Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Gotcha Senator Baucus!

TPM:

Tuesday, the Washington Post reported that although Sen. Max Baucus, who chairs the Senate Finance committee, has raked in big bucks from private health-care interests, he has taken one step to in the direction of good government:

To avoid any appearance of favoritism, his aides say, Baucus quietly began refusing contributions from health-care political action committees after June 1.

How admirable. But just hours later, the Sunlight Foundation found that on June 15, Baucus took in $5000 from Schering-Plough Corporation Better Government Fund.

Late Update: A Baucus spokesman tells TPMmuckraker the donation was returned.

How coincidential....

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