Wednesday, July 18, 2007

White House Sent Help For Pryce

Do you need more evidence that Republican Rep. Deborah Pryce (OH-15) is in thick with the White House? According to the Washington Post, the White House sent drug officials to accompany Pryce and others at campaign events in 2006.

White House officials arranged for top officials at the Office of National Drug Control Policy to help as many as 18 vulnerable Republican congressmen by making appearances and sometimes announcing new federal grants in the lawmakers' districts in the months leading up to the November 2006 elections, a Democratic lawmaker said yesterday.....
....Waxman cited a memo written by former White House political director Sara M. Taylor showing that John P. Walters, director of the drug control office, and his deputies traveled at taxpayer expense to about 20 events with vulnerable GOP members of Congress in the three months leading up to the elections....

...Appearances also were held with Rep. Deborah Pryce of Ohio in Columbus and with then-Rep. Chris Chocola of Indiana in South Bend. Pryce narrowly won reelection, while Chocola lost in November....

Pryce continues to take her orders from the White House, GOP leaders, and her major contributors in drug/oil companies. On top of all this, poor Pryce just hates to work on Mondays. Isn't it time we had a representative who worked fulltime for the people of the 15th district?