Addicted to Porn: How Members of Congress Benefit from Pornography

[Ian David]

CREW TO RELEASE NEW REPORT THURSDAY ON
CONGRESSIONAL MEMBERS AND PORNOGRAPHY

News Conference, March 10, 11:00 am to Release:
Addicted to Porn: How Members of Congress Benefit from Pornography

WASHINGTON, DC  Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) will release its new report, Addicted to Porn: How Members of Congress Benefit from Pornography at a news conference on Thursday, March 10 at 11:00 am at 11 Dupont Circle, Second Floor Conference Room.
http://www.citizensforethics.org/activities/campaign.php?view=31

CREWs report details Members of Congress who publicly rail against the evils of pornography but accept political contributions from corporations and their executives who make money on pornography. Addicted to Porn lists members contributions by name and corporation from the 2002 through the 2004 political cycles. The report also includes quotes from members decrying pornography and indecency.

Hypocritical does not begin to describe Members of Congress who vilify pornography, call for decency standards and then turn around and fill their campaign coffers with contributions from corporations and executives profiting from pornography, Melanie Sloan, executive director of CREW said today. Our report, Addicted to Porn, will expose those Congressional members that choose to accept contributions from sources that profit from the very material they are railing against.

Frederick Lane, the author of Obscene Profits: The Entrepreneurs of Pornography in the Cyber-age will also discuss how mainstream corporations benefit from pornography ventures.

WHO: Melanie Sloan, Executive Director, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), Frederick Lane, author of Obscene Profits: The Entrepreneurs of Pornography in the Cyber Age

WHAT: News Conference to release Addicted to Pornography: How Members of Congress Benefit from Pornography

WHERE: 11 Dupont Circle, Second Floor Conference Room

WHEN: 11:00 am, Thursday, March 10, 2005

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[housewolf]

1. Here's the list of hypocrits (includes Lieberman!)

Here's the list:

Members of Congress Who Receive Contributions from Corporations and Executives who Sell Pornography

Total (Pornography) Contributions Received
2002 2004 Cycles Total
Joe Barton (R-TX) $3,000 $31,00 $34,000
Chris Cannon (R-UT) $9,500 $14,500 $24,000
Barbara Cubin (R-WY) $2,000 $15,000 $17,000
Tom DeLay (R-TX) $3,000 $21,000 $24,000
Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) $5,500 $7,500 $11,000
Michael Oxley (R-OH) $7,000 $17,500 $24,500
Charles Pickering (R-MS) $33,000 $19,500 $52,000
Joseph Pitts (R-PA) $6,500 $9,500 $16,000
Bart Stupak (D-MI) $18,000 $9,000 $27,000
Fred Upton (R-MI) $24,000 $32,500 $56,500
Heather Wilson (R-NM) $26,000 $21,000 $47,000


Senate
Christopher “Kit” Bond (R-MO) $2,000 $18,500 $20,500
Sam Brownback (KS) $1,000 $16,000 $17,000
Joe Lieberman (D-CT) $0 $16,200 $16,200
John McCain (R-AZ) $0 $46,000 $46,000



Members of Congress Publicly Revile Pornography - see the pdf report for the details of their public reviling of pornography


http://www.citizensforethics.org/filelibrary/2005310_addicted_to_porn.pdf

[gratuitous]

2. Remember, these aren't just your usual corrupt crooks

These are members of Congress who have tried to further their careers by denouncing "pornography" and "indecency" while taking thousands of dollars in campaign contributions from purveyors of the very smut they condemn.