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PA Republican Is Sleeping With Airline Lobbyist, Blames 'Liberal Media'
Congressman Bill Shuster, a Pennsylvania Republican who chairs the House Committee on Transportation, admitted to Politico yesterday that he has a “private and personal relationship” with a woman who works as a lobbyist for the airline industry. His staff is working on a bill that would reform the Federal Aviation Administration to the industry’s liking. But none of that, Shuster insists, is an ethical party foul or a conflict of interest.
Politico reported yesterday that Shuster is dating Shelley Rubino, who for the past three years has been the vice president for Global Government Affairs at Airlines for America. According to Open Secrets, A4A gave Shuster $10,000 in the 2014 election cycle. The Associated Press reports he received $128,350 in total airline industry donations.
It’s money well spent: Every several years, Congress has to re-authorize the FAA, a process they’re working on now. One of A4A’s main goals this time around is persuading them to reduce federal regulation and taxation of the airline industry. And what do you know: Shuster’s currently sponsoring a bill that would privatize the FAA.
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As for Shuster the Younger, he’s now decrying the attack on his love life as the work of the opposition, calling it “the liberal media coming after conservatives.” Politico points out that besides his own relationship with Rubino, Shuster’s personal office chief of staff, Eric Burgeson, is also married to an A4A employee, Christine Burgeson, the senior vice president of government relations. That, too, is probably the work of the liberal media. They get in everywhere.
Jezebel
Politico reported yesterday that Shuster is dating Shelley Rubino, who for the past three years has been the vice president for Global Government Affairs at Airlines for America. According to Open Secrets, A4A gave Shuster $10,000 in the 2014 election cycle. The Associated Press reports he received $128,350 in total airline industry donations.
It’s money well spent: Every several years, Congress has to re-authorize the FAA, a process they’re working on now. One of A4A’s main goals this time around is persuading them to reduce federal regulation and taxation of the airline industry. And what do you know: Shuster’s currently sponsoring a bill that would privatize the FAA.
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As for Shuster the Younger, he’s now decrying the attack on his love life as the work of the opposition, calling it “the liberal media coming after conservatives.” Politico points out that besides his own relationship with Rubino, Shuster’s personal office chief of staff, Eric Burgeson, is also married to an A4A employee, Christine Burgeson, the senior vice president of government relations. That, too, is probably the work of the liberal media. They get in everywhere.
Jezebel
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