Murtha's Culture of Corruption

Last June, the Los Angeles Times reported how the ranking member on the defense appropriations subcommittee has a brother, Robert Murtha, whose lobbying firm represents 10 companies that received more than $20 million from last year's defense spending bill. 'Clients of the lobbying firm KSA Consulting -- whose top officials also include former congressional aide Carmen V. Scialabba, who worked for Rep. Murtha as a congressional aide for 27 years -- received a total of $20.8 million from the bill,' the L.A. Times reported...In early 2004, according to Roll Call, Mr. Murtha 'reportedly leaned on U.S. Navy officials to sign a contract to transfer the Hunters Point Shipyard to the city of San Francisco.' Laurence Pelosi, nephew of House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, at the time was an executive of the company which owned the rights to the land. The same article also reported how Mr. Murtha has been behind millions of dollars worth of earmarks in defense appropriations bills that went to companies owned by the children of fellow Pennsylvania Democrat, Rep. Paul Kanjorski...., Jack Murtha and the 'Culture of Corruption', Front Page magazine, 6/23/2006

It's a tough break when even the lefty coast rag, The LA Times won't let a fellow lib off the hook which, incidentally, rhymes with crook,. Kudos to Front Page and to the LA Times for publishing this. Read it all. You may join the chorus:

Oh, those Democrats!
Every time they see a monster in the mirror,
they swear it's a Republican,
but damn, Jack Murtha,great warrior senator,
that mirror image you see is you!
That's right; that image is you!
And that feeling inside, that fear?
It's you, wanting to break the mirror!

Luther