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Wednesday, October 01, 2008

Nancy Pelosi Caught Paying Her Husband With Political Contributions

Another “hope and change” moment brought to you by the “most ethical Congress in history.”

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has directed nearly $100,000 from her political action committee to her husband’s real estate and investment firm over the past decade, a practice of paying a spouse with political donations that she supported banning last year.

Financial Leasing Services Inc. (FLS), owned by Paul F. Pelosi, has received $99,000 in rent, utilities and accounting fees from the speaker’s “PAC to the Future” over the PAC’s nine-year history.

The payments have quadrupled since Mr. Pelosi took over as treasurer of his wife’s committee in 2007, Federal Election Commission records show. FLS is on track to take in $48,000 in payments this year alone - eight times as much as it received annually from 2000 to 2005, when the committee was run by another treasurer.

The sad part?  The media won’t even care.  Nancy’s a liberal, so this sort of thing ok.

But the nation’s reporters had better not catch a Republican trying to pull a stunt like this.  Not that it’d be acceptable of a Republican did it.

Comments

So far I can only find this on Fox and in the Washington Times.

Checked CNN. Nope.

Yahoo!News. Nuh-uh.

Washington Post. Zip.

New York Times. Nothing.

This would be front page screaming headlines if it were a Republican - or even a Democrat who doesn’t toe the party line.


The future ain’t what it used to be.....

Pilgrim on October 1, 2008 at 07:48 am

Thanks for getting this one on the front page, Rob!


Save America; boycott the MSM.

robert108 on October 1, 2008 at 08:33 am

cnn has away of filtering their news in a very biased way.  don’t expect to hear anything about it there.  they are loaded with left wing bloggers.  don’t forget they are the most respected network in broadcasting.  doesn’t say much for the media.

can franchiser on October 1, 2008 at 08:44 am

Grrr.

I hate to say this, but there is probably no there there.

Paul Pelosi is OLD money San Francisco.  To say he is comfortable would be a severe understatement.  Nancy Patricia Pelosi ne D’Alesandro is from the Baltimore Political Machine were her father (Thomas D’Alesandro, Jr.) had been Mayor and a Congressman.

Over the period the article mentions that’s not out of line for San Francisco Financial District office space and professional fees.  It actually looks like a low ball figure to me.

Sorry, but that well’s going to come up dry.

The well that has something in it, that no one will touch, is Senator Feinstein and the federal funds which went to her husband’s firm (Bluth Construction).


Out Here
Rodney G. Graves

Ceterum censeo Parthia esse delendam
Latin: “Furthermore, Parthia (Persia aka modern day Iran) should be destroyed.”

Rodney Graves on October 1, 2008 at 08:50 am

MOST ETHICAL CONGRESS EVER!!!!  What a joke.

doonuts on October 1, 2008 at 09:33 am

The Democrat culture of corruption has come home to roost

Mickey on October 1, 2008 at 10:26 am
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