Sen Di Fi Has Hand In Cookie Jar
SEN. Dianne Feinstein has some issues.
She yells about a US Attorney not doing her job and she yells once the person is fired.
Today the Captain and RW News report that the SEN has a doing as I say not as I do mentality. No bid contracts? Hubby makes money?
As of December 2006, according to SEC filings and www.fedspending.org, three corporations in which Blum’s financial entities own a total of $1 billion in stock won considerable favor from the budgets of the Department of Defense and the Department of Veterans Affairs:
# Boston Scientific Corporation: $17.8 million for medical equipment and supplies; 85 percent of contracts awarded without benefit of competition.
# Kinetic Concepts Inc.: $12 million, medical equipment and supplies; 28 percent noncompetitively awarded.
# CB Richard Ellis: The Blum-controlled international real estate firm holds congressionally funded contracts to lease office space to the Department of Veterans Affairs. It also is involved in redeveloping military bases turned over to the private sector.”
Of course this will be ignored by the ethically superior United States Senate.
Let’s see if the Republicans can find their “Hillary Shrill†voice to scream about the hypocrisy of it all. Apparently that is how the game is supposed to be played although this activity has gone on as long as I have been around.
Soon this will be backburner stuff as the public learns that discretionary spending will increase at least $100 billion for each of the next few years. To pay for it you will see a tiny increase in your personal tax bill – about $3,000 of tiny in California.
No word about Di-Fi’s resignation from the MILCON subcommittee over at New West Notes? We will probably wait as long to read the pontifications on this issue as we have on the Rob Reiner debacle…