Cunningham, defense contractor have more ties(in addition to yacht & home)

[Robbien]

The web of connections between Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham and a defense contractor continued to grow Friday, as did questions about the relationship between the contractor and the congressman.

Newly discovered information Friday showed that a subcommittee on which the North County Republican served last year authorized a $100,000 federal grant to a foundation controlled by the contractor, a foundation for which Cunningham's wife and one of his daughters serve on an advisory council.

The disclosures about the foundation's connection to Cunningham are the latest in a series of revelations about the relationship between Cunningham and the contractor, whose company has received millions in defense contracts. Cunningham serves on a House subcommittee that controls military expenditures.

. . .

The federal grant that came into question Friday involves a subcommittee on which Cunningham served and The Sure Foundation Inc., with which the Wade and Cunningham families are involved.

Wade is the treasurer of the foundation. Wade's wife, Christine Wade, is president emeritus of the foundation. Cunningham's wife, Nancy Cunningham, and one of his daughters, April, sit on the advisory council for the foundation, which raises money to help refugee children. Congressional records show the House Appropriations Committee's District of Columbia subcommittee, on which Cunningham served as vice chairman last year, in October authorized a $100,000 grant to The Sure Foundation.

http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2005/06/18/news/top_stories/61705200838.txt

[slay]

1. Republicans = Corrupt money whores

You know I'm right. :P

[nadinbrzezinski]

2. remember folks the Duke is very much in bed

with that other upstanding and honest Member of Congress, Tom Delay... (I even managed to type this almost all the way without breaking into hysterical laughter), now be honest, you think the Duke will truly be investigated if his budy the bugman has anything to say 'bout this?

[tanyev]

6. Maybe that's where he got the idea to draw his wife and daughter

into the dirty dealings, too. Republican pimps.

[punpirate]

3. Just for background on this...

... Chalmers Johnson wrote a scathing assessment of the Duke on Sep. 14, 2004 on TomDispatch:

http://www.tomdispatch.com/index.mhtml?pid=1818

Cronyism at its best. That's what the Duke stands for.

[teryang]

4. great article

lays out the structual inequity in one "rotten borough."

[habitual]

5. Corrupt Corrupt Corrupt To The CORE

He must be defeated by attaching to him permanently the word CORRUPT

he is being very exposed and seems to be the walls are falling on him faster than he can run now! CORRUPT bastard.

Man these republicans are so CORRUPT. They are so strongly tied to corporate interests that we are in BIG TROUBLE. America better do something when we have the chance again in 2006!

This CORRUPTION is really destabilizing the country in many very serious ways. Their greed is killing our present but particularly our future.

[DrZeeLit]

7. Randy "Duke" Cunningham has always been slime.

I worked for an very reputable speaker's forum in San Diego and had to deal with his office and Duncan Hunter's. Both staffs were reprehensible, high-handed, and pain-in-the-ass. You would have thought they were rock stars or something -- the "stuff" they needed and the concessions they wanted if they would come to speak.

I always found that if the staff were a bunch of armpits, the elected official was even more so -- demanding, jr hi mentality. And converse was also true. I met a lot of GREAT politicians, on both sides of the aisle -- gracious, "real" people. One of the Repubs I did admire for being a "real" guy -- Alan Simpson. We did a really HUGE event around the Simpson/Mazzolia Immigration bill. Simpson and Mazzoli were awesome.

And to tell the truth, from time to time, Biden would speak and we all loved him. He's a very personable guy. Which I think gets him in trouble, because he wants to please everyone. But that's another story.

As far as Randy "Duke" Cunningham -- the sense of entitlement, snobbery and smarminess was horrible. YUCK. ... I felt slimed every time I had to pick up the phone and deal with him.

[DrZeeLit]

8. Randy "Duke" Cunningham has always been slime.

I worked for an very reputable speaker's forum in San Diego and had to deal with his office and Duncan Hunter's. Both staffs were reprehensible, high-handed, and pain-in-the-ass. You would have thought they were rock stars or something -- the "stuff" they needed and the concessions they wanted if they would come to speak.

I always found that if the staff were a bunch of armpits, the elected official was even more so -- demanding, jr hi mentality. And converse was also true. I met a lot of GREAT politicians, on both sides of the aisle -- gracious, "real" people. One of the Repubs I did admire for being a "real" guy -- Alan Simpson. We did a really HUGE event around the Simpson/Mazzolia Immigration bill. Simpson and Mazzoli were awesome.

And to tell the truth, from time to time, Biden would speak and we all loved him. He's a very personable guy. Which I think gets him in trouble, because he wants to please everyone. But that's another story.

As far as Randy "Duke" Cunningham -- the sense of entitlement, snobbery and smarminess was horrible. YUCK. ... I felt slimed every time I had to pick up the phone and deal with him.