Brownback tops private-paid travel listThe senator's trips were worth more

[Judi Lynn]

Posted on Sat, Mar. 11, 2006

Brownback tops private-paid travel listThe senator's trips were worth more than $21,400, higher than any other Kansas lawmaker.
BY SAM HANANEL
Associated Press

WASHINGTON - When Sen. Sam Brownback flew to San Antonio last year for religious broadcaster Pat Robertson's 75th birthday party, a conservative advocacy group picked up the $10,000 tab for a chartered plane and helicopter flight.
In all, the Kansas Republican took 10 privately funded trips in 2005 worth more than $21,400, a review of Senate records found.

Brownback's travels topped all members of the Kansas delegation in number and cost of the trips. The state's senior senator, Republican Pat Roberts, was second with two trips costing $9,517.

In all, the Kansas Republican took 10 privately funded trips in 2005 worth more than $21,400, a review of Senate records found.
Brownback's travels topped all members of the Kansas delegation in number and cost of the trips. The state's senior senator, Republican Pat Roberts, was second with two trips costing $9,517.
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http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/news/state/14073533.htm



Sam Brownback

[izzie]

1. Since tax payers are picking up Bush's endless fund trips let

this Sen. pay for his own. What a bunch. They forever use people and think it is OK.

[maddezmom]

2. no wonder lobbying reform is getting no where

this pubs sure love their perks! :puke:

[rodeodance]

6. Right--and the article points this out.

.........Privately funded travel could be banned or limited under legislation being considered in the wake of the Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal, which involved millions of dollars from Abramoff's clients going to win friends and buy influence on Capitol Hill.

[NYC]

10. Push to Tighten Lobbying Rules Loses Strength (NYT)

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2160043

The drive for a tighter lobbying law, just two months ago a major priority on Capitol Hill, is losing momentum...

[saigon68]

3. for religious broadcaster Pat Robertson's 75th birthday party,

What an ass-wipe

[vssmith]

8. PUN

Brownback, Ass-wipe! Is that a pun?

[rodeodance]

4. "$10,000 tab for a chartered plane and helicopter flight."--what kind of

a plane did he fly on?-


....WASHINGTON - When Sen. Sam Brownback flew to San Antonio last year for religious broadcaster Pat Robertson's 75th birthday party, a conservative advocacy group picked up the $10,000 tab for a chartered plane and helicopter flight.
In all, the Kansas Republican took 10 privately funded trips in 2005 worth more than $21,400, a review of Senate records found.

[rodeodance]

5. "On all of those trips, I felt like they were legitimate functions,"

.....Privately funded travel could be banned or limited under legislation being considered in the wake of the Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal, which involved millions of dollars from Abramoff's clients going to win friends and buy influence on Capitol Hill.

"On all of those trips, I felt like they were legitimate functions," Brownback said in an interview. "I was asked to speak at each of them, and my request was just to get me there and back."

Roberts took two four-day trips with his wife last year: a conference in Orlando, paid for by the International Dairy Foods Association, and a panel meeting in Boca Raton, paid for by the Chicago Board of Trade. He spoke on agricultural issues at both.

Republican Rep. Todd Tiahrt of Goddard took two privately funded trips to attend a conference in Baltimore and a congressional retreat in Scottsdale, Ariz.

[alcibiades_mystery]

7. Fancy Sam

The Repub Senate Committee just put out a web site claiming that Harold Ford likes to travel in high style and spent $50 a meal at the House Dining Room. They call it Fancy Ford. How about Fancy Sam Brownback? Is he a muthafukin' Pee I Em Pee too?

[bobthedrummer]

9. I wonder if he took along Christina Rocca and others with him? eom

[ramapo]

11. Gee the NYT Magazine had nice things to say about him

He could be a contender in '08