The Facts on Roy Blunt (R-MO)Like Tom DeLay, Roy Blunt Raises Huge Amounts of Money from Special Interests Like Tom DeLay, Roy Blunt has Close Ties to K Street Capitol Hill lobbyists have made personal contributions of at least $429,000 to Blunt’s political committees since 1999.2 In 2002, Blunt tried to insert language into a bill that would have helped Philip Morris, now Altria Group Inc., by making it harder to sell cigarettes over the Internet. At the time, Blunt’s son worked as a lobbyist for Phillip Morris in Missouri. Blunt later married an Altria lobbyist. Roy Blunt is Cozy with Tom DeLay In 1999 and 2000, when Ellis ran both DeLay's ARMPAC and Blunt's ROYB Fund, ARMPAC made contributions to Blunt's committee totaling $150,000. See below for more information on this. Blunt has contributed $20,000 to the Tom DeLay Legal Defense Fund and $10,000 to the Delay Foundation. He has voted with Tom DeLay 96% of the time. Like Tom DeLay, Roy Blunt Has Engaged in a Similar Kind of Money Laundering that Landed Tom DeLay in Court Like Tom DeLay, Roy Blunt has Connections to Jack Abramoff During Ellis' tenure with Rely on Your Beliefs, Blunt accepted a series of contributions from clients of embattled uber-lobbyist and DeLay crony, Jack Abramoff. Blunt accepted contributions from Concorde Garment Manufacturing, a company that ran sweatshops on the Marianas Islands. In March of 2000, eight major U.S. retailers settled a class action lawsuit for $6.5 million for working conditions in Marianas Island manufacturing facilities, including those of Concorde Manufacturing. Abramoff lobbied on behalf of various Marianas Island interests.4 The Justice Department is currently investigation Abramoff’s activities in the Northern Marianas Islands. Blunt ate free at Abramoff’s now-defunct restaurant, Signatures.5 Like Tom DeLay, Blunt Loves to Fly on the Special Interest Dime For more information, please also see: Rep. Roy Blunt: Ties to Special Interests Leave Him Unfit to Lead, Public Citizen, January 2006: http://www.citizen.org/pressroom/release.cfm?ID=2111 “CREW Releases Ethics Complaint Against Acting Majority Leader Roy Blunt,” Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, January 2006: http://www.citizensforethics.org/press/newsrelease.php?view=103 ENDNOTES 2) Public Citizen, “Rep. Roy Blunt: Ties to Special Interests Leave Him Unfit to Lead,” January 2006. 3) Laura Litvan & Jonathan D. Salant, “Blunt, Boehner Share Broad Network of Lobbyist Ties With DeLay,” Bloomberg News, January 10. 4) New York Times, 8 Retailers Settle Suit, March 29, 2000 5) Public Citizen, “Rep. Roy Blunt: Ties to Special Interests Leave Him Unfit to Lead,”January 2006. 6) Public Citizen, “Rep. Roy Blunt: Ties to Special Interests Leave Him Unfit to Lead,” January 2006.
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