Connie Mack News. Florida Republican
Politician Cornelius Alexander McGillicuddy IV "Connie Mack IV" News.
Congress.gov biography:
"MACK, Connie, IV, (son of Connie Mack III, step-great-grandson
of Tom Connally, great-grandson of Morris Sheppard, great-great-grandson
of John Levi Sheppard, husband of Mary Bono), a Representative from Florida;
born in Fort Myers, Lee County, Fla., August 12, 1967; B.S., University
of Florida, Gainesville, Fla., 1993; member, Florida state House of Representatives,
2000- 2003; marketing executive; elected as a Republican to the One Hundred
Ninth Congress and to the succeeding Congress (January 3, 2005-present)."
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Cornelius
Alexander McGillicuddy IV "Connie Mack"
CONNIE MACK News:
20080501
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 Don
Young - Connie
Mack -  Money
-  Investigation
-  Road
-  Construction
-  Florida
-  Alaska
-  Federal
-  Law
- "‘Liar’
comment cranks up Coconut Road earmark controversy."
... "Two U.S. [United States] congressmen who spent a day touring Southwest
Florida roads three years ago — sharing the same car for a drive up Interstate
75, attending the same town hall meeting at Florida Gulf Coast University
and going to the same fund raising party in Estero [Florida] — are now
trading insults." ... "At issue is who deserves the blame for how and why
$10 million in a 2005 federal highway bill got assigned to a Coconut Road
[Fort Myers, Florida] interchange study after the $286.4 billion bill passed
Congress, but before the president signed it into law." ... "There’s now
a dispute over who’s telling the truth and who’s ducking between [Florida
Republican Representative] Rep. Connie Mack, R-Fort Myers, the congressman
who had invited a more senior house colleague to visit Lee County in February
of 2005, and [Alaska Republican Representative] Rep. Don Young, R-Alaska,
who took the floor of the House on Wednesday to defend his support for
the Coconut Road interchange study." ... "Young said he backed the project
because it was what people from the area told him they wanted, and those
were views he heard at Mack’s invitation." ... "“It was supported by the
congressman from that district,” Young said of the $10 million earmark
to study a new place to access the interstate. “And there’s letters to
back that up.”" -By Elizabeth Wright
-NaplesNews.com
20080430
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Don
Young - Connie
Mack - Money
-
 Politics
- Law
- Alaska
-  Michigan
- Florida
- Road
-  Real
Estate - "Young
blasts Mack over Coconut Rd.." ... "[Alaska Republican
Representative] Rep. Don Young (R-Alaska) on Wednesday defended changes
his staffers made to the notorious Coconut Road [in Florida] earmark, the
third time in a year he took to the House floor in an attempt to justify
one of his suspect pet projects." ... "Young also accused his GOP [GOP=Grand
Old Party=Republican] colleague, [Florida Republican Representative] Rep.
Connie Mack (Fla.[Florida]), of first supporting the earmark in 2005, and
then distancing himself from it once watchdogs and the media began raising
concerns." ... "Ethics watchdogs have raised red flags over the Lee County,
Fla., road project, the language of which was changed after that measure
passed the House and the Senate but before it reached the president’s desk.
Such a change may have violated House rules, which prohibit substantive
alterations to bills during the enrollment process, the formal procedure
in which a measure is recorded before it moves on to be signed by the president."
... "The earmark has been tainted by controversy. Lobbyist Rick Alcalde
represented both FGSU [Florida Gulf State University] as well as the company
owned by Daniel Aronoff, a real estate developer who owned 4,000 acres
along Coconut Road and helped organize a fundraiser for Young during one
of his visits to the area in 2005. Both entities requested the Coconut
Road earmark." ... "Young flew to FGSU for a town hall meeting in 2005
on a chartered plane owned by a Michigan company; the owner told the Naples
Daily News that the Aronoffs were among his biggest clients." ... "After
the town hall, Young went directly to a fundraiser at the Hyatt Coconut
Point, which Aronoff helped organize." ... "Young said Mack invited him
to the town hall meeting." ... "Young also posted documents and photos
on his website in an effort to demonstrate that Mack was deeply involved
in the earmark. In one letter in March 2006 to FGSU’s president, Mack supported
it." -By Susan Crabtree
-TheHill.com
20080421
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Don
Young - Connie
Mack - Money
- Politics
- Real
Estate - Transportation
- Construction
- Florida
- Alaska
-
 History
- Federal
- Law
- Investigation
- "Q&A:
Don Young and the Coconut Road controversy: EARMARK:
$10 million put in 2005 highway spending bill is coming back to haunt him."
... "Last week, the U.S. [United States] Senate voted to ask the Justice
Department to look into what happened in 2005 when Alaska's sole congressman
earmarked $10 million in unasked-for money to study a highway interchange
in southwest Florida." ... "The 64 to 28 vote was an unprecedented request
on the part of the Senate for a federal inquiry into the actions of a member
of the House of Representatives." ... "At the center of it all: Alaska
[Republican Representative] Rep. Don Young, who acknowledged responsibility
last week for the 2005 earmark, which shifted $10 million pledged to help
widen Interstate 75 to the interchange study. If built, the interchange
promised to benefit one of Young's campaign donors, a family friend whose
real estate company owned property nearby. The earmark was one of thousands
overseen by Young when he was responsible for pushing a multiyear highway
spending bill through Congress." ... "Young has maintained that there was
nothing wrong with what he did, and that the earmark was requested by the
community." ... "But Young is already the subject of a federal investigation,
and many questions remain about how the earmark showed up in the spending
bill -- after the House and Senate had already voted on an alternative
proposal." ... "The obscure Coconut Road earmark first came to the attention
of transportation planners in Lee County, Fla. [Florida], in 2006, when
they tried to figure out why they had received $10 million in federal money
for a study of an intersection that wasn't on their list of transportation
priorities." ... "The transportation board thought it was getting a $10
million earmark to go toward widening of Interstate 75. Instead, the money
was earmarked to the study of an interchange that improves freeway access
to land owned by real estate developer Daniel Aronoff." ... "In 2005, the
Alaska Republican oversaw the multiyear transportation bill, a $286.4 billion
spending plan for some of the biggest infrastructure projects across the
U.S. (The bill also included $452 million for the Gravina Island and Knik
Arm spans that came to be known as the bridges-to-nowhere.)" ... "Local
newspapers, including the Naples Daily News, picked up on the controversy,
and posed the question to Young, at the time the chairman of the House
Transportation and Infrastructure Committee. In 2005, the Alaska Republican
oversaw the multiyear transportation bill, a $286.4 billion spending plan
for some of the biggest infrastructure projects across the U.S. (The bill
also included $452 million for the Gravina Island and Knik Arm spans that
came to be known as the bridges-to-nowhere.)" ... "Young refused to address
the issue. The story failed to draw national attention until The New York
Times wrote about it last spring. The article elaborated on the connections
between the developers seeking the earmark and a 2005 campaign fundraiser
Young attended in Bonita Springs, Fla., at the invitation of a local congressman,
[Florida Republican Representative] Rep. Connie Mack, R-Fla[Republican-Florida].
(The article also reported that when a Times reporter approached Young
to speak to him about it, the congressman "responded with an obscene gesture.")"
... "Those donating money -- about $40,000 total -- to Young included Aronoff,
whose family has long been friendly with Young. The earmark for the interchange
study showed up not long after the fundraiser." -By
Erika
Bolstad -McClatchy
via -ADN.com
20071217
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Connie
Mack - Florida
-
 California
-  Wyoming
- "Reps.
Mary Bono, Connie Mack marry." ... "[California Republican
Representative] Mary Bono, who was married to late singer-turned-politician
[Republican] Sonny Bono and replaced him in Congress after his death, has
married U.S. [United States Florida Republican Representative] Rep. Connie
Mack." ... "Mack, a Republican representative from Florida, and Bono, R-Palm
Springs [California-Republican], had been dating for two years." ... "
Bono and her previous husband, former Wyoming businessman Glenn Baxley,
filed for divorce in 2005." -AP
via -PE.com
20060805
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Connie
Mack -
 Vacation
- Home
- Politics
- Florida
-  Virginia
-  Family
- Law
- "Mack
divorce proceedings include sale of $825,000 home."
... "After 9½ years of marriage, U.S. [United States Florida Republican
Representative] Rep. Connie Mack IV and his wife, Ann, are divorced, but
the Congressman gets to keep is gold Presidential Rolex." ... "Divorce
records obtained Friday by the Daily News show that the couple will sell
their Alexandria, Va.[Virginia], home — which is listed for sale by owner
at $825,000 — and their condo at 15081 Tamarind Cay Court in South Fort
Myers [Florida] as part of their final divorce settlement. The proceeds
of both sales will be split between Ann McGillicuddy and Cornelius McGillicuddy,
R-Fort Myers [Florida Republican Representative known as "Connie Mack"]."
... "They have two children, Addison, 6, and Cornelius McGillicuddy V,
3." ... "Ann McGillicuddy had said that the Southwest Florida congressman
didn't really live in the area, but used the condo as a vacation home.
To hold the office Mack would have to live in the 14th congressional district."
... "According to [Florida's] Lee County Property Appraiser records, the
just value of the condo unit for tax purposes this year is $235,000." -By
Kristen Zambo -DailyNews
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