Everybody keeps referring to when Boehner LITERALLY passed out checks from

[gateley]

the tobacco lobby/industry on the House floor to buy votes.

Is that legal? Why was that allowed to happen?

[JustAnotherGen]

1. I don't know about the legalities

But I did see the actual PBS interview they did with Boehner on it in the mid 1990's.

He's a republican. If it's something 'illegal' all they have to do is say I'm sorry, pray to god, say god bless the USA and off they go on their merry way.

If Grayson or Weiner did something like that? Rallies in Washington by teabaggers, calls for their birth certificates, etc. etc.

[gateley]

2. Whoa - so Boehner actually spoke w/PBS regarding it? I didn't know it was

that out there. I assumed it was something that was talked about, accepted, but he actually acknowledged it? Yikes.

[A-Schwarzenegger]

3. Right here:::::

@ 1:30 ...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAC2xeT2yOg

[JustAnotherGen]

4. Thanks A-S

My company blocks you tube.

[gateley]

5. Thanks for that! I've forwarded it to all my friends. I'm outraged (a little after

the fact, granted :7) that it's not illegal! And I have no doubt he was telling the truth when he said it's a practice that had been going on for a long time.

Why didn't they delve further? WHAT were the checks FOR, Mr. Boehner? Did all that received checks vote in favor of tobacco? (I'm sure we know the answer to that). It just seems so BLATANTLY obvious it's buying votes - and that a U.S. Congressman was THEIR point man!

This absolutely sickens me.