Thursday, October 16, 2008
Hypocrisy Watch
Earlier this year, the Tennessean went ape-shit when it learned that U.S. Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-Franklin) was employing her daughter to do fund-rasing stuff for the Blackburn '08 re-election campaign. The Tennessee Democrat Party immediately released a half-dozen j'accuse e-mails and press releases, and then the FEC investigated, and then the corruption-nepotism charge faded away like a sand-drawing at high tide.
Keep all that in mind when you read this:
Democratic vice-presidential candidate Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr. has paid more than $2 million in campaign cash to his family members, their businesses and employers over the years, a practice that watchdogs criticize as rife with potential conflicts of interest.
The money largely flowed from the coffers of Mr. Biden's failed presidential campaign during the past two years to a company that employs his sister and longtime campaign manager, Valerie Biden Owens, according to campaign disclosure filings.
The senator from Delaware also directed campaign legal work to a Washington lobbying and law firm founded by his son R. Hunter Biden, the disclosures show.
The Tennessean ain't said jack-squat about how Joe Biden's repeatedly opened his campaign checkbook(s) to line the pockets of immediate family members. Reckon how come?
I, for one, think it has something to do with hypocrisy and bias. I encourage Creeder Readers to try to prove me wrong.
Keep all that in mind when you read this:
Democratic vice-presidential candidate Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr. has paid more than $2 million in campaign cash to his family members, their businesses and employers over the years, a practice that watchdogs criticize as rife with potential conflicts of interest.
The money largely flowed from the coffers of Mr. Biden's failed presidential campaign during the past two years to a company that employs his sister and longtime campaign manager, Valerie Biden Owens, according to campaign disclosure filings.
The senator from Delaware also directed campaign legal work to a Washington lobbying and law firm founded by his son R. Hunter Biden, the disclosures show.
The Tennessean ain't said jack-squat about how Joe Biden's repeatedly opened his campaign checkbook(s) to line the pockets of immediate family members. Reckon how come?
I, for one, think it has something to do with hypocrisy and bias. I encourage Creeder Readers to try to prove me wrong.
# posted by Joltin' Django @ Thursday, October 16, 2008 
