Tuesday, May 1, 2007

Sen. Feinstein Conflict-of-Interest

I'm in California at the moment. Yesterday afternoon I was listening to award-winning talk show host, Tom Sullivan, on KFBK AM 1530 in Sacramento. He reported that California's senior Senator, Diane Feinstein served 6 years as the ranking Democrat on a Senate sub-committee that routed over a billion dollars in government contracts to firms with which her husband, Richard C. Blum, was either associated or controlled.

As evidence for these allegations, he cited this article by David Keene published in The Hill, a non-partisan newspaper focusing on the U.S. Congress. Keene reports that Feinstein did not recuse herself from legislation which directly benefited her husband. Maybe the most ironic fact Keene relates is that Feinstein now chairs the Senate Rules Committee which supervises senatorial ethics. Isn't that like having Bill Clinton teach a girls' Sunday school class or Ted Kennedy be a lifeguard?

My reaction: Can you say "Martha Stewart?" Are you surprised the 'unbiased' MSM have no interest in this story? Can you imagine DiFi doing the perp walk?