Rep. Jones(R - NC) exploits Dept. Of Homeland Security for politics.

[Kbick]

Year after deed transfer, lighthouse remains center of debate
BY SANDY SEMANS, SENTINEL STAFF
http://obsentinel.womacknewspapers.com/articles/2004/08/03/top_stories/1lighthouse.txt

While Homeland Security head Tom Ridge works to thwart terrorists' plan to attack locations in New York City, the agency is using some of its resources to probe into the financial accounts of the Outer Banks Conservationists.

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Although the deed conveying ownership was finally recorded in September 2003, the tug-of-war over the fate of the historic light tower has continued. The Office of the Inspector General of Homeland Security has been tasked with conducting a financial review of how the Conservationists used money collected for climbing the lighthouse during the years that it leased the structure from the Coast Guard to restore the light tower

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The financial review, the latest in a string of reviews which have identified no wrong doing, was requested by U.S. Rep. Walter B. Jones, R-3rd District, who, although a sponsor of the National Historic Lighthouse Preservation Act (NHLPA) of 2000 which was to take politics out of the preservation and ownership of lighthouses, vowed that Currituck Beach Lighthouse would be conveyed to Currituck County

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If you would like to help get rid of Walter "Freedom Fries" Jones, you can donate to his underdog opponent Democrat Roger Eaton.

http://www.eatonforcongress.com/

[saigon68]

1. BIG BROTHER

IS WATCHING YOU

[gratuitous]

2. Hey, if it's good enough for Tom Delay

Why shouldn't every Republican congressman get a gratis use of Homeland Security for a pet project? After all, it's not like the department has anything better to do than track down missing Democratic legislators in Texas, or look at the funding of a group preserving an historic lighthouse.