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Date Posted: 13:14:43 01/08/03 Wed
Author: c
Subject: Re: House Ethics Rules Relaxed
In reply to: Leland Gaunt 's message, "Re: House Ethics Rules Relaxed" on 13:07:12 01/08/03 Wed

Do your examples make what the Republicans did today right?


>
> Captain America;
>
> Funny you fail or neglect to mention that House
>Democrats in the era of President Lyndon Baines
>Johnson receieve governmental kickbacks from the War
>On Poverty Program; Johnson pushed through Congress at
>the time.
> Democrats from the depressed areas of West Virginia,
>Virginia, Kentucky and Tennessee got into the act.
>This includes some of the money finding its way to the
>infamous Congressman Adam Clayton Powell (D-New York.
>He ended up soaking rays in the West Indies as he
>escaped and took a powder when Federal Investigators
>went after. Like any other charlatan, a forerunner of
>the likes of Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, he retired
>with an extoic drink in one hand and a 20 year old
>"babe" on his lap in the tropical haven that was his
>new home. Paraphrasing it all; call it as of the old
>televison series was so titled "Adventures In
>Paradise" for Adam.
>
> Leland

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