More Money From Gingrey to CryoLife?

I reported earlier this week about the passage of a defense spending bill which included a $2.5 million earmark to CryoLife and sought by Congressman Phil Gingrey. I also talked about donations from CryoLife's CEO and CryoLife's PAC to Gingrey in the past. Some research reveals that this isn't the only instance of Gingrey-supported earmarks going to CryoLife. In 2004, Gingrey (along with Senator Saxby Chambliss) steered another one million toward CryoLife.

Ostensibly, the earmarks seem to serve a noble mean: the development of medical technologies to stop massive bleeding caused by battlefield injuries. But even if the Congressman's intentions are completely noble, he should, at the very least, return the campaign contributions received from CryoLife's PAC and from Mark Anderson, CEO of CryoLife.