The Tom DeLay Ethics Debate: Congressmen Who Live In Glass Houses…
Thank you Some Joe for pointing us to the 10 ten members of congress accepting paid trips from third parties:
John Breaux - Democratic Party - $158,311.92
Robert Wexler - Democratic Party - $155,137.21
Gene Green - Democratic Party - $153,873.02
Maurice Hinchey - Democratic Party - $152,169.25
Cal Dooley - Democratic Party - $148,562.50
Evan Bayh - Democratic Party - $142,884.94
Maxine Waters - Democratic Party - $132,219.23
James Clyburn - Democratic Party - $129,540.79
Philip English - Republican Party - $129,231.54
Jim McDermott - Democratic Party - $128,725.91And for pointing us to this excellent summary from Wizbang:
Democratic Party
Percentage of seats in Congress controlled (currently): 46%
Number of trips for party members: 2729
Total spent on party members: $7,805,362.87
Percentage of total spent on party: 54.3%
Percentage of the top 100 travelers (by cost): 57%Republican Party
Percentage of seats in Congress controlled (currently): 54%
Number of trips for party members: 2095
Total spent on party members: $6,512,990.35
Percentage of total spent on party: 45.3%
Percentage of the top 100 travelers (by cost): 43%Bonus Stat: Tom DeLay comes in a lowly 29th on the list of top 100 Congressional trip takers, though he does score two trips in the top 5 most expensive individual trips.
Even Jim Lampley’s Vegas bookmakers should be able call this one.
Similar Independent Sources posts:
- Democrats Win Hawaii (or Why Its Called the Democratic PARTY): No, we're not referring to the election. Instead, our headline refers to the free, all expenses paid trip to the Pro Bowl in Hawaii given to Democrati ...
- Kerry Speech: We Don’t Need to Change, We Can and Will Lose Again!: The Seattle Post-Intelligence called it a variation of "the operation was a success but the patient died," others weren't so nice. They were referring ...
- “Boxer For President”: Clamor the Republicans!: Seemingly playing into Republican strategies, the only person who could do more damage to the Democratic Party than either Howard Dean as party chairm ...
- NPR Discovers Republicans: A new Pew Research Center study types people into one of nine major political groups. Even NPR couldn't spin the conclusion by Andrew Kohut of Pew:"Th ...
- “Brother Can You Spare a Chad?”: July 1, 2005 To: Jim Lampley Fr: Independent Sources Re: Vote Fraud 2004 Jimbo, you were right. There was vote fraud in the last election. We are ...
May 24th, 2005 at 2:46 pm
Yes, and let’s just forget that he put his family on the payroll, as well as other documented ethical violations. Cut the crap, fellas - Tom let the power trip go to his head. Now he’s going to pay the price.