Wednesday, June 22, 2005

Cunningham pushes for jobs outside his district

More about the sordid little affair between Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham and defense contractor Mitchell Wade comes this little tidbit about how Wade essentially threatened employees of his defense contracting firm into giving money to Duke's re-election campaign. Which is illegal, by the way.
They also expressed concerns about Wade's dealings with three House members who received a large portion of the money disbursed by MZM's PAC. The three – all Republicans – are Cunningham and Reps. Virgil Goode of Virginia and Katherine Harris of Florida.

Yes, that Katherine Harris.

MZM has a facility in Goode's rural Virginia district, not far from the Army National Ground Intelligence Center, which is one of MZM's key customers.

MZM is also planning to buy a facility in Harris' district, where it can be close to two of its other customers, the U.S. Central Command and the Special Operations Command, which are in a neighboring congressional district.

Oddly enough, none of these new jobs are slated for Cunningham's district. So he gets paid $700,000, gets to use Wade's yacht, and the people in his district get...what, exactly?

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