Furious Duckworth Rips Scumbag Contractor A New One: Twisting Your Ankle Playing Football In Prep Sc

[unhappycamper]

http://www.commondreams.org/further/2013/06/26-0



Furious Duckworth Rips Scumbag Contractor A New One: Twisting Your Ankle Playing Football In Prep School Is Not Serving and Defending This Nation
by Abby Zimet
06.26.13 - 6:17 PM

Rep. Tammy Duckworth, who lost both legs and severely injured an arm as a helicopter pilot in Iraq, was a fierce sight to behold at a House hearing today where she blasted a contractor who made millions from federal contracts by "gaming the system" and claiming to be a "service-disabled veteran" because - wait for it - he hurt his ankle playing football at a military prep school. After being granted preferential treatment in federal contract bids, Braulio Castillo's Strong Castle company made as much as $500 million over six months from contracts with the IRS, where he also had a chum who coached him. The hearing came after a damning report detailing "problematic and abusive" relationships between the IRS and federal contractors. In the high point of Duckworth's admirable, furious performance in which she summoned up the thousands of grievously wounded, truly deserving veterans now going without adequate care because of bozos like him, she read from a letter Castillo sent the VA begging for special status, citing "the crosses that I bear due to my service to this great country...(and) I would do it again."


“I’m so glad that you would be willing to play football in prep school again to protect this great country,” she said. “Shame on you, Mr. Castillo. Shame on you. You may not have broken any laws … but you certainly broke the trust of this great nation. You broke the trust of veterans.”

[Sherman A1]

1. She hit the nail on the head.

“Shame on you, Mr. Castillo. Shame on you. You may not have broken any laws … but you certainly broke the trust of this great nation. You broke the trust of veterans.”

Nothing really to add to such an eloquent statement.

[TxDemChem]

2. She is not to be messed with

Tammy Duckworth is the epitome of an American patriot

[Scuba]

3. Give 'em hell, Tammy! We love ya!!!!

[leftyohiolib]

6. she doesnt give em hell she just tells the truth and it feels like hell

[Scuba]

10. Um, then wouldn't it be "give 'em hell Harry"????

[monmouth3]

4. She shredded him to bits, all with a soft voice. He never saw it coming. Go Tammy..n/t

[beemer27]

5. K&R

We could use a few more like Tammy. The good ole boy contractor MIC has gotten so big that it is going to take a major effort, and a lot of honest people to bring it down to a manageable size. Ten more like Tammy might be enough.

[warrant46]

7. More Job Creating Scum fleecing the Tax Payers

"Job Creating Entrepreneurs"= SCUM

[Doctor_J]

8. Republicans are filthy, sub-human scum

I cannot at the moment think of a single one of them who I consider human

[ReRe]

9. K&R

Salute!

[Hubert Flottz]

11. Best slapdown in years.

I had to watch it half a dozen times and I laughed every time. She ripped that parasite a new ass!

[VWolf]

14. Oh, I wanted to laugh

but I also wanted to cry. You know what I mean?

[Hubert Flottz]

16. The whipped puppy look on that rascal's face

just made me laugh.(shock and awe)

I approved of her message 100%. I was very proud of the congresswoman. She fights on to this day, for the real USA. I think the founding fathers would be in her corner.

[life long demo]

12. I love Tammy Duckworth

Another strong Democrat who fought for our country. God bless you.

[malthaussen]

13. We need more women like that in Congress,

... especially as it appears a good few of the males there have had their spines removed.

-- Mal

[mtasselin]

15. PLEASE

Please go after this piece of shit, he has no shame. get him out as a government contractor, he is one of the things that is wrong with this country, but he will use his connections within the government to keep bringing shame to the system.

[The Wizard]

17. Crush his gonads

seize his assets and put the son of a bitch in chains.

[Orrex]

18. Damn! Now THAT'S a smack-down!

I almost feel sorry for the lying parasite.

[Evergreen Emerald]

19. she did an excellent job n/t

[mountain grammy]

20. Way to go Tammy! Thank you for being a good soldier

and a good Congresswoman. These contractors who rip off the government should be forced to repay what they've scammed or go to jail and barred from any future contracts.
This is how privatizing everything works; not so good.

[Vinnie From Indy]

21. While Duckworth's scolding of Castillo was excellent,

will there be anything done about it? I am quite sure that a guy like Castillo that is making tens of millions of dollars from these contracts is perfecty fine with being yelled at as long as the money keeps flowing. One thing I have always found to be true with men like Castillo - they have no sense of shame or honor. Her harsh words to him was merely background noise that was quickly forgotten later in the evening as he lit cigars with $100. bills and relaxed in a solid gold hot tub on his 100' yacht as it sailed to his private island.

[Lordquinton]

33. This ^

Lije she said "You might not have broken any laws" therefore nothing will happen. There are many people, even here that stand by that idea that if it's legal, then it's just fine and we should shut up about it.

[adieu]

41. What's going to happen

is that real veterans will have nothing to do with him and they will spread the word and his ability to get the next contract will dry up like a booger in the desert. He better collect as much as he can, because he's effectively retired.

[Skittles]

22. I'm a huge fan of Ms. Duckworth

the gal kicks royal ASS!!!

[frylock]

23. fuckers like this have no shame..

he'll be laughing about this over a few drinks with his asshole buddies.

[savalez]

24. Wow. That video is a must see!

Thank you unhappycamper for posting this.

[savalez]

25. For what it's worth:

OpenSecrets.org Donor Lookup

CASTILLO, BRAULIO
ASHBURN,VA
20147 SIGNET COMPUTERS INC.
4/28/2012
$2,500
Romney, Mitt

[Historic NY]

26. Wow even Issa thought it was time well spent.....

when she went over.

[quarbis]

27. This guy is a stealer of Veteran's Valor

He should be sent to Afghanistan as rifleman and made to hump in the mountains.
I was no Hero in Vietnam but at least I put my time in there and deal with that results of that.

[geckosfeet]

28. What. A. Piece. Of. Scum. There should be law - grievous misrepresentation and gaming of the system.

Otherwise know as lying on a federal form. I believe that's a felony.

[sulphurdunn]

29. I'm confused.

This gentleman's bio says he attend 3 universities and received degrees, also that he was accepted to West Point, but served in the Army as an enlisted man and suffered a service connected disability. But Rep. Duckworth claims he received his injury at someplace called West Point Military Prep Academy, which sounds like a high school for future West Pointers that I never heard of before. Is it a federally operated high school? Did the guy ever serve on active duty, or did attendance at the prep academy count as active duty service, and is that why spraining his ankle counts as a service related disability? I would find the latter to be disturbing.

[Historic NY]

30. The prep school is designed to bring substandard students up to par ...

so they can make better grades. There is no evidence he got anywhere after that in the army. Pig skin is tougher than gun to carry so he says.....it would be a different story if he was a Cadet.

If a candidate fails to gain admission after the preparatory academic year (due to poor grades, an injury, or is denied admission for some other reason), then the candidate is not required to repay the scholarship grant.


http://www.usma.edu/usmaps/SitePages/About.aspx

[MarianJack]

31. All I can say is...

...GO TAMMY!!!

PEACE!

[Triana]

32. She's a hero over and over again.

[spooky3]

34. Perhaps she could give him an Al Bundy award in recognition of his football contributions.

I'm glad she ripped him a new one, but sadly agree with those who say that welfare kings like him have no shame and will put up with the criticism as long as the dollars keep flowing.

[pacalo]

35. One of the best shellackings I've seen. Tammy Duckworth owned that scumbag.

[nolabear]

36. That was righteous.

[adieu]

37. The Dems have

a plethora of qualified and capable female politicos. They don't need the old guards of Feinstein and Pelosi (or even Hillary). With Warren, Davis, Duckworth, Speier, even Gabby Giffords. I'd like to see a Warren/Davis ticket with Duckworth as SecDef, Speier as SecCommerce.

There's others but I'm sitting at a bus stop to do some investigating.

[Broken_Hero]

38. Holy smokes...

!

[Spitfire of ATJ]

39. I bet this guy griped to the chauffeur all the way back to the mansion.

[reusrename]

40. The only time I have ever agreed with Issa on anything.

"I thank the gentle lady and the time was well spent."

[era veteran]

42. She still serves

Lt Colonel, National Guard, Soldier on.
I thought USMA Prep School at Ft Belvoir VA. I did not know the Point was fishing for football players, that is a Goddamn shame too.
Should be looking for people that want to be Officers.

[MADem]

43. The idiot that ran against Elizabeth Warren touted his career as a "Navy Seal"

He got into the Naval Academy on his tennis-playing skills.

He graduated and went to AVIATION training--which costs a fortune. After a few years of that, he decided he didn't like it and went to SEALS. He defended St. Kitts against all enemies, foreign and domestic. He missed the one big engagement of his time in uniform (Gulf 1) and I have a feeling he was either offered early out in the slash-and-burn drawdown or he failed of selection to 0-4. Nonetheless, he tried to paint himself as a big war hero during his (awful) senate campaign. He was anything but--anyone who still runs around wearing their Navy issue aviation jacket with aviation and SEAL insignia (designed to be worn on the uniform, not as a "candidate's brooch&quot pinned to it in slipshod fashion after having left the service over a decade and a half previously, with no combat deployments, is a bullshitter to me.

Of course, if "the standard" for bullshitting is "I turned my ankle in Academy prep" then I guess Tennis Boy, the Defender of the Caribbean IS a "war hero"....!