Senator Feinstein resiigns from Military committee

It is a good thing that she resigned, given her conflict of interest, but the quoted sentence is totally inaccurate as the Dems only became the majority party in January, so she would not have been the chairperson until this year.

Then again, the facts are trivial details, right basso?

 

I'd like to know in what capacity Blum 'owns' 1 billion dollars of the following.

Boston Scientific
I'm a bit ignorant in the subject but Boston Scientific is a 21 Billion dollar company with 7.8 Billion dollars in revenue. I doubt 17.8 million (less than .3%) of all sales would cause any sort of positive effect to a shareholder especially with margins.

I don't know anything about Kinetic Concepts.

CB Richard Ellis: This is again an over 7 billion dollar company though Blum's Strategic Group LLC (Whether its his money or investors) owns 200 million dollars worth of this company.


Opinion:
My only point is that it would have to be pretty substantial contracts to positively affect revenues, after margins and costs to actually benefit the stock price enough to side with one firm versus another.

I'm pretty conservative and probably side with Republicans more than Democrats and don't particularly like Feinstien, but I hope there is more to
this than that. As I've seen Cheney and others have been painted with these same brushes, I'd like to know scale before determining culpability.
before when I felt it was silly, I'll

 

So your concern over her conflict of interest is eliminated because of poor wording in a statement as to whether she chaired or was on the committee? That's a fresh perspective. No cred...

 

Here's another politician who needs to undergo extensive investigation by a federal grand jury. If indicted and convicted for channeling money to her husband's company, she should go to jail. What she appears to have done is somewhat akin to insider trading. In the same vein, I still don't understand why the Sandy Berger investigation hasn't gone to a federal grand jury.

 

Uh..."ranking member" means the highest ranked committee member of either the majority or the minority party, no?

I don't see how that sentence, though poorly phrased, is false - if she was in fact the ranking Democrat on the committee for the 5+ years prior to becoming the Chairperson following the Dem takeover.

 

I am amused that you are now so concerned about the impropriety of no bid contracts. Since you have clearly found a new, strong moral center that has never been evident before, will your righteous vengeance spill over into pursuing justice on Cheney's crooked conflict of interest/no bid contracts as well?

Or is this a case of 'any port in a storm'?

 

First- If Feinstein has committed a crime or broke ethics rules in the Senate she should be punished accordingly.

Second-It is priceless to see basso and tj lining behind a report funded by The Nation and citing Salon as a source.

 

Everyone take note how Basso completely ignores his complete ownage here.



Ready Basso..........................ahhhhhh, you have been officially debunked on your own thread. Hyprocrite.

 

This is a serious matter and can't be dismissed off. One can argue that Republicans have done worse but that doesn't excuse her one iota. This seriously stinks. Not that she had any credibility with me beforehand, but this should shove her public profile way down. The next time she gets on a high horse, someone should shove this stinky mess back in her face and tell her to sit down and shut up! Or better yet, she should do the right thing and resign.

 

Reading comprehension. Most of us learned it in 1st-3rd grade, but apparently they don't teach it at Rice.

I never said that my concern was eliminated, I think it is a good thing that she resigned given her conflict of interest.

I was just making the comment that the writer should be more accurate in his writing.

 

I think it is refreshing to see her resign, prior to a cover-up. I got so used to seeing GOP congressmen not resign, and try and use their power to hush everything up that it was sickening.

So far at least, it doesn't appear like there was a cover-up attempt, and she did the right thing by resigning.

Of course there could be new information that comes out that she did try and cover it up, and it wouldn't surprise me. But for now, I am pleased.

 

Agree. Conflicts of interests are a huge problem with politicians and I don't think Fienstein should get a pass anymore than any other politicians. I remember that right after Mark Dayton (former Democrat Senator from MN) won his election one of the first things he did was sell all of his stocks. While this was a radical move it did show that he was serious about avoiding conflicts of interest. That radical of a move might not be needed but at the min. Legislators should refrain from serving on committees where they or their immediate family has a financial stake.