
in the local and national news much as of late about his very large
sponsoring of earmarks and how many of those receiving earmarks are in
turn funding his campaigns. In 2007 Murphy sponsored the fourth
largest amount of earmarks for any first term member of Congress as
seen in this
2007 USA Today story. This is quite the contrary to what he
said he would do if elected when he ran against Mike Fitzpatrick in
2006 and complained about Fitzpatrick's small number of earmarks
including one that helped fund the 9/11 memorial in Bucks County.
Now www.earmarkwatch.org
lists Murphy as sponsoring over
$20 million in earmarks just in the 2008 defense appropriations bill!
This is the same Pat Murphy who held a
press conference in 2006 to call for an end to pork barrel
spending, pay as you go rules for Congress and supported a balanced
budget. Certainly someone like that would never support
earmarks? Wrong.
Murphy has repeatedly said that pork barbell earmark king Jack Murtha
is his "hero." Just last year Murtha received $126.4 million in
earmarks just in the defense appropriations bill alone! The same Jack
Murtha who recently said "If I am corrupt it is because I take care of
my district."
Here are some recent stories on Murphy and earmarks and
lobbyists:
Defense Company's Ex-Chief Indicted, July 8, 2009
Donor Charged in Kickback Scheme, July 7, 2009
Return the Money (Editorial from Bucks County Courier Times), June
9, 2009
Barred Navy contractor gave Murphy $9200, May 30, 2009
Defense contractor with ties to Murtha and Murphy suspended,
May
29, 2009
Earmarks: Nothing but waste and kickbacks for contributions,
Apr 5, 2009
Murphy talks the talk on reform but doesn't walk the walk , Mar
19, 2009
House Members Shed Tainted Cash, Feb 15, 2009 |
 
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