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Matter-eater Man said:
Actually you'll have to explain the Murtha's brother reference. I honestly don't remember hearing anything about that.



That's interesting because on your Abramoff thread, in a post dated Sun May 21 2006 04:32 PM, I pointed out:

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the G-man said:
...now comes the news that John "Cut and Run" Murtha might be tainted also:

    Who is "Kit" Murtha?

    He's John Murtha's brother -- a Washington lobbyist     whose firm reeled in more than $20 million for its defense contractor clients in the 2004 Defense appropriations bill. And the Pennsylvania congressman is the ranking Democrat on the Defense appropriations subcommittee, which he also chaired for six years before Democrats lost the House in 1994.

    The Hill reported in October that John Murtha is the top House recipient of campaign contributions from the defense industry for the past three years. As of the October 31, 2005 Federal Election Commission report, Murtha had received over $200,000 from defense firms in the 2006 election cycle, surpassing the next highest recipient by over $60,000.

    Kit Murtha has been lobbying for defense firms since at least 1986, when he became Westinghouse's chief lobbyist in Harrisburg. In 1994, National Journal reported, Westinghouse made Kit Murtha its director of state and local government affairs, in which role he would also lobby the Pennsylvania congressional delegation in Washington. At that time, John Murtha chaired the defense appropriations subcommittee.

    And what's more, Murtha's no stranger to congressional corruption scandals. Though eventually cleared by the House ethics committee (which means nothing legally), John Murtha was an unindicted co-conspirator in the Abscam scandal. (Abscam was an FBI sting operation of members of Congress from 1978 to 1980 in which one senator and five representatives were convicted of bribery and conspiracy.) As the Cybercast News Service recently detailed, Murtha was videotaped telling an undercover FBI agent, "I'm not interested. I'm sorry... at this point." When the House ethics committee cleared Murtha in 1981, CNS reported, the committee's lead counsel, E. Barrett Prettyman Jr., quickly resigned. When asked by Roll Call if he had resigned because of the committee's Murtha vote, he said that would be "a logical conclusion." Prettyman has otherwise declined to comment on the Murtha case.

    An ethically suspect member of Congress, with close, personal connections to lobbyists whose clients are benefited by his committee? What more could the Washington Post need to begin sniffing around? And now that John Murtha's a nationally prominent politician, he should naturally attract closer scrutiny.


Stories such as these, after much prodding, have forced MEM to grudgingly admit in the past that "some Dems might be implicated too. I'm not ignoring that."

However, after a few weeks, or months, pass, he shows back up, telling us that this is a "republican scandal" and insisting that democrats are either clean as a whistle or police their own "isolated incidents."

Unfortunately for him, some of us have better memories than apparently he does.



Guess who the very next post after the one about Murtha's brother came from...

That's right...you.

You know, seriously, this is starting to cast you in a really bad light. You've developed a real habit of "forgetting" what you and others have posted in the past and then proceeding as if the earlier discussions never happened.

However, as noted above, "Unfortunately for [you], some of us have better memories than apparently [you]."