Thread: A Little off subject

Now I don't see that if you return this money, that you should be getting off. So they got caught with there hands in the Cookie Jar. That's like robbing a bank and if you get caught, return the Money and everything is ok.

Baucus will return Abramoff donationsAssociated PressWASHINGTON - Democratic Sen. Max Baucus of Montana is returning $18,892 in contributions that his office has found to be connected to indicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff, his spokesman said Monday.
Included in the returned donations was an estimated $1,892 that was never reported for the use of Abramoff's skybox at the MCI Center in downtown Washington in 2001.The state's other two members of Congress, Republican Sen. Conrad Burns and Republican Rep. Denny Rehberg, returned their own contributions last week. Burns returned an estimated $150,000, while Rehberg returned almost $20,000.
Abramoff, already charged with fraud in a separate Florida case, is at the center of a federal probe that has entangled at least a half dozen lawmakers and Bush administration officials. The Justice Department is investigating whether he won any undue influence through donations and favors.
Spokesman Barrett Kaiser said Baucus has never met Abramoff and never took any contributions directly from him."He thought it was the right thing to do on principle," Kaiser said.

http://www.twincities.com/mld/twincitie ... 443981.htm

Special interests should be made highly illegal with the attachment of heavy fines and some time to mull things over in your very own private room.

It is like going after the jobs that the illegals seek and the same philosophy, if you take away the incentive you diminish the demand and that is the best angle of approach. We just may keep the honest and can weed out the truly dishonest. Just like locking your car door in a large parking lot with a 1000 dollars laying in plain view on your seat, a true crook wouldn't care that the door is locked but the honest will.