For the second year in a row, DC ethics watchdog group Citizens for Responsiblity and Ethics in Washington (CREW) — the folks who filed successful ethics charges in the House against former Republican Majority Leader Tom Delay — have issued their “Most Corrupt Members of Congress” report.
And once again our old friend, the corrupt Florida congressman Tom Feeney, is right up there near the top! Congratulations, Tom!
What may be most impressive is that Feeney, amongst other bad seeds like the disgraced Tom DeLay and Bob Ney, is neither in jail or even under indictment! Yet! No easy feat for someone as sleazy as Mr. Feeney! You’d have to be the craziest man in America to think you could get away with it! But (so far) Feeney has!
The indifference to the Rule of Law and our American Values and Constitution doesn’t stop with Tom himself though! Just take a look at what Feeney’s own chief of staff, Jason Roe, and his wife Patty are up to — apparently with Feeney’s help — according to this report last week from Harper’s!
The CREW list, which includes both Republicans and Democrats (though mostly Republicans), singles out Feeney for his years-long record of corruption, obfuscation, ethics violations and broken rules in accepting lobbyist and foreign-agent paid travel, holidays and more!
While we know that Feeney has already been accused by computer programmer Clint Curtis of asking him to create vote-rigging software back in 2000 and other skullduggery (Curtis has given sworn video-taped congressional testimony and has passed a lie-detector test in regard to those charges,) CREW continues to track some of Feeney’s greatest Congressional Corruption Hits, from golf in Scotland with Abramoff to trips bought and paid for by foreign-agents. Take a look…
Rep. Feeney visited South Korea on a trip sponsored by the Korea-U.S. Exchange Council (KORUSEC), despite the fact that the organization is registered with the Department of Justice under the Foreign Agents Registration Act. Rep. Feeney violated the provision prohibiting members from accepting travel expenses from agents of a foreign principal.
Rep. Feeney and his wife traveled from Orlando, Florida to West Palm Beach, Florida to speak at “Restoration Weekend” from November 13-November 16, 2003. According to the travel disclosure form Rep. Feeney originally submitted to the House Clerk’s office, this trip, which cost $1,430, was paid for by a registered lobbying firm, also prohibited by House rules.
In his 2003 and 2004 financial disclosure forms, Rep. Feeney failed to disclose that he was the co-owner of a rental property in Cape Canaveral, Florida. Rep. Feeney violated the rule requiring members to disclose all rental property.
CREW has more details [PDF] on Feeney’s serial rule-breaking. And, in the meantime, Curtis is now running against the dirty Feeney for his FL-24th congressional district seat in the U.S. House. Feel free to support him if you’re so inclined! With all of that dirty money flowing in to Feeney’s coffers from the top-tier Republican slimesters (Feeney’s raised $1.1 million so far for his smear campaign against Curtis), Curtis can use all the help you folks can muster!
The Clint Curtis/Tom Feeney/Yang Enterprises Vote-Rigging Scandal series, please see:
– A Quick Summary of the story so far.
– An Index of all the Key Articles & Evidence in the series so far.
– Curtis is now running for U.S. Congress against Feeney.
To support or for more info, see: www.ClintCurtis.com
Sorry Brad this is OT.
The House is currently debating and will vote today on a new poll tax. It is HR 4844 and will require proof of citizenship and photo ID to be able to vote in Federal elections.
They are not addressing voting machines, paper trails, proprietary software…they are attempting to disenfranchise as many people as possible. This is the only way that the Repubs can win.
It is horrific.
Sorry Brad this is IT.
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He thinks he’s slick . . .
Chavez calls Bush “El Diablo” at UN, great stuff
He says “The devil came here yesterday,” Chavez said, referring to Bush, who addressed the world body Tuesday from the same lectern. “And it smells of sulfur still today.”
Link, watch video
#3 That made my day. . . Infact I think Chavez was quite generous!
This link brought to you by Tom Feeney,..
T. Feeney link
Old Turk #5
Did you catch this video that comes up as a teaser after your link plays?
21 of the top 25 corrupt politicians = Republican!
BB2 #7
That sounds right 84% gop vs 16% Dem over – 5 Times . . . . . But how many $ $ $
I’ll bet Dems stole under a million VS gop Billions !
Let’s see Clint Curtis beat that!
WOW . . . . . A Real American President is on the tv for a change Bill Clinton ! ! !
This once I allowed myself to watch Larry Lizard Live on the Clueless News Network cnn . . .
Feeney the vote-stealing weenie.
There’s one for you, Clint.
BB-2,..
Yes the movie “Freedom to Fascism” looks well worth the watch.
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Here’s a list of Senators and Congress
menpersons,..who should be in jail,… not back on capitol hill.
http://www.beyonddelay.org/
if another election gets stolen, the American people are going to be taken to the limit.
Setup the gallows and guillotines in Washington DC,..
it is time to takeout the trash.
Indeed, OldTurk, the time has come. Let’s start by stringing up Ol’ Porky!
So, would you put it past “the most corrupt member of Congress” to have something to do with Ray Lemme???
Big Dan, Like duh! Of course he had something to do with it.
The republicans got their torture bill through congress. Somebody said the first time they voted on it, it went down by a couple of votes. I saw the “honorable”, (yeah, right) James Sensenbrenner ask if anyone wanted to make an ammendment. Gee, who do you think wanted to? Oh, Tom Feeney, of course!
The second time it was voted on, it passed by a couple of votes. Dana Milbank wanted to make sure that everybody knew the democrats could have stopped it from getting that far if two of them hadn’t been giving a press conference on Medicare! Of course it’s maddening as hell that democrats would do that, but I wish MSNBC could get somebody other then Milbank to comment on Keith Olberman’s otherwise great show!
These things are confusing to me, but is that true. They just have to keep ammending a bill until it passes?
Bluebear2 #7
21 of the top 25 corrupt politicians = Republican!
4 out of 25. You see, they’re “all the same” aren’t they?
Vote the democrats in with the “Let America Vote Act” and lets get John Conyers to head the Judiciary Committee instead of James Sensenbrenner and we’ll just see if they’re “all the same”!
Just bumped into the name,..
HAI LIN NEE,.. it seemed familiar,..
Henry Nee,.. ring a bell ? 12/05 Bradblog was untangling the Tom Feeney/Yang Enterprises,.. yarn-ball.
HAI LIN NEE A/K/A – Henry Nee was working at Yang Enterprises,.. was an illegal alien,.. and stole computer chips that control the hellfire missile,.. and transferred the technology to China.
Bradblog 12/05 article,…
As mentioned in Curtis’ affidavit, and reported by the Orlando Sentinel in March of this year (link now archived, requires $ to view), Hai Lin Nee (a/k/a Henry Nee), an employee with whom Curtis claims to have worked at Yang Enterprises, Inc. (YEI), was taken into custody last March by the U.S. International and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency for attempting to ship “Missile Components to China”. The “low-frequency amplifier” chips are said in the article “” and confirmed by a statement on the the official ICE website “” to be used for “radar-frequency guidance systems for fourth-generation Hellfire anti-tank missiles”.
Link source : Complete Bradblog Article
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8/06 Popular Mechanics Magazine
“China’s Secret War” (espionage)
HAI LIN NEE, a Chinese citizen, illegally exported 25 low-noise amplifier chips that have applications in the Hellfire air-to-ground missiles carried by Apache and Cobra helicopters.
Photo of HAI LIN NEE -(Henry Nee) photo on right side – from page 2.
Link source : Popular Mechanics Article
I can’t believe nobody rolled on the floor over my dry humor above. What! Are you all bummed or something?
I once dreamed that Karl Rove sicced the police on me, but I convinced them to arrest him instead. They did! They threw him in the slammer.
Entropy is deadly. Shake it off. Energize. Turn it back on them. 8)