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Property values are booming in the Barracks Row neighborhood of Washington DC, what CBS' Sharyl Attkisson called "a once shabby area" near the US Capitol that has received $2.75m in federal urban renewal funds in the last three years. Those funds are the pet project of Rep Jerry Lewis of Republican from California. The latest investment will be "giant decorative arch kiosks for merchants," Attkisson previewed, "hardly shabby now." Why should a congressman not help our nation's capital prosper? Attkisson explained the catch: Congressional rules dictate that neither members nor their spouses should have any financial interest in an earmarked project. Technically, Lewis' wife has no interest in Barracks Row itself--but her $943m townhouse sits only four blocks away and the rising tide of gentrification helps the neighbors too.
Rep. Jerry Lewis can't do anything that isn't corrupt. I read all about him on Congresspedia and cannot believe this is anything but more of the same sort of corruption he's become infamous for.
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