Politics: PAC Is Not Living Up to Name, just the opposite, it seems...

[Frances Morey]

>From a Washington Post article:
...Shortly before the 2000 elections, American Dream PAC transferred $90,000 to the Maine, Delaware, Florida and Arkansas Republican parties. An additional $10,000 went to Texans Against Gerrymandering, a group set up by Rep. Joe Barton (R-Tex.) to purchase software and draft maps in connection with the GOP redistricting effort....

This is a curious naming, Texans Against Gerrymandering, of a group devoted to planning the Texas redistricting assualt on Democrats. 
It is so in-your-face that one wonders what it was like in the scene where that name was chosen. This, and another WP article about procedures for drug re-testing of federal employees were enough to inspire today's headache. Government workers, perhaps the employment category most in need of the use of drugs to endure the regimentation and monotony, is being subjected to a "gotcha" that makes job security a flimsy illusion. They didn't name it going postal for nothing.

Wonder when the congressional investigation of Iraq will convene? 
Frances 


 --- On Wed 04/07, washingtonpost.com < 
Date: Wed, 07 Apr 2004 09:39:46 EDT
Subject: Politics: PAC Is Not Living Up to Dream

http://letters.washingtonpost.com/W3RH0596464FAF1C39E573E0F0245">'Dream' PAC Not Living Up to Its Goal
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