Brooks Jackson Quotes
Honest Graft
Brooks Jackson, Journalist, Title of Book, 2005
Sourced by: Eigen's Political and Historical Quotations
Bryan had reached the point where he advocated public financing of campaigns.
Bribing Congressmen was quite common. In those days, money to Congressmen and Senators was not even disguised as campaign contributions. The letters were the short terms for the different agents.
Allen was so audacious about his bribes that he had the CBC initials embroidered on red baseball hats and he, his fellow officers, and many Alaskan politicians actually wore the hats and joked about their bribe taking.
She was the first Black woman to be elected to Congress and was the first Black woman to actively campaign for the Presidency
The bill went down to a narrow defeat, but the Republican leadership of the House held the vote open for a record setting 3 hours, until they could persuade enough members to reverse their vote. After the 3 hours, the bill passed by one vote. The House Ethics Committee did not see that as sufficient reason to start an ethics investigation.
He is not referring to campaign contributions but to actual cash bribes. Corporations and industry groups pay cash or provide goods and services to a politician in exchange for legislation favorable to the company or industry. Although his generalization about state officials being the most corrupt is generally probably correct, his state—Kentucky—is and has been one of the most corrupt in the country. See {623532} .
When his wife Benizir Bhutto was prime minister, there was a perception of many Pakistanis that he was getting 10% graft on all government construction, development and purchases. After his wife was assassinated, he was elected Prime Minister, and the notorious nickname stuck even then.
