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What did former Peoria Congressman Ray LaHood admit , that he was traveling on lobbyists dime when he visited France? Of course not. He’s never been made to explain that (thanks complacent Peoria media). No, what Barack Obama’s secretary of Transportation admitted is that he and the rest of the Obama administration are interfering into...
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Talk about a new way to run for office: Democratic Sen. Barack Obama’s presidential campaign has returned more than $50,000 in political contributions after discovering the donors were lobbyists. Obama, who has pledged to change the ways of Washington, has repeatedly said he will not accept money from lobbyists or from special interest political...
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U.S. Rep. Ray LaHood, fresh off a failed attempt to interject himself into the firing of the executive director of the Peoria Election Commission, is making his opinions known about Alicia’s Butler’s supposedly fudged resume. “When you get elected to a job, people expect you to be honest and forthright about who you are and...
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Kudos to C.J. Summers for a spot-on link-laden take-down of Ray LaHood on the issue of “earmarks,” which is what people used to call good old-fashioned pork-barrel spending. I’ll quote the best paragraphs: LaHood’s defense is filled with logical fallacies. First of all, to bring up all the undisputed earmarks and not mention Firefly or Proctor...
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Congressman Ray LaHood, back from a taxpayer trip to Vietnam and India, held a press conference to urge India be allowed to trade in nuclear materials, even though it hasn’t agreed to international law designed to prevent the proliferation of nuclear weapons. Had I been informed of press conference, I might have attended, for no...
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The Associated Press has a rather dry report on taxpayer-funded travel by Illinois’ Congressional delegation: Rep. Ray LaHood, a Peoria Republican on the House Intelligence Committee, said he, too, could back a ban on trips in general “in order to keep confidence with the majority of people.” As a member of the House Intelligence Committee, he...
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Much like a coke whore lecturing on the value of modest and temperate lifestyle, Congressman RayLaHood shares his ideas on the need for new ethics legislation. Of course, there’s not even the slightest indication that the Copley Press reporter asked LaHood about the free trip to France he took from the nuclear energy power...
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If you catch a politician talking out of both sides of his mouth twice during the same interview, is he guilty of quadruple talk, instead of just double talk? That’s the question I’m asking myself after reading Ray LaHood’s quotes in Bernard Schoenberg’s column today: “I’m not going to be one of those that’s promoting the...
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Ya gotta love the Journal Star. Really. The newspaper has spent months ignoring how their beloved “Congressman Ray” has been raking in cash from lobbyists and in one case them pay for a trip to France. I’ve spent that time begging for someone from the local media to call LaHood on his Nixon-style non-denial...
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For months, I’ve been been in a slow burn about Peoria media giving U.S. Rep. Ray LaHood a free ride on the issue of lobbyist-paid travel. They’ve let LaHood dodge the issue by focusing only on a trip paid for by the Aspen Group, which doesn’t lobby Congress. None of then have demanded LaHood explain...
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I just caught Ray LaHood answering WEEK’s Mike Dimmick’s questions about money from lobbyists and travel. First, LaHood said that he proud of the fact that 70 percent of the money he gets comes from sources within the 18th Congressional District. He didn’t mention that lobbyists are the largest single source of his donations during...
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The Journal Star did run the LaHood travel scandal story on the front page. That’s good. Nowhere in the article, however, is he asked to explain why he’s been claiming none of his trips are paid by lobbyists when they are. LaHood added that the reporting requirements for accepting any outside perks are stringent. He...
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Ray LaHood is still trying to mislead the public about whether lobbyists paid for some of his globetrotting. �Look, there are no lobbyists. The Aspen Institute is not a lobbying organization. They will never come to my office during the time I am a Congressman and ask me to vote one way.� La Hood defends the...
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Tomorrow morning, I’m going to go out and buy a newspaper, then write a post telling exactly what page the Journal Star prints this Associated Press story, if it does at all: From auto makers to Chicago’s Chinatown community, interest groups treated 15 members of Illinois’ congressional delegation to $129,000 worth of trips, meals and...
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The Journal Star tried to pawn this very weak and very incomplete Copley News Service article as valid political reporting. There’s been chatter in the Illinois Blogosphere for weeks about how Illinois lawmakers are touring the world, sometimes on the dime of organizations which lobby members of Congress. The problem? That’s illegal. U.S. Reps...
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