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   On 3/13/2015 3:24 PM, Joe Cooper wrote:   
   > A popular Illinois congressman once considered a rising star in the   
   > Republican party is in deep trouble for reportedly using taxpayer money   
   > to fund an extravagant lifestyle that includes stays at luxurious hotels,   
   > world travel, expensive cars and private jet rides to concerts and pro   
   > sporting events.   
   >   
   > The lawmaker’s name is Aaron Schock and he’s only 33, but he’s a   
   seasoned   
   > politician who should have known better than to use public funds as a   
   > personal piggy bank. For six years he’s represented a working-class   
   > district in Peoria, Illinois in the U.S. House. One national media report   
   > says he had a meteoric rise from a local school board to one of the top   
   > fundraisers in the House Republican Conference. But this month the   
   > congressman was forced to hire a “crisis communications firm” and two   
   > prominent defense attorneys. In a biting editorial, his hometown   
   > newspaper blasts him for ripping off taxpayers to fund “five-star lodging   
   > and fancy dining with celebrities across the globe, from London to Saudi   
   > Arabia to an exclusive golf course in Maryland…”   
   >   
   > Schock also blew $40,000 from public coffers to redecorate his office,   
   > sold his home to a wealthy donor for a price well above market rate,   
   > failed to report gifts from a lavish European trip and spent more than   
   > $10,000 on a weekend getaway to New York with a few staffers, according   
   > to recent news reports. The congressman and his staff didn’t perform many   
   > official duties on the costly New York jaunt, according to a Chicago   
   > newspaper that broke the story. Instead, they schmoozed it up with Indian   
   > Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Schock shamelessly used the occasion to   
   > “raise his profile.” At least 10 Schock House staffers were on the   
   > taxpayer-funded New York trip, the story says.   
   >   
   > It seems like every day another Schock transgression gets uncovered. At   
   > the very least he has committed a number of serious ethical lapses that   
   > should draw congressional scrutiny and negatively impact his 2016   
   > reelection campaign. His district is solidly Republican and some   
   > conservatives are already calling for his ouster. This week a   
   > conservative news magazine called Schock a “crook” and wrote that his   
   > “penchant for taxpayer-financed luxury hotels and private aircraft” is   
   > “flatly incompatible with both his conservative rhetoric and the   
   > political presumptions of a free nation.” The lashing goes on: “If his   
   > behavior is any guide, the man believes that the people of Illinois’s   
   > 18th congressional district have hired him to serve not as a dull public   
   > servant but as their very own nationalized celebrity. They have not.”   
   >   
   > In another hard-hitting piece, the editor of a well-known conservative   
   > Capitol Hill news site lambasts the congressman: “Rep. Aaron Schock has   
   > proven himself incapable of handling his own money, the money of his   
   > donors, and taxpayer money. He has lived excessively off the backs of   
   > taxpayers who must be reimbursed and off of donors to whom he is now a   
   > servant.” Dismissing Schock as a “celebrity” who “lack[s] the   
   necessary   
   > integrity to handle the power of the purse,” Erickson suggested his next   
   > career move: “Perhaps Downton Abbey needs someone else to fill the role   
   > of an American playboy chasing a Crawley.”   
   >   
   > Source: http://bit.ly/1BCwxi0   
      
   Damn Republican must think his name is Obama.... wasting taxpayer money   
   on high priced jets and 5 star lodging.   
      
      
      
   Do these people in Washington D.C. think we can pay for 535   
   *mini Obama's* running around spending money like they print the stuff?   
      
      
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