Wednesday, March 22, 2006

when do we call it corruption?

The Post fronts its investigation into organizations receiving large federal grants under the Bush administration. The paper found that $157 million in taxpayer funds has been farmed out to organizations that promote abstinence and anti-abortion messages and are run by big Bush boosters. Hundreds of once-small anti-abortion and crisis-pregnancy centers have received federal grants that doubled or even tripled their budgets; overall, these groups have gotten more than $60 million for abstinence education and other programming. Rep. Chet Edwards, a Democrat from Texas, told the paper: "The Post fronts its investigation into organizations receiving large federal grants under the Bush administration. The paper found that $157 million in taxpayer funds has been farmed out to organizations that promote abstinence and anti-abortion messages and are run by big Bush boosters. Hundreds of once-small anti-abortion and crisis-pregnancy centers have received federal grants that doubled or even tripled their budgets; overall, these groups have gotten more than $60 million for abstinence education and other programming. Rep. Chet Edwards, a Democrat from Texas, told the paper: "I believe ultimately this will be seen as one of the largest patronage programs in American history.""

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