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Conrad-- Its Montana you are supposed to Represent.....

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Conrad-- Do you remember where Montana is? :???: :lol: We're the state north of the land of fruits and nuts- and we're west of the state where you got paid all the campaign money to fund the richest Indian tribe in the nation.....But I guess once you've sold your soul to the highest bidder anythings OK.. :wink: :lol: :lol:


Burns fundraiser to be held in Napa Valley
By The Associated Press

WASHINGTON -- Donors to Montana Sen. Conrad Burns will toast the Republican on a Napa Valley, Calif., wine tour this summer.

The July 15 fundraiser, scheduled a month after the Republican primary, is charging political action committees $3,000 and individuals $2,000 to attend.

The invitation, posted Wednesday by the Washington-based blog Hotline On Call, refers to the "2nd Annual Sen. Conrad Burns Napa Valley Wine Tour," and asks those interested to "register quickly -- limited number of spots available."

"We're going to continue to raise money to combat the money coming into Montana from East Coast liberals and Hollywood elites," said Burns campaign spokeswoman Sarah Pompei.
 
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Conrad-- Its Montana- not Maryland or Virginia--Montana thats where who you're supposed to be representing- unless your daughters appointment had something to do with it :???:

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Burns got contract; daughter got post
Senator's staff won't comment on $1M secured for tech firm
By JENNIFER MCKEE
Gazette State Bureau

HELENA -- Republican Sen. Conrad Burns announced a $1 million federal contract in 2003 for a company that employed his former top aide as a lobbyist and that put Burns' daughter on its board of advisers two months after the senator announced the money.

The contract was pitched as a way of bringing high-tech research to Montana's universities through a company called Compressus, a Washington, D.C., software firm. Officials at both Montana State University and the University of Montana said this week they have no record of the schools ever getting any of the money.

Spokesmen for Burns refused to answer questions about the senator's role in securing the money.

Burns announced a $1 million federal contract for Compressus in a March 2003 press release. The money was awarded to the U.S. Air Force for research and development. Compressus got the $1 million contract to demonstrate its software for the Air Force, according to the release. UM and MSU were to conduct the research. The Burns press release said the president of Compressus worked with Burns to bring the research to MSU and UM.
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Curtis wrote in an e-mail to the State Bureau that the contract was with the U.S. Army, not the Air Force. He said the contract was awarded in November of 2002 and was for $784,000, not the $1 million listed in Burns' release.

He said the demonstration project ended up being a success.

Curtis would not say which lawmaker secured the money for the company, saying those questions should be referred to lawmakers. Burns representatives did not respond to those questions.

He said the Army later decided to move the research to Maryland and Virginia, abandoning the plan to conduct the research in Montana.
 
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Must be warming up in D.C.--Could be a HOT summer :wink: :lol: :lol:

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Embattled Burns retains lawyer
By The Associated Press

WASHINGTON -- Montana Sen. Conrad Burns has retained a lawyer who specializes in white-collar crime and congressional investigations, his campaign confirmed Tuesday.

Campaign spokesman Jason Klindt said Burns has hired Ralph Caccia, a Washington partner with the law firm Powell Goldstein.

Montana Democrats have played up Burns links to disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff, who pleaded guilty as part of a federal corruption investigation earlier this year. Abramoff is cooperating with prosecutors investigating influence-peddling on Capitol Hill.

Burns received about $150,000 in campaign donations from Abramoff and his associates, which he has since donated or returned. In March, Abramoff told Vanity Fair magazine that his lobbying firm got "every appropriation we wanted" from Burns' Senate committee, adding that his staff members were "as close as they could be" with the Montana Republican's staff. Burns has maintained that he was not influenced by Abramoff and says he has not been contacted by the Justice Department.

Klindt said Caccia "has helped review all the facts in this matter."

Caccia, who did not immediately return an e-mail seeking comment, "focuses his practice in the area of white-collar crime, the defense of government enforcement actions, political and congressional investigations, corporate internal investigations and antitrust," according to his firm's Web site.

The Legal Times first reported that Burns hired Caccia.
 
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Conrad must be suffering from the same hallucinations that Hillary had when she said they were picking on Billy because of a "right wing conspiracy"...I think a couple years in D.C. and they lose all concept of morals and legality.....

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Burns may use campaign funds to pay for lawyer
By JENNIFER MCKEE
Gazette State Bureau

HELENA -- Sen. Conrad Burns said Wednesday he hasn't decided how he will pay for a white-collar criminal defense lawyer he has hired.

Burns told the Gazette State Bureau on Wednesday he's unsure what fund sources would be used to pay Ralph Caccia, a Washington, D.C., lawyer specializing in white-collar criminal defense and congressional investigations, among other things, according to Caccia's Web site.

The Legal Times first reported Monday that Burns had hired Caccia.

Jason Klindt, a Burns spokesman, told the Associated Press on Tuesday that Burns had hired Caccia to "review the facts" in the Jack Abramoff matter. Klindt said Wednesday that Burns has hired Caccia's firm as his personal lawyer but may choose to have his re-election campaign pay the bill "due to the partisan nature of it," referring to Democrats' attempts to link Burns to Abramoff. "That's one of the things you do back here in circumstances such as this," Burns said Wednesday of hiring a lawyer. "It's nice to have another set of eyes and ears."
 

Disagreeable

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Oops.

Looks like it’s Tester or Burns as Morrison bites the dust. Long article; link below.

“Earlier this month, newspapers across the state reported that State Auditor John Morrison had a 1998 affair with the wife to be of a man his office later investigated for securities fraud. Superficially, the story is that Morrison, a Democratic U.S. Senate hopeful, once had an extramarital affair, but he says it didn’t influence his work.”

http://missoulanews.com/News/News.asp?no=5658

By the way, that's supposed to be one reason Tom Delay resigned from the House: he wanted to use his campaign money to pay his lawyers. I think that's a rip off. When I donate money to someone, I expect them to use it to campaign, not pay their lawyers! We need to talk to that Republican Congress and get that fixed. :lol:
 

Faster horses

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Dis, I suggest you let someone do your talking for you. If you speak to them as you do is on this forum, all you will do is tick them off royally...
and not gain a thing. :lol:
 

Disagreeable

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Faster horses said:
Dis, I suggest you let someone do your talking for you. If you speak to them as you do is on this forum, all you will do is tick them off royally...
and not gain a thing. :lol:

Ah, no way. I enjoy speaking out, especially on this forum. Besides, I know you'd miss my informative posts. :lol:
 
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Dis- As far as I'm concerned Morrison is just another professional politician that would probably be not much better than Burns....

Not sure who I want to win- its going to be a decision to vote for whoever is the lesser of all evils--but the one thing certain is that no matter who wins- Montana loses :cry: .....

Conrad should have stepped down and let the Republican party put up a viable candidate....
 

Disagreeable

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Oldtimer said:
Dis- As far as I'm concerned Morrison is just another professional politician that would probably be not much better than Burns....

Not sure who I want to win- its going to be a decision to vote for whoever is the lesser of all evils--but the one thing certain is that no matter who wins- Montana loses :cry: .....

Conrad should have stepped down and let the Republican party put up a viable candidate....

I didn't think Tester was a lifelong politician? Can he beat Burns?
 
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Disagreeable said:
Oldtimer said:
Dis- As far as I'm concerned Morrison is just another professional politician that would probably be not much better than Burns....

Not sure who I want to win- its going to be a decision to vote for whoever is the lesser of all evils--but the one thing certain is that no matter who wins- Montana loses :cry: .....

Conrad should have stepped down and let the Republican party put up a viable candidate....

I didn't think Tester was a lifelong politician? Can he beat Burns?

Whoever wins the Democrat nomination can beat Burns- his support is fading fast except with some of his big money cronies....Don't know that much about Tester except that he is a farmer/rancher and that he co-sponsored the Montana M-COOL law when he was State Senator...At least thats a couple of plus's....... Tester has had a tough time raising campaign money because he isn't that tied to the political scene- but that would probably change if he wins the primary-- I'm hearing a lot of "not who I will vote for- but who I'm going to not vote for" and most of it centers around Burns-- much of which is coming from lifelong strong Republicans...
 
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