Nancy Pelosi's earmark in the bailout...

[stillwaterangel]

"SNOPES" VALIDATES THE BELOW FACT
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi's home district includes San Francisco .

Star-Kist Tuna's head quarters are in San Francisco , Pelosi's home district.
Star-Kist is owned by Del Monte Foods and is a major contributor to Pelosi.

Star-Kist is the major employer in American Samoa employing 75% of the Samoan work force.

Paul Pelosi, Nancy 's husband, owns $17 million dollars of Star-Kist stock.

In January, 2007 when the minimum wage was increased from $5.15 to $7.25, Pelosi had American Samoa exempted from the increase so Del Monte would not have to pay the higher wage. This would make Del Monte products less expensive than their competition's.

Last week when the huge bailout bill was passed, Pelosi added an earmark to the final bill adding $33 million dollars for an 'economic development credit in American Samoa '.

Pelosi has called the Bush Administration "CORRUPT" ? ?

How do you spell "HYPOCRISY" ? ?

Wake up America.......


I think I'll stop buying Star Kist tuna and Del Monte products..maybe others will join me and we can watch the Pelosi stock dwindle

 

[tigger_too_wooh]

Thanks for the information.

I don't buy tuna to begin with, but I can avoid Del Monte too.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

"SNOPES" VALIDATES THE BELOW FACT....

Well that is about as close to a lie as you can get, without being able to call it a flat out lie.

Snopes link.

However, we haven't found any evidence of a direct link between Speaker Pelosi and the decision to exclude American Samoa from the minimum wage legislation: Democrats maintained that Speaker Pelosi did not work on the details of the bill, and that the exemption for American Samoa was created at the behest of the island's Congressional delegate:

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Whatever the motivation might have been for the initial exclusion of American Samoa from the minimum wage bill, news accounts do not support the claim that the exemption came about because Del Monte Food was "a major contributor to Pelosi."

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We also could find no confirmation for the claim that Speaker Pelosi's husband owns "$17 million dollars of StarKist stock."

So in most part, general references in the article are true, however, all the accusations appear to be false.

 

[precocious]

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