Repeatedly using vulgar and racial insults, Superior Court Judge E. Curtissa Cofield argued with a police officer -- addressing him as "Negro trooper" at one point -- who was trying to process her on a charge of drunken driving in Glastonbury last October, a police video released Monday shows.
She's Black.
Cofield also is heard twice on the video using the racial term "n-----."
Thereby demonstrating that idiocy can be found in pretty much every racial, ideological etc. group.
The state's Judicial Review Council released the video Monday after it found cause to pursue five judicial misconduct charges against her, several of them based on what was termed disparaging, demeaning or "racially inappropriate" language.
The council has scheduled a hearing Feb. 9 to determine whether Cofield violated the judicial code of conduct and, if so, what action to take against her.
Violated the code of conduct - no, really? You mean racial epithets flung at police aren't okay? I mean, she IS after all a Black female judge who's tired of being treated as if she's from the 'hood.
Even when she acts that way. ESPECIALLY when she acts that way.
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Takes one to know one. She certainly looks black to me. I notice the police officer didn't refer to her as "one drunk ni**er bi**h" which he easily could have.
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Very, very well trained and astute police officer. Her racial taunting and insults were to no avail. He knew he had her on the cam and wasn't about to get into an altercation with her which would end up with legal action.
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This lady needs to lose her cushy judge job.
All our masters are human. They need to be riminded of that from time to time. She, and all others who can be convicted should be punished with maximum severity pour l'encouragement d' les autres
The council scheduled a hearing on the charges Feb. 9 at 10 a.m. in the Legislative Office Building in Hartford.
The charges are that she violated canons of judicial conduct:
"by willfully using disparaging and demeaning language to law enforcement officers while they were acting in their official capacity, thereby failing to observe high standards of conduct."
"by willfully directing racially inappropriate language to law enforcement officers while they were acting in their official capacity, thereby failing to act at all times in a manner that promotes public confidence in the integrity and impartiality of the judiciary."
"by willfully using disparaging and demeaning language to law enforcement officers while they were acting in their official capacity, thereby failing to act at all times in a manner that promotes public confidence in the integrity and impartiality of the judiciary."
"by willfully invoking her position as a judicial officer in an effort to influence and intimidate law enforcement officers while they were acting in their official capacity, thereby failing to uphold the integrity and independence of the judiciary."
The fifth charge relates to the facts of the drunken driving arrest: "engaging in conduct that caused her to be arrested."
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why am i not shocked at all by a minority appointee making a ass of themselves and demonstrating that they were there because of 'Identity Politics' rather than as the best for the job.
she brings disgrace on all black people everywhere. guess you can take the B___h out of the Hood, but not the Hood out of the B___h.
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Cofield apologized Dec. 8 at Superior Court in Manchester for sideswiping a state police car with her BMW, and was accepted into an alcohol education program. If she successfully completes the program, the charges driving under the influence and failure to drive in the proper lane will be dismissed.
If you read the full article, you will see that she blew 2x the legal limit, sideswiped a statie cruiser, but if she watches a "Blood on the Asphalt" film strip she keeps her license and charges dismissed.
I could not find any reference to party affiliation in the article; however, the fact that she's not charged w/hate speech may give us a clue.
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there is video available... she is black
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A positive breathalyzer test and a tape of her making an ass of herself while being busted--yep, her legal career is over.
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I dunno about that. It's Connecticut.
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Bound to be a future for her in the US Senate, outspoken, drunken black female attorney and all.
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It all depends on how the law is phrased. In some locations, an officer technically cannot be offended no matter how offensive the speech is. (However, if some delicate flower of a private citizen overhears her gangsta rap audition, that could be another story....)
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I doubt her carrer is over . there have been quite a few judges the last couple of years who have had altercations and drunken driving charges aginst them. Plus she will be absolved of the DUI if she completes the class like any of the rest of us would even be offered such an arrangement
Vice President Biden made his first -- and probably not last -- apology for a joke gone bad, reportedly calling Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts to offer a mea culpa for cracking wise about Roberts' flubbing the oath of office during President Obama's inauguration.
A press aide revealed to a cable news network that Biden made a call to the chief justice, the Christian Science Monitor reported.
Biden Press Secretary Elizabeth Alexander would not confirm the details of the call. "It was a private conversation. I do not know the content of it and cannot characterize it," she told FOX News.
But Jay Carney, communications director for the vice president, told FOX News that Biden's office" strongly denies that any Biden aide confirmed that there was an apology" from Biden to Roberts. The vice president's office has sought a retraction from CNN, which first reported the Biden apology.
On Inauguration Day, when he administered the oath, which appears in the Constitution, to Obama, Roberts stumbled over the second portion: "... that I will faithfully execute the office of president of the United States." The chief justice put "faithfully" at the end of the sentence, and Obama, who apparently had memorized the oath, looked at Roberts, who then realized his mistake and repeated that portion of the oath correctly.
Obama then repeated the oath in the incorrect order.
Obama and Roberts got it right a day later, when Roberts made a quick visit to the White House and the two repeated the exercise out of "an abundance of caution."
That caution followed Biden's crack about Roberts' memory.
Biden was to swear in senior executive staff at a White House ceremony after having already given the oath to newly confirmed Cabinet secretaries. When Obama reminded him that he had only done the one group and hadn't done the second yet, Biden quipped, "My memory is not as good as Chief Justice Roberts'."
Last week, Rush Limbaugh actually said that he "hopes" President Obama fails to meet Americas challenges.
Jobs, health care, our place in the world the stakes for our nation are high and every American needs President Obama to succeed.
Stand strong against Rush Limbaughs Attacks sign our petition, telling Rush what you think of his attacks on President Obama. Well send Limbaugh your comments.
I hope Rush sells these off on Ebay like he did Dingy Harry's letter
and i thought the left was supposed to protect us form 'enemies lists'
/spit
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I think it's worth pointing out here that while Rush may hope for a failed Obama presidency, he keeps it strictly at the policy level. Which is wholly unlike the spittle and venom directed at Bush on a personal level by detractors.
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Rush tied his comments to Obama's desires to socialize the economy. This is very different than getting the economy moving again and keeping us safe.
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Jobs, health care, our place in the world -- the stakes for our nation are high and every American needs President Obama to succeed.
That's not what Rush was talking about. He was talking about Obama's Socialization of America.
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Speak to us oh great one!
How many Americans listen to ole Rush? A couple of million maybe... ten million? Maybe a few more that 'thinks' like Rush, but can't abide his rant. That's a hefty chunk of American voters O.B. is giving listening instructions to. We need to hear his sage advice and learned counsel more often. Personally, I sure hope he continues to lecture and pontificate to Americans by the millions.
#14
So why is it that the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is trying to boost Rush's ratings? Either they are incredibly stupid or the have joined the vast right wing conspiracy. You decide.
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Ginning up for the "Fairness Doctrine"?
I do think that DMFD is right, though, about the mailing lists. Another "Alinsky Method".
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but it was alright when god knows how many leftist media ppl bitched about Bush on his first day comparing him too his father
Republican lawmakers are raising concerns that ACORN, the low-income advocacy group under investigation for voter registration fraud, could be eligible for billions in aid from the economic stimulus proposal working its way through the House.
House Republican Leader John Boehner issued a statement over the weekend noting that the stimulus bill wending its way through Congress provides $4.19 billion for "neighborhood stabilization activities."
He said the money was previously limited to state and local governments, but that Democrats now want part of it to be available to non-profit entities. That means groups like ACORN would be eligible for a portion of the funds.
Sen. David Vitter, R-La., told FOX News Tuesday that the money could be seen as "payoff" for groups' political activities in the last election. ACORN generally supports Democratic candidates and actively backed President Obama last year.
But he said the funding is just one example of frivolous spending items in the $825 billion package.
"It's just a long list of spending items. Not a real economic stimulus job creation bill," Vitter said. "It's line after line after line of favorite liberal spending programs, and it amounts to a big government bill -- not a job creation bill."
Democratic leaders in the House have already dropped federal funding from the bill for new contraceptive services and ongoing programs to stop sexually transmitted diseases after Obama told them that it did not fit in with the job-creating objectives of the package.
Obama plans to meet with Republican leaders on Capitol Hill Tuesday to hear some their input on the package. White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said Obama is open to suggestions. "If there are good ideas -- and I think he assumes there will be -- we will look at those ideas," he said Monday.
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OMG. I hope the trunks find the balls to vote against this monstrosity. But I fear the worst. Is it just me, or does there seem to be a manufactured quality to this whole crisis? It's so convenient and ripe for a democrat Congress.
#2
They did the same thing when Clinton took office with a Donk Congress, spending, spending, spending like there was no tomorrow. This is just the 2009 Raid the Treasury for our Contributors Act in motion. The scorpion's behavior never changes.
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It's not just the Dems who want to spend, spend, spend. It's pretty much all politicians. And, to look at the national credit card debt, I'd say it's pretty much all of us. Let our kids pay the bills. Or, since so many don't even want the 'burden' of children, let those other people's kids pay the bills. Party on, dudes!
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all Rep and 12 Donks voted against the bill. Apparently a spine transplant was found. Good for them. They can't derail it in the House, but now it goes to the senate, and some Donks have gotta be seating voting for this shit sammich with no Republican cover
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Gov. Rod Blagojevich was hundreds of miles away but his voice boomed through the Illinois Senate's chambers Tuesday as his impeachment jurors listened to FBI wiretaps of conversations in which he seems to demand campaign contributions in exchange for signing legislation.
One person on the recordings assures Blagojevich that a horse-racing track owner "is good for it" and just has to decide "what accounts to get it out of." Another assures him the track owner knows he must keep his "commitment" soon. Blagojevich replies with comments like "good" and "good job." Legislation sought by the racing industry had been sent to the governor's desk, and on the tapes, he says to reassure a racing lobbyist he hopes "to do this so we can get together and start picking some dates to do a bill-signing."
Senators conducting the trial, which Blagojevich is boycotting though it could remove him from office within days, listened intently as the fuzzy, indistinct conversations echoed through the room -- the heating system, reporters typing on laptops and the occasional cough accounting for the only other noise.
Neither the governor nor the others on the call -- the governor's brother and chief fundraiser Robert Blagojevich and former chief of staff Lon Monk, officials say -- specifically mentions money or any amounts.
Before the tapes were played Tuesday, an FBI agent vouched for the accuracy of those and other Blagojevich quotes that were included the federal criminal complaint against him. Again and again, agent Daniel Cain told state senators he had accurately quoted Blagojevich in a sworn affidavit filed when the governor was arrested. At each stage, House prosecutor David Ellis displayed the most damning quote on a poster board.
The affidavit quoted Blagojevich saying his power to name a replacement to Obama's vacant Senate seat was a "valuable thing, you just don't give it away for nothing." Ellis asked if that was accurate. Yes, Cain replied.
As Blagojevich's private words took center stage in Springfield, the governor remained in New York for the second day of a media tour focused on portraying the impeachment as unfair and politically motivated.
#4
He's not a liberal. He appears to be a leftwing radical. He'll appear to make all sorts of moderate decisions on issues that don't matter much to him, all the while working to make fundamental and irrevocable changes to income distribution, regulations, laws and social power.
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He is an unrepentant left-wing radical ideologue out of the Saul Alinsky school. Look at his first executive orders. Look at his economic approach to fixing the stalled economy. Just because he picked people like Jim Jones and Bob Gates for his team doesn't hide the fact that he has Panetta at CIA and Rice at UN or Holder at Justice of Daschle at HHS. This guy is going to end up gutting our intelligence and defense capabilities as well as establishing the biggest government intervention and socialist programs ever seen even by Roosevelt standards. We are royally screwed until we can force the Republicans back in Congress in 2010 but they have to show a lot of backbone and mature proposals to win the people back.
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This guy is going to end up gutting our intelligence and defense capabilities
Of course he is, now that the 'GWOT is over.' Pigs have a habit of avoiding an empty trough. You must keep them FED!
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"Clean - 'Mr. Clean' - was a poor black kid from the slums private schools of Detroit Honolulu. I think the air and light of 'Nam put a real twist on his head..."
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said Tuesday the expansion of offshore oil drilling should be worked out with Congress as part of a broad energy blueprint and not independent action by his department.
In an interview with The Associated Press, Salazar indicated the drilling plan the Bush administration left on his desk likely will be scrapped. It would open the entire Atlantic and Pacific coasts for drilling.
Salazar declined to single out any waters considered automatically off limits to oil exploration.
"There are places that are appropriate for exploration and development and there are places that are not," Salazar said in an interview in his spacious and historic office, with a fire roaring in the fireplace beneath a full-length painting of George Washington.
Salazar, who resigned as Colorado senator to join President Barack Obama's Cabinet, said he wants to work closely with Congress on "a plan that makes sense" for offshore oil and gas development, but that any expansion of drilling should be part of a comprehensive energy plan.
Congress last year failed to renew the long-standing moratorium on oil and gas exploration across 85 percent of the nation's Outer Continental Shelf, leaving all waters potentially open to drilling. Congressional Republicans and energy lobbyists have argued against even a partial reimposition by Congress of an offshore drilling ban.
Four days before leaving office, officials in the Bush administration issued a draft of a five-year drilling plan that calls for energy leases to be made available in both the Atlantic and Pacific waters, including vast areas that until recently had been off limits for a quarter century.
But Salazar indicated that plan is all but dead.
"It seems to me the appropriate place to address the OCS and issues like royalty reform would be in the context of an energy bill," said Salazar, referring to Outer Continental Shelf development and an overhaul of the way his department collects royalties from drilling in federal waters.
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There are places that are appropriate for exploration and development and there are places that are not ....
We've seen this movie before: according to this Congress drilling is appropriate in places where there is little oil and inappropriate everywhere else.
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Want to make some money in the market? Invest in oil futures. By 2010, I predict it will be back to $4/gal even with the economy in the tank. All the OPEC need to hear is how we are going to go back to banning off-shore drilling and oil shale development.
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Upon seeing the photos in the National Enquirer of Senator Ted Kennedy on a boat while in a compromising position with a woman not his wife, Senator Heflin is said to have remarked, "Well, I see that Senator Kennedy has changed his position on offshore drilling."
#4
GolfBravo was kind enough to honor my request for a pig picture under yesterday's article about the ACORN set aside. All those little piggies at the trough...could you do it again, GB?
But they wanna give my tax dollars to family planning groups (read abortion clinics), community organizers and condom distributors? So kids can have sex without consequences or commitment? So hustlers can rig elections? What next? I'm afraid this goes beyond pork. They're using this contrived economic "crisis" of theirs to undermine democracy, undermine the family and usher in socialism.
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yes, it's particularly virulent among the congresscritter population. I highly recommend either isolation or, failing that, following the model used for outbreaks of mad cow disease.
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Vice President Biden made his first -- and probably not last -- apology for a joke gone bad, reportedly calling Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts to offer a mea culpa for cracking wise about Roberts' flubbing the oath of office during President Obama's inauguration.
Gov. Rod Blagojevich was hundreds of miles away but his voice boomed through the Illinois Senate's chambers Tuesday as his impeachment jurors listened to FBI wiretaps of conversations in which he seems to demand campaign contributions in exchange for signing legislation.
