For fourth straight year, Yarmuth donates salary!!

[era veteran]

For the fourth straight year, U.S. Rep. John Yarmuth, D-Ky., has donated his Congressional salary to over two dozen Louisville charities. It’s a practice Yarmuth has been doing since taking office in 2006.


UPDATE: LEO Weekly asked Yarmuth’s office if any other member of Congress is currently giving away even a portion of their salary to organizations back in their districts. A spokesman said they’ve searched for any similar contributions and haven’t found any who do.

That’s disheartening when you consider there are 261 millionaires in Congress, who in 2009 had a median wealth that reached $911,510.


We send one good man to Washington. Right ON

Some others should emulate John.

edited to add link

http://fatlip.leoweekly.com/2011/01/31/for-fourth-strai...

Crossposted from the Kentucky forum.

[dkf]

1. Hey I'm glad he is rich enough to independently run a campaign. Good for him.

Yarmuth declined to say how much money he inherited after the 1975 death of his father, Stanley Yarmuth, a founder of the conglomerate National Industries, which was later sold.

He said his grandfather, Samuel Klein, a civic leader and wealthy banker, and his mother bequeathed bank stock to him over the years -- it's now BB&T stock valued from $500,000 up to $1 million on his report.

Yarmuth said the vast majority of his wealth comes from three businesses -- LEO, and the two others operated by his brothers. "My two brothers and I worked very hard to build successful companies that had nothing to do with inheritance," he said.

His two largest assets, listed in the financial report as being valued from $1 million to $5 million each, are a 150-restaurant chain, Sonny's, based in Orlando, Fla., and operated by Robert Yarmuth, and Almost Family, a home-health-care company based in Louisville and headed by William Yarmuth.

http://northupforcongress.blogspot.com/2006/10/northup-attacks-yarmuths-wealth.html

[Angry Dragon]

2. Just goes to show how greedy some are in government

Good for this man