Conrad Burns cashes in.
By on Jan 10th, 2007 at 3:30 pm
Conrad Burns cashes in.
“Former Sen. Conrad Burns (R-MT), whose ties to lobbyists helped sink his re-election bid, has landed at a new workplace: a Washington lobbying firm,” the AP reports. “Burns will work for his former chief of staff, Leo Giacometto, at the firm Gage, which has lobbied for Montana interests and several national technology companies, often making headlines for its connections to Burns and his staff.” Both Burns and Giacometto are under FBI investigation for earmark improprieties.
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Old Repuke senators don’t die…they just become lobbyists.
January 10th, 2007 at 3:34 pmshocker. the thing that pisses me off is that he almost kept his seat in congress
January 10th, 2007 at 3:38 pmSo conrad’s not going back to Montana? Well color me shocked!
January 10th, 2007 at 3:39 pmTestor may have lost some fingers, but
Burns has lost his mind.
Let’s hope the FBI hooks Conrad up with Jackoff.
January 10th, 2007 at 3:40 pmSoon.
how many times can you recycle a politician before there’s nothing left!
January 10th, 2007 at 3:42 pmtypical corrupt criminal. oh but they show him of course
next to the american flag… a flawless sacred holy christian
who was granted gods will to be a public servant of the
people
enough to make me…….. GET RID OF ALL THESE CRIMINALS
REPRESENTING CORRUPTION AS THE AMERICAN WAY
and get some real public servants that will serve the
people in a honest and ethical nature.
we can start by impeaching Bush also :)
January 10th, 2007 at 3:44 pmthere is two posts up……
so montana also passed a law while boooootin coooked burns azzzzzz out that says NO congressman can cash in on any lobbying for 2 years.
sooorrrry
January 10th, 2007 at 3:50 pmSo Burns lost his Senate seat in part because of his ties to lobbyists, but he decided to go work for a lobbying firm known for its ties to people like Burns (which is what cost him his job in the first place). Who are they going to corrupt now that you and your chief of staff work for them, Burnsie?
Does he still expect people to think he hasn’t lost his mind?
January 10th, 2007 at 3:51 pmWhat amazs me is there are people that work at Gage. Guess there is a price to any conscience.
January 10th, 2007 at 3:58 pmpost #7 shows a criminal who lost his senate seat, then admits
January 10th, 2007 at 4:03 pmto his crime through his revolving door ties, why isn’t this
criminal among the 1000’s of others ousted for life to have
anything to do with the public servant sector… the lobbyist
firm should be blacklisted and banned while burns should never
ever have anything to do with laws, trusted servants —
sounds like a leech to me
and of course he’s represented by the american flag — now i
understand exactly what the revolving door and corruption is
Isn’t “earmark improprieties” an oxymoron?
January 10th, 2007 at 4:08 pmFolks, I wouldn’t worry much about this. As far as I can tell, Mr Burns doesn’t stay awake very often. If he is awake, you can simply unplug him and he will go back to sleep.
January 10th, 2007 at 4:12 pmhow many times can you recycle a politician before there’s nothing left!
Comment by hil
This kind of recycling is bad for the environment.
January 10th, 2007 at 4:48 pmJust can’t get his paws off the leevers of power.
January 10th, 2007 at 4:49 pmGood – the Federal Marshals will know where to find all of them when it’s time for the perp-walk.
January 10th, 2007 at 5:30 pmSo let’s see, are they going to pay him to be critical of heroic firefighters???
January 10th, 2007 at 5:31 pmsmart guys lobbyists, hire a guy that goes to jail real soon. they must be looking for recognition from the criminals in DC. sort of a watering hole with the lions at bay?
January 10th, 2007 at 5:38 pmwhaddya bet he has no severance policy, on week to week pay
and a ton of other disclaimers?
#10
montana folks wanted a ban period but that wasn’t brought to the table and constitutionally, i believe, was going to tred a delicate line. and the simple fact that he hasn’t been charged with anything criminally.
plain and simple the government can do what it wants, when, where, how and why without anyone governing them with the door wide open.
January 10th, 2007 at 6:30 pmthis kind of snake oil politics is enough to make me …..
the very people entrusted with why we pay for service
instead to the private sector with their ties to totally
corrupted entrusted policy makers, no wonder everything
the government does is a mess, just take new orleans, or fda or
epa or it seems all the wonderful government services that we
so despertely need and guess what……. CORRUPTION
burns has been corrupted for years and goes through the revolving door
democratic congress…. right it won’t be any different
now can we please talk about serving the people in a reciprocal quality
January 10th, 2007 at 7:55 pmmanner… oh i forgot that got corrupted too