Clue: Remove from office multimillion dollar senators with
spouses owning defense corporations.
NOBODY here is aware of this?
Between 2001 and 2006[25], Diane Feinstein served as the ranking member of the United States Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies, also known as the "MILCON" subcommittee. Feinstein also served as chair of the MILCON subcommittee when the Democrats controlled the Senate in 2001 and 2002.
While on the MILCON subcommitte, Feinstein voted for appropriations worth billions of dollars to firms owned by her husband, Richard C. Blum.[5] This included millions of dollars in contracts awarded to Blum's Perini Corporation to provide goods and services in Iraq and Afghanistan.[26]
As the ranking Democratic, Feinstein would have again become chair of the MILCON subcommittee when the Democratically controlled Senate of the 110th Congress was sworn in on January 4, 2007. However, Feinstein resigned from the subcommittee prior to the new congressional term, forfeiting chairmanship of the MILCON subcommittee to Tim Johnson.[27] Metro Newspapers reported that Feinstein's resignation was attributable to a series of articles, partially funded by the progressive Nation Institute, exposing the potential conflict of interest posed by Feinstein's voting to award contracts to her husband's firms.[28] [29]
In April 2007, Feinstein's office denied any ethical conflict,[30] however, the director of the Project on Government Oversight who has examined evidence assembled by investigative reporter Peter Byrne stated that "the paper trail showing Senator Feinstein's conflict of interest is irrefutable."[31][32]
this is about as crappy, dirty and conflict of interest-ed as it gets folks.
BILLIONS to companies OWNED by her husband?? Are you kidding me?
or how's this for those of you believing in civil rights:
In recent years, Feinstein has been working in the Senate to increase surveillance and wiretapping powers of the government and to reduce legal safeguards that would protect citizens against it: In August 2007, Feinstein joined Republicans in the Senate in voting to modify the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) by narrowing the scope of its protections to citizens and by sharply reducing the legal limits on the government's ability to monitor phone calls and email messages of American citizens...
"She JOINED repuglicans in the senate in voting to modify..."
how does this get "explained" away? maybe now you understand WHY people like her should be removed from office.
http://www.boomantribune.com/...
http://en.wikipedia.org/...