Murtha at the Ritz Tonight
2007 Porker of the Year Rep. John Murtha is holding at major campaign fundraiser tonight at the Ritz-Carlton at Pentagon City (Arlington, VA).
Roll Call originally wrote about this story Feb. 11, saying:
Those hoping to get an earmark from the defense-spending poobah will note that’s about two weeks before appropriators hand in their own project requests.
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But last year provided some stark guidance for contractors lobbying Murtha’s office: Every private entity that received a special project from the Pennsylvania Democrat in last year’s defense spending bill had given him political money at some point since 2005. And of the $413,250 those PACs and employees contributed over that two and a half-year period, nearly a quarter of the sum — $100,750 — arrived in the two weeks leading up to last year’s original deadline for lawmakers to file their earmark requests, a Roll Call analysis found.
Tonight, CAGW will be holding a rally with Americans for Prosperity and the National Taxpayers Union outside the defense lobbyist gala to protest the Congressional favor factory (aka earmarks).
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