Ethics complaints, Feingold on pulling out of Afghanistan, and Adam Putnam is against excessive federal spending; Mitch Perry Report 10.26.09
October 26, 2009 at 10:24 am by Mitch PerryOver the weekend you may have read about Hillsborough County activist George Niemann’s ethics complaint against County Administrator Pat Bean’s self imposed pay raise now being investigated by the State Ethics Commission.
But I bet most people don’t know how the process works. CL Contributor Niemann explains it all to you. And it’s not pretty.
Polk County Congressman Adam Putnam is running for state wide office next year. In case you forgot, he’s getting himself in the news today with his op-ed against excessive federal spending. We haven’t heard that from Republican much lately, have we?
14 Americans were killed in Afghanistan today. That makes Wisconsin Democrat Russ Feingold’s comments that he thinks the U.S. should pull out of Afghanistan all the more relevant.
And some Senate Democrats envision a public option in the health care bill being negotiated in Congress.
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