Anti war pukes earmark defense funds for contributors

Don Surber:

You bought Google at $100 and 3 years later is nearing $600 a share? Big deal. Microsoft has gone up 28-fold over the last 20 years? Yawn. You want to make the big bucks? Rent a congressman. Your return on your investment can be as high as $75 for every dollar invested.

Just ask the good folks at PMA Group, a lobbying firm. They sank $1,333,074 into the campaigns last year of 3 Democratic members of the House defense appropriations subcommittee and walked away with $100.5 million in defense earmarks for PMA clients, Roll Call reported.

That means for every buck they spent, their clients got back $75.39. In less than 1 year.

The 3 Democratic rent-to-own congressmen are John Murtha, Jim Moran and Peter Visclosky. These antiwar Democrats see nothing wrong with steering military money to PMA clients.

And why not? PMA money made up 20% of Murtha’s war chest, 18% of the Moran money and 33% of the Visclosky dough. For 2008, PMA already has steered $542,500 to the 3 amigos.

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There is something pretty sick about people who oppose our war effort profiting from it. PMA is run by a former Murtha staffer and appears to be one of the front organizations used for sending money into his district. The story is originally from Roll Call, but it deserves much more attention. Will the Washington Post and the NY Times look at the scandalous conduct? Hopefully, Pork Busters will give them special treatment in the blogs.