posted by Brett @ Thursday, January 11, 2007
Thursday, January 11, 2007
I've got to give a hand to the Democrats: some of their first political moves haven't been to shabby or reactionary. They've just recently passed an ethics bill disallowing politicians from receiving gifts or private flights from lobbyists. And two of the next issues on line are curtailing the growth of earmarks and introducing ways to balance the deficit. Tackling these issues is a great way to start building up public trust in this post-Abramoff/Cunningham era before transitioning to the larger reforms that they have in mind.
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The problem is that they passed a minimum wage bill that exempted American Samoa...The largest lobby in American Samoa against the minimum wage bill was StarKist (Chicken of the Sea, etc.). Which, of course, is a subsidiary of SunKist, whose corporate headquarters is located naturally in San Fransisco. Innocent enough, except that the headquarters is actually in Nancy Pelosi's district...
Damnit, I knew the Democrats were as crooked as the Republicans, but I figured it would be at least 6 months before anything came up. Even if Pelosi honestly wasn't lobbied in this bill, it's her responsibility to go out-of-the-way to make sure that there aren't perceived conflicts of interests, ESPECIALLY in the first week! And, moreover, ESPECIALLY after the Dems ran on ethics reform in the last election!
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