Congresswoman Holmes- Norton The Game's Afoot and the Foot is Smelly!

Now, this girl can shakedown!

"Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes-Norton on Line 2, Mr. Lobbyist!"

This is, uh, Eleanor Norton, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton. Uh, I noticed that you have given to uh, other colleagues on the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee. I am a, um, Senior Member, a twenty year veteran and am Chair of the Sub-committee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management. I’m handling the largest economic development project in the United States now, the Homeland Security Compound of three buildings being built on the uh, old St. Elizabeth’s hospital site in the District of Columbia along with uh, fifteen other, uh, sites here for, that are part of the stimulus .

I was, frankly, uh, uh, surprised to see that we don’t have a record, so far as I can tell, of your having given to me despite my uh, long and deep uh, work. In fact, it’s been my major work, uh, on the committee and sub-committee it’s been essentially in your sector.

I am, I’m simply candidly calling to ask for a contribution. As the senior member of the um, committee and a sub-committee chair, we have (chuckles) obligations to raise, uh funds. And, I think it must have been me who hasn’t, frankly, uh, done my homework to ask for a contribution earlier. So I’m trying to make up for it by asking for one now, when we particularly, uh, need, uh contributions, particularly those of us who have the seniority and chairmanships and are in a position to raise the funds.

I’m asking you to give to Citizens for Eleanor Holmes Norton, PO Box 70626, DC, 20024. I’ll send you a follow-up note with appreciation for having heard me out. Thanks again.

Now, I, personally speaking, would add, " Forget the check - make it in Gold, or if that is not convenient, I want small denomination bills, Jacksons would be fine, and place them in a Stuhrling Gym Bag ( orange please) which generally run around 80 bucks ($79.95) and place it in the locker at Cardinal Fitness Center # 1467 - which belongs to my neighbor Mike Regan, because I never go there. I owe Mike for a small plumbing job and wish to make the bag a gift-in-kind."