Wednesday, January 26, 2005

More payola

Or would perhaps a better term be graft, since these sort of lickspittles are on team Bush anyway?

Writer Backing Bush Plan Had Gotten Federal Contract: "In 2002, syndicated columnist Maggie Gallagher repeatedly defended President Bush's push for a $300 million initiative encouraging marriage as a way of strengthening families....

But Gallagher failed to mention that she had a $21,500 contract with the Department of Health and Human Services to help promote the president's proposal."