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Texas Paper On Cornyn and Sessions' Stanford Ties: "What Were They Thinking?"
Are lawmakers who took those Antiguan junkets on Allen Stanford's dime paying a political price back home?
It's hard to say. But John Cornyn and Pete Sessions, the Texas GOP senator and congressman respectively, can't be psyched about this Dallas Morning News editorial.
"What were they thinking?" asks the piece in its lead, pointing out that Cornyn and Sessions must have known when they accepted those trips that Stanford would have been looking to curry favor.
The editors conclude, a bit lamely:
Sessions and Cornyn have donated $9,000 of those funds to charity. They would be wise to donate the rest - and to use better judgment next time.
The paper might have added that Sessions would also be wise to ensure that his staff doesn't misinform reporters about the nature of the congressman's relationship with Stanford.
Still, it's a start.
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Zachary
Are the politicians who took Stanford's bait paying a price for it here? Are you serious? Worse goes on all the time. A few years ago some guy walked around the chamber of the lege handing out cash in large quantities and nothing ever came of it.
Corruption is as Texan as Delay and Houston judges. In Louisiana a senator can spend every weekend in a whorehouse with no ramifications. In Texas money takes the place of sex everywhere else.
March 4, 2009 6:28 PM | Reply | Permalink
TA,
That was Bo Pilgrim and he's in the bankruptcy crapper. It's that free market these guys are always trying to buy that got him.
March 5, 2009 1:32 PM | Reply | Permalink
Paradigm Stanford Capital Management Core Alternative Fund linked Biden's son and brother linked to Allen Stanford's operations. Hunter and James Biden Paradigm Global Advisors LLC involved with Stanford hedge funds.
March 4, 2009 11:07 PM | Reply | Permalink