Purging the felon pensions
Posted by Moonage on 30 Jan 2007 | Tagged as: National Politics
Now, don’t get me wrong. I’m all for this. However, I think things need to be balanced a little better in regards to the underlying issue here. Namely, the Senate voted 87-0 to strip former legislators of their pensions if they have been convicted of a felony. Now, a lot of the media has been quick to cite a couple of recent Republicans and their troubles with the law.
The Democrats€™ return to power in both the House and Senate came after a campaign in which they stressed the €śculture of corruption€ť under GOP rule.
A few other media felt compelled to list the ENTIRE story. When they do, the "culture of corruption" that Nancy Pelosi rode to power on becomes a lot more clear. Here’s who has been collecting those pensions they are purging, the actually proven culture of corruption:
| REPUBLICANS | DEMOCRATS | |||
| Bob Ney | 2016 | Austin J. Murphy | 78,000 | |
| Duke Cunningham | 64,000 | Mary Rose Oakar | 54,000 | |
| John Rowland | 2019 | Dan Rostenkowski | 126,000 | |
| David Durenberger | 86,000 | Joe Kolter | 47,000 | |
| Carroll Hubbard | 61,500 | |||
| Carl Perkins | 24,000 | |||
| Larry Smith | 30,000 | |||
| Albert Bustamante | 23,000 | |||
| Mario Biaggi | 60,000 | |||
| Michael Myers | 8,000 | |||
| Frederick Richmond | 29,000 | |||
| John Murphy | 79,000 | |||
| Count: 2 | 150,000 | Count 12 | 619,500 | |
For some reason, most media isn’t reporting that aspect of the story. And, although Duke Cunningham stands to possibly collect now, those 12 Democrats have been collecting for as long as 20 years. The entire time, not once did Nancy Pelosi complain about the Democrat culture of corruption. Not one, single time. And so far, not one single media source has called her on it.
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on 31 Jan 2007 at 12:19 am 1.University Update said …
Purging the felon pensions