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Written by Joe Carroll
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Wednesday, 18 July 2007 |
DOOLITTLE DOINGS – If our congressman were to opt not to seek a 10th term next year or get defeated if he does run, his annual pension would amount to as much as $64,000. I gathered this much after reading a recent article published by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW).
This outfit says that despite the fact that ex-Congressman Randy “Duke”
Cunningham is doing prison time for being a crook, he still gets a
taxpayer-funded retirement pension of $64,000 per year. Since
Cunningham and JTD were both initially elected in 1990, I figure John’s
due to get the same retirement that the Duke gets. And don’t forget
that JTD undoubtedly has a comfortable pension awaiting him from the
decade he spent in the State Senate, which he left just as the voters
approved term limits for legislators and simultaneously halted
legislative pensions...
Lots of Doolittle news in the big papers these
days. Stories about how his fundraising has decreased, which is
understandable since he’s under investigation for his dealings with
crooked lobbyist Jack Abramoff and he’s no longer a member of the House
majority. He’s also been forced off the House Appropriations Committee,
the cash cow of Congress that keeps on giving. So weak has been John’s
fundraising that Charlie Brown, the Democrat who almost beat him last
November, has more money in the till than the incumbent. Of course, JTD
keeps shelling out big bucks to lawyers specializing in white collar
criminal defense – and paying his wife Julie for her past herculean
fundraising work for her hubby – and this undoubtedly accounts for a
lot of his poor cash balance. And he’s “clarifying” recent news stories
that depicted him as distancing himself from President Bush’s Iraq War
policies. John now says he has not abandoned the president or the Bush
approach to the war. So much for Good Ol’ John today.
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