Qtec
04-05-2011, 04:42 AM
What budget crisis????????????
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><span style='font-size: 26pt'>Scott Walker Gives $81,500 Government Job To Top Donor’s 26-Year-Old College Dropout Son</span>
Since taking office in January, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) has stripped public workers of their collective bargaining rights, proposed wage cuts to local government employees, and insisted that his “state is broke” and that its public workers are overpaid. But Walker applies a different standard to himself.
Today, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reveals that Walker is using state funds to pay more than <span style='font-size: 26pt'>$81,500 a year to the 26-year-old son of a major campaign donor with no college degree and two drunken-driving convictions.</span>
Despite having almost no management experience, UW Madison college dropout Brian Deschane now oversees state environmental and regulatory issues and manages dozens of Commerce Department employees. <span style='font-size: 26pt'>After only two months on the job, Deschane has already received a 26 percent pay raise and a promotion.</span> </div></div>
How about that other conservative cost cutting hero of the right?
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> <span style='font-size: 20pt'>Gov. Chris Christie’s back must be feeling pretty good.
The Auditor has learned that when a spot opened on the state Board of Chiropractic Examiners, Christie chose someone he knows well: <u>his personal chiropractor, David Allen.
</u></span>
Allen has since been confirmed. But the Senate Judiciary Committee, which is tasked with vetting candidates for various boards and commissions, <span style='font-size: 14pt'>didn’t know Allen had the governor as a client.
“I guess in the interests of full disclosure, the governor could have told us,</span>” said Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Nicholas Scutari (D-Union). “Why not? <span style='font-size: 26pt'>He got his personal driver on the parole board,</span>” referring to <span style='font-size: 26pt'>Christie’s campaign driver, Allen Delvento, who earns $116,500 for a spot on the parole board.</span> </div></div>
Deep down they are all honest...right?
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Issa Falsely Claims He Ended Earmark Requests Benefiting His Real Estate After Purchase
Last week, ThinkProgress broke a story revealing that Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) placed nearly $1 million in earmarks potentially benefiting real estate property that he owns. <span style='font-size: 26pt'>In early 2008, Issa publicly listed a multi-million earmark improvement on West Vista Way in Vista, California. Later that year, Issa purchased a $16.6 million medical office building on the same road where he had requested an earmark. He made the purchase with the knowledge that the earmark was pending, then finalized the deal before slipping the earmark into an Omnibus spending bill.</span>
On Saturday, Jeff McDonald at the San Diego Union-Tribune published an article about the controversy. Reached for comment, Issa’s spokesman Frederick Hill called ThinkProgres “part of a left-wing attack machine.” However, in his next statement to McDonald, Issa’s spokesman appeared to concede that the earmark represented a conflict of interest:
“Representative Issa started making requests for West Vista Way in 2006,” Hill said. “After he bought the building, he didn’t make any more requests. The allegation by Think Progress is patently false.”
By claiming that the Issa consciously “didn’t make any more [earmark] requests” to improve the West Vista Road after the building purchase, Issa’s spokesman is tacitly acknowledging that the earmark would financially benefit Issa’s real estate, and that such earmark is unethical.
In fact, Issa did continue earmarking to improve the road leading to his office building after the purchase was made. </div></div> read it (http://thinkprogress.org/2011/04/04/issa-responds-earmark-scandal/)
So, all in all, the new dynamic Cons, the darlings of the TP and the foolish, are a bunch of lying crooks.
Q
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><span style='font-size: 26pt'>Scott Walker Gives $81,500 Government Job To Top Donor’s 26-Year-Old College Dropout Son</span>
Since taking office in January, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) has stripped public workers of their collective bargaining rights, proposed wage cuts to local government employees, and insisted that his “state is broke” and that its public workers are overpaid. But Walker applies a different standard to himself.
Today, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reveals that Walker is using state funds to pay more than <span style='font-size: 26pt'>$81,500 a year to the 26-year-old son of a major campaign donor with no college degree and two drunken-driving convictions.</span>
Despite having almost no management experience, UW Madison college dropout Brian Deschane now oversees state environmental and regulatory issues and manages dozens of Commerce Department employees. <span style='font-size: 26pt'>After only two months on the job, Deschane has already received a 26 percent pay raise and a promotion.</span> </div></div>
How about that other conservative cost cutting hero of the right?
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> <span style='font-size: 20pt'>Gov. Chris Christie’s back must be feeling pretty good.
The Auditor has learned that when a spot opened on the state Board of Chiropractic Examiners, Christie chose someone he knows well: <u>his personal chiropractor, David Allen.
</u></span>
Allen has since been confirmed. But the Senate Judiciary Committee, which is tasked with vetting candidates for various boards and commissions, <span style='font-size: 14pt'>didn’t know Allen had the governor as a client.
“I guess in the interests of full disclosure, the governor could have told us,</span>” said Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Nicholas Scutari (D-Union). “Why not? <span style='font-size: 26pt'>He got his personal driver on the parole board,</span>” referring to <span style='font-size: 26pt'>Christie’s campaign driver, Allen Delvento, who earns $116,500 for a spot on the parole board.</span> </div></div>
Deep down they are all honest...right?
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Issa Falsely Claims He Ended Earmark Requests Benefiting His Real Estate After Purchase
Last week, ThinkProgress broke a story revealing that Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) placed nearly $1 million in earmarks potentially benefiting real estate property that he owns. <span style='font-size: 26pt'>In early 2008, Issa publicly listed a multi-million earmark improvement on West Vista Way in Vista, California. Later that year, Issa purchased a $16.6 million medical office building on the same road where he had requested an earmark. He made the purchase with the knowledge that the earmark was pending, then finalized the deal before slipping the earmark into an Omnibus spending bill.</span>
On Saturday, Jeff McDonald at the San Diego Union-Tribune published an article about the controversy. Reached for comment, Issa’s spokesman Frederick Hill called ThinkProgres “part of a left-wing attack machine.” However, in his next statement to McDonald, Issa’s spokesman appeared to concede that the earmark represented a conflict of interest:
“Representative Issa started making requests for West Vista Way in 2006,” Hill said. “After he bought the building, he didn’t make any more requests. The allegation by Think Progress is patently false.”
By claiming that the Issa consciously “didn’t make any more [earmark] requests” to improve the West Vista Road after the building purchase, Issa’s spokesman is tacitly acknowledging that the earmark would financially benefit Issa’s real estate, and that such earmark is unethical.
In fact, Issa did continue earmarking to improve the road leading to his office building after the purchase was made. </div></div> read it (http://thinkprogress.org/2011/04/04/issa-responds-earmark-scandal/)
So, all in all, the new dynamic Cons, the darlings of the TP and the foolish, are a bunch of lying crooks.
Q