It's for the children
Posted at 1:03pm on Dec. 24, 2007 Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-LA) Takes One From the Playbook of Rep. William Jefferson (D-LA)
By Vladimir
What's the deal with educational software?
First it was Mose Jefferson, older brother of Rep. William Jefferson (D-LA), who was implicated in a kickback/bribery scheme between LA-based software firm JRL and the Orleans Parish School Board. That scandal led to the resignation of the chair of the School Board, Ellenese Brooks-Sims, and charges against Ms. Brooks-Sims and Mose Jefferson. (Although the intrepid Congressman may not be implicated in this particular deal, he had tentacles of influence in all phases of local N.O. politics, and was able to steer public dollars to benefit the members of his extended family.)
Now we have the story of Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-LA, natch) shepherding a $2 million contract for educational software, to the benefit of a company whose extended family of contributors gave Sen. Landrieu's campaign $80,000. Pretty good return on investment, I'd say.
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Posted at 11:58am on Dec. 12, 2007 Flowers For Algernon...err, I Mean, Pelosi
average mouse turned genius turned average mouse-all in one session of congress
By haystack
Nancy Pelosi seems hell-bent on reliving Charlie Gordon and his buddy Algernon's lives as detailed in the famous "Flowers for Algernon" novel/novella. After all, in the original piece Algernon was a dumb mouse turned genius turned dumb mouse.
Of course, in Algernon's case it was chemically induced...they don't test for these things in Congress critters so we'll never actually know if ole Nance had help along the way to her miserably failed position as Speaker of the House...but boy howdy has she returned to her original "dumb" status all the same.
I'm reminded of an old song that pays some degree of homage to the original story:
His operation made him smart
He ran the maze so good
But always had some time to be my friend
We used to race and he would win
It always made me mad at him
But he would still be nice even then
Ya know...if you replace the word operation with election, we might be ON to something here.
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