No wonder John Sununu wanted to bail out AIG

Senator John Sununu (R-NH) likes to claim he's a leader and not a partisan when it comes to cleaning up the current Wall Street mess.

"I've been proud of the leadership role I've provided on some very important, very large scale regulatory questions....And I think the framework we created for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and AIG and insurance companies are the right frameworks to pursue as we begin looking at legislation again at the beginning of the next session to really reform, consolidate and modernize our entire financial service regulatory framework."

But in the case of AIG, perhaps it was Sununu's pocketbook as much as his "leadership" that ked to his support for the bailout. Sununu has received more than $16,000 from an AIG PAC since 2001, including $5,650 in the last 16 months. If that's leadership, we'd hate to see what he'd be like as a partisan. And, if he was a true leader, shouldn't he donate at least that $5,650 to the federal government as the part of the bailout he supported?

SUNUNU, JOHN E VIA TEAM SUNUNU 05/29/2001 1000.00
SUNUNU, JOHN E VIA TEAM SUNUNU 12/13/2001 1000.00
SUNUNU, JOHN E VIA TEAM SUNUNU 03/13/2002 1000.00
SUNUNU, JOHN E VIA TEAM SUNUNU 10/03/2002 5000.00
SUNUNU, JOHN E VIA TEAM SUNUNU 09/04/2003 2000.00
SUNUNU, JOHN E VIA TEAM SUNUNU 05/02/2006 1000.00
SUNUNU, JOHN E VIA TEAM SUNUNU 06/18/2007 1250.00
SUNUNU, JOHN E VIA TEAM SUNUNU 06/27/2007 4000.00
SUNUNU, JOHN E VIA TEAM SUNUNU 02/05/2008 400.00