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By Vladimir Posted in 2008 | Earmarks — Comments (2) / Email this page » / Leave a comment »

The good Senator's support for educational software was previously blogged here.

Now, the $2,000,000 earmark, which followed closely on the heels of $30,000 donated to the campaign coffers from impassioned software company staff, has come under the watchful eye of the Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW):

“Sen. Landrieu’s response to CREW’s Department of Justice and Ethics Committee complaints fails to address the key allegation: that she inserted an earmark in return for campaign contributions. According to a document just provided by Sen. Landrieu, the District of Columbia apparently asked the senator on April 25, 2001 to include an earmark for Voyager in the D.C. appropriations bill. Nevertheless, by September 24, 2001, when a House committee included a $1 million earmark for Voyager, the company still had not attracted a Senate sponsor. Sen. Landrieu has not explained why she didn’t follow through on the District’s request until November 6, 2001, four days after Mr. Best and his associates contributed $30,000 to the senator’s campaign.”