It's the Congressional Black Caucus Shakedown!

Drawing in big bucks from folks like the rent-to-own business, predatory in minority neighborhoods? Check? And, from Big Tobacco, when more minorities smoke than the national average? Also check.

Quotes like this?

“I’ll always do my best to protect what really matters to you,” (Congressman William Lacy) Clay told rent-to-own executives, who agreed to hold their 2008 annual convention in St. Louis, his home district.

Check.

Looks like the Congressional Black Caucus has taken a page from the Jesse Jackson playbook, when only $1 million of an amazing $55 million it got from 2004-08 actually went to its PAC; the rest went to a largely unregulated nonprofit network slush fund/gravy train.

And that's not all. The analysis and research piece is four webpages long; go read it.