Ridge Visits Lobbying Firm's Chairman

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By PETE YOST, Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON - The day after President Bush (news - web sites) named him homeland security secretary, Tom Ridge visited the Arizona home of a friend whose lobbying firm represented companies that were later awarded contracts by Ridge's department.


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The day after Bush signed legislation creating the department and announced that Ridge would run it, Ridge flew with his wife to Arizona, where he stayed for two or three days in Girard-diCarlo's gated-community home. Six days before Ridge's visit, Girard-diCarlo had taken out a $3 million loan on the newly built home.


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At the time of Ridge's trips to Arizona, Girard-diCarlo's firm represented Raytheon, one of a team of companies that Homeland Security recently awarded border protection work worth up to $10 billion over the next decade.

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[saigon68]

1. Graft, Corruption, Influence Peddling

It gets no better than this

You have to hand it to the repukes, they certainly don't give a shit about public scrutiny anymore. They are brazen and bold as criminal behavior reaches a new Zenith

But then when you get away with killing 100,000 people why care about a little graft and corruption ???

Now I will MOVE ALONG

LOL

[The Backlash Cometh]

3. But they do it over and over and over again.From federal to state to local

Why is there no agency that we can run to to help us stop this? I see it on a local level ALL the time. If an agency would ask me, I'd be happy to do research for them and gather the information on several local people who have strange liaisons.

[EC]

2. So I wonder just how much they

can steal before it's enough...Are there still some FBI guys that are honest, or have they all been purged? There has got to be someone left that can investigate, collect evidence and charge these guys...

[Supersedeas]

4. And the new appointee's wife is also a Homeland Lobbyist...surprised?

[Redstone]

5. Anybody surprised?

I'm not.

Redstone

[DemoTex]

6. Unbelievable! But I believe it. Damn right I believe it.

At the time of Ridge's trips to Arizona, Girard-diCarlo's firm represented Raytheon, one of a team of companies that Homeland Security recently awarded border protection work worth up to $10 billion over the next decade.

The mendacious Bu$h regime is not even subtle in their larcenous behavior. The US Treasury is now a wholly-owned subsidiary of Raytheon, Halliburton, and others of that despicable ilk.