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Curt Weldon

Vincent Fumo

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Citizen Glen Meakem

Glen Meakem, from Pittsburgh area, is a highly successful, very smart, truly decent, Harvard graduate who served as an Army Reserve Officer out of college. Several years later, he took a leave from his MBA program at Harvard Business School to go back on active duty in the Army and serve in Iraq War I and then returned to found a software business which he sold for megamillions in early 2000s. A terrifically nice guy (his picture is who he is,) Glen has a radio show in Pittsburgh area talking about free markets and traditional values. Glen is the kind of citizen who cannot be content with money and what it can buy; he has to return something to the community and, in his case, it is his ideas and the vision of Limited Government, Economic Freedom and Individual Responsibility and Entrepreneurship. The Golden Rule is not a government program for Glen.

Key sentence from The Steelers and the status quo:

Earlier this month, Pittsburghers learned from the U.S. Census Bureau that our city, now populated by only 311,218 people (down 22,609, or 6.8 percent, since 2000) now ranks as only the 59th largest municipality in the country, down from 53rd in 2000. The Pittsburgh metropolitan area, with just over 2.3 million people (the 22nd largest metro region) has lost more than 75,000 residents since 2000.

If Pittsburghers and Pennsylvanians don't wake up and vote for pro-growth policies, we might lose our football team and so much more, warns entrepreneur GLEN MEAKEM

US Representative: Curt Weldon

Delco Times has done an excellent recapitulation of the Curt Weldon story to date; a brief history from energetic, public servant to the target of FBI corruption investigation.

The first part of this article recapitulates former US Representative Curt Weldon's long history of real public service, including the tiltmotor Osprey and then it seems power corrupted him. This recent investigation is not the first time that Rep. Weldon has been investigated. He seems to have skated on some thin ice before and been subject of Federal corruption investigation before, in 1989, entangled with the Partnership for Economic Development ('economic development', the hacks word for 'pork') relating to improper, if not illegal, spending of between $1.6 million and $5.6 million between 1984 and 1989 which was later repaid by the Delaware County which admitted impropriety in use of the money but not illegality.

There is little mention of Republican Establishment Insider Charles Sexton in this story and I think the Charles Sexton Story to date would be illuminating.

"Power tends to corrupt..."

Curt: What happened?

Senator Fumo's Profitable Non-Profit

Senator Fumo's nonprofit was funded with public taxpayer money to be used for public purposes. Instead it was used to pay legal fees in criminal investigation by US Attorney of Senatot Fumo and the nonprofit's staff. It seems clear that Senator Fumo and some of the nonprofit's staff used public money for their own personal benefit - they stole it - and, yet, the public money pays for their defense. A few political insiders, the elected and those connected to the elected who helped them get elected benefited. What benefit did the public get? A few benefited and the many paid.

Karen Heller: Nonprofit spends to defend director's deeds