(And check out what a lying sack of shit Gregg is; I love the agenda-pushing obfuscators at the Globe sticking this in on a slow Saturday, too. Will the omissions, obfuscations, and manipulations never end?)
"Gregg has investment in revamped air base; Says he violated no ethics rules" by Sharon Theimer, Associated Press | February 28, 2009
WASHINGTON - US Senator Judd Gregg, who withdrew as President Obama's nominee for commerce secretary, won taxpayer money for redevelopment of a closed Air Force base where he and his brother had invested in commercial property, an Associated Press investigation found.
Gregg, a Republican from New Hampshire, has personally invested hundreds of thousands of dollars in Cyrus Gregg's office projects at the Pease International Tradeport, a Portsmouth business park built at the defunct Pease Air Force Base, once home to nuclear bombers.
The senator has collected at least $240,017 to $651,801 from his investments there, Senate records show, while helping to arrange at least $66 million in federal aid for the former base.
Gregg said he violated no laws or Senate rules. In a conference call with New Hampshire reporters yesterday, he said most of the federal money he steered to Pease had been requested by the National Guard or the city of Portsmouth. "None of these in any way have benefited me personally," Gregg said....
The guy should be tarred, feathered, and dunked on the spot for something so outrageously false!!! I heard that hot tar and harbor water go great together!
Gregg abruptly announced earlier this month that he was stepping aside from consideration for the Cabinet post, citing philosophical differences with Obama.
LIIIIIIIIAAAAAAARRRRRRRR!!!!!!
WAR-LOOTING LIIIIIIIAAAAAAAARRRRRRR!!!!!!!!
The senator said his withdrawal had nothing to do with anything the White House uncovered in his background and "to somehow imply anything else is totally false." A White House spokesman, Ben LaBolt, declined to discuss the matter.
I wouldn't expect them to; this White House, the last White House, no different!
Under new Senate ethics rules, Gregg had to certify that federal aid he directed to specific projects was not intended solely to enrich him or his immediate family, including siblings. Senators are also supposed to avoid even the appearance of a conflict of interest, though the Senate Ethics Committee seldom investigates or disciplines senators when questions are raised about their activities....
The head of a watchdog group, Melanie Sloan of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, said Gregg's actions have the appearance of a conflict of interest, even if they did not fall under the Senate's narrow definition of an actual conflict.
"He increased the value of the property, which caused his own investment to increase in value," she said. "So, it appears that he earmarked and then financially benefited from his own earmark."Compare that with what Gregg said above. He really thinks you are that stoo-pid, Noo Hampshirer!
(I know it's -ite, but I'm rolling this morning)
Sloan noted that Gregg secured earmarks for Pease beyond those sought for the National Guard and city.
Yeah, EARMARKED RIGHT for HIS POCKET!!!!
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