Capitol Hill Blue rant against Dr. Paul

[foofighter20x]

Hit piece on Paul

...from CREW and Capitol Hill Blue.

 

[angelatc]

RON E. PAUL (R-TX): Ranking member of the Subcommittee on Domestic and International
Monetary Policy, Trade, and Technology of the House Committee on Financial Services.
Rep. Paul’s campaign committee, Committee to Re-elect Ron Paul,1 as well as his
leadership PAC, Liberty PAC,2 have paid his family members.
Lori Pyeatt (daughter):
• In the 2006 election cycle, Rep. Paul’s campaign committee paid his daughter, Lori
Pyeatt, $36,097 in salary and $601 in reimbursements. In addition, Rep. Paul’s
leadership PAC paid Ms. Pyeatt $20,121 in salary and $2,239 in travel reimbursements.
She is listed as the treasurer of the PAC from 2002-2006.
• In the 2004 election cycle, the campaign committee paid Ms. Pyeatt $53,661 in salary
and $712 in reimbursements. In addition, Rep. Paul’s PAC paid Ms. Pyeatt $3,000 in
salary.
• In the 2002 election cycle, the campaign committee paid Ms. Pyeatt $48,711 in salary
and $241 in travel reimbursements.

Johnnie Leblanc (daughter Joy Leblanc’s father-in-law):
• In the 2006 election cycle, Rep. Paul’s campaign committee paid Johnnie LeBlanc
$2,282 in salary.
• In the 2004 election cycle, the campaign committee paid Mr. LeBlanc $111 in salary.

Nora Leblanc (daughter Joy Leblanc’s mother-in-law):
• In the 2006 election cycle, Rep. Paul’s campaign committee paid Nora LeBlanc $8,726 in
salary and $5,165 in reimbursements.

Joy Leblanc (daughter):
• In the 2004 election cycle, Rep. Paul’s campaign committee paid his daughter, Joy
LeBlanc, $500 for a photo shoot.

Matt Pyeatt (grandson):
• In the 2004 election cycle, Rep. Paul’s campaign committee paid his grandson, Matt
Pyeatt, $450 for recording equipment.

My husband were just talking about this phenomenom a few days ago. I didn't know that Ron Paul did it, but I did know that other politicians did it. We both thought that it was no big deal. Campaigns are very strenuous and time consuming, and I doubt very that the people who were working on them also held down full time jobs. They have their bills to pay too.

To me there's a big difference between putting your family on the public dole and using them as paid campaign staffers. Other people might feel differently, but I'd rather vote for a guy that has his daughter working on the campaign than a guy who's kids won't even speak to him, or slick career professionals.

Fred Thompson paid his son more in legal fees than the PAC actually took in.

 

[Bradley in DC]

http://www.capitolhillblue.com/cont/node/2733

A relative problem for Congress
June 18, 2007 - 7:12am.

What to do with kin on the payroll

By DOUG THOMPSON

Memo to all those partisans who claims their party is better than the other guys or the cult of the gullible who think Ron Paul is a political messiah: Your bubbles have been burst once again.

A new study by Citizens for Responsibility & Ethics in Washington (CREW), a non-partisan activist group, found that 72 members of Congress diverted some $5.1 million in campaign funds to their relatives, or companies owned by their relatives, over the past six years.

The list includes 41 Republicans and 31 Democrats. It also includes rabid John Bircher Ron Paul, the laughable GOP candidate for President who, for reasons that defy even the normal silliness of politics, has become a poster child for both Libertarians and so-called "progressives."

Paul arranged for more than $175,000 of his campaign funds to be siphoned off to relatives -- $163,890 for his daughter alone - in a fundraising Ponzi scheme that sure beats having to pay the kids an allowance out of his own pocket. . .

Although it comes as no surprise to those of us who know him, shock may hit that small, but extremely loud, minority of uninformed voters who think Texas Rep. Ron Paul is, somehow, the savior of all things political in next year's Presidential race.

Paul, a populist opportunist who tailors his campaigns to the whim of the day, has generated an aggressive following among the tin-foil hat community who like to flood web sites with email and dominate discussion boards with claims that the long-shot candidate is the Next Big Thing in Presidential politics.

Those who embrace Paul because of his latest campaign positions seem unaware of his longtime membership in the ultra-right-wing John Birch Society or his extremist positions of the past.

As the CREW study shows, Paul is just another corrupt politician who plays the system to benefit himself and his family. Thankfully, after he fails to score any delegates in the upcoming primaries, he will fade into the dustbin of political obscurity where he belongs.

 

[LizF]

Looks like journalism from the "(Un)Fair and (Un)Balanced" crowd, or their ilk.
Note how he didn't find anything similarly negative to say about any other neocon candidate?

Anyways, he has a history of this kind of sorry excuse for journalism:
http://www.martinipundit.com/index.php/weblog/2005/12/

"The Strange case of Doug Thompson and others":
http://216.239.51.104/search?q=cach...tml+"DOUG+THOMPSON"&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=18&gl=us

Background on him:
http://216.239.51.104/search?q=cach...htm+"DOUG+THOMPSON"&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=25&gl=us

I think you can find a pic of him here:
http://216.239.51.104/search?q=cach...son+"DOUG+THOMPSON"&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=29&gl=us

 

[foofighter20x]

I know... Just wanted you guys to know this lie is out there...

We may want to look through digg so it can be buried.

 

[RonPaul4President]

Smear Campaign! Laughable.

Oh dear, not the John Birch Society...

http://www.jbs.org/node/389

 

[manuel]

This guy is an idiot. Who's payroll is he on? And why is he so scared of Ron Paul? Is he afraid of Freedom and Liberty?

 

[Bison]

Its not a crime to employ family.

 

[angelatc]

I wasn't paying attention to the blogger. The report is from a nonpartisian research group.

Since you mentioned, I went back and read the blog. He really does have thing about Ron Paul!

Although I especially liked the line that indicated that since I don't see the money in the same light as I do public money, it must mean I want to see elections publically financed. (Uh, no!)

 

[beermotor]

What a joke; they rant on places that do not allow comments, because they know they will get torn apart. Losers.

 

[MsDoodahs]

First they ignore you. CHECK.

Then they laugh at you. CHECK.



What's next, people?

We knew they'd start attacking. They've been trying to just do the ignore thing straight through to the end because RP is so clean that it's damn near impossible to find things to use in their typical smear campaigns.

This piece smells like desperation on the part of the media to me.



GREAT SIGN!!!!

Because after the fight ....


WE WIN!!!!!!

 

[angelatc]

http://digg.com/2008_us_elections/A_Relative_Problem_For_Congress

Needs buried.

 

[Bryan]

I merged the two threads on the same article.

Question- how can this be a "Ponzi scheme"?

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/Ponzi scheme

Investment scam by which early investors are paid off from the contributions of later ones, 1957, in ref. to Charles Ponzi, who perpetrated such a scam in U.S., 1919-20.

 

[LizF]

This website he's affiliated with (I'm not sure how many of these stories he wrote himself) seems to be an attempt at creative writing, peppered w/some erotica (or sleaze, depending on your point of view).

About them/website: http://www.dcdarkside.com/about_us.htm
List of stories: http://www.dcdarkside.com/graveyard.htm

An example of his fine writing: "She had to have him"
(Warning, for those not interested in reading a "fantasy" about an older female teacher & her younger student, or some erotic photographs, do not click on this link: http://www.dcdarkside.com/graveyard/jan0203.htm)

 

[LizF]

oops...deleted; accidental double post.

 

[MsDoodahs]

When I click "bury it" the screen gives me options, does it make a difference what I choose?

 

[GoRonPaul]

Not even a semblance of truth...

"Paul, a populist opportunist who tailors his campaigns to the whim of the day, has generated an aggressive following among the tin-foil hat community who like to flood web sites with email and dominate discussion boards with claims that the long-shot candidate is the Next Big Thing in Presidential politics."

 

[Captain Shays]

I will stand up and defend Ron Paul's membership in the John Birch Society. They are an honorable, and upstanding group who's only purpose is to presreve the Constitution and fight against the formation of the one world government ie The New World Order.

Don't back down on this. Its not a conspiracy theory. Its a very real conspiracy and should be one of our compaign planks. The secret is out now and the Ron Paul campaign is probably the only thing that stands a chance right now along with you and I to stand in their way of implimenting their globalist plans.

There is way too much evidence to ignore it any longer so don't back down.

 

[angelatc]

Its not a crime to employ family.

NO, and in fairness he doesn't imply that it is. He does seem to imply that it is not ethical, and he might have a point.

But I'm not hung up on it. If people don't like it, then they shouldn't contribute.

 

[LizF]

He also forgot to mention that RP returns a portion of his Congressional budget every year. The work of a sleazy politico, right?