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Political contributions = defense contracts

Political contributions = defense contracts:

So allow me to take a page from the Book of B-Ho — especially the guilt by association tactic — and examine his dirty laundry. Today, I think I’ll take a look at Digital Reasoning Systems, the first client of B-Ho’s fledgling PR firm and a Brentwood-based firm that profits from federal defense and intelligence-related contracts. As it turns out, OpenSecrets.org tells us the company’s CEO Timothy Estes is a donor to Congressman Pete Hoekstra, a Michigan Republican who chairs the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, which has oversight of the types of activities in which Digital Reasoning is involved. Estes also is a donor to Hoekstra’s PAC, the Milead Fund, which recently was named in a complaint by the nonprofit watchdog group Public Citizen as one of six PACs that helped a Cincinnati businessman illegally funnel money to a Republican congressional candidate in Kentucky.

Hmm … I wonder if Digital Reasoning’s federal contract had anything to do with Estes’ support of Hoekstra and the Milead Fund? Moreover, I wonder if B-Ho is pocketing PR fees that only ended up in his bank account because of Digital Reasoning’s political connections to Hoekstra and his PAC?

Who knows... but this type of activity is anything but atypical. There's so much money spent by the government that's simply earmarked by unscrupulous politicians, with little to no oversight, in repayment of political contributions or thanks to personal connections. Those who spend the people's money in this way, and the people who take the money, should be put in jail.

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