Nancy Pelosi is Sponsoring a bill That will Benefit Her Husband
Nancy Pelosi is sponsoring a bill that would allow HIV-positive patients who do not have AIDS to qualify for Medicaid. This bill has support on both sides of the aisle and it sounds fair enough, doesn’t it? At least it does if you think the government should be in the health-care business, but that will be a discussion for another day after November’s election when we have national health-care again in the spotlight. Anyway, it sounds fair, but there is a small problem with Nancy Pelosi sponsoring this bill. Her husband owns $250,000 worth of stocks in a company that stands to benefit from this legislation.
That is not the only problem however. Her campaign was given $20,000 by Amgen in July, one week later Pelosi introduced a bill that had been previously been stopped, the bill I mentioned above. This bill would benefit Amgen as they make the AIDS drug that would now be covered under Medicaid, this would also benefit Pelosi’s husband as this is the company he owns all these stocks in.
An ethical issue pops up as a result of her investment in Johnson & Johnson,” Fitton told Cybercast News Service. “Obviously she should explain whether or not her contributions from Amgen and its executives are influencing her position on the HIV bill in an inappropriate way.”
Being a Democrat has it’s privileges though and so she will never be held accountable for this. But this isn’t the only money she has received from Amgen.
In addition to the 28 separate contributions Pelosi received last July from Amgen, seven other contributions were made by executives in the months of July and August, for a total of $30,050 to Pelosi’s re-election campaign. Also, AmgenPAC (political action committee) gave Pelosi’s campaign a total of $10,000 last year.
She needs to answer these questions. This is one of the issues that the Democrats ran on in 2006, the culture of corruption, and it is now possible that Nancy Pelosi has been caught up in it.
“It’s not three or four steps removed,” Fitton said. “The drug presumably would be covered under the bill. So will any Democrat or Republican ask for an investigation of this, whether she violated the rules? On the face of it, she seems to be bringing discredit on the House as a result of this apparent conflict of interest.”
It will be interesting to see if anything becomes of this but I think we all no where this is headed. Nowhere.
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There should be a law passed that if you are elected into a public office you cannot:
1. Own stock in any company via personal investments. This excludes certain things like 401k and pension plans. The fact that they can own stock in companies create a conflict of interest like you mentioned.
2. Be a religious leader. Separation of Church and State. How can this NOT be a conflict of interest?
3. All financial records open to the public. We are beyond the point of trusting our representatives. They don’t deserve a single grain of doubt anymore.
Money seems to rule all now so let’s make sure money is less of a contributing factor to corruption.
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http://www.cindyforcongress.org/
……Congress, under the Speakership of Ms. Pelosi has done nothing but protect the status quo of the corporate elite and, in fact, since she has been the Speaker, the situation in the Middle East has grown far worse, with Congress’ help, and recently more of our essential freedoms were given to BushCo by Congress. That is not what we elected them to do!
A great majority of citizens in California’s 8th Congressional district believe Ms. Pelosi has lost touch with the people of this district and America and it’s time for our reps that aren’t doing their jobs by upholding their sworn oaths to the Constitution to receive a wakeup call!
I agree that with over 45 million American uninsured, we need universal health care….. I agree that the people in the administrative branch are corrupt, as are many members of Congress…….
Cindy Sheehan
Candidate For The People
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Hey MPink,
This is the same old song and dance, all sides of the aisle are guilty of it to some extent, it comes with the territory… and your right, she won’t be called on it… that’s part of the problem with the republican party, they ball up in the fetal position and let these unhinged liberals kick away at them,,, makes me sick
speaking of making me sick, Cindy Sheehan? For Congress? Be careful “Cindy” your biting the hand that feeds you….
I have to go throw up now…..
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Bahamut –
1) You didn’t link back to your website so this makes you another hit & run type.
2) Have you read the Constitution of the United States recently? Separation of Church and State is not in the Constitution nor is it in the Bill of Rights.
Study history and you’ll find the majority of the Founding Fathers were religious leaders.
Cindy Sheehan for Congress – I’m racing TRM to the barf bag.
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Beat ya Gary, I sprayed something fierce…
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Cindy Sheehan for congress may be repulsive, but it should be entertaining to watch. 🙂
TRM, both sides are guilty of it but Democrat promised to change that . You make a good point about the GOP, they don’t ever seem to have the balls to call Democrats out when they should be called out.
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Why the hell not? One is no more insane that the other. By the way where is greed on the deadly 7 list? pretty high up, I think…..
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