Congratulations Rep. Roy Blunt! You're The Most Crooked Member Of Congress This Year.
Since 2005, CREW (Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington) has put together a report on the Most Corrupt Members of Congress every year. It's a crowded field, what with Rangel up on ethic charges and Vitter and his diapers, but one name did rise to the top:
Roy Blunt is a candidate in the Republican primary for the United States Senate in Missouri. For the last 14 years, Rep. Blunt has served in the U.S. House of Representatives in the state’s 7th congressional district. As a member of Congress, Rep. Blunt came under fire for a variety of issues including employing the same corrupt tactics that forced his mentor, former Texas Rep. Tom DeLay, to resign. Rep. Blunt’s ethical issues were documented in CREW’s 2006 report on the most corrupt members of Congress.
In 2003, Rep. Blunt divorced his wife of 31 years to marry Philip Morris (now Altria) lobbyist Abigail Perlman. Before it was known publicly that Rep. Blunt and Ms. Perlman were dating – and only hours after Rep. Blunt assumed the role of Majority Whip – he tried to secretly insert a provision into Homeland Security legislation that would have benefitted Philip Morris, at the expense of competitors. Notably, Philip Morris/Altria and its subsidiaries contributed at least $217,000 to campaign committees connected to Rep. Blunt from 1996 to 2006.
Also in 2003, Rep. Blunt helped his son, Andrew Blunt, by inserting a provision into the $79 billion emergency appropriation for the war in Iraq to benefit U.S. shippers like United Parcel Service, Inc. and FedEx Corp. Andrew Blunt lobbied on behalf of UPS in Missouri, and UPS and FedEx contributed at least $58,000 to Rep. Blunt from 2001 to 2006.
Family connections have also helped another of Rep. Blunt’s sons, former Missouri Governor Matt Blunt. Gov. Blunt received campaign contributions from nearly three dozen influential Missouri lobbyists and lawyers when he ran for governor of Missouri in 2004, half of whom had provided financial support to his father. Earlier in 2000, when Matt Blunt was running for Secretary of State, Rep. Blunt was involved in an apparent scheme, along with Rep. DeLay, to funnel money through a local party committee into Matt Blunt’s campaign committee.Rep. Blunt and his staff had close connections to convicted former lobbyist Jack Abramoff. In June 2003, Mr. Abramoff persuaded then-Majority Leader DeLay to organize a letter, co-signed by then-Speaker Dennis Hastert, then-Whip Blunt, and then-Deputy Whip Eric Cantor, which endorsed a view of gambling law benefitting Mr. Abramoff’s client, the Louisiana Coushatta, by blocking gambling competition by another tribe. Mr. Abramoff had donated $8,500 to Rep. Blunt’s leadership PAC, Rely on Your Beliefs.
There are nine others in the report, which includes Democrats Kendrick Meeks and Alvin Greene, "Independent" Charlie Crist and Tea Party favorites Marco Rubio and JD Hayworth.
Gives them something to sit around talking about.
Wasn't there a time people like this were called criminals? This guy makes Rangel look like a piker.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
And yet they will continue to be loved and re-elected by the baggers as long as they continue to hamper and try to destroy the President and the Democratic Party.
Missouri Liberals and Progressives are gonna watch this one.
I'll have the Pâté and a glass of Chardonnay.
...barely balance out the Republican Croft relatives in Kansas City. My grandad, inventor of the trailer hitch and from a Socialist Grange farm family, is rolling over in his grave that his other granddaughters have gone all Teabagger.
"Courtesy is owed. Respect is earned. Love is given." --Unknown author, found in Guide to Texas Etiquette by Kinky Friedman
his campaign is going to be run out of Branson or Vegas.
I guess it's good to set goals. I just wish the people who vote republican would take an honest look at their politicians
...is as likely as getting blood from a turnip.
by smashing their wife's head into a turnip over and over for voting in Barack!
What a shock!
The race in Miami between Garcia and Diaz-Balart back in 2008 seemed to be a contest to find out who the biggest crook. I'm not surprised that all sides are mentioned in that report.
Personally, I'm keeping an eye out for Rudy Moise and Scott Galvin. I'm not in their district, but they look like people who could do some good work for FL.
He's one of the most interesting young Congress members in years.
"Courtesy is owed. Respect is earned. Love is given." --Unknown author, found in Guide to Texas Etiquette by Kinky Friedman
Central and Northern Florida need some strong Democratic voices.
I'll admit I'm only concentrating on South Florida. I'm in FL-19, but Deutsch more concentrated on Boca Raton, so I consider the awesome Debbie Wasserman-Schultz from neighboring FL-20 to be my "real" Rep.
In fact, I think he enjoys kicking sand back in the faces of the GOP thugs and bullies trying to intimidate him. Go for it, Alan!
"We will find fulfillment not in the goods that we have, but in the good we can do for each other."
Robert F. Kennedy
I was born and raised in Kansas City, Missouri. As soon as I was of legal age, I ran from the generational ignorance, abuse, racism, immorality, hypocrisy, corruption and dysfunction that every cattle town in America once exemplified. Not that there weren't many good and decent people living there, but for me, too many of the people there were anything but good and decent. Roy Blunt personifies everything about Missouri I could not tolerate and reminds me not to make the mistake of being nostalgic for a birthplace where I never felt at home.
Mission Hills or on the Sunset Drive (KC's Brentwood).
Let's be Blunt....it's pretty lucrative! It doesn't seem to matter any more if you are corrupt, because you wait it out, and eventually it goes away. No one seems to care. It becomes a way of life.
ljmel
it still hasn't dawned on you that the whole deal of government is fixed for legacy families and their cronies to benefit at the expense of everybody else, I suppose the 2x4 isn't going to help.
between numbers 2 and 300.
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Why is Murtha still on the list?
He's more concerned about finding a cheap and secure place to dock his yacht then he is helping out all us useless eaters out here.
because they have lot's of money. Even though they basically steal it from the poor or each other people think . . "He's a smart and savvy businessman".
this link above - Most Corrupt Members of Congress - had no mention of blunt...
way too many dems though...
That cite about Blunt was taken directly from the article. It's not my writing.
http://www.alternet.org/news/147608/10_of_the...
15% of the people in our wonderfull congress are people who want to do the right thing. I would say most of them have little black books on each other with shit in they that would end there dream of staying in congress for life. The news is bought off and will go after who there masters tell them to go after. Look at the assholes who were living in "The Familey" paying about $600 a month when other people were paying $1500 a month for the place they lived in. Where is the investagtion on this shit. To fix this shit we need Term Limits on these people. Good luck getting that done. Untill people have had shit ramed down there mouth to the point they finley get pissed, nothing will happen. Look at all the shit corporations can do today. Watch TV, look at all the DRUGS pushed every day. Hell, this is the only country in the world that let dairy farmers put grouth hormones in there milk cows, and we push milk on our kids in geade school. Some of you that are "older", rember when you were 10 years old. the 10 year old girls "LOOKED" 10 years old. Look at a 10 year old today. They look more loke 14 or 15. Think the grouth hormones have any think to do with that???? Hell ,the after affects from taking the "legal" drugs will fuck you up more that what makes you sick. People like blunt live to help there corporate masters do what ever they want. They will continue this untill people of America get tired of there shit. Untill then, we are fucked.
What's his slogan, "Live short and don't prosper?"
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
Blunt is so very smarmy it's hard to imagine anyone being close. Take a look at those eyes. He's as hard as nails. This is a pretty backward state, and he exemplifies all that is wrong with politics here.
That's no #2, friend!
And you'll be delighted to know that you'll also be receiving the Karl Rove/Lee Atwater Serve-Us award for conspicuous selfishness, deception, and hubris!
Best of all, when the time comes, you'll be personally greeted by Lucifer himself to congratulate you on a job well done in his behalf!
Enjoy!
"We will find fulfillment not in the goods that we have, but in the good we can do for each other."
Robert F. Kennedy
That would be either the 8th or 9th level of hell.
Congratulate me, I just made 7:
http://www.4degreez.com/misc/dante-inferno-te...
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GK7CLXHSr1M
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
What a surprise, my Congressman Ken "I was counseling that hooker in the front seat of my car, officer" Calvert made the list again. We're doing what we can to get rid of him but part of our district is in Orange County where the expression "Beware of the power of stupid people in large numbers" was never truer.
Vote for Bill Hedrick for Congress.
Let's see how far to the right they go before they fall off of the edge of this flat world.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VU3JrXt_cPk
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
The Rangel, release was Political and sprung on Rangel, why?
These Vitters, Blunt and Ensin's have been covered up and passed by, WHY?
We had no Ehtics Committee, anywhere in the 110th Republican controlled Congress and now Nancy and Democrats have delievered on Oversight and Accountability, a little... but why no Republicans, who we all know are in DEEP ehtics trouble, WHY?
Ministerbruce
Working for the government has been very very good to Roy Blunt. I wonder what the Tea Baggers think about this and any word from Sarah Palin on this? Do I hear crickets?
I have been telling people since he helped grt his son elected that this guy was crooked, I am glad there are people out there that keep an eye on these peopl. He has the nerve to be running attack ads on TV here in Missouri talking about his opponent rubberstamping Obama's agenda when he did exactly that under Bush. Now that's the pot calling the kettle black.
was one of the worst Governors that Missouri has ever had....and that's really saying something because we've had some really awful ones. They sure are big outstate, though. And since Missouri is really pretty much ALL outstate, they have thrived. Kind of makes me want to throw up.
Man, that's like being voted "most drunk wino".
Or being lectured in a Margaret Wade kind of screechy and annoying way about big government spending after one was briefly governor of a small state with the most earmarks of any.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
Now, when the GOPS point to the evils of Charlie Rangel, we have someone to throw up to them.
"Respect for the rights of others is peace." --Benito Juarez
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-emQAsGMeQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvMduWKHNpY
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That you are a crook.....what's with those folks, you'd think the women of the state would turn on this weasel for the way he unceremoniously dumped his wife
Another example of a family that has made millions off of their association with government and should be weaned from the government teet.
'We, the People'............rimshot................hahahahahaha!
pint-sized crooks with comb-overs is just the sort of thing that goes over here in Missouri. The more crooked the better, as long as they profess to love Jaysussssss and the American flag. He's running against a Carnahan, who is a pretty good politician and a really cool lady. I'll be interested to see how this one plays out.
Listen to the first ad Blunt's campaign ran you wouldn't even know he had been in Congress. It's all about how his parents were farmers and how he was a teacher and through education he worked his way up to be President of a University (doesn't mention which one). All soft, all folksy, wearing the shirt without the tie. Just wants to return us to an America where education and hard work means something. Hypocrite.
The newer one, aimed toward the general election is the mean Blunt. Somehow tarring Robin Carnahan because the President said at a recent rally that she would be a vote for him and his policies. Roy Blunt on the other hand will vote for the People of Missouri. No, the lobbyists, he'd vote for the lobbyists. Why can't the people get this through their heads?
It is just as bad here in Kansas. Brownback is keeping his 2 terms as Senator pledge so he is running for Governor (maybe that pledge should have been to never run for another office again) and the two Republican Congressmen, Moran and Tihart are tearing each other apart to get Brownback's Senate seat. Each one has accused the other of being soft on immigration; of supporting taxes, of favoring terrorists. It is just nuts. Then whichever of them loses the Senatorial nomination runs for reelection as Congressman. This is just not sane!
Would someone explain to me why people who have nothing keep putting these smug rich guys back in office?
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