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Roy Blunt Used Highway Bill To Punish Anti-CAFTA Votes

By Roy Temple
Created 08/08/2005 - 10:47am
Roy Blunt Used Highway Bill To Punish Anti-CAFTA Votes [1] -

Last week, Fired Up! Missouri reported that Rep. Roy Blunt (R-K Street) acknowledged using taxpayer dollars as a form of political piggybank to buy votes for unrelated measures [2].

But it is only now becoming clear just how extensively Blunt used that tactic.

This weekend, the Danville (Va.) Register Bee, carried a report [3] that says Blunt used the highway bill to punish those Republican members who didn't tow the party line on the recent CAFTA vote.

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http://www.firedupamerica.com/node/32