{"id":5964,"date":"2005-12-01T10:49:20","date_gmt":"2005-12-01T15:49:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/?p=5964"},"modified":"2005-12-01T10:49:20","modified_gmt":"2005-12-01T15:49:20","slug":"cunninghams-radioactive-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/cunninghams-radioactive-money\/","title":{"rendered":"Cunningham’s radioactive money"},"content":{"rendered":"

Earlier in the fall, after Tom DeLay was indicted (twice), a series of his Republican colleagues announced they wouldn’t keep campaign contributions the former Majority Leader had given them. In all, four House Republicans<\/a> — Reps. Jeb Bradley (N.H.), Heather Wilson (N.M.), Kenny Hulshof (Mo.), and Steven LaTourette (Ohio) — either gave back what they saw as DeLay’s “tainted” money or donated it to charity.<\/p>\n

But if DeLay’s money is tainted, what should we call ex-Rep. Duke Cunningham’s money?<\/p>\n

In New Jersey, my friend Nathan and his “Blue 7th PAC” insisted that Rep. Mike Ferguson had no business keeping a contribution from a disgraced former lawmaker. Even better yet, it worked<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Less than 24 hours after Blue 7th PAC demanded that Congressman Mike Ferguson return a $1000 contribution he received from disgraced Rep. Randy “Duke” Cunningham, the Inside Edge is reporting that he will contribute the money to a charity.<\/p>\n

Congressman Michael Ferguson plans to contribute the $1,000 campaign contribution he received from corrupt ex-Congressman Duke Cunningham to an in-district charity. Cunningham resigned his House seat yesterday after admitting that he took $2.4 million in bribes. Blue 7th PAC, a group that is seeking to oust Ferguson next year, called for the return of the Cunningham contribution yesterday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It may be part of a trend. In Connecticut, Rep. Rob Simmons (R), who received $9,000 from Friends of Duke Cunningham, announced that he too will donate that amount<\/a> to a local charity.<\/p>\n

That’s two, do I hear three? It looks like there are about two dozen other Republicans in Washington — including someone named George W. Bush — who received generous donations<\/a> from Cunningham in recent election cycles. Do they plan to follow Ferguson’s and Simmons’ lead?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Earlier in the fall, after Tom DeLay was indicted (twice), a series of his Republican colleagues announced they wouldn’t keep campaign contributions the former Majority Leader had given them. In all, four House Republicans — Reps. Jeb Bradley (N.H.), Heather Wilson (N.M.), Kenny Hulshof (Mo.), and Steven LaTourette (Ohio) — either gave back what they […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5964\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}