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Rep. Mike Doyle (D-Pa.) has asked to have his name removed from a facility he created because he’s tired of being criticized for building a “monument to me.”
.... Doyle is a longtime ally of Rep. John Murtha (D), the dean of the Pennsylvania delegation, and has learned from his mentor how to use earmarks to help spur his western Pennsylvania district’s economy.
Rep. Mike Doyle (D-Pa.) has asked to have his name removed from a facility he created because he’s tired of being criticized for building a “monument to me.”
.... Doyle is a longtime ally of Rep. John Murtha (D), the dean of the Pennsylvania delegation, and has learned from his mentor how to use earmarks to help spur his western Pennsylvania district’s economy.
The same year Doyle got the first earmark for the Doyle Center, Murtha created the John P. Murtha Institute for Homeland Security at Indiana University of Pennsylvania by directing $20 million its way.
Another organization Murtha essentially created through tens of millions of dollars in earmarks shares an officer with the Doyle Center. Edwards J. Sheehan Jr., the senior vice president and chief financial officer of Concurrent Technologies Corporation (CTC), is the chairman of the Doyle Center’s board of governors.
Doyle and the center’s executives argue that the organization is trying to spur Pennsylvania’s economy by helping small- and medium-sized manufacturers combine their resources to compete for Department of Defense contracts. ....
