Pete Sessions's blimp flies into storm (R-Texas)

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Politico 7/30/09
Pete Sessions's blimp flies into storm
Rep. Pete Sessions — the chief of the Republicans’ campaign arm in the House — says on his website that earmarks have become "a symbol of a broken Washington to the American people."

Yet in 2008, Sessions himself steered a $1.6 million earmark for dirigible research to an Illinois company whose president acknowledges having no experience in government contracting, let alone in building blimps.

What the company did have: the help of Adrian Plesha, a former Sessions aide with a criminal record who has made more than $446,000 lobbying on its behalf.

Sessions spokeswoman Emily Davis defends the airship project as a worthwhile use of federal funds and says it could eventually lead to thousands of new jobs in Sessions’s Dallas-area district.

But the company that received the earmarked funds, Jim G. Ferguson & Associates, is based in the suburbs of Chicago, with another office in San Antonio — nearly 300 miles from Dallas. And while Sessions used a Dallas address for the company when he submitted his earmark request to the House Appropriations Committee last year, one of the two men who control the company says that address is merely the home of one of his close friends.

What a grammstander! Full of the hubris embodied by Phil Gramm. :puke:

Of course none of us Ds in Texas ever believed that streaky Pete was a different kind of repuke. They're all hypocrites.


Sonia

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1. Town Hall Meeting North Dallas "Cong. Pete Session"

Congressman Pete Session town hall meeting

Wednesday, August 5th 2009
7PM-8:30PM
Richardson Civic Center/City Hall
Richardson, TX

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2. Welcome to DU okzion!

:hi:


Excellent opportunity to ask streaky Pete about blimps. :evilgrin:

Sonia