TPMMuckraker Tom Coburn: October 2009
Tom Coburn
Coburn, Price Not Rushing To Embrace Award From Doctor Who Sent Racist Obama Pic
Dr. David McKalip
David McKalip, the Florida doctor and health-care-reform opponent who apologized this summer after sending a racist picture of President Obama as a witch-doctor, is trying to cozy up to some of the most extreme Republican reform foes in Congress. But even they want little to do with him, it seems.
Yesterday, McKalip sent an email invitation, obtained by TPMmuckraker, announcing that Doctors for Patient Freedom, the anti-reform group he runs, plans to honor Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) and Rep. Tom Price (R-GA) for their work in fighting to preserve "the freedom patients deserve" in health care. According to the invitation, the ceremony is set to take place November 7th, in conjunction with the upcoming American Medical Association meeting in Houston.
PERMALINK | COMMENTS (5) | RECOMMEND RECOMMEND (3)Topics: Barack Obama, David McKalip, Health Care, Racism, Tom Coburn, Tom Price
John Ensign
Ensign: I Followed Ethics Laws When I Helped Clients Of Mistress's Husband
Sen. John Ensign (R-NV)
The John Ensign story is back on the front-burner, thanks to last week's New York Times report that the philandering Nevada senator actively helped Doug Hampton, the husband of his former mistress, get set up as a lobbyist, then acted to benefit Hampton's new clients.
Today brought several new developments:
PERMALINK | COMMENTS (2) | RECOMMEND RECOMMEND (2)Topics: Doug Hampton, John Ensign, Justice Department, Lobbyists, Senate Ethics Committee, Sex, Tom Coburn
John Ensign
Flouting Lobbying Ban, Ensign Helped Hampton Clients: Report
Sen. John Ensign (R-NV)
We knew there was another shoe waiting to drop in the story of Nevada GOP senator John Ensign's affair with a top aide's wife.
And now it's dropped. A lengthy investigation by the New York Times reveals that Ensign was far more involved than previously known in trying to get a job for Doug Hampton -- his mistress's husband -- after the affair had been discovered. And that Ensign then used his influence in government to try to do favors for Doug Hampton's new employers -- apparently in violation of lobbying rules.
PERMALINK | COMMENTS (10) | RECOMMEND RECOMMEND (8)Topics: C Street, John Ensign, Lobbyists, Sex, Tom Coburn
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