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Jorge
06-18-2007, 08:28 AM
http://www.capitolhillblue.com/cont/node/2733

What to do with kin on the payroll

By DOUG THOMPSON

Memo to all those partisans who claims their party is better than the other guys or the cult of the gullible who think Ron Paul is a political messiah: Your bubbles have been burst once again.

A new study by Citizens for Responsibility & Ethics in Washington (CREW), a non-partisan activist group, found that 72 members of Congress diverted some $5.1 million in campaign funds to their relatives, or companies owned by their relatives, over the past six years.

The list includes 41 Republicans and 31 Democrats. It also includes rabid John Bircher Ron Paul, the laughable GOP candidate for President who, for reasons that defy even the normal silliness of politics, has become a poster child for both Libertarians and so-called "progressives."

Paul arranged for more than $175,000 of his campaign funds to be siphoned off to relatives -- $163,890 for his daughter alone - in a fundraising Ponzi scheme that sure beats having to pay the kids an allowance out of his own pocket.

The practice of putting your kin on your payroll is an old one in Washington. Former Democratic Speaker of the House Tom Foley hired his wife to be his chief of staff and other members put their girlfriends and boyfriends on the public dole. Rep. Dan Burton, the bombastic Republican from Indiana, put his mistress on both the public and campaign payroll at the same time - a practice he ended only after the Justice Department launched an investigation.

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LizF
06-18-2007, 08:33 AM
Hi Jorge, welcome to the forum.

Feel free to join our rant over here: http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?t=3531

Kuldebar
06-18-2007, 12:06 PM
Paul, a populist opportunist who tailors his campaigns to the whim of the day, has generated an aggressive following among the tin-foil hat community who like to flood web sites with email and dominate discussion boards with claims that the long-shot candidate is the Next Big Thing in Presidential politics.

emphasis added...

LOL That particular part is really over the top, enough so to cast a big stink cloud of doubt over every other single word in the rant.

As for the John Birch Society comment that follows, so what? The Birch Society has continually been smeared with the racist label largely due to the fact that it has been around a long time and the issue of forced racial integration did merit opposition from principled constitutionalists and, yes, racists alike.

But in the world of rational thought, that doesn't make the two the same.

Bryan
06-18-2007, 08:42 PM
Doug inaccurately refers to the actives as a "Ponzi scheme":

Ponzi scheme: An investment swindle in which high profits are promised from fictitious sources and early investors are paid off with funds raised from later ones.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/Ponzi%20scheme


The piece also refers to the "public dole" yet only the study in question only refers to private money where no public money is used.


Uses the following ad hominem attacks:
"laughable GOP candidate"
"tin-foil hat community"

Attempts to belittle Dr. Paul's chances for success:
"long-shot candidate "