$$$ to Donuts: The Virginia Foxx File

Thanks, Ryan.

Companies that Give $$$ to Virginia Foxx
[70.8% of all Foxx's PAC Contributions come from big business]

Bank of America

Blue Cross and Blue Shield

Branch Bank and Trust

Bellsouth

Coastal Federal Credit Union

Coca-Cola Company

Conoco Phillips

Coventry Health Care

CVS

Dean Foods

Dell

Duke Energy

Exxon Mobil

First Citizens Bank

Food Lion

Georgia Peach

Goodyear

Jefferson-Pilot Federal

Kerr Drug

Lorillard Tobacco Company

Lowe’s Companies

Merck

Nelnet

Norfolk Southern

North Carolina Farm Bureau

Novartis

Nucor

Pepsico (Pepsi-Cola donated $250 less than Coke)

Piedmont Natural Gas

Piedmont Stone Center

Pike Electric

Progress Energy

R.J. Reynolds

Remington Arms Company

Sallie Mae

Smithkline Beecham Corporation

Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal, LLP

Sprint Nextel

Truliant Federal Credit Union

Tyco

Tyson Foods

Union Pacific Corporation

Verizon Communication

Vulcan Materials

Wachovia Corporation (Bank)

Wal-Mart Stores Inc.

Wendy's

Weyerhaeuser Company

Other Donors of Notable Interest

Natl. Beer Wholesalers Association ($26,000)

Wine and Spirits Wholesalers of America ($1,000)

Wineamerica PAC ($350)

Vernon Robinson ($3,470)

Ties with Scandal (From the DCCC Website):

TIES WITH TOM DELAY AND JACK ABRAMOFF
Foxx has taken:

• $15,000 from Tom DeLay's ARMPAC.
• $5,000 from Bob Ney, the first congressman to plead guilty in the Jack Abramoff investigation.

With all of these ties to the DeLay/Abramoff mess, is it any surprise that Foxx has:

• Voted to weaken House ethics rules when DeLay proposed doing so as GOP Majority Leader.
• Voted with Tom DeLay 81% of the time (through 3/31/2006)[1]

Accountability

According to www.opensecrets.org:

$1,200 donated to Foxx came with incomplete information

(INCOMPLETE DISCLOSURE: Occupation listed gives no indication what the person does for a living. Examples of unacceptably vague disclosures are such "occupations" as "businessman," "entrepreneur," "self-employed," and "executive".)

$11,900 donated to Foxx came with no disclosure at all

(NO DISCLOSURE: No information about the donor's employer and / or occupation was listed)

Top Donation Zip Codes (www.opensectrets.org):

27030 (MOUNT AIRY, NC)	$142,200
27104 (Winston Salem, NC)	$101,500
28607 (Boone, NC)	$88,550

Personal $ Scandal

In spite of saying to thepolitico.com that "We're not in the business anymore. [Christmas Tree Sales] We've gradually gotten out of it.” Foxx lists Foxx Family Inc. Garden Shop, Mini-Storage, and Mortgage on her 2005 House disclosure.

http://www.politico.com/blogs/anneschroeder/0107/A_Christmas_Tree_Caper.html

or http://www.politico.com/blogs/anneschroeder/0107/Memory_Loss_and_Christmas_Trees_on_the_Hill.html

Foxx also owns stock in Chevron and Wal-Mart, earning dividends reported on her 2005 House disclosure.

The Heritage Foundation paid for her food, lodging and travel expenses twice and the American Israel Education Foundation did so once in 2005.

In 2004 she reported in her House disclosure charging the Grandfather home for Children $12,933 for “Const. Fees”.

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[1] [Interesting given this:] Saturday, January 20, 2007 Bits and Pieces: Rose-Colored, Redux

Winston-Salem Journal

This week, in a report broadcast on WFDD-FM, 5th District Rep. Virginia Foxx said that former U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay is not facing trial, has not been indicted and certainly does not face criminal charges. She hadn't heard. When informed that DeLay's trial on criminal charges of money-laundering is pending, Foxx concluded, with no further research, that the indictment was a "trumped-up charge."

This somehow seems in keeping with her conclusion last summer that the war in Iraq was going well. Bits can't help but wonder just how Rep. Foxx gets her information.