Sen. Tom Carper (D-DE) blows the whistle on a quid pro quo in the closed-door health care negotiations:
I’ll tell you — if someone negotiated a deal with me and I agreed to put up say, 80 dollars or 80 million dollars or 80 billion dollars and then you came back and said to me a couple of weeks later — no no, I know you agreed to do 80 billion and I know you were willing to help support through an advertising campaign this particular — not even this particular bill, just the idea of generic health care reform? No, we’re going to double — we’re going to double what you agreed in those negotiations to do. That’s not the way — that’s not what I consider treating people the way I’d want to be treated.
(Via Instapundit.)
Trading a deal on legislation for advertising dollars has to be illegal, doesn’t it? Doesn’t it?
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