Can we talk about the Culture of Corruption?

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Or since it is Democrats who have 'minority' group status, it will just be racism?

Patrick Cannon Wednesday morning on public corruption.

Leland Yee Arrest Makes 3 Scandals In 3 Months For California State Senate Democrats.

 

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This one goes out to Byron in Exile who was a good Republican basher when Bush was in office and an even better one now that Obama is in office.


busybody's Agent Smith.

 

[Busybody]

Can we talk about the Culture of Corruption?

Yes, all REPOZ are CO -RUPT!

 

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I love the anti-gun nut.


Working with gangs and terrorists. lol. I guess he was arming OWS to go after the Tea Party...

 

[Busybody]

in the story

they mentioned he was a D

in the 26th paragraph

the 3 nutworks didn't mention it at all

 

[Busybody]

the guy carrying the D

musta been stuck on a BRIDGE

and couldn't get through

 

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And like Jefferson before him, on the other coast, we see pay-to-play...

 

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tee hee


I was sure the LWCJ would not chime in on this thread, and I was right. If you ignore it, it didn't even happen...

 

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Papa Reid
The Senate majority leader serves the interests of the Reid family above all else.
Matthew Continetti, NRO
MARCH 29, 2014

Another man might have assumed, correctly, that launching a campaign of insult and insinuation against two billionaires would result in renewed attention to his own finances. Not Harry Reid. The Senate Democratic leader since 2005, and the Senate majority leader since 2007, is not one to reflect before speaking. His mouth runs far ahead of his brain.

In recent years Reid has declared an American war “lost” while our troops still fought overseas; praised President Obama for his “light” skin and “no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one”; asserted falsely and without evidence that Mitt Romney had not paid any taxes for a decade; and said “Why would we want to do that?” when asked if he would fund cancer research during the government shutdown.

Now, with his majority in danger, his president unpopular, and his floor agenda obstructed by members of his own caucus, Reid thrashes about uncontrollably. He calls Obamacare horror stories “untrue.” He says Obamacare numbers are not as high as projected because Americans “are not educated on how to use the Internet.” His Senate Majority PAC launches a $3 million ad campaign tying Republican candidates to two men most Americans have never heard of, two men who, funnily enough, are more popular than Reid.

From the floor of the Senate, Reid says these two men, Charles and David Koch, are “un-American” and are trying “to buy America.” Without the terrible specter of the Koch brothers, Harry Reid would be disarmed. He has no issue for his Democratic senators to run on; the minimum wage and climate change are not enough. Nor has he another means of inspiring donors to open their checkbooks. He only has fear, fear of the Kochs, fear of extractive industry, fear of the portion of the elite that favors economic freedom. The Koch brothers, Reid says, “rig the system to benefit themselves.” He should know.

The fact that Harry Reid’s political and influence operation includes his five children has been established for some time. A few weeks ago, when I first heard Reid accuse private citizens of being un-American, I dredged up a Los Angeles Times article from 2003 with the headline, “In Nevada, the Name to Know Is Reid.” Chuck Neubauer and Richard T. Cooper’s meticulously researched and reported article begins with the story of the “Clark County Conservation of Land and Natural Resources Act of 2002,” a land bill of the sort that puts people to sleep. “What Reid did not explain” when he introduced the bill in the Senate, Neubauer and Cooper wrote, “was that the bill promised a cavalcade of benefits to real-estate developers, corporations, and local institutions that were paying hundreds of thousands of dollars in lobbying fees to his sons’ and son-in-law’s firms.” I wonder why he left that part out.

Firms tied to the Reid family, the Los Angeles Times reported, earned more than $2 million from 1998 to 2002 “from special interests that were represented by the kids and helped by the senator in Washington.” How much more have they earned in the eleven years since this article was published? Land, energy, water, gaming, and mining — the Reids manage a diversified portfolio. They are not financial investors but political ones. Reid’s four sons are lawyers, as is his son-in-law. They make their money furthering the interests of paying clients, clients operating businesses in the state represented by Reid.

Those businesses are not necessarily American. After a 2011 trip to China, Harry Reid began touting the virtues of ENN Energy Group, a Chinese firm that sought to build a $5 billion solar farm in Nevada. Reid’s son Rory represented ENN, though Rory claimed in a 2012 Bloomberg article never to have discussed “the project with my father or his staff.” Somehow, though, commissioners friendly with the Reid family agreed to sell property to ENN for one-sixth of the land’s appraised value.

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Reid and his family appear to work within the confines of the law, which should not be surprising, because Reid writes that law, and illegal activity hurts the bottom line. Others are not so careful. Last year one of Reid’s longtime donors, Nevada lobbyist Harvey Whittemore, was sentenced to two years in prison after being found guilty of violating campaign-finance laws. Whittemore used associates as “straw donors” to run around donation limits, giving more than $130,000 in dirty money to Reid’s campaign. His sentence is delayed pending appeal.

This week we learned that Reid’s willingness to funnel other people’s money to members of his family extends to a third generation. On Wednesday the veteran Nevada journalist Jon Ralston reported that Harry Reid had used $31,000 in campaign funds to buy “gifts for my staff and supporters” from his granddaughter, Rory Reid’s daughter, Ryan Elisabeth Reid, a “performing-arts professional” living in Brooklyn.

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“I must study politics and war,” John Adams said, “that my sons may have the liberty to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, and naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain.” In Harry Reid’s America a man must win political office so that his sons may have the liberty to practice law and register as lobbyists, engage in rent-seeking and government relations and crisis management and communications, in order to give their children a right to live in Brooklyn, to enroll in the New School, to visit the Vermont Studio Center, to have cronies finance their off-off-off-Broadway shows, to enjoy their allowance from grandpa. This is the arrangement put before the voters this coming Election Day; this is the “system” rigged to benefit the family Reid; this is the configuration of power that Charles and David Koch want to disrupt. How awful of them. How “un-American.”

KO's political class in a nutshell; the only ones who can navigate the complexities of our "evolved" and advanced civilization.

The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws."
Cornelius Tacitus

And boy, do we have a LOT of them!

 

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Pennsylvania state senator LeAnna Washington, party animal: This week, a judge ruled that the Keystone State could proceed with a trial against Washington, who reportedly forced her legislative staff for eight years to use taxpayer time and money for an annual birthday party whose proceeds were diverted to her campaign account. She is charged with felony theft of services and felony conflict of interest. More than a half-dozen former employees blew the whistle. “I am the f—ing senator,” she screamed at one staffer who objected. “I do what the f— I want, and ain’t nobody going to change me.”

• Rhode Island House Speaker Gordon Fox, multiple-raid target: The powerful Democrat, beloved by the Left for his gay-marriage activism, announced last weekend that he is stepping down from office after FBI raids on his home and work offices. Fox is the target of several criminal investigations by the U.S. attorney’s office, the FBI, the IRS, and state police. Mum’s the word so far on the nature of the alleged criminal activity involved.

• California state senator Ronald Calderon, all in the corrupted family: Calderon is on a paid leave of absence after being hit with a 24-count federal indictment for bribery and corruption. His brother also was charged with multiple counts of money laundering and influence peddling. Prosecutors allege the legislator accepted nearly $100,000 in bribes, plane trips, gourmet meals, and golf games in exchange for political favors. He also is accused of paying his daughter $39,000 for a phony office job and paying $40,000 in “consulting” fees for a campaign website that didn’t exist.

• California state senator Roderick Wright, lying liar: Also on paid leave, the entrenched Los Angeles–area politician is now fighting his January conviction on felony perjury, false declaration of candidacy, and fraudulent-voting charges. Wright claimed to live in a rented room in an Inglewood home within his district, but the jury found his true residence was outside the district, in upscale Baldwin Hills. The jury found he lied on candidacy declarations and voter-registration documents and fraudulently voted in five elections.

• New York state assemblyman Bill Scarborough, shady jet-setter: The FBI and state authorities raided his home and offices as part of a probe into his travel-voucher practices. He blamed a “tabloid hit job” by the New York Post over questionable per-diem claims totaling $60,000.

• Illinois state representative Keith Farnham, child-porn suspect: After sponsoring two bills to increase penalties for child-porn possession, Farnham was the subject of state and federal raids last week on his home — for possession of child porn. Over the weekend, he resigned his seat, citing “serious health issues.” Now there’s a euphemism.

Remember: Nancy Pelosi famously promised to “drain the moral swamp” and end the “culture of corruption.” She cast herself and her minions as America’s political clean-up crew. But once again, the culture-of-corruption boomerang has swung back around to smack Democrats in their smug mugs. The cynical Swamp Drainers just hope you forget it all by election time. Don’t.

Michelle Malkin, NRO

 

[RobDownSouth]

Or since it is Democrats who have 'minority' group status, it will just be racism?

Patrick Cannon Wednesday morning on public corruption.

Leland Yee Arrest Makes 3 Scandals In 3 Months For California State Senate Democrats.

As I predicted yesterday, "Democrat in trouble" automatically becomes the Chief's outrage du jour.

 

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Bring on the clowns...

I love a clown!

 

[miles]

Bring on the clowns...

I love a clown!

I'm sure the Turd is addressing the issue directly in his post.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

I'm sure the Turd is addressing the issue directly in his post.

My guess would be the typical, "What about the Republicans, where's your outrage?"


Ignore-ance is BLISS!

 

[miles]

My guess would be the typical, "What about the Republicans, where's your outrage?"

That's far too clever for him.

 

[miles]

"Reid has finally cracked. The pressure of being a lying crook and a sphincter valve has been too much for the aging mobster. Next thing to watch for is the stuttering and blaming everyone else for his problems."

 

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[Saint Peter]

Republican Bill Kramer was accused in the criminal complaint of forcibly kissing the female aide and grabbing her breasts after a political event in suburban Milwaukee in April 2011, the criminal complaint filed in Waukesha County said.


http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/03/29/us-usa-assembly-wisconsin-idUSBREA2S00720140329

 

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[Adre]

You fringe loonies are a hoot.

 

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[Adre]

and superior to the left wing loonies who've been mentally damaged beyond redemption by repeated leftist harangues they were forced to endure in the government school systems and union halls across the fruited plain.

Many of us in the center laugh at both winged loonies.

 

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[Adre]

Hahahahahaha...the center of the bullshit pile. Your headlong flight away from the national disaster you voted for is journeyman hypocrisy at its finest. You were found fixed and identified long ago son.

And I voted for Bush. I don't take my orders from either phony Party. You're the one floundering in bullshit, comrade Republicunt.