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What's Rotten about Loretta?

GREED

Loretta Sanchez took 23 TAXPAYER-FUNDED TRIPS just in the last four years. That's more than any other California member of Congress. She traveled to every continent (including Antarctica). Activities included snorkeling in Australia.
- "Expenditure Reports Concerning Official Foreign Travel", Congressional Record Vol. 152-156

She took an additional 39 trips since 2000, all paid for by Special Interests.
- Legistorm Congressional Travel Database, Loretta Sanchez's Privately Financed Travel.

Loretta Voted to RAISE her own pay. She made an additional $255,300 as a result.
- Salaries of Members of Congress: Recent Actions and Historical Table", Congressional Research Service, 6/15/2010, HR 2490, Roll Call 426, 106th Congress.

CORRUPTION

Loretta Sanchez and her sister, fellow Congresswoman Linda Sanchez, were both under INVESTIGATION by the House Ethics Committee for using taxpayer dollars to cover up an embezzlement scheme in Loretta's office.
- Washington Post, May 24, 2008; Roll Call, May 19, 2009

Loretta Sanchez has a boyfriend who worked for a prominent Washington lobbying firm, until it was raided by the FBI during a corruption investigation and shut down. He now works for a company receiving government contracts through bills Loretta voted for.
- http://www.orangejuiceblog.com/2009/12/is-loretta-sanchez-the-new-mike-duvall/ http://latinopoliticsblog.com/2009/12/13/congresswoman-loretta-sanchez-the-lobbyists/

FAILURE

After 14 YEARS in Congress, Loretta Sanchez has only passed 1 law. It named a Post Office. During the time, Congress passed a total of 2,634 laws.
- H. R. 1366, 2001