Reyes (D), Weldon (R), Not Much Difference, Just Timing
Remember the pre-election controversy with Curt Weldon (R)?
The crushing blow, though, came in October, when news leaked of a federal investigation into whether Weldon used his office to steer business to a firm co-owned by his daughter. Weldon denied wrongdoing, but the damage was done, and Sestak surged to one of the widest victory margins among Democratic freshmen.
Alcee Hastings out, Silvestre Reyes, another corrupt Democrat, in:
But Reyes has been linked to past controversies. The inspector general of the government’s General Services Administration looked into the serious failures of a $239 million network of cameras and sensors along the Mexican and Canadian borders, an investigation that focused in part on the contractor’s employment of Reyes’s daughter Rebecca.
More from TPMmuckraker:
IMC’s performance on the program was so bad it verged on criminal, according to later investigations. Millions of dollars in overcharges were alleged, installation was so bad that some cameras never worked properly, and the entire exercise wasted money and “placed. . . national security at risk,” according to a GSA inspector general report. “[The program's failures] placed Americans in danger,” onetime Border Patrol chief Carey James said, according to the Post.
Despite the failings — which happened, by nearly all accounts, only because of the near-complete lack of oversight by the company’s management or the government — Rebecca rose to become vice president of contracts for IMC. Oh — did I mention that the company also hired Reyes’ son, Silvestre Jr., to work as a technician?
This might explain why he supports a “virtual fence.” The following is from his own blog:
A virtual fence could also be implemented more quickly and therefore could help us gain operational control of our borders sooner.
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Posted by Bosun on December 6, 2006 10:30 am
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Most of those political accusations that fly around just prior to elections are a bunch of garbage but enough Americans seem to be gullible to make a difference.