Forget Tea Party rhetoric – pork barrel politics is back
And the parties continue. Rep.-elect Steven Palazzo (R-Miss.), for example, told supporters on his campaign Web site: “I intend to take our voice and shout it loudly to the Washington, D.C., bureaucrats and politicians to make sure they know that we want legislation reflective of true conservatism. I will make you proud.”
And how, exactly, is he making his constituents proud so far? On Tuesday night, he was scheduled to be the beneficiary of a dinner fundraiser at the Republican National Committee’s Capitol Hill Club. Checks – $500 for individuals and $1,000 for political action committees – are to be made payable to Steven Palazzo for Congress – and mailed to an address not in Mississippi but in Alexandria, Va.
Washington Post
12/14/10
