GOP scandal scorecard

[Onlooker]

As I just came across this today, I have to figure there are some others who haven't seen it. It's really kind of great.

http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/gopscorecard.htm

[Poet Lariat]

1. Great breakout Onlooker

Gives me some fodder for Google searching in my own not so progressive state of Texas.

[Eurobabe]

2. Un-frickin-believable!!

Glad to see that Mean Jean DC is on there, bring her down!!

[MurryMom]

3. GOP scorecard

Pennsylvania - U.S. Senator Rick Santorum received illegal home schooling payments from the Penn Hills School District, while his 4 children were living in Virginia

[leftstreet]

4. Good grief! This is harder than calculating bowling scores

:o

[LeftCoast]

5. Sweet! All the Republican scandal you can handle!

All in one nice little Fitzmas package. :)

[peacebird]

6. how is it John Warner isn't on the list?

He's head of the senate defense committee isn't he? Surely people wanted HIM on their side....

[existentialist]

7. And they certainly have not listed everything.

I know of two (make that four) Republican scandals here in South Dakota that did not make the list. I don't know if there will be any charges filed, but according to the (Republican) Attorney General in one of the cases there could have been charges filed.

[chat_noir]

8. Political Money Line as a resource

http://www.tray.com/

Compliance
11/21/2005
Hastert for Congress sent a $2,000 check payable to the U.S. Treasury to the Federal Election Commission. The committee wished to return money it had received from employees of AMEC Construction Management*. AMEC signed a conciliation agreement with the FEC and agreed to pay an $85,000 civil penalty for an illegal employee reimbursement scheme. AMEC also gave $25,000 to ARMPAC Non-Federal Account on 3/31/02.

* It provided construction management services for the World Trade Center cleanup site (http://www.hoovers.com/amec,-construction-management/--ID__41256--/free-co-factsheet.xhtml)


The Bob Ney For Congress agreed to pay a $2,000 civil penalty for failure to report all disbursements. They neglected to report two wire transfers, one for $47,828.86 and another for $35,206.95.

[chat_noir]

9. to add to DeLay's list - ADCS

8/16/05
Late Update: In addition to a lot of flights on their Lear Jet, between 2002 and 2004, Brent Wilkes, his wife Regina and an executive with their company gave $30,000 to Tom DeLay's ARMPAC. , Regina Wilkes, various ADCS executives and the ADCS PAC, meanwhile, combined to give approximately $59,000 to Duke and his PAC from 2000 to 2004, all but $6500 of which came in 2001 and 2002.

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/week_2005_08_14.php



Cunningham's relationship with a second defense contractor, ADCS Inc., also came under scrutiny.

In mid-August, federal regulators seized documents from ADCS's Poway headquarters and raided company president Brent Wilkes' home. Wade formerly worked for ADCS in the Washington, D.C. area.

Like MZM, ADCS won millions of dollars worth of government contracts while making significant donations to Cunningham and other members of the defense subcommittee. ADCS, or Automated Document Conversion Systems, specializes in scanning documents so they can easily be indexed and cross-referenced.

...

Since 1997, Wilkes and other ADCS insiders contributed more than $600,000to political campaigns, mostly giving funds to members of the Appropriations and Armed Services committees. Cunningham and his American Prosperity politicalaction committee received $53,500 in donations.

The Union-Tribune reported in early August that Cunningham alsorepeatedly used ADCS' corporate jet on campaign-related trips, including ahunting trip in Idaho and a golf tournament in Hawaii. House MajorityLeader Tom DeLay also flew on the jet.

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/politics/cunningham/20051128-0956-bn28duke3.html