17 Feb, 2008
Travel Industry Tries to Rip Off Taxpayers
Posted by: Rob Bluey In: Capitol Hill| Foreign Affairs
Jeffrey Birnbaum has an outstanding piece in today’s Washington Post about the inner workings of lobbying effort from the travel industry to persuade the U.S. government to spend $200 million on a tourism marketing campaign — a massive boondoggle that was fortunately stopped by taxpayer watchdogs such as Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.).
Hat tip to Mark Tapscott of the Washington Examiner for calling attention to the article. Tapscott noted that Bruce Kesler of the Democracy Project has previously reported much of the story on his blog.

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