Where Is The Outrage, Junior?

by: huntsu

Mon Oct 23, 2006 at 01:04:17 PM EDT

A real estate agent rented Menendez's childhood home to a non-profit community group from Hudson County at slightly below average market rate.  Menendez later assisted the non-profit in obtaining federal funds to open up a health center for poor and uninsured Hudson County residents.  The community group continued to rent the property from Menendez, and stayed in the property even after Menendez sold it.

Really.  That's the whole story.  There's really nothing else to it.

Yet Junior is running ads on TV and radio claiming that this is proof Menendez is corrupt, and Junior is outraged!  Outraged, I say!

Yet he is strangely silent about this deal where President Bush's brother and parents are profiting off of No Child Left Behind.

"A company headed by President Bush's brother and partly owned by his parents is benefiting from Republican connections and federal dollars targeted for economically disadvantaged students under the No Child Left Behind Act.

"With investments from his parents, George H.W. and Barbara Bush, and other backers, Neil Bush's company, Ignite! Learning, has placed its products in 40 U.S. school districts and now plans to market internationally.

"At least 13 U.S. school districts have used federal funds available through the president's signature education reform, the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, to buy Ignite's portable learning centers." (LA Times)

Start being outraged by this, Junior, and we'll maybe buy your outrage that Bob Menendez is helping the poor get health care.