In keeping with the holier than thou New Hampshire Democrat Party “rules” committee’s abhorrence of money from ‘corrupt’ sources, we bring you Chuck Schumer, New York Senator, Chairman of the Senate Rules Committee, and committee member on Banking, Finance, and judiciary. He has also stained Paul Hodes already questionable reputation with dirty money–$10,000.00 dollars worth of it.
Remember all those Wall Street firms Hodes was standing against? You know, the Wall Street vs. Main Street smackdown. The big bank vs. small bank rhetoric. Well Hodes can probably thank them for the $10,000.00 dollars he got from Schumer. Senator Schumer gets ‘fed’ by all of the bailed out boys and girls (and those in between), including an eye-popping career sum from SEC violators Goldman Sachs. Goldman has shoveled almost half a million of its greedy dollars to Schumer– 486,000.00. And Schumer’s total career “take” from the evil anti-main Street banking crowd is a paltry $7,000,000.00 million.
Can you hear the crickets over at the NHDP headquarters. Loud little bastards aren’t they?
Besides Hodes, Schumer also gave money to the disgraced Chris "countrywide" Dodd and that ridiculous House democrat Eric Massa who didn’t send sexually suggestive emails to staffers he actually groped them. And look, there’s even a Charlie Rangel connection. Hodes won’t give his dirty-Rangel money back, and Schumer is giving dirty Rangel more dirty money for him to share. And he is still planning to give the ethically challenged Rangel a Birthday party fundraiser. I wonder if Paul is invited?
Schumer and his Golman Sachs Tumor also took money from people like soon to be former Senator and future lobbyist Byron Dorgan whose wife already lobbies for companies on issues Dorgan votes on regularly. Not illegal, but as CBS news wondered, is it ethical?
Just another fine example of Paul’s corrupt political peer group, and the kind of money he’ll take–any kind at all–to secure a place in the ruling political class from which he and his hypocrite cronies can then tell us what to do and how to behave.
Just another cloudy day in the Hodespocrisy.
Photo Credit: NY Daily News
Hodespocrisy Part 2, part 1, and the preface
