For all those playing "guess that party", the lucky winner is paragraph thirteen...
DETROIT — Former Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick was sent to jail for 120 days Tuesday, the finale to a sex scandal that destroyed his reign at City Hall and threw local government into disarray for months.
Wayne County Circuit Judge David Groner ordered the sentence during a lengthy afternoon hearing, noting Kilpatrick would not be given an opportunity for early release.
(Xinhua) -- U.S. Republican Senator Ted Stevens from Alaska was convicted Monday on corruption charges. A 12-member federal jury unanimously found Stevens, 84, guilty on all seven counts of felony charges related to lying about free home renovations and other gifts he received from a wealthy oil contractor.
The longest-serving Republican senator now faces up to five years in prison on each count when he is sentenced Jan. 26, next year. But under federal sentencing guidelines, Stevens is likely to receive much less prison time, if any. He now becomes the first sitting U.S. senator convicted of a felony since 1981.
Stevens' conviction will likely boost the Democratic Party's chance of winning a Alaska Senate seat for the first time in past three decades. His highest-profile conviction followed a four-year federal investigation.
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Way to go Ted you selfish shit. You should have stepped aside.
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I dunno, Betty, most reasonable folks don't like the idea of voting for a convicted felon.
A comment made 'round the bar at the O-Club makes sense to me: the Pubs need an 'inspectorate' that will ruthlessly purge candidates who are engaged in serious shenanigans, and do so before those candidates cost the Pubs seats in the general elections. Whether it's for the Senate, House, governor, library board, whatever, the Pubs need to make clear that they won't tolerate candidates with serious ethical flaws.
That's one more way they'd set themselves apart from the Democrats.
Posted by: Steve White ||
10/28/2008 10:23 Comments ||
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That's one more way they'd set themselves apart from the Democrats.
Who have no moral scruples to run any tainted or convicted pol and who usually wins. Which is another measure that separates the Trunks from the Donks. If your only measure is attaining and retaining POWER, then the other side which puts these discriminators upon their own will likely not be the ones occupying the seats when the ballot count is over. Just ask multi-term representative Murtha of the Abscam corruption theater.
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The ruling class is almost totally made up of self-serving scum. The one or two good apples have no chance of changing the barrel for the better. We're all screwed regardless of which party wins...
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The ruling class is almost totally made up of self-serving scum and those who aren't self-serving tend to be clueless and learning-impaired. However, the School of Hard Knocks is always in session, and attendance is absolutely compulsory.
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"most reasonable folks don't like the idea of voting for a convicted felon"
Maybe so, but the Dems don't mind it at all. Should I provide a list?
The problem is that he is a Republican, and Republicans don't generally go in for this kind of thing. Only salvage would be for Ted to announce his resignation, effect right after the election. Let Palin appoint a successor.
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The 17th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution allows states to choose how they replace a senator. My understanding is that Gov. Palin would replace Senator Stevens. Would Steven's replacement serve a full term in the Senate. How does that work?
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Alaska's law on senatorial succession was changed twice in 2004, once by the Legislature, and once by ballot initiative. Both laws call for a special election within 60 to 90 days of the vacancy. But they disagree on whether the governor appoints an interim senator in the meantime.
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Governor Blagojevich has troubles of his own. Mr. Rezco is apparently still talking to the Feds. But I imagine Representative Jackson, Jr. would accomplish quite as much in the Senate as Barack Obama has these last two years.
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Representative Jackson, Jr. would accomplish quite as much in the Senate as Barack Obama Multiplying any positive integer by Zero always gives the same results.
#8
How about a friggin election? Like they have in democracies?
When the troops come home from Iraq, we need an 'Operation Illinois Freedom'
In IL the political aristocracy just hand off offices to their spawn...
AND IT IS COMING TO WASHINGTON... AND YOUR WALLET
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I thought he was the non-voting representative from D.C. I thought you had to at least be a resident of a state to represent them. Am I missing something?
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The Winston Smith Bureau of the proto-Ministry of Truth (formerly known as the MSM) is just doing its job. Memory holes. The problem for the MSM is that even if this were false, their destroyed credibility wouldn't make the results any different.
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I suspect there is a huge amount of video showing the dark sides of Obama and his worshippers that will be trickling out over the next 4 years, unless 0 is defeated.
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The LA Times and the other major newspapers, who are cheerleaders for O, are playing with our Constitution, our democracy, and our system of government. Shame, shame, shame! I hope these newspapers fail!
Polls yesterday put Israel's foreign minister, Tzipi Livni, slightly ahead in the contest to be the country's next prime minister, but forecast a tight race when general elections are held in as little as three months. Livni, the new head of the ruling Kadima party, said on Sunday that her efforts to form a coalition government had failed, which means that early elections must be held. She is pushing to have elections as soon as possible - the earliest date would be January 27, a full year and 10 months ahead of schedule.
In recent months, most polls have suggested Benjamin Netanyahu, the head of the opposition rightwing Likud party, would be the likely winner. However, polls in both the Ma'ariv and Yedioth Ahronoth newspapers yesterday put him slightly behind Livni.
Both we and the Israelis seem to have a death wish in our choice of politicians ...
Ma'ariv gave Livni's centrist Kadima party 31 seats in the 120-seat Knesset, or parliament, against 29 for Likud. Yedioth's poll put Kadima on 29 seats, against 26 for Likud. While both polls forecast a tight-run contest, they both showed a sharp drop, to 11, for Ehud Barak's Labour party - Kadima's main partner in government for the past two and a half years. In the current parliament, Kadima has 29 seats, Labour 19 and Likud 12.
At the opening of the Knesset yesterday, Netanyahu made a quick start to his campaign with a sharply rightwing speech declaring that if elected he would ensure Israel kept the Golan Heights - captured from Syria in 1967 - as well as large parts of the West Bank and the whole of Jerusalem. His comments set up a contest over peace negotiations between him and the more centrist, ex-Likud member Livni, who favours continuing talks with Syria and the Palestinians.
Livni has faced some criticism in recent days for failing to achieve a coalition government without elections, but the polls suggest that her refusal to give in to the demands of other, smaller parties that were potential allies may have done her some good. "She apparently truly believes that there are prices that cannot be paid, that there are red lines that must not be crossed even for the sake of coming to power," wrote Nadav Eyal, in Ma'ariv. "To some, this may sound amateurish, almost surreal. For most of us, it is a refreshing change."
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At least we can all rest assured that whoever is elected will have more balls than Omelette.
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