A friend of the ACR Blog points us toward a John Doolittle interview on the Tom Sullivan show, a radio show we've never heard of. During the course of the interview, Mr. Doolittle claims that Public Integrity (PIN) chief William Welch II was on a personal vendetta against him. Mr. Sullivan asks Mr. Doolittle why Mr. Welch would want to investigate him. Mr. Doolittle doesn't think that the investigation had anything to do with the $5,000 monthly stipend paid to his wife (Julie Doolittle) by Mr. Abramoff's lobbying firm for a doo-nothing job. Mr. Doolittle doesn't mention all any of the actions he took on behalf of Team Abramoff clients. Also left unanswered is why U.S. District Judge Ellen S. Huvelle determined that Mr. Doolittle was a co-conspirator in the Abramoff scandal.
No, Mr. Doolittle has a unique take on why PIN head William Welch II investigated him:
[William Welch II] knew that I was a leading advocate of the private campaign finance system and introduced legislation to repeal all of McCain-Feingold and all of the horrid restrictions that had been put into the law up that time beginning with Teddy Roosevelt continuing with Gerald Ford and then, unfortunately, my friend George W. Bush who signed McCain-Feingold into law. My bill repealed all of it, and, you know, he didn't like the way that I was going.
He is one of those zealous reformers, quote/unquote, who want the heavy handed government public financing, you know, no private -- I'm putting words into his mouth; this is my impression -- but this type of ilk. And you know, he was the head of Public Integrity and he was going to be able to use his power by going after these individuals.
The ACR Blog holds no brief for Mr. Welch. We aren't able to independently verify Mr. Welch's view on campaign finance, either. Quite frankly, we don't think his political views really matter. With the bizarre references to McCain-Feingold, it appears to us that Mr. Doolittle merely wanted to attack Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) for elevating the public profile of the Abramoff scandal.
We're still glad that true conservative Rep. Tom McClintock (R-Calif.) now occupies Mr. Doolittle's seat. Mr. McClintock is a Congressman who has sworn off the kind of pork and tainted ethics characteristic of Mr. Doolittle's legacy. Here is what a local newspaper, the Auburn Journal, recently said in an editorial:
What most of us can agree upon is that Doolittle worked hard to bring much-needed federal dollars to the Fourth District. Whether he was supporting a regional wastewater treatment plan pipeline, or securing federal dollars for Interstate 80 traffic-flow upgrades, Doolittle brought home the bacon.
Ethical shortcomings and wallowing in pork - these are the legacies of the big spending faux-conservatives, and obviously Mr. Doolittle was a master at both. We would disagree with the editors of the Auburn Journal who seem to think that bringing home the bacon implies that Mr. Doolittle "worked hard." Bringing home the bacon doesn't require hard work when you make a Faustian deal with devils like Jack Abramoff. Mr. Doolittle will always be a disgrace to true conservatives everywhere, and we will never forget the key role he and Tom DeLay played in causing the GOP to lose control of the House in 2006.
3 comments:
Doolittle is a first class fraud. Nice catch on the radio interview!
Re your headline: "John Doolittle Speaks"
Is anyone listening?? Does anybody care what this idiot sez????
Was hospitalized latter part of 4/19-6/10 so only am catching-up now & apologize for leaving this important tip tardy...In the ACR blog referring articles it says Doolittle can't get written confirmation from US DOJ. The likely reason is because more than one grand jury was investigating him. Doolittle may be off the hook with the Abramoff investigation, but what about the Global Investigation grand jury? The Abramoff, Weldon, Charles Taylor (former NC Representative), Veco and Cunningham corruption probes, to mention just a few, all have/had an underlying common thread of Russia. In the Abramoff investigation Julie and John Doolittle, Tom DeLay, etc. also were behind sleaze for S. Korean companies.
The Russian and S. Korean official acts from the aforementioned corruption probes that were committed that arose in news articles...all were referred to the Global Investigation Grand Jury.
In Marcus Stern's 12/3/08 article regarding Mitchell Wade's sentencing a reference is made to the Global Investigation: ""Wade answered questions related to "a large and important corruption investigation" unrelated to the Cunningham matter, wrote Jeffrey Taylor, the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, and Howard Sklamberg, deputy chief of its Fraud and Public Corruption Section."
"It added that "there have been, at this point, no charges filed."
My hospitalizations were linked to this investigation and as of yet I cannot tell if I will make a full recovery, so I do understand why so little has publicly appeared about the Global Investigation. Also, I am quite sure that by the time of Kyle "Dusty" Foggo's (CIA former Executive Director) sentencing changed to a National Security Investigation. I know the reason why his sentencing was moved from 2/12/09 to 2/19/09. 3 years ago I read the first 105 pages of Anna Politkovskaya's diary and since 2004 I've lived much of it.
I head federal operations for a company that is at the center of the Global Investigation. NIST calls our tech standard (we're the sole supplier) "smart wallet" apart of its Biometrics and Security Systems list of technologies that can be enabled to become biometric. The company's problems with the Russian federal government began 12/1/01.
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