Lucky for John Murtha the main stream media does not seem interested in scandals having to do with anyone of the leftist persuasion. Especially leftists who have stepped off a helicopter for a couple of minutes in Vietnam so they can apply for medals to use for political power later in their careers. Otherwise, this would be all over the news.

Unlucky for Murtha there are blogs these days and so little secrets like this have a way of getting at least a little exposure to the light. I certainly want to do what little I can to help with shinning lights in Murtha’s dark places.

It turns out that tapes have turned up from the ABSCAM scandal of the 1970s in which Murtha is negotiating with undercover agents over bribes. While he wasn’t indicted, he was named by the FBI as an ‘unindicted co-conspirator’.

For most of his career, Murtha has managed to keep his corruption under wraps and go about the business of enriching himself and his friends at the expense of his constiuency while flying under the radar. But ever since he declared our troops are ‘cold blooded murderers’ he has gained more name recognition which inevitably results in the exposure of his corruption.

He didn’t seem too worried about closer scrutiny. But then, he’s been in Congress for 32 years or more, so he probably feels invincible. That being the case, why should he worry about his corruption being exposed? He apparently thinks he’s going to be House Majority Leader after his imagined assistance in helping the dems win control of the House this fall.

But back to Murtha and ABSCAM.

I didn’t know anything about these tapes until I saw David Holman of The American Spectator on Hannity and Colmes last night. The media just really hasn’t been that interested in this corrupt congressman. Murtha Must Go has a transcript from the show.

The full ABSCAM video is here.

This is what I wonder …. is this what the residents of the 12th District of Pennsylvania are paying for? Is this who they want representing them in Congress? Looks to me that Murtha is just in it for what he can get, and he’s gotten a lot.

Here’s the option to Murtha. Diane Irey is closing the gap in the polls. I believe she has a chance. Let’s help her all we can. Find out about the polls here, here, here and here.

More at:
You Don’t Know Jack
FreePA
Rush Limbaugh
The American Spectator
Outside the Beltway
Robert Novak
More on ways in which Murtha has enriched himself through his position.

Read about the REAL Jack Murtha.

Last June, the Los Angeles Times reported how the ranking member on the defense appropriations subcommittee has a brother, Robert Murtha, whose lobbying firm represents 10 companies that received more than $20 million from last year’s defense spending bill. “Clients of the lobbying firm KSA Consulting — whose top officials also include former congressional aide Carmen V. Scialabba, who worked for Rep. Murtha as a congressional aide for 27 years — received a total of $20.8 million from the bill,” the L.A. Times reported.

In early 2004, according to Roll Call, Mr. Murtha “reportedly leaned on U.S. Navy officials to sign a contract to transfer the Hunters Point Shipyard to the city of San Francisco.” Laurence Pelosi, nephew of House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, at the time was an executive of the company which owned the rights to the land. The same article also reported how Mr. Murtha has been behind millions of dollars worth of earmarks in defense appropriations bills that went to companies owned by the children of fellow Pennsylvania Democrat, Rep. Paul Kanjorski. Meanwhile, the Center for Responsive Politics, a nonpartisan campaign-finance watchdog group, lists Mr. Murtha as the top recipient of defense industry dollars in the current 2006 election cycle.

As Rep. Joe Wilson, South Carolina Republican, has said, “If there is a potential pattern where Congressman Murtha has helped other Democrats secure appropriations that also benefited relatives of those members, I believe this would be something that merits further review by the ethics committee.”

It’s odd that the media, which has been fairly unbiased in going after corrupt politicians recently, has gone silent on Mr. Murtha’s questionable actions. Or maybe it isn’t. Since December, Mr. Murtha has become the darling of the antiwar crowd, and, as we’ve seen with other such darlings, scrutinizing their behavior is considered disrespectful. But as we’re on the subject, few might recall that after the massive 1980 Abscam scandal, Mr. Murtha was named by the FBI as an “unindicted co-conspirator.”

Maybe the next time the new Jack Murtha thinks up another big idea someone can ask him about the old Jack Murtha.

UPDATE: The PC Free Zone has more. Apparently, Murtha saved himself from being indicted by testifying against the others.

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