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Friday, October 15, 2010

Barney Frank in Ethics Violatons

When a congressman accepts a free vacation on a private jet to the virgin islands, and then pays the giver $200MM in bailout money, what do you call it? There are plenty of reasons to vote out Mr. Frank - I think the biggest one is that he is just plain incompetent. But regardless of how you feel about his competence, isn't accepting this gift over the line? Frank says he did nothing wrong. But if he can't see the problem with what he did, then his judgement is whacked. Even if Frank in fact did nothing wrong, it give the appearance that he paid back his benefactor with a large sum of money. At best, this is extremely poor judgement, and at worst it's a payoff. Either way, why would people vote for the guy? Please Newton and Wellesley - consider an alternative to this guy!