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Rep. Jeff Flake is using the scandal over the PMA Group in an effort to force the House ethics committee to look into whether earmarks and campaign contributions are linked. Well hello....the rest of us have already figured that that there is a big old link between the two. The Justice Department is looking into whether lobbyists used “straw donors” to route money to favored lawmakers. PMA and its employees donated more than $3 million to lawmakers over the last decade, the vast bulk of it going to Murtha and other members of the powerful Appropriations Committee. PMA’s clients won hundreds of millions of dollars in spending earmarks, according to congressional watchdog groups. Flake added that a $400 billion-plus omnibus spending bill to be considered by the House this week also contains earmarks “worth millions of dollars ... for clients of the PMA Group.” Well I guess it is better late than never. But really do you expect a "real" investigation into this? It would cost a lot of elected officals their jobs. Yet they are the very ones who would over see this investigation. So if it happens do you think htey are honestly doing to let the truth come out? Tell me waht you think of this proposal. What should be done to stop lobbyist from buying our elected officials?