Government

Rep. Cleaver’s $48 Billion Earmark: Fact or Fiction?

Most all members of Congress report back to their constituents with news of particular earmarks they fought for and won on behalf of their districts, but some — notably Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, D-Mo. — post all earmark projects that have been requested by constituents. And as the congressman found out this week, this practice leaves the door open to rumors and widespread speculation.

The rumor mill started turning Wednesday afternoon after it was reported that Rep. Cleaver’s website listed an astoundingly large earmark request — $48 billion — from one constituent hoping to fund a massive anti-poverty/redistribution of wealth project out of his home-based non-profit child care center in Kansas City.

It was this particular request, listed at the tail end of an earmark request spreadsheet posted on Rep. Cleaver’s website, which caught the attention of Mike Jensen of the Southeast Missourian. In a column titled “Redistribution on Steroids,” Jensen correctly identified the $48 billion request as the “granddaddy of all earmarks.”

Proposed by a gentleman named Lamar Mickens, president of the not-for-profit Quality Day Campus, the $48 billion earmark would funnel money into the inner cities to give money to the poor and thereby produce a much larger consumer class to buy the goods and services produced in this country.

Just call this redistribution on steroids. …

It didn’t take long for this unreal story of government-gone-bad to light fire on the blogosphere. A number of conservative bloggers echoed the story, claiming Rep. Cleaver had proposed the earmark request to be appropriated with taxpayer money.  But Cleaver’s office vehemently denies the report.

Cleaver’s communications director, Danny Rotert, told The Blaze Thursday that the story is a case of the blogosphere run amok and the notion the congressman would ask such an appropriation is ridiculous. According to Rotert, the $48 billion request was posted on the congressman’s website in accordance with his commitment to transparency for his constituents.

Indeed, the Wall Street Journal also confirmed with press assistant Mary Petrovic that the earmark request was never given a second thought.  “We did not propose it, we do not promote it, and we did not submit it to the House Appropriations Committee,” Petrovic said.

Lamar Mickens, the head of the non-profit that made the request, said he wants the money to construct apartments, museums and social services centers in the eastern urban core of Kansas City, but said he did not know if Mr. Cleaver acted on the request. Mr. Cleaver’s office also declined to tell Taxpayers for Common Sense whether the congressman asked for the money.

But after a state newspaper columnist described the earmark as something Mr. Cleaver had “proposed,” a Cleaver spokeswoman said today that he hadn’t done so. “We did not propose it, we do not promote it, and we did not submit it to the House Appropriations Committee,” said Mary Petrovic.

All this is not to say that Congress doesn’t have an addiction to earmarks.  The omnibus proposal currently up for consideration includes thousands of earmarks worth billions of dollars of taxpayer money.  But rest assured, the reported $48 billion earmark from Cleaver’s office is not one of them.

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  • jb1972
    Posted on December 16, 2010 at 8:36pm

    Being from KC, I would be ashamed if this were to happen! Its a waste of “more” money we have already spent to make the criminals a happier place to live and work. It would be cheaper to give every resident (97% black) in the area this is for, a $100,000.00 and tell them to walk away! Cleaver is an idiot, bigot, race baitor! BTW…Cleaver, wheres the video of someone spitting in your face during the HC vote. POS!

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    • Lotus503
      Posted on December 17, 2010 at 4:33pm

      I’m from KC, too…and I’m looking forward to a redrawing of the Missouri 5th Congressional District by the new Congress, so this bozo doesn’t get back in office again. Gerrymandering works both ways, you know.

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  • Mojoron
    Posted on December 16, 2010 at 8:34pm

    Cleaver was mayor of Kansas City when the State Supreme Court forced the legislature to spend $1Billion dollars on KC’s miserable school system. During the process of rebuilding schools, 30% of students fled the system. Now nearly 15 years later the school system is having to close 1/3 rd of the schools to consolidate the teachers and students. So Cleaver knows how to spend money, waste money and screw the taxpayer.

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  • ThomasUSA
    Posted on December 16, 2010 at 8:16pm

    I was thinking the other day…. We are already a socialist nation… the Feds take ( From Each According to our abilities) our money in taxes and they redistribute it, via the congress back to the state (To each according to their needs)…. This crap has to stop… These bastards and bastardettes have not seen anything yet from the grassroots…

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    • Ashrak
      Posted on December 16, 2010 at 8:39pm

      That is what the 17th Amendment did to this country. The important check between state governments and the federal government was severed and the Republic effectively became a Democracy at that time. Certainly, the bicameral legislature was eliminated.

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  • Max jones
    Posted on December 16, 2010 at 7:59pm

    INSANITY….This is not real, is it? I was thinking I was in an alternative universe….but it’s them…they have lost it and don’t know it. This whole bill must be defeated. They must understand that this is not a board game, this is the well being of the entire population of the nation.
    What the **** is going on in D.C.? This is madness and my senator WILL hear about it(yeah,one of them was on the list with 32 earmarks) Strangely the marxist coons did not have one!
    The spending be put on hold until we get the economy back in shape. Get some people into REAL jobs, and then we might have some money for some pet projects…..Crazy!!

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    • MrObvious
      Posted on December 16, 2010 at 11:29pm

      Have you ever seen those fight flicks where they knock the guy out and he’s still standing there, like he’s still fighting?
      It’s kind of like that.

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  • trilateral-my-ass
    Posted on December 16, 2010 at 7:59pm

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    • LSX
      Posted on December 16, 2010 at 9:01pm

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    • 1776LibertyBell
      Posted on December 17, 2010 at 12:10am

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      Thank You1

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    • LSX
      Posted on December 17, 2010 at 4:56pm

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      Report Post » LSX  
  • Paleo Archer
    Posted on December 16, 2010 at 7:56pm

    OUT OF CONTROL….Wooo Hooo I am starting to see 2012….watch of ALL elected officials!

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  • LSX
    Posted on December 16, 2010 at 7:54pm

    Is anyone building gallows in DC yet?

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  • TaterSalad
    Posted on December 16, 2010 at 7:46pm

    Omnibus Pork by the Numbers: List of Senators and Their Earmark Count

    Bipartisan pork!

    Via Jamie Dupree

    In fact, if you break down the number of earmarks for each Senator, you will see that the top two earmarkers in terms of pure numbers are the two GOP Senators from Mississippi, Thad Cochran and Roger Wicker. Cochran happens to be the top Republican on the Senate Appropriations Committee.

    Note: Senator Orrin Hatch has since removed his one earmark.

    Cochran (R-MS) 230
    Wicker (R-MS) 199
    Murray (D-WA) 172
    Harkin (D-IA) 152
    Reid (D-NV) 129
    Menendez (D-NJ) 123
    Feinstein (D-CA) 121
    Lautenberg (D-NJ) 120
    Lincoln (D-AR) 114
    Inouye (D-HI) 113
    Schumer (D-NY) 106
    Johnson (D-SD) 105
    Landrieu (D-LA) 104
    Specter (D-PA) 103
    Pryor (D-AR) 96
    Levin (D-MI) 93
    Stabenow (D-MI) 91
    Boxer (D-CA) 90
    Brown (D-OH) 87
    Grassley (R-IA) 86
    Bingaman (D-NM) 86
    Durbin (D-IL) 86
    Akaka (D-HI) 83
    Wyden (D-OR) 83
    Cardin (D-MD) 79
    Merkley (D-OR) 79
    Gillibrand (D-NY) 79
    Bond (R-MO) 78
    Bennett (R-UT) 76
    Casey (D-PA) 76
    Udall (D-NM) 73
    Reed (D-RI) 70
    Kerry (D-MA) 69
    Cantwell (D-WA) 69
    Hagan (D-NC) 69
    Voinovich (R-OH) 68
    Klobuchar (D-MN) 68
    Rockefeller (D-WV) 67
    Dodd (D-CT) 66
    Mikulski (D-MD) 65
    Tester (D-MT) 65
    Lieberman (ID-CT) 64
    Hutchison (R-TX) 63
    Baucus (D-MT) 62
    Dorgan (D-ND) 60
    Warner (D-VA) 60
    Webb (D-VA) 58
    Franken (D-MN) 58
    Collins (R-ME) 57
    Leahy (D-VT) 56
    Murkowski (R-AK) 55
    Whitehouse (D-RI) 55
    Kohl (D-WI) 54
    Conrad (D-ND) 52
    Vitter (R-LA) 48
    Cornyn (R-TX) 45
    Snowe (R-ME) 44
    Nelson (D-FL) 43
    Chambliss (R-GA) 42
    Crapo (R-ID) 41
    Risch (R-ID) 41
    Bennet (D-CO) 40
    Brownback (R-KS) 39
    Carper (D-DE) 39
    Burr (R-NC) 38
    Begich (D-AK) 37
    McConnell (R-KY) 35
    Roberts (R-KS) 35
    Sanders (I-VT) 33
    Shelby (R-AL) 32
    Inhofe (R-OK) 32
    Shaheen (D-NH) 32
    Alexander (R-TN) 30
    Udall (D-CO) 30
    Lugar (R-IN) 29
    Graham (R-SC) 27
    Thune (R-SD) 26
    Isakson (R-GA) 24
    Nelson (D-NE) 23
    Sessions (R-AL) 21
    Bunning (R-KY) 21
    Ensign (R-NV) 20
    Gregg (R-NH) 13
    Barrasso (R-WY) 4
    Enzi (R-WY) 3
    Hatch (R-UT) 1
    Bayh (D-IN) 1
    Corker (R-TN) 1
    Brown (R-MA) 1
    McCain (R-AZ) 0
    Feingold (D-WI) 0
    Kyl (R-AZ) 0
    DeMint (R-SC) 0
    Coburn (R-OK) 0
    McCaskill (D-MO) 0
    Johanns (R-NE) 0
    LeMieux (R-FL) 0
    Manchin (D-WV) 0
    Coons (D-DE) 0
    Kirk (R-IL) 0

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    • 13thGenerationAmerican
      Posted on December 16, 2010 at 8:16pm

      Doesn’t matter, President Obama will win reelection in 2012.

      That’s 6 more years of you people bitching and for some of you, this might be the last President you will ever know.

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    • tbear44
      Posted on December 17, 2010 at 4:12am

      It might be the last president you ever know too. Ya never know. One thing for sure, we all gotta go someday.

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  • TaterSalad
    Posted on December 16, 2010 at 7:45pm

    As a Tea Party Nation member myself, this $1.1 Trillion Dollar “Omni-Bust Bill” should NOT be passed. Any Republicans who support and vote for this Bank Buster, Pork Barrel infested legislation put forth by the entitlement hungry Democrats should not be elected or re-elected in 2012 if they are running. We are watching who votes for this bill and the consequences will be the unemployment lines if they do. This is a promise!

    http://sroblog.com/2010/12/16/mccotter-opposes-compromised-tax-bill-video/

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    • wash1776
      Posted on December 18, 2010 at 8:51am

      13thGENERATION You are the meanest person on this site along with Broker0101. DO YOU EVER DO ANYTHING BESIDES INSULT PEOPLE? You are PATHETIC! Suggesting people might not be around in 6 years to bitch more—WITH LUCK YOU WILL BE ONE OF THEM. WE CAN ONLY HOPE YOU WILL GET TIRED OF KEEPING WATCH ON US LESSER MORTALS AND GO AWAY.

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  • Government SNAFU
    Posted on December 16, 2010 at 7:38pm

    I really believe there should be a flat tax – 8% to 10%. No more earmarks, must propose in front of committee vs. budget, then voted on.

    Cut gov’t by 50%, I don’t see a use for Dept of Education, IRS, EPA, Homeland Security, as a matter of fact, just send Homeland Security and TSA to border patrol. Bring all troops home to defend the country.

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  • dirtypolitics
    Posted on December 16, 2010 at 7:36pm

    Part of this will go…guess where……in 2012?

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  • Redistributor
    Posted on December 16, 2010 at 7:27pm

    Redistro…now we’re talking!

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  • TheRealElvis
    Posted on December 16, 2010 at 7:10pm

    Don’t you think its about Congress listening to the American people? No matter what the polls say, they seem to always have their own agenda. I say that since we live in a high tech age, why can’t we have a straw vote electronically on important issues and the elected person must lean toward the constituency demands. Problem solved on all fronts.

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    • SlimnRanger
      Posted on December 16, 2010 at 7:15pm

      sounds good but Reid would find a way to change the votes in his favor

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    • troyvar
      Posted on December 16, 2010 at 8:05pm

      The SEIU tech’s maintain the equipment.

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  • JohnnyJT
    Posted on December 16, 2010 at 7:10pm

    The Fed Govt get too much tax money Period.

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  • seeker9
    Posted on December 16, 2010 at 7:08pm

    Could this be an Overton Window tactic? The original request is really ridiculous, but follow it up with a much smaller amount, maybe $5B.

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    • cheezwhiz
      Posted on December 16, 2010 at 7:31pm

      I hate to visit this Rep.’s website, but is there any record of how much money the ( potential) recipient of this earmark has given to the Rep.’s campaign ?

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  • John Henry
    Posted on December 16, 2010 at 7:06pm

    Let the goodtimes roll as we seem to not have made any impression on our elected reps and senators. Perhaps we should recall them and send someone else.

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  • temple62
    Posted on December 16, 2010 at 7:03pm

    Parasitic riff raff! One wonders why the country puts up with these “parasites” on mankind? America needs term limits to prevent this fiefdoms from happening and need a new election immediately as we do not have a responsible congress in spite of all the election rhetoric. All states are at fault and one term maximum needs to be implemented in both the house and senate with the senators being elected for 2 years not 6.

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  • DeltaHawk
    Posted on December 16, 2010 at 7:03pm

    I’d like a Zillion $$ earmark to study if Democrats have any reasoning ability, Also to see if they are born with sticky fingers.

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  • SlimnRanger
    Posted on December 16, 2010 at 6:59pm

    i wonder if i asked for 500,000 to study how my roosters top my hens would i get it?

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  • GeauxAlready
    Posted on December 16, 2010 at 6:55pm

    I need an eramark to study if a quickie is the cause of stupid in democrates…………

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  • stopprintn
    Posted on December 16, 2010 at 6:51pm

    Like to reditribute the Congressional Black ( socialist ) Caucus too Cuba.

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  • Ashrak
    Posted on December 16, 2010 at 6:43pm

    What we see here, and what every Congressman must understand, is that their reputations are soooooo bad that when news of this entered the blogosphere it was not dismissed instantly as hogwash – meaning that they have proked it up soooo much that even this seemed in keeping with their oinkers.

    Might this have been a trial balloon, bait? What?

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  • the_ancient
    Posted on December 16, 2010 at 6:43pm

    I am really tired of hearing about Earmarks, they are just a distraction.

    STOP TALKING ABOUT EARMARKS, ending 100% of earmarks WILL NOT DO ANYTHING DO THE BUDGET. it is a non-topic.

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    • Jsh1284
      Posted on December 16, 2010 at 7:14pm

      It’s not a non-topic .. because we’re still talking about tens of billions of dollars each year. Ending earmarks is NOT the final solution .. but it’s PART of the solution.

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    • Dale
      Posted on December 16, 2010 at 7:29pm

      It will have a tremendous effect on the budget! The way to get legislators on board is to ‘pay’ them with earmarks. If you vote for my pork, we’ll give you some too. If there is no pork, there will be fewer bribes. I get tired of hearing that it is too small an amount to be concerned with. The problem with that logic is that there is never anywhere to start. My problem with earmarks is that these funds are approved without knowing where the money will go. If there are no earmarks, these funds will not be approved.

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    • troyvar
      Posted on December 16, 2010 at 8:00pm

      @Dale
      You are correct… Thye monetary value of earmarks is but a rounding error in the scheme of things. The morality, the ethicical responsiblity of not being able to “buy” someone’s vote, with someone else’s money, is the real issue.

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    • guyperram
      Posted on December 16, 2010 at 8:10pm

      You are absolutely correct. The problem is huge and the cuts will have to be even huger! The problem is that these clowns won’t even stop throwing away the small money. They are a pack of crooks that do not even have a clue as to what their limits are supposed to be.
      Without a doubt only drastic action will wake these folks up to what they need to do. Failing that we will probably see a 20-50% inflation of the dollar in the next few months and that is if the actually have some idea of what they are doing (which I doubt).
      Carter inflated the money supply by about 13%. That cause about 24% yr inflation. Just think of where we will be if you exterpolate the fact that they have increased the money supply by 300-400% so far. Work the math, you will love the answer. (300% / 13% = 23.08 x 24%= 553.92% oh, how delightful, or for every dollar you make now you will need $553.92 to stay even)

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    • ETOOL USMC RECON
      Posted on December 16, 2010 at 8:56pm

      But it HAS TO START SOMEWHERE……Lets cut their salaries in HALF and see how they like it!
      Or better yet index them to the opposite of inflation.

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    • the_ancient
      Posted on December 16, 2010 at 9:16pm

      Yes it is a non-topic, Earmarks make up 0.2 to 0.5% of any given budget or bill.

      Earmarks in and of themselves are not the problem. Any person here that thinks anything will the solved magically by stopping them has obviously been listening too much to the Media and other reports vs looking at the ACTUAL BUDGETS, I have spent days, months, going over and reading the entire budget, taxation data from the IRS and thousands of actuary tables from different government agencies.

      Earmarks are meaningless

      Of the bill we are talking about it is (last I looked may be bigger or smaller now)
      $1,270,000,000,000 <- Total
      $ 8,300,000,000 <- Earmarks
      that is 0.65% of the total bill…… POINT 65 PERCENT….

      Yep that makes a big big difference. PLUS even if the earmarks go away, that DOES NOT MEAN the spending does, the money will more than likely be included in the overall budget of the given dept and that dept will then spend it as they see fit instead of as directed in a earmark, so for example if a FL congressman directs NASA to spend 270 Million for a new landing pad in FL in a earmark, now NASA will still get the 270 Million, but they can spend it wherever and on what ever they want.

      STOP WORRYING ABOUT EARMARKS and solve the problem

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    • thepatriotdave
      Posted on December 16, 2010 at 9:50pm

      the_ancient,

      Baby steps do help. Its going to take a little time to get our Congresscritters to realize that we are watching how they spend our money, but it slowly turns the attitudes around. Slash and burn will NOT work, it only gives the government an excuse to shut us down and take over completely.

      If you want to make a big difference in the shortest amount of time you have to get millions of taxpayers to stop paying taxes. Money is the life-blood in D.C. cut off the money and D.C. dies!

      PatriotShops.com

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    • untameable-kate
      Posted on December 16, 2010 at 10:06pm

      It is a sorry state of affairs when we start thinking of $8,300,000,000 of our money as nothing, a drop in the bucket and nothing to be concerned. If ‘they’ waste one dollar they confiscate from me it is one darn dollar too much.

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    • EP46
      Posted on December 17, 2010 at 5:20am

      One small step at a time. Stopping ALL EARMARKS is the way to start responsible spending. It is also not the “”$100,000″” ear mark someone like Cleaver might get, it is that if he gets that earmark he will vote yes on a Bill that costs zillions of dollars. Earmarks are a way of BUYING VOTES in Congress.

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  • ETOOL USMC RECON
    Posted on December 16, 2010 at 6:40pm

    Isn’t this the same guy that lied about being spat on and called names???
    Yea, I really trust him…..him and bin obama.

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    • marhee9
      Posted on December 16, 2010 at 6:45pm

      It is the same guy.

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    • MHP
      Posted on December 16, 2010 at 8:41pm

      Yep same guy. He’s a friend of Obamadeninutjob

      You should go visit Gunny Ermey’s site
      http://www.rleeermey.com

      Semper Fi to ya.

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    • lovenfl3
      Posted on December 16, 2010 at 8:47pm

      Cool site MHP. Check out donsmithshow.com when you get a chance.

      Report Post » lovenfl3  
    • ETOOL USMC RECON
      Posted on December 16, 2010 at 8:52pm

      Thanks MHP. Gunny knows his part well. My dad and older brother and I were all Marines. We went together to see Full Metal Jacket…and laughed our heads off. That was the PI I went to…..
      Wait….. do you think little manning is getting some of that at Quantico right now?????
      Maybe the fine Gunny could pay a visit to the little traitor and “get his mind right”???? (haha)
      Semper Fi….Do or Die,
      Etool

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    • R635
      Posted on December 16, 2010 at 9:29pm

      This is a tax dodging degenerate that does not represent the people or values of Kansas City, MO.

      link: http://www.pitch.com/2004-02-26/news/water-pressure/

      Dave Helling at KCTV Channel 5 (one of the station’s reporters who, unlike the clowns baiting Internet perverts for ratings, does serious news) broke the story that a Cleaver-owned car wash owed more than $30,000 in back taxes. And voila! Just like that, after other media began jumping on the story, Cleaver made his problem go away — by finding someone to loan him the money to pay off his debt.

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    • Cemoto78
      Posted on December 16, 2010 at 9:31pm

      Ditto here, ETOOL
      Semper Fi, do or die

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  • marhee9
    Posted on December 16, 2010 at 6:37pm

    These guys just don’t get it. donsmithshow.com had a special on this yesterday. These guys better knock this stuff off.

     
    • cnsrvtvj
      Posted on December 16, 2010 at 6:46pm

      I heard they’re having Bill Clinton for the interview of the week. That should be a good one.

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    • Bad Thunder
      Posted on December 16, 2010 at 7:02pm

      Leave it to Cleaver……just blame it all on Eddie Haskel

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    • cheezwhiz
      Posted on December 16, 2010 at 7:28pm

      Cleaver’s communications director, Danny Rotert, told The Blaze Thursday that the story is a case of the blogosphere run amok
      ——————————
      You mean like the story called ” TEA partiers spit on me and called me n-word 15 times ”
      or
      the story called “ Breitbart is racist because Hussain fired Surely Charade ”
      or maybe
      the story called “ Sarah Palin banned books and charged for rape kits” ….
      l ‘ll believe this racist dolt when he collects his $ 100.000 reward..

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    • broker0101
      Posted on December 16, 2010 at 8:16pm

      As has become sadly customary, The Blaze is hours behind actual, important news (Omnibus Spending Bill Pulled from the Senate Floor) but no one here cares. The Blaze is about a small group of Losers desperately seeking some form of human (albeit cyber) interaction and validation of their feeble thoughts and poorly written opinions. You embarrass the Conservative movement.

      broker0101  
    • MHP
      Posted on December 16, 2010 at 8:37pm

      Yea I know this guy. He’s just another uppity gangbanger.
      I knew him when I lived in Kansas City off and on for over 20 years,

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    • lovenfl3
      Posted on December 16, 2010 at 8:48pm

      And yet you seem so “above it all” and mature Broker0101. You need help dude.

      Report Post » lovenfl3  
    • MeteoricLimbo
      Posted on December 16, 2010 at 9:00pm

      Thank you @broker0101, may peace be with you

      Report Post » MeteoricLimbo  
    • Bad Thunder
      Posted on December 16, 2010 at 9:09pm

      @Broke…..

      Is that you Dick? Damn you caught us again massa sir bossman ………

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    • thepatriotdave
      Posted on December 16, 2010 at 9:38pm

      broker0101,

      I pray to God you don’t consider yourself a Conservative.

      PatriotShops.com

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    • MrObvious
      Posted on December 16, 2010 at 11:25pm

      They pulled the thing – that’s cool and all; but, why aren’t the republicans filibustering?
      I don’t just mean this or that bill, nomination or appropriation. I mean full out non-stop tag team filibuster – that should not stop until end of year, not even to hear motions to adjourn.

      I don’t care if the government has to send all the park rangers home for a couple of weeks.

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    • mrfitman
      Posted on December 17, 2010 at 8:30am

      IT DOESN’T matter ANYMORE!! Can’t “YOU” SEE?? Politicians ARE INSIGNIFICANT!! ALL they ARE doing IS GUTTING the Treasury!!! Overwhelm intitlements!!!! There you have it——The TOTAL COLLAPSE of OUR COUNTRY!!!! Clower and PIVEN!! Any questions?? Politicians ARE ROBBING, STEALING from the CANDY JAR!!! “Help the children my ASS!! Help THEMSELVES!!!

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    • CYCLONE
      Posted on December 18, 2010 at 2:23am

      What the heck is that 2-nd Amendment for …?!?!?!?!? !!!!!

      … OHHHHHHHHHhhh… YES…. NOW I REMEMBER…… SHOW ME !!!!!!

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    • wash1776
      Posted on December 18, 2010 at 8:43am

      BROKER0101 You are your usual assine insulting self. As for putting people on the Blaze down, you are on here as much as anyone else, so your remarks must include you too. Feel free to stay off of the site. NO ONE WILL MISS YOU AND YOUR INSULTS. As for people here embarrasing the conservative movement–YOU EMBARRAS THE HUMAN RACE.

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    • godlovinmom
      Posted on December 19, 2010 at 1:23am

      its so funny how some criticize the blaze…but seem to be on it alot!!!

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