CA Voters - Sen. Feinstein Conflict of Interest?

[concerned citizen23]

This must present a very complicated situation:

Perini Corporation: $2.5 Billon awarded 2005 Iraq contract
(Principal shareholder Richard Blum - Sen. Feinstein’s husband - co-owns 75 percent of Perini's voting shares. Sen. Feinstein serves on the Appropriations Committee and the Select Committee on Intelligence.)
http://www.publicintegrity.org/wow/bio.aspx?act=pro&ddlC=45

Profiting from war?

Stock History: Ticker PCR; Chart:
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=PCR&t=5y&l=on&z=m&q=l&c=
Share price: Feb 2003, $3.00 - $4.00 – avg. volume of shares traded p/d 2400
Share price: March 2003, $3.00 - $4.00 – avg. volume of shares traded p/d 8500
Share price: Sept. 13, 2007, $53.90 – avg. volume of shares traded p/d 913,000

Sources:
http://www.publicintegrity.org/wow/bio.aspx?act=pro&fil=IQ

Sen. Feinstein’s Iraq voting record:

H.J. Res 114
October 11, 2002,
Authorize the use of United States Armed Forces against Iraq.
Feinstein (D-CA), Yea
http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=107&session=2&vote=00237

Senate Regrets the Vote to Enter Iraq:
Jan 5, 2007
Knowing Then What It Knows Now, 2002 Senate Would Vote Against Giving President War Powers
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Politics/Story?id=2771519&page=1

In an ABC survey in October 2003:
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=2771576&page=1
Of the 77 Senators who voted to authorize the use of force in Iraq in October 2002:
Along with 27 other Senators Feinstein indicates... would vote differently knowing then what they know now…

Oh Really?
She has consistently voted in support of continued Emergency Iraq Supplemental Spending Bills:

H.R. 1591
April 26, 2007
Iraq emergency supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2007, and for other purposes.
Feinstein (D-CA), Yea
http://senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=110&session=1&vote=00147

What other elected officials owe favors and have possible conflicts of interest?

Who's been funding your Senators and US Representatives that keep voting YEA on Iraq funding?

Some companies raking in the dough with 2005 Iraq contracts; Lockheed Martin $19.4 Billion (2006 contributions: $2.1 mil), Boeing $18.3 Billion (2006 contributions $1.4 mil), General Dynamics $10.6 billion (2006 contributions $1.4 mil), Halliburton $5.8 billion (2004 Contributions $221,249), Perini Corp $2.5 billon (Senator Feinstein’s husband Richard Blum co-owns 75% of Perini voting shares - she serves on the Appropriations Committee), GE $2.2 billion - GE’s $43 billion media portfolio consist of NBC(2006 contributions 2.2 mil). Foreign companies are gobbling up too; about 20 Australian companies won contracts worth $1.9 billion.
http://www.warprofiteers.com/article.php?id=11257

[XemaSab]

1. You forgot URS

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2003/05/11/BU18813.DTL

http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=89381&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=779106&highlight=

http://www.metroactive.com/papers/sonoma/02.02.05/byrne-0505.html

[concerned citizen23]

2. Thanks XemaSab...I'll add URS to my list

[Ignis]

3. This is no surprise to CA voters.

DiFi's been pretty brazen about her hawkishness, and she couldn't blush regarding this obvious conflict of interest if you provided her with rouge.

Nice to see it all spelled out with a timeline and dollar amounts, though. Thanks! :hi:

[concerned citizen23]

4. No Surprise

Agreed...here at DU mostly preaching to the choir.

Can you image the conversation at the dinner table while she tells her husband she pulled the plug on Iraq...that is of course, if she were to actually do so??

[Ignis]

5. I would LOVE to be a fly on the wall for that conversation.

Unfortunately, it's about as likely as the Easter Bunny telling Santa Claus that he's having an affair with the Tooth Fairy.

:)

[Greyhound]

6. Nothing new, DINO Feinstein has been so openly corrupt in her abuse of office

for so long it's almost like she was a Chicago politician, but the voters keep sending her back, so what are ya gonna do?