2. Republican Rep. Steve Chabot is handing out money to groups who are near and dear to his financial supporters (The Hill):
Several Cincinnati institutions with close ties to Rep. Steve Chabot’s (R-Ohio) top campaign supporters are in line to win $1.6 million in earmarks through the fiscal 2007 Labor-HHS-Education appropriations bill.
The earmarks would go to the Cincinnati Museum Center, the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Xavier University, the University of Cincinnati and the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Center, all of which claim members of Chabot’s inner circle of contributors and fundraisers as members of their boards of directors, according to The Hill’s review of district-specific projects in the spending bill, federal campaign-finance reports, an invitation to a Chabot fundraiser, and Web listings of the institutions’ leadership.
“There’s not a connection” between the donations and the earmarks, said Gary Lindgren, Chabot’s chief of staff. Lindgren said the earmarks are for major institutions and that it stands to reason that board members would be politically active.
“You’re talking about some of the predominant institutions in the city of Cincinnati,” he said.
Eleven men and women who were identified as hosts or co-hosts on an invitation to a March Chabot fundraiser featuring House Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) serve in leadership roles with the organizations in Chabot’s district that would receive federal money....
3. Crooks and Liars has the video: Retired Col. Sam Gardiner says we are in Iran now...4. The Huffington Post has it-----Bill Clinton is sick of Karl Rove's b--- s---.....
5. MSNBC News is reporting that a Canadian was falsely imprisoned and tortured in Syria...
Why is this administration doing this? This is horrible. Why is Bush allowing people to be tortured????
