Not to mention that he funnels his receipt of bribes through his daughter:

The LA Times broke the story back in 2004 that Weldon's daughter Karen, then in her late twenties, ran a lobbying firm that was raking in approximately $1 million a year - and by some strange coincidence, her three main clients all had developed a relationship with her father, Curt.

The clients? There was:

-- "a plum $240,000 contract to promote the good works of a wealthy Serbian family that had been linked to accused war criminal Slobodan Milosevic." Weldon and his daughter worked, without any apparent success, to get them visas.

-- a Russian aerospace manufacturer who paid Karen Weldon's firm $20,000 per month to promote its technologies, which included its "flying saucer." Her firm also was to get " a 10 percent finder's fee if the company '[struck] a deal from a lead supplied'" by them. That little bonus had to be taken out of the subsequent contract, however, when they realized that it was illegal for a lobbyist to take a cut of a government contract. Weldon worked hard to win a contract for the firm.

-- a $500,000/year contract from a Russian natural gas company called Itera International Energy Corp. to "'create good public relations.'" She won the contract shortly before her father held a dinner at the Library Congress to honor the company's chairman.

A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward. Franklin D. Roosevelt

Joe Sestak just announced that he raised $420,000 over the past 60 days.  This campaign is for real, and is very winnable, especially with Weldon proving himself for the loon he is on such a regular basis.  PA-07 went for Gore in 2000; for Rendell BIG in 2002; and for Kerry in 2004.  Democrats are making huge strides here on the local level as well, and in the heart of the 7th we have two Democrats in Harrisburg-- State Rep. Greg Vitali and State Sen. Connie Williams.  This is a 'sleeper' pick-up opportunity for the Dems and I hope that the DCCC figures it out soon.

"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

What a nutbag this Weldon is.  Good god.

I saw Sestak a coule nights ago.  A quiet guy who gets his point across very well.  A little write up I did over at my blog:
Joe Sestak, running for U.S. House Rep in PA-07 in DelCo. I've heard rumblings about him for the past few weeks, but nothing of real substance. He retired a Vice Admiral after a thirty-one year career in the Navy which included a stint as Director of Defense Policy in Clinton's White House. He's only been on the campaign trail for fifty-two [or was it sixty-two] days now, so he's still a little green, but he spoke well to the crowd. A very calming voice came out of the veteran. He wants out of Iraq. He wants to fight for universal healthcare. He wants to fight to uphold womens' right to choose. He wants federal funding of embryonic stem cell research. He has a personal stake on the issues of healthcare and stem cell reasearch. His five-year-old daughter was diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor and had to go through four months of chemotheraphy. He spoke of Rep. Curt Weldon's [the incumbent GOP opponent] attacks on his family's decision to take Alexandra to the Chilidren's Hospital in D.C. instead of a hospital in PA. Sestak told of how he went to the Mayo Clinic and Johns Hopkins and CHOP here in Philly; they all told him that the best care would be back in D.C. at Children's Hospital so he did what any parent would do, go get the best care for his child where his family was already based due to his assignment at Annapolis.

Sestak stressed accountability in his closing. He told the crowd about how a plane is launched on an aircraft carrier [Sestak was a cammander of an aircraft carrier battle group in Iraq and Afghanistan]. He described the incredible engines on a jet and the additional launch cable mechanism that adds additional takeoff thrust. He told us how the pilot cannot see underneath her/his plane and relies on her/his deck operator to give an all-clear signal after making sure everything was okay underneath by stepping in front of the jet in plain view of the pilot. The deck operator is saying to the pilot that it is okay to shut off the engine at that point with no worries that the cable will launch the plane off the deck; if it does, it would take the deck operator with it. The deck operator is telling the pilot to trust her/him and that s/he is putting their life on the line in demonstration of that trust. Sestak stressed that Weldon would never ever put himself in that kind of position because he lacks a sense of accountability.

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Albert Yee
Philadelphia, PA
http://dragonballyee.com/blog

I am hosting a beef-n-beer fundraiser for Joe next Saturday night.  Feel free to contact me if you're interested in attending -- and don't forget to ask for your "BooMan Discount!"

Salvation for a race, nation or class must come from within. Freedom is never granted; it is won. Justice is never given; it is exacted.