Taser Free!! 20 Most Corrupt Members of Congress - 16 Repubs, 4 Dems. From CREW

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CREW releases "Beyond DeLay:

The 22 Most Corrupt Members of Congress
(and two to watch)"

Submitted by crew on 18 September 2007 - 9:20am. Beyond DeLay
Grabbed it here

Today, CREW released its third annual report on the most corrupt members of Congress entitled Beyond DeLay: The 22 Most Corrupt Members of Congress (and two to watch). This encyclopedic report on corruption in the 110th Congress documents the egregious, unethical and possibly illegal activities of the most tainted members of Congress. CREW has compiled the members’ transgressions and analyzed them in light of federal laws and congressional rules.

CREW also has re-launched the report’s tandem website, www.beyonddelay.org. The site offers short summaries of each member’s transgressions as well as the full-length profiles and all accompanying exhibits. Over the next couple weeks, Citizens Blogging will profile the members who made the list, although many will continue to show up in our daily posts because they are making news.


The Winner!!! Sen. Pete Domenici (R-NM).
Here's looking at you Pete!

The 22 Most Corrupt Members of Congress are:

• Sen. Pete V. Domenici (R-NM)
• Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY)
• Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK)
• Sen. Ted Stevens (R-AK)
• Rep. Ken Calvert (R-CA)
• Rep. John T. Doolittle (R-CA)
• Rep. Tom Feeney (R-FL)
• Rep. Doc Hastings (R-WA)
• Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-CA)
• Rep. William J. Jefferson (D-LA)
• Rep. Jerry Lewis (R-CA)
• Rep. Gary G. Miller (R-CA)
• Rep. Alan B. Mollohan (D-WV)
• Rep. Timothy F. Murphy (R-PA)
• Rep. John P. Murtha (D-PA)
• Rep. Steve Pearce (R-NM)
• Rep. Rick Renzi (R-AZ)
• Rep. Harold Rogers (R-KY)
• Rep. David Scott (D-GA)
• Rep. Jerry Weller (R-IL)
• Rep. Heather A. Wilson (R-NM)
• Rep. Don Young (R-AK)

The two to watch are:

• Sen. Larry E. Craig (R-ID)
• Sen. David Vitter (R-LA)

[TomInTib]

1. So, like, I should care?

Hell with that, I'm off to a taser thread.

Seriously, though, that list should be nailed to the doors of both Houses of Congress.

[eppur_se_muova]

2. Evoking images of Martin Luther ... would Congresscritters get the hint? nt

[TomInTib]

3. Nah, you would probably...

get tasered for carrying the hammer.

Dear God, forgive me. I just couldn't stop myself.

[eppur_se_muova]

28. "Stop that man -- he's packing HARDWARE!" nt

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30. Clue

Expand my sig line pic of Gore. Look closely, very closely at his right hand upheld...

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4. Nail it to the door, great idea...but how about

...taser it to the door, or give these 20 a fee taser, let 'em go at it;)

[Lone_Star_Dem]

5. I'm thrilled to see this one is Texas free!

Quick reminder: Don't forget to check out each name at the link for a full list of what they've done.

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8. OK shoot me but I can't resist...

That's less a comment on Texas than it is an indictment of the rest of us.

:evilgrin:
:spank:

[Lone_Star_Dem]

9. At least that puts me on more even footing with the rest of the US

I'm an optimist to the end. :P

[Orsino]

34. Can it be that Texas' culture of corruption has become corrupted?

Are they now too lazy to stay bought?

I don't want to slight Texans in general, mind you, but the Lone Star Lege is legendarily corrupt.

On edit: Ah, but that's at the State level, and I guess the really big money is in national office.

[roguevalley]

6. I want you to know that ALASKA WINS! OUR ENTIRE DELEGATION

TO CONGRESS IS ON THAT LIST! SO THERE, FORTY-NINE OTHER STATES THAT CAN'T SAY THE SAME THING!!!!

:evilgrin:

[TomInTib]

7. Now THERE'S some bragging rights!

I live in the most populous State in the Union and we only placed five.

You guys are damned efficient.

[roguevalley]

35. We are. We have more land and little people so the complex

mathematics of this: three times FBI divided by Veco minus hulk ties and illegal land purchases equals screwed.

:D

[Blue_In_AK]

24. WE ROCK!! n/t

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

10. The interesting word is "most".

Which leaves a lot of wiggle room and "not as bad" for the 513 lesser criminals.

“America is a nation without a distinct criminal class...with the possible exception of Congress." - Mark Twain

[Pawel K]

11. Why John Murtha?

What did I miss?

[Lone_Star_Dem]

13. Read the report - link below

http://www.beyonddelay.org/summaries/murtha.php

[valerief]

12. Thanks. I had to step back 10 feet to read this msg, though. nt

[MiniMe]

14. They left out Ted Stevens? CREW is slipping

[RedEarth]

16. He 's on the list

The 22 Most Corrupt Members of Congress are:

• Sen. Pete V. Domenici (R-NM)
• Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY)
• Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK)
• Sen. Ted Stevens (R-AK)

[MiniMe]

19. Thanks, missed him

Alaska politics seem to be the most corrupt int he states. They have 2 senators and 1 rep, and they are all on the list.

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22. That got me looking. Ted's gotta be there;) There's a reason.

The Alaska Democrats are the first party to openly call election fraud on an election, 2004.
You probably know the story better than I do, but they spoke up and they had a good case.

That's some difference. You get elected that way, if there was fraud, and the sky is the limit
once you get the nation's capitol. Or maybe, the dreadful corrupting rating indicates a
predisposition to be "on the take" etc.

I remember Alaska Sen. Greuning, who voted against the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution. He and Sen Wayne
Morse, OR - both Republicans.

http://tinyurl.com/ywuplh
According to the Division of Elections' vote reports that were produced by the state's Diebold computer system and are posted on the Division's official web site, a far larger number of votes were cast than the official totals reported in the statewide summary. In the case of President George Bush’s votes, the district-by-district totals add up to 292,267, but his official total was only 190,889, a difference of 101,378 votes. In the U.S. Senate race, Lisa Murkowski received 226,992 votes in the district-by-district totals, but her official total was only 149,446, a difference of 77,546 votes.

[Critters2]

15. Yep, there he is..the asshole who "represents" me.

Jerry Weller. Friend to the wealthy.

[Orsino]

33. Mine, too.

David Scott seems only to be a tax evader, though, rather than someone engineering legislation for personal gain (my main definition of "corrupt"). I'm more outraged by his stupid support for anti-gay legislation.

[siri2k]

17. K&R!!

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23. Thanks!

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[KoKo]

18. K&R... and as much as I like Murtha...it's like Politicians to put someone out who could be corrupt

to give a message. Now Repugs can rail on about the Corrupt Murtha all over Russert and Tweety screaming about troop problems and break down and the rest while all the while he had his hand in the back pocket of the Pentagon and the Arms Makers. He might have been a "good guy" in this trying to put in some halts or stop gaps or working to defund the most aggregious projects...but how would we know?

Could things get much lower? Much worse? Send out Murtha as some kind of "False Flag" bring him down in time for 2008? I don't know whether he deserves this from CREW or not...but there have been stories about him. Maybe he was sincere in what he did....but, how would we know with BOTH PARTIES in on the Military/Industrial Complex.

Sad...

[stevedeshazer]

20. The ENTIRE Alaska congressional delegation is on the list

That's gotta be a first.

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21. Hey, this is a "feel good" thread.

Nice when it works out that way :toast: ;)

[Blue_In_AK]

25. My guess is we have more corrupt state legislators

than anybody else, too. We really know how to do it right up here. :rofl: The corruption trials are stretching out into the foreseeable future.

[Patsy Stone]

26. Only one from Florida?

Damn, we're slipping.

Getting recommendations without resorting to tasers? Priceless.

:hi:

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29. Attention: This thread NOW has TASERS

Nobody from my state either. Wow, this country is in trouble if at least a couple of them can't make it. I think Tom Davis (R-VA) should be there. He was RCCC chairman two terms running. He should be #1 retired.

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[Patsy Stone]

32. Tom Davis is always on my list

of Congresscritters who need to go away.

[Ghost in the Machine]

27. K&R!

[puebloknot]

31. My New Mexico heart is going pitty-pat right now! Stories..

...make the rounds here which say that this guy died sometime ago, but they keep tying him into his chair and propping him up because New Mexico is famous for its political corruption and Old Pete is *the* standard bearer for just such an ethic! What's a little graft amongst friends, after all?

You bring the taser, and I'll hold him down! (Like Bill Maher, I hasten to add: "I kid the Senator!")