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COMMENTS: Flying Bacon
A pair of Congressmen from Georgia have each received more than $10,000 in campaign contributions from General Dynamics over the past two years: Sanford Bishop, a Democrat, and Jack Kingston, a Republican. They persuaded their colleagues to add two more Gulfstream 550 corporate jets to the Pentagon's request for a single plane for its Africa Command. In ABC's Your Money report, Jonathan Karl noted that the extra planes would belong to a USAF squadron "that flies government VIPs, including--guess who--members of Congress." The three Gulfstreams, pricetag $200m, happen to be built in Georgia. "Call it jets for junkets."
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