Well isn’t this special. A report out today that Nancy Pelosi forgot to file some disclosure reports on some travel trips she took on the lobbyist dime:
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) filed delinquent reports Friday for three trips she accepted from outside sponsors that were worth $8,580 and occurred as long as seven years ago, according to copies of the documents.
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The unreported trip was a week-long 1999 visit to Taiwan,
paid for by the Chinese National Association of Industry and Commerce, for “meetings with government, military and business officials,” according to a filing Pelosi signed June 30. The flights cost $3,400 each for Pelosi and her husband. The hotel cost was $940. The sponsor, which has picked up trips for leaders of both parties, paid $300 for meals.
This is the funniest thing I’ve read about the lib’s in say, a day. But seriously, she opened up this can of worms herself in her attempt to bring down Tom Delay, and since then has caused nothing but grief for her fellow lawmakers.
You will recall how I blogged about a Pelosi staff member taking trips to Cuba, now we have her taking a trip to Taiwan, at the behest of the CNAIC, not filing the disclosure about it and then to top it off, they paid for her husband to come with her. Didn’t she make a big deal about Delay hiring family?
The Captain summarizes:
Not to pile on, but the sponsors also paid for Pelosi’s husband. Why? Does Pelosi employ her husband as a consultant? If that seems harsh, remember that the Democrats have claimed that DeLay’s hiring of family as paid staff violates ethical standards, even though DeLay has openly done so and reported their incomes as legitimate campaign and operational expenses .
I bet her fellow Democrats are loving her right about now huh?
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