I'm glad my candidate for President isn't in a picture with Mitchell Wade

[billbuckhead]

[11 Bravo]

1. Got context?

[Mass]

2. When was this picture taken?

[bluestateguy]

3. Who the hell is Mitchell Wade?

Didn't he play for the A's in the late 70's.

Oh, that was Mitchell PAGE. Sorry.

[billbuckhead]

4. Mitchell Wade is one of the people who bribed Duke Cunningham.

Workers say MZM founder pressed them to give to PAC

By Marcus Stern
COPLEY NEWS SERVICE
June 22, 2005

WASHINGTON – Mitchell Wade, founder of the defense contracting firm MZM Inc., pressured employees to donate to a political fund that benefited Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham and other members of Congress, according to three former employees of the company.

Wade, who took a $700,000 loss on the purchase of Cunningham's Del Mar home and allows the congressman to stay on his yacht while in Washington, demanded employees make donations to the company's political action committee, MZM PAC, they said.

"By the spring of '02, Mitch was twisting employees' arms to donate to his MZM PAC," said one former employee. "We were called in and told basically either donate to the MZM PAC or we would be fired."
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