And the good people of CREW have caught them:
CREW TO RELEASE NEW REPORT THURSDAY ON
CONGRESSIONAL MEMBERS AND PORNOGRAPHY
News Conference, March 10, 11:00 am to Release:
Addicted to Porn: How Members of Congress Benefit from Pornography
WASHINGTON, DC – Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) will release its new report, Addicted to Porn: How Members of Congress Benefit from Pornography at a news conference on Thursday, March 10 at 11:00 am at 11 Dupont Circle, Second Floor Conference Room.
CREW’s report details Members of Congress who publicly rail against the evils of pornography but accept political contributions from corporations and their executives who make money on pornography. Addicted to Porn lists members’ contributions by name and corporation from the 2002 through the 2004 political cycles. The report also includes quotes from members decrying pornography and indecency.
“Hypocritical does not begin to describe Members of Congress who vilify pornography, call for decency standards and then turn around and fill their campaign coffers with contributions from corporations and executives profiting from pornography,” Melanie Sloan, executive director of CREW said today. “Our report, Addicted to Porn, will expose those Congressional members that choose to accept contributions from sources that profit from the very material they are railing against.”
Frederick Lane, the author of Obscene Profits: The Entrepreneurs of Pornography in the Cyber-age will also discuss how mainstream corporations benefit from pornography ventures.
WHO: Melanie Sloan, Executive Director, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), Frederick Lane, author of Obscene Profits: The Entrepreneurs of Pornography in the Cyber Age
WHAT: News Conference to release Addicted to Pornography: How Members of Congress Benefit from Pornography
WHERE: 11 Dupont Circle, Second Floor Conference Room
WHEN: 11:00 am, Thursday, March 10, 2005
