On MSNBC right now .... Allen and Private Jets and Perks

[Stinky The Clown]

A story of Allen's use of private jets

Mentions too of Oxley, Blunt, Lott, Frist, Delay .... and of course, Harry Reid.

[MADem]

1. Notice how they threw Harry in there, but said that he took A flight

Not many, "a" flight.

Dig, dig, dig...gotta make it look bipartisan!!!!

[Stinky The Clown]

5. Moral equivalency and fair and balance, dontcha know?

Can't a one-sided scandal, now can we?

[MADem]

9. Here are the numbers

Frist’s counterpart, Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid of Nevada, also recently flew on a corporate jet. He flew on a jet owned by the MGM/Mirage casino firm to get to a Democratic dinner in Salt Lake City.

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My, my, my.....A COPORATE JET!!! Let's compare and contrast, now:

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Among some of Congress’s most frequent fliers: Rep. Michael Oxley, R-Ohio, has taken 94 corporate flights over the last five years; Rep. Roy Blunt, R-Mo., 104 flights; and Sen. Trent Lott, R-Miss., 114 flights.

The link to the NBC story is in my post, below.

[Virginia Dare]

2. George Allen?

details please, he's my Senator, and I feel a nasty e-mail flying off my fingers.

[Stinky The Clown]

6. It was kinda liight on details, but essentially they looked into

some records on Allen and it seems he has this .... uh .... penchant for private jets owned by corporate america.

Of course, this also seems to be legal, according to the woman who reported it (I know her name, just can't think of it right now .... Lisa Meyers?).

on edit ... I looked for a link on both nbc and msnbc ... nada.

[MADem]

8. Here's the link to the story AND video

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12616010/

WASHINGTON - Virginia Sen. George Allen, a potential presidential candidate, recently boarded a corporate jet that flew him to the Republican Southern Leadership Conference in Memphis and back to Washington the following day. Despite the availability of commercial flights, Allen says he had no other alternative but to fly on a corporate-owned jet that weekend.

“All I got to say,” he told NBC News, “is the reason I do it is I have a very busy schedule and need to get to a lot of different places.”

Allen's staff said the Republican senator needed to use the private jet — owned by a successful Virginia corporation — to get back to Washington in time for a press dinner and an appearance on NBC’s “Meet the Press” the next day. Allen spoke at the Memphis GOP conference early Saturday morning and departed Memphis for Washington on the corporate jet at 11:13 a.m.
But NBC found two commercial flights that would have gotten him back to Washington in time for his dinner. A commercial U.S. Airways flight would have left Memphis at 12:30 p.m., bringing him into Dulles at 3:32 p.m. A Northwest Airlines flight would have departed Memphis at 2:17 p.m. and arrived at National Airport in Washington at 5:17 p.m.

The owner of the jet is Glade Knight, the CEO of Apple Hospitality, a real estate investment firm from Richmond, Va. Knight tells NBC that Allen’s campaign staff called and asked to use his aircraft. “It was really to accommodate their needs, which I was pleased to do. And I think he’s a terrific person,” Knight says of Allen. “If it will help him, I’m in favor of it, and it certainly complies with the laws.”


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[Stinky The Clown]

10. Thanks! Good get.

[Virginia Dare]

11. Thanks, and screw him...

I'm going to fire off an angry constituent e-mail about the seeming improprieties of this, and was he flying on official Virginia business, b.s. etc.

I really really detest that man.

[cboy4]

3. I saw this story on NBC Nightly News last night and before

they even mentioned one name, I said to myself that it was going to be yet ANOTHER REPUBLICAN scandal.

Sure, Harry Reid's name was mentioned, but otherwise, it was one repuke after another.

Why are they so corrupt?

[bpj1962]

4. Private Flights

I would like to know who is on those private flights. I am sure that some of these asshats have become members of the mile high club at taxpayers expense. If any campaign funds or public money was used we should be able to get a flight manifest.

[Stinky The Clown]

7. The reporter mentioned this aspect of it ........

.... she said there's usually at least one lobbyist on the flight. After all ... they paid for the face time.