So it's wrong to put family members on the payroll?

"Syd Maniac" <dimstyle@yahoo.com> wrote in
news:1113496709.798520.327200@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com:

Yang, AthD (h.c), Kicking AWOL's Cocaine Snorting ***** wrote:

Because it's all the Democrat's fault that he was taking money from
Russain firms or that he was paying "fees" to his wife and daughter.

So it's wrong to put family members on the payroll?

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?
f=/n/a/2005/04/13/national/w124553D99.DTL

_ House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, R-Texas: Wife and daughter were paid
more than $500,000 since 2001 for working for DeLay's campaign and
political action committees.

_ Connecticut Democratic Sen. Joe Lieberman: Son Matthew received about
$34,000 and daughter Rebecca about $36,000 for working on the senator's
2004 presidential campaign.

_ Rep. Dave Reichert, R-Wash.: Nephew Todd Reichert was paid $3,000 last
year, plus several hundred dollars for mileage, for serving as driver.

_ California Democratic Rep. Fortney "Pete" Stark: Wife Deborah earns
$2,400 a month for serving as campaign consultant.

_ Rep. Jerry Lewis, R-Calif.: Wife Arlene Willis serves as congressional
chief of staff at a salary of nearly $111,000.

_ Rep. Bart Stupak, D-Mich.: Wife Laurie Stupak earned about $36,000
annually the past two years as the finance director for her husband's
campaign.

_ Rep. Bob Ney, R-Ohio: Wife Elizabeth was paid about $1,730 a month
during his 2004 campaign. She has worked as a campaign consultant for
him since the 2001 election cycle.

_ Rep. Jim Costa, D-Calif.: Cousin Ken Costa made about $45,000 for
serving as a co-campaign manager last year.

_ Rep. Chris Cannon, R-Utah: Three college-age children worked on his
campaign last year. Emily was paid $5,425, Jane $9,508 and Laura
$17,766.

_ Rep. Lincoln Davis, D-Tenn.: Sister-in-law Sharon Davis has been his
campaign treasurer since 1994,and daughter Libby Davis was his campaign
coordinator in the last half of 2004. Libby Davis was paid about $2,334
a month; Sharon Davis was paid about $1,000 a month for bookkeeping last
year.

_ Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Texas, employs his wife, Kathy, as his campaign
manager. She was paid $21,791 over four months, including a $7,500 bonus
last November.

_ New York Democratic Rep. Tim Bishop: Daughter Molly was paid $46,995
as his 2004 campaign's finance director.

_ California Republican Rep. Dana Rohrabacher: Wife Rhonda Carmony makes
$40,000 a year as his campaign manager

[end cite]

And don't forget Barbara Boxer (if only we could!):

http://www.nationalreview.com/beltway/060629.html

The San Francisco Chronicle today runs its own list of congressional
members who have relatives on their campaign payrolls. Like the Los
Angeles Times link below, the Chronicle leads with DeLay. That shouldn’t
be surprising and it makes sense since the bias reporting of the New
York Times provided the catalyst for this story.

However, in their mostly bipartisan list, the Chronicle for whatever
reason chooses to exclude the nearly $150,000 paid by home state Senator
Barbara Boxer to her son’s consulting firm over the past few years. Over
10 of California’s 53-member, mostly Democratic House delegation have
family members on their payroll.

_ House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, R-Texas: Wife and daughter were paid
more than $500,000 since 2001 for working for DeLay's campaign and
political action committees.

It isn't unethical to pay your wife and daughter
to do a job if they are actually doing that job
(working for his campaign committee). Nor
is it unethical to pay them out of your own
campaign fund.

"Syd Maniac" <dimstyle@yahoo.com> wrote in
news:1113496709.798520.327200@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com:

Yang, AthD (h.c), Kicking AWOL's Cocaine Snorting ***** wrote:

Because it's all the Democrat's fault that he was taking money from
Russain firms or that he was paying "fees" to his wife and daughter.

http://www.salon.com/news/wire/2005/04/13/blame/index.html

April 13, 2005 | Washington -- House Majority Leader Tom DeLay,
hoping to hold support among fellow Republicans, urged GOP senators
Tuesday to blame Democrats if asked about his ethics controversy and
accused the news media of twisting supportive comments so they
sounded like criticism.

I like the way Salon spins his request for Republicans to explain the
"controversy" and the way the news media twist comments.

Ri-i-ight...
And this is the party of "Personal Responsibility"..
Ri-i-ight...

It isn't unethical to pay your wife and daughter to do a job if they are
actually doing that job (working for his campaign committee). Nor is it
unethical to pay them out of your own campaign fund.

Nor is it unethical to accept campaign contributions from a group that
happens to get donations from a foreign country.
But don't let little things like the facts get in the way of your
partisan politics of half-truths and innuendo.