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Jerry Lewis - Congresspedia Page 1 of 15 Jerry Lewis - Congresspedia Page 1 of 15 a project of the Sunlight Foundation and the Center for Media & Democracy Jerry Lewis From SourceWatch Charles Jeremy "Jerry" Lewis is a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives representing the 41st District of California(map) since 1979. Contents • 1 Bio • 1. 1 Congressional career • 1. 1. 1 2006 elections • 2 Meet the Cash Constituents Jerry Lewis • 3 Controversy currently serves 41 • 3. 1 Duke Cunningham and Brent Wilkes the st Congressional • 3.2 Bill Lowery and Fall-out from Duke Cunningham Case district of • 3.2. 1 Letitia White California • 3.2.2 Jeffrey Shockey • 3.2.3 Audre. Inc. • 3.3 Earmarks • 3.4 Cerberus • 3.5 Military Aide • 3.6 Profitable investment • 3.7 Land deal under investigation • 3.8 Legal fees • 3.9 Appropriations committee staff firings • 4 Committees and Affiliations • 5 More Background Data • 6 Articles and Resources • 6. 1 Articles • 6.2 Resources • 6.3 Local blogs and discussion sites • 7 Contact Bio Lewis was born October 21, 1934 in Seattle, Washington, and was educated at University of California, Los Angeles. He worked as an insurance agent in the Redlands, then as a staff member for Representative Jerry Pettis and was elected to the California State AssemQly in 1968, at the age of 34. He was elected to the House in 1978 after the incumbent congressman retired. FOIA_000164 I'") It:. j'")f\{\t:. krry Lewis Congresspedia Page 2 of 15 Congressional career In 1980 Lewis received a seat on the Appropriations committee, which he now chairs. According to the 2006 Almanac of American Politics, Lewis "has been unapologetic about channeling funds into his district." The Lorna Linda University medical center received $26 million in 2000; the Perris Hill Plunge, inva swimming pool that Lewis once worked at as a lifeguard, received $1 million for renovations; the Jerry Lewis Community Center got $1 million; he brought in $40 million for national forest protection and emergency watershed protection in 2003; $13.7 million for a dining hall at Twentynine Palms [1], the world's largest Marine Corps base; and countless other projects. In the 1980s Lewis vied for leadership posts with an "accomodationship attitude toward Democrats. " He was the Republican Research Committee chairman in 1984, the chairman of the Republican Policy Committee in 1986, and Republican Conference chairman in 1988. Eventually, he ran up against the ambitious Newt Gingrich who resented Lewis' attitude toward Democrats. Gingrich catapulted into the Minority Whip post after Rep. Dick Cheney was appointed Secretary of Defense and then pushed Lewis out of the Conference chairmanship by supporting Rep. Dick Armey in 1992. 2006 elections In 2006, the Democrats nominated Louie Contreras to face Lewis in his November 2006 bid for reelection. (See U.S. congressional elections in 2006) [2] Lewis won the election fairly decisively. Meet the Cash Constituents The links below point to campaign finance information for Jerry Lewis from the Open Spendillg ill Recent ElectiOlls Secrets website. sponsored by the Center for $2,000,000 Responsive Politics: $1,500,000 Current election cycle $1,000,000 .. Fundraising profile $500,000 $0 .. Top contributors 1 992 1 9941 996 1 998 2000 2002 2004 l1liLevvi8 ;;Ii\Opponent .. Top industries supporting Jerry Lewis Source: Federal Election Commission Career totals (beginning in 1990) .. Fundraising profile II Top contributors .. Top industries suppOliing Jerry Lewis Controversy FOIA_000165 Jerry Lewis - Congresspedia Page 3 of 15 Duke Cunningham and Brent Wilkes Afterthe fa ll of San Diego Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham investigators began to look at other lawmakers who had ties to the same contractors -- in this case the San Diego-based Brent Wilkes -­ alleged to have bribed Cunningham. Lewis was quickly determined to be one of those lawmakers. The Redlands legislator had a history of working with Cunningham to help secure contracts fo r Wilkes' Poway, Calif. contracting businesses ADCS, Inc. and PerfectWave Technologies. [3] One San Diego military contractor called the Cunningham-Lewis duo "pretty frightening" and stated that they were "exerting a lot of controL" [4] According to the San Diego Union-Tribune, three months after Lewis became chairman of the Defense Appropriations Subcommittee he received $17,000 from Wilkes and his associates. Wilkes was trying get a contract fr om the Pentagon to digitize documents in the Panama Canal Zone. However, the Pentagon did not want to give Wilkes' ADCS, Inc. the amount of money that he was asking fo r. Wilkes issued Cunningham a memo -- whieh was released in government documents along with Cunnginham's guilty plea -- stating, "We need $10 m(illion) more immediately ... This is very impOliant and if you cannot resolve this others will be calling also."[5] The "other" names have been blacked out from the document although the first letter of the first name begins with a "D" and the first letter of the second name begins with a "J". [6] Educated guesses have led some to state that the blacked out names are Duncan Hunter and Jerry Lewis. [7] Both Lewis and Cunningham proceeded to cut funding fo r the F-22 fighterjet [8], which led the Pentagon to bow to their pressure and hand Wilkes the $10 million more for his document conversion eontract. Later, when another lawmaker would threaten the F-22's funding Cunningham would label them a "socialist".[91 Lcwis has received $88,252 from Wilkes and his associates. He is the third-highest recipient of campaign contributions from Brent Wilkes trailing only Cunningham and John Doolittle, who is a self­ professed fri end of Wilkes. Lewis has stated that he knew Wilkes "socially years ago" and took a trip to Guatemala with Wilkes. [10] Wilkes worked in the 1980s bringing congressmen to Central America to meet with the counter-revolutionary militias that were "disappearing" thousands of civilians while battling the Marxist Sandinistas. Bill Lowery and Fall-out from Duke Cunningham Case After the comiction of Duke Cunningham on bribery charges, Lewis' ties to lobbyists and local defense contractors came under greater scrutiny. The San Diego Union-Tribune reported that Lewis "has greenlighted hundreds of millions of dollars in fe deral projects for clients of one of his closest friends, lobbyist and former state Congressman Bill Lowery."[ll] Lowery's lobbying firm and clients contributed 37 percent of the $l.3 million raised by Lewis' political action committee fo r the last six years. Lowery's business has boomed since Lewis' previous chairmanship of subcommitte for Defense Appropriations. The firm's income tripled from $1.58 million to $5.J 1 mill ion and the client list multiplied from 28 to 101 since 1998. Many of the projects listed above were obtained with the lobbying prowess of Lowery and his firm. [12] Creating greater problems for Lewis is the fact that one of those clients that hired Lowery is implicated in the bribery case involving Cunningham. The client, Brent Wilkes and his defense contracting empire, FOIA_000166 1""" It:: /"'){,{\/: Jerry Lewis - Congresspedia Page 4 of 15 also eontributed to Lewis' PAC. On May 11, 2006 the Los Angeles Times reported that Lewis was the subjeet of a federal investigation forhis relationship with "a Washington lobbyist linked to disgraeed fo rmer Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham". That "Washington lobbyist" was revealed to be Bill Lowery. Of particular interest to investigators are the actions of Lewis' staff, espeeially Jeffrey Shoekey[13] and Letitia White[14] [ 15] [16]. Lewis has vehemently denied any impropriety in his aetions stating that all of his earmarks were for "my constituents and my people." When contaeted about the investigation Lewis expressed shoek. "For goodness sake, why would they be doing that?"[17] On June 1, the San Bernardino Sun reported that the City of Redlands, Calif. and San Bernardino County. both clients of Lowery's law firm,had been subpoenaed in the fe deral investigation into possible lobbying and earmarking abuses by Lowery's firm and Lewis.[I8] Four days later it was revealed that two other clients of the law firm had also been subpoenaed, Cal State University San Bernardino and Riverside County, Calif. [ 19] Investigators are paying partieularly close attention to Jeffrey Shockey, who shuttled between Lewis' offiee and Lowery's firm. [20] On June 6, three more cities, Loma Linda, Yueca Valley, and Twentynine Palms, stated that they had been issued subpoenas. [21] [22] Yet another eity joined them on June 14, as Highland announced it had been issued a subpoena. [23] The total number of clients of Copeland Lowery Jacquez Denton & White that have been issued subpoenas totals eight to date. [24] On June 13, the city of Redlands was reported to be considering terminating its' relationship with the lobbying group and on July 7th, the eity council voted unanimously to do just that.[25] [26] After being subpoenaed, the San Bernardino Sun reported that the San Bernardino Country released 3,500 pages of documents showing the relationship between Jerry Lewis and the Copeland Lowery Jacquez Denton & White lobbying firm. The documents show that the county used the firm to create "strategies to get fe deral funding," work on "problems with endangered species," and to "arrange meetings with senator and Congressmen". This includes meetings with Congressman Lewis. [27] On June 16, the Copeland Lowery Jacquez Denton & White lobbying firm announced that it was splitting into two groups as a result of increased media scrutiny. Partners Bill Lowery, Jean Denton. and Letitia White comprised the group expected to lead the existing full service consulting firm, wh ile partners James Copeland and Lynn Jacquez leftin order to form a separate partnership. Each of the involved partners remain foeused on their client work, including discussing issues on Capitol Hill and working with regulatory agencies.
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