Can we talk about the Culture of Corruption?

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[Adre]

You voted for Obama, comrade.

Against McCain and Romney, and would do so again.

 

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[Adre]

Grim testimony to your love of incompetence and socialist leadership..

Yeah, right, you'd rather go back to how things were in 2008. Doofus.

 

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[4est_4est_Gump]

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

*chuckle*

You make our point. He was acting like the mayor of San Diego...



Maybe it was the booze that made him try the crack.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

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

You define yourself as the center.

Yet in every thread you seem to side with the Left.

Was something done wrong here, or is it the false equivalence of the right is worse?

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Against McCain and Romney, and would do so again.

I voted against them too...



The first time for the lunatic Bob Barr and the second time to TEACH AMERICA A LESSON!



I think it is sinking in.

 

[RobDownSouth]

You define yourself as the center.

Yet in every thread you seem to side with the Left.

Was something done wrong here, or is it the false equivalence of the right is worse?

And you define yourself as a "Not-Republican", yet you bellow the Republican talking point/outrage of the day each and every day.

I'm sure the unintentional irony of your statement above continues to elude you.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

I love a clown!

 

[Adre]

You define yourself as the center.

Yet in every thread you seem to side with the Left.

Was something done wrong here, or is it the false equivalence of the right is worse?

Show me where I 'seem' to do that. Did you not read where I just said I voted for Bush? Is that siding with the Left? I reject the rigid views of Right and the Left equally...I am not an idealogue. I believe in governing from the middle.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

You just did it.


The fact that you don't see it is about the funniest thing to me...

It really, really tickles my sense of unintended irony.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

In Nancy’s own backyard are three eyebrow raising indictments against Democrat leaders.

a. California State Senator Leland Yee’s indictment reads like the script of a cheap detective movie.

In 137 pages the affidavit in support of the Yee indictment is based on wiretap and testimony of numerous undercover special agents.

It claims that Yee, a strong proponent of gun control and candidate for California Secretary of State, was accepting bribes to traffic Russian firearms to terrorists in the Philippines.

Well. Surely having an elected official working on illegal deals with Russian arms dealers to arm Islamic terrorists trying to overthrow a government allied to the United States at a time when Russia is causing global -- sorry, regional -- problems, isn’t a big problem…?

And neither is this?

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It’s at this point in the story that the media will go out of their way not to ask any other Democrats what they knew about Yee and whether they have a culture of corruption

b.California State Senator and his brother Tom.

An affidavit obtained last year by Al Jazeera America includes allegations that Ronald Calderon accepted $88,000 in bribes from an undercover FBI agent and a businessman to affect legislation to extend film-industry tax credits and to change workers' compensation laws.

The document also said there was also probable cause to believe that Ronald Calderon "participated in a separate bribery scheme with Michael D. Drobot," the chief executive officer of Pacific Hospital of Long Beach. The lawmaker allegedly accepted $28,000 from Drobot in exchange for "supporting legislation that would delay or limit changes in California's workers' compensation laws," the affidavit said.

The Times has also reported that the FBI investigation has looked into the Central Basin Municipal Water District, where Calderon's brother Tom worked as a consultant.

Drobot, in turn, has a record of his own, as described by Matt Holzmann.

Michael Drobot, who owned Pacific Hospital in Long Beach, bilked the state and federal governments of over $500 million in a sophisticated medical equipment scam. The same type of scam that our president promised to stamp out when selling ObamaCare.

Calderon facilitated Drobot’s corrupt empire that included crooked doctors, medical equipment companies, and hospital personnel.

You can find more details about world class fraudster Drobot

c. California State Senator Rod Wright.

[There is] an eight-count felony indictment against state Sen. Roderick Wright (D-Inglewood), accusing him of filing a false declaration of candidacy, voter fraud, and perjury beginning in 2007, when he changed his voter registration to run for the legislature.

Wright listed as his residence a home in the district he wanted to represent, but county authorities allege that he did not live there as required by state law.

The indictment also alleges that Wright fraudulently voted in five elections in 2008 and 2009.

If convicted, he faces up to eight years and four months in state prison, the district attorney's office said.

d. Elsewhere in Los Angeles

He’s not the only Democrat official in Los Angeles charges with vote fraud in recent months. As the LA Times reported in connection with the Wright indictment story,

The Wright indictment marks the second time in less than two months that a local elected official has faced criminal charges over possible residency fraud.”

On Aug. 4, Los Angeles City Councilman Richard Alarcon and his wife were indicted on 24 felony counts when a criminal grand jury alleged they had committed perjury and voter fraud when they listed their home as being in Panorama City but actually lived outside Alarcon's 7th Council District.

In fact, looking around the country at the ongoing cases of Democrat party corruption, it may well be that the best venue for their next national convention will be a federal pen in California, Illinois, or New York.

e. North Carolina

Charlotte, North Carolina’s Mayor Patrick Cannon was arrested on Wednesday and charged with “theft and bribery concerning programs receiving federal funds, honest services, wire fraud and extortion under color of federal right.” The details seem fuzzy but the Business Insider reports he is accused “of participating in scheme to collect bribes using a "feminine hygiene product" and promising to press President Barack Obama about issues that were important to people who gave him bribes.” The Charlotte Observer, which notes Cannon was in office for only four months is accused of accepting tens of thousands of dollars in bribes, including a $20,000 cash bribe last month.

f. Ongoing criminal investigations

To these indictments add the hint of more to come in the FBI searches of the homes and offices of NY State Assemblyman Bill Scarborough and Rhode Island’s Democrat Speaker of the House Gordon Fox who resigned after the raid.

g. Earlier Democrat political corruption busts

In connection with Cannon’s case, Michelle Malkin reminds us of yet more related Democrat corruption cases:

The bust follows former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin's conviction in January on corruption charges; former Trenton Mayor Tony Mack's February conviction on cash bribes for a downtown parking garage; and former San Diego mayor and serial groper Bob Filner's disgraceful resignation after conviction on sexual harassment-related charges; former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick's conviction on extortion, bribery and conspiracy charges; and former Birmingham, Ala., Mayor Larry Langford's corruption and bribery conviction.

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Pennsylvania state Democratic Sen. 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."

h. Illinois State Representative Keith Farnham (D), an anti-pornography campaigner who was caught with child pornography on his computer and has resigned for “health reasons."

i. Then there are the cases of open misconduct by San Diego Mayor Bob Filner (D), Anthony Weiner (D), Jesse Jackson Jr.(D)

j. In my own District of Columbia, three Democrat council members have been charged with corruption and fraud and the Mayor is in the middle of a criminal investigation for election-related misconduct.

k. Finally, there are the ongoing scandals still lightly covered if at all in the media. There’s the use of the IRS to shut down tea party and conservative activities before the last election; the administration’s failure to act to protect our officials and servicemen in Benghazi, the international consequences of the NSA surveillance activities, lax border control and firearm trafficking to Mexican drug lord scandals, the harassment of reporters and news agencies, the excessive travel and personal expenses charged to the treasury by the First Family, the vast sums of public money wasted on “green energy” and “stimulus” payouts to Democrat cronies to no national benefit.

So there we have it: Democrat officials charged and in some cases convicted of fraud, wire fraud, extortion, conspiracy, bribery, child pornography, trafficking firearms with our enemies, voter fraud, perjury -- heck, practically the entire criminal code.

None of this must be very important, though, not as important any way as the Fort Lee Lane closure and when did Governor Christie know about it, and whether the report blaming his aide was “sexist”. Maybe if Yee and Calderone, Wright, and Yee’s buddy Raymond “Shrimpboy” Chow funded a proposition fight against homosexual marriage, the New York Times might cover in depth their misdeeds.

Clarice Feldman, American Thinker

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Show me where I 'seem' to do that. Did you not read where I just said I voted for Bush? Is that siding with the Left? I reject the rigid views of Right and the Left equally...I am not an idealogue. I believe in governing from the middle.

No, that's you go-to bonafide for proving yourself to be a centrist.

Were are you on gay marriage, glowball warning, racism under every rock, the war on women, Republican Corruption, Big Business, yada, yada, yada...

Always in opposition to the Left of where I am at and I'm a centrist Libertarian who voted for Obama.

 

[Adre]

No, that's you go-to bonafide for proving yourself to be a centrist.

Were are you on gay marriage, glowball warning, racism under every rock, the war on women, Republican Corruption, Big Business, yada, yada, yada...

Always in opposition to the Left of where I am at and I'm a centrist Libertarian who voted for Obama.

This won't be too difficult.

Gay marriage: I don't care who marries who or how many.
Glowball warning: climate seems okay to me.
Racism: it exists.
War on women: some insecure guys act out.
Republican corruption: about equal to Democrats, no better, no worse.
Big business: spent many years in it, made a good living, it's not Good or Evil.
Yada, yada, yada: bullshit from the Left and Right.

Next?

 

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[Adre]

So you voted for Obama who a child could see would govern from the extreme left.

That's horseshit and you know it. The Left is not happy with him at all, you're just spewing your Fox talking points because they do your thinking for you, comrade Republicunt.

 

[RobDownSouth]

So you voted for Obama who a child could see would govern from the extreme left.

"Extreme Left"? *chuckle*
Meanwhile, back in the reality-based world:
http://www.politicalcompass.org/images/internationalchart.png

Don't worry, Vetty, we won't ask you to admit you are wrong. You've already demonstrated that legendary Vietnam-era Marine Corps lack of honor the other day when you couldn't admit you were wrong when you claimed Drudge was the "biggest news source on the Internet".

Semper Flee!

 

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[IrezumiKiss]

They are pissed only because he has yet to have the nation's CEOs, the Tea Party, and the Republican majority in the House stood up before a firing wall and shot; not that he wouldn't like to.

You really do believe in that absolute horseshit, don'tcha? You poor sad sack.

 

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[Adre]

Let's face it, you and your buddy Rob were sold a fish, fooled by a marxist snake oil salesman, and that is being more than generous when it comes to your true beliefs and desires.

You'd rather be in 2008, I'm fine here in 2014. You're the fool, fool.

 

[RobDownSouth]

You'd rather be in 1968, I'm fine here in 2014. You're the fool, fool.

Fixed it for ya. Grampa Urine has long desired a "do over" against Commies and Hippies.

 

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