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""Rep. Randy Cunningham's dramatic fall from power represents more than just a historic case of personal corruption unprecedented in the long history of the Congress. It is also betrayal on a grand scale.
Cunningham betrayed his friends, his constituents, his colleagues and, certainly most important, the U.S. combat troops he so loudly championed.
By steering contracts vital to the Iraq war effort to cronies, he may have put those troops at greater risk by judging contracts more for what they would do for him than for the military.
That – even more than his manifest dishonesty, personal bullying of opponents and slight legislative record – may turn out to be the most shameful legacy of the now-disgraced Republican. "
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/politics/20051201-9999-1n1assess.html
""Rep. Randy Cunningham's dramatic fall from power represents more than just a historic case of personal corruption unprecedented in the long history of the Congress. It is also betrayal on a grand scale.
Cunningham betrayed his friends, his constituents, his colleagues and, certainly most important, the U.S. combat troops he so loudly championed.
By steering contracts vital to the Iraq war effort to cronies, he may have put those troops at greater risk by judging contracts more for what they would do for him than for the military.
That – even more than his manifest dishonesty, personal bullying of opponents and slight legislative record – may turn out to be the most shameful legacy of the now-disgraced Republican. "
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/politics/20051201-9999-1n1assess.html
