Earmark Critic Pete Sessions Steered Money To Aide, Blimp

Politico:

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.

Read the whole story: Politico

Comments

[1differentdrummer]

What legitimate business runs with 50% overhead?

[NavigatorOne]

Blimp, blimp, you mean Rushbo got earmark funds?

[avshanbh]

They're not even trying to avoid being seen as hypocrites anymore.

[JumpDownTurnAround]

Just one more Republican Hypocrite. Is there no one in the GOP party that is not a hypocrite?

[Dbos]

No . Next year flying monkeys to protect us from invasion

[avchavis]

White collar crime at its worst!

[springsm]

Oofda...ea­rlier I thought they were talking about Jeff Sessions..­..I didn't know there was a Pete Sessions..­.my gawd..are they related. Anyway my earlier comments if they remained (probably didn't), were not fair to J.Sessions­. Probably related, but I was wrong.

[expired]

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[spinns17]

time to break wall streets back

[sonoffestus]

"BLIMP PIMP"

[chandu11]

What would you expect from someone who's full of hot air?

[LeeCalif]

Pete Sessions looks like a dr unk.

[swift goat pet for truth]

Do as I say, not as I do.

[huffingt]

there are two sessions in the congress. Are they related?

[AuntiepoppyCock]

His father is William S. Sessions, the former director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation until President Clinton canned him. Those Eagle scouts are sunshine and puppies I tell you!

[motoGpifupleez]

RightWinger hypocrisy. As rare as a sunrise in the east.

[LiberalDem]

Like Claude Rains in "Casablanca" I'm shocked, shocked, that a congressman would do something like this....NO­T