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...Shockey even got a contract from the city of Redlands, which is Congressman Lewis' hometown. "The only cities in the country that don't need a lobbyist are the ones represented by a cardinal," Washington parlance for an a Appropriations subcommittee chairman, says Keith Ashdown of Taxpayers for Common Sense, a budget watchdog. Karl Haws, a former Redlands mayor and city councilman who made the formal motion in January 2000 to give Shockey's firm a contract for $30,000, according to council minutes, says it was "helpful to have a knowledgeable person to guide you.... We can't fairly...
...With the help of another former Lewis aide who took over some Shockey accounts at his lobbying firm, many of Shockey's more than 50 former clients have continued to land tens of millions of dollars in earmarks, courtesy of the panel Shockey now helps Lewis run. Ashdown of Taxpayers for Common Sense, which has extensively researched the Lewis-Shockey web, says, for example, that the police department in Redlands, Calif., (population: 63,591), received $1.5 million over three years for a community mapping and analysis program. The University of Redlands, meanwhile, received $2.7 million...
...pork in appropriations bills has more than tripled. "It's obscene. We have taken it to a whole new level," says Arizona Representative Jeff Flake, a leader of the House's conservative Republican Study Committee. "We frankly look worse than the Democrats did in their heyday." Says Keith Ashdown of Taxpayers for Common Sense: "At a time of record deficits," when most agencies are seeing their budgets cut, "we have to set national priorities." Not surprisingly, the lawmakers who brought home the bacon consider the tax dollars well spent...
...brutality and pointlessness of the Bosnian conflict, the bridge's reconstruction - funded by the U.S., Turkish, Italian, Dutch and Croat governments, among others - is a rare positive step toward reconciliation. "As with this bridge, so with Bosnia and Herzegovina," the United Nations' High Representative for the country, Paddy Ashdown, said at the opening ceremony, attended by delegations from 52 countries. With the return of refugees and the still-awaited arrest of former Bosnian Serb leader and accused war criminal Radovan Karadzic, the reconstruction is one of "three great acts of closure" for Bosnia, Ashdown told TIME. Locals have been celebrating...
...Memorial Dr. (located in the basement of Ashdown House), Cambridge