How the Game is Played
From Newsmax.com:
The Pennsylvania Republican lawmaker’s statement was in response to a USA Today report published Thursday which said Specter had succeeded 13 times over the past four years in securing $48.7 million worth of defense projects for six clients represented by a lobbying firm co-founded by Michael Herson.
Herson is the husband of Vicki Siegel Herson, Specter’s legislative assistant for appropriations.
“Ms. Siegel’s husband did not lobby my office. The companies which received the allocations or ‘earmarks’ were represented by other lobbying firms,” Specter said in the statement.
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Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois, a leading Democrat on the lobbying reform issue, said Thursday that there was “reasonably broad consensus around the need to increase transparency,” surrounding the thousands of earmarks that make it into bills every year. He also said that, like all senators, he tries to gain approval of projects that will help his state. “That’s the game that we all play,” he said.
When did getting approval for projects that will “help his state” become the function of government? The “game” of robbing some people for the benefit of others is an assumed status quo.
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