Culture Of Corruption

Firebrand Montana Governor Brian Schweitzer bragged to a convention of trial lawyers to have rigged the 2006 Montana’s elections in favor of the Democrat Party.

From The Great Falls Tribune:

Critics of Gov. Brian Schweitzer are taking aim at remarks he made at a trial lawyers’ convention earlier this year in which he implied that he used his position as governor to influence the outcome of the 2006 mid-term election.

Schweitzer, speaking at the American Association for Justice annual convention in Philadelphia on July 14, told a room full of convention-goers that he helped “turn some dials” to get fellow Democrat Jon Tester elected to the U.S. Senate.

In his speech, Schweitzer claimed he played a role in removing GOP poll watchers from Montana’s Indian reservations; that he influenced the timing of the release of election results in Butte-Silver Bow County; and that he pressured the Associated Press to call the race for Tester on Nov. 8.

On Wednesday Schweitzer backed off those remarks, saying his speech at the trial lawyers’ convention was meant to be humorous and that many of the comments weren’t actually true.

“You know, humor can work sometimes and sometimes it can offend, and this time around it offended some folks,” Schweitzer said Wednesday afternoon.

Schweitzer’s speech was recorded and recently posted anonymously on the Internet, where conservative bloggers were quick to attack the remarks. By Tuesday, news of the speech had traveled throughout Montana’s political circles and was causing a mild uproar among some Republicans.

t/b: Hot Air

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Charlie Rangel sunning at his villa (NY Post Photo)

Powerful Ways And Means Committee Chairman Charlie Rangel has questionable filings on rental income on a vacation home he owns in the Dominican Republic. Charlie is silent on these earnings which he says don’t exist contrary to other claims.

The NY Post has an expose on Charlie’s shady dealings:

For 20 years, Harlem Rep. Charles Rangel has owned a beachfront villa in a sun-drenched Dominican Republic resort, yet has only sporadically declared income on the property in federal filings.

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While the villa was rented to paying guests for the past two years, for instance, Rangel reported no income from it in 2006 and 2007, The Post has learned. As a congressman, failure to fully list all income and investments can result in civil penalties or criminal charges.

The powerful Ways and Means Committee chairman, a Democrat, owns “casita” No. 412 on the Caribbean Sea at the Punta Cana Hotel, on the lush eastern tip of the country, where he is affectionately known as “el senador.”

His three-bedroom, three-bath villa, which can accommodate three couples, is rented for between $500 in the low season to $1,100 a night in the busiest tourist season and is one of the resort’s most popular, managers and staff say.

“You are requesting the best casita on the beach,” a reservations manager told a Post reporter posing as a customer.

“We are always booked solid on that one between December 15 and April 15. It is always the first one to go,” he said.

The 78-year-old Rangel’s stone-covered cottage – which boasts flat-screen TVs and a panoramic ocean view – was open to hotel guests in the past two years, General Manager Carolina Jones told The Post.

“It’s part of the hotel operation. It’s available to customers at all times,” Jones said of No. 412. Typically, the owners of the casitas earn 80 percent of any rental income, staff said.

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William Jefferson(D-LA)

Dollar Bill Jefferson who had $90,000 of alleged bribe money  (cold cash) in his freezer was confronted by Hot Air and the YAF.

All the interviewer wanted to know was which product Dollar Bill preferred ZipLock or Hefty Bags.

Jefferson has no sense of humor.

t/b: Michelle Malkin

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Ted Kennedy With The Controversial Neck Brace July 19,1969

Saturday is the 39th anniversary of the death of Mary Jo Kopechne on Chappaquidick Island.  A day that Mass. Senator Ted Kennedy would rather forget.

“I found it hard to believe the Senator had been in a major automobile accident. His face bore no traces of any marks. He never sat down or appeared in any kind of physical discomfort. If he had been injured, in shock, or confused, nothing of it lingered in our meeting, to my observation.”

- Police Chief Dominick Arena -

The day that Ted Kennedy got away with manslaughter.

“the most brilliant cover-up ever achieved in a nation where investigative procedures are well developed and where the principles of equal justice prevail, at least during some of those moments where people are watching.”

~ The Last Kennedy by Robert Sherrill

On July 25, seven days after the incident, Kennedy entered a plea of guilty to a charge of leaving the scene of an accident after causing injury. He received a sentence of two months in jail, which was suspended, and lost his driving license for one year.

Later that day he announced on television that it was “indefensible that he had not reported the incident to police immediately.

He explained his behavior:

“ I was overcome, I’m frank to say, by a jumble of emotions – grief, fear, doubt, exhaustion, panic, confusion and shock. ”

He denied that he had been engaged in “immoral conduct” with Kopechne, or that he had been driving under the influence of alcohol. He wondered openly “whether some awful curse actually did hang over all the Kennedys”.

The Liberal MSM continues to adore this Lion of the Left:

Kennedy was selected by Time as one of “America’s 10 Best Senators”; the magazine noted that he had “amassed a titanic record of legislation affecting the lives of virtually every man, woman and child in the country” and that “by the late 1990s, the liberal icon had become such a prodigious cross-aisle dealer that Republican leaders began pressuring party colleagues not to sponsor bills with him”.

I respectfully disagree.

t/b: Michelle Malkin

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Former NY Governor Eliot Spitzer’s legal problems have gotten much worse since his resignation after the Fed caught him Soliciting a prostitute. Money laundering charges are also in the mix. The former NY Attorney General and “Sheriff Of Wall Street” will meet his comeuppance. The voters in NY underestimated the creepiness of Eliot.

Page Six describes his dilemma:

Prosecutors have records of Spitzer’s transactions, phone records and taped conversations with Emperors Club, and are confident they need little more to nail him on charges that could include violating prostitution laws and money laundering, sources said. Probers are also said to be looking into whether he used campaign funds to pay for his pleasures.

The case against Spitzer includes the cooperation of curvy call girl Ashley “Kristen” Dupre and a second hooker. Her old boss, Mark Brener, 62, will plead guilty Thursday without the sweetheart deal he was hoping for – he’ll have to serve up to 30 months in the slammer on money-laundering and prostitution-conspiracy charges.

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Hillary Rodham Clinton’s involvement in illegal foreign campaign contributions have been revealed with the disclosure of Clinton’s 11,046 pages of White House activity calendars.

With a large charitable donation in hand, Indonesian businessman Mochtar Riady flew to Little Rock to dine with first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton at a 1993 gala honoring her as an “Arkansan of the Year” at a time his company, a multibillion dollar banking conglomerate, was seeking an end to a 30-year trade embargo with Vietnam.

Five days after the March 4, 1993, dinner at the Excelsior Hotel, Mr. Riady took the embargo question directly to President Clinton, saying in a four-page letter that its demise would bring political reforms in that communist country.

By that time, Mr. Riady’s banking conglomerate, the $12 billion Indonesia-based Lippo Group, its subsidiaries and its employees, including his son James and executive John Huang had funneled hundreds of thousands of dollars to Mr. Clinton’s 1992 presidential race and had guaranteed a $3 million last-minute loan to a cash-short Clinton campaign just before the crucial New York primary in 1992.

Within six months of the dinner, the Lippo firm opened its first offices in Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi, and a further five months later Mr. Clinton signed an executive order lifting the embargo, which had been in effect since 1964.

The close proximity of Mrs. Clinton’s contact and Mr. Riady’s Little Rock donation to his efforts to lobby for an end to the embargo were never disclosed at the time and only became public with the release last week of 11,046 pages of Mrs. Clinton’s White House activity calendars.

The calendars, released in response to a Freedom of Information lawsuit by Judicial Watch, a Washington-based watchdog group, show that Mr. Riady and his wife were among nine people who sat with Mrs. Clinton at the head table. His name is listed next to the notation, “**giving large donation**.”

Hillary Campaign likely response: Let’smove on… That’s old news.

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The New “Luv Guv” David Paterson & wife Michelle

The citizens of New York are blindsided by news of their new governor’s illicit affair. The new Governor of NY State (Democrat) David Paterson admitted to having an extramarital affair beginning in 1999 and lasting for several years. It’s alright though, his wife had an affair during this period of time too.

This is an obvious attempt to head off any new revelations of the Democrats’ tendency of succumbing to sexual scandals.

From the NY Daily News:

In a stunning revelation, both Paterson, 53, and his wife, Michelle, 46, acknowledged in a joint interview they each had intimate relationships with others during a rocky period in their marriage several years ago.

In the course of several interviews in the past few days, Paterson said he maintained a relationship for two or three years with “a woman other than my wife,” beginning in 1999.

Big spender Paterson met his concubine at the local Days Inn.

As part of that relationship, Paterson said, he and the other woman sometimes stayed at an upper West Side hotel — the Days Inn at Broadway and W. 94th St.

He said members of his Albany legislative staff often used the same hotel when they visit the city.

More Democrat hypocrisy.

t/b: Hot Air, Gateway Pundit, Michelle Malkin, The Pink Flamingo, third world county, and Miss Beth’s Victory Dance, Outside the Beltway,

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An alleged sexual pervert was discovered in Senator Maria Cantwell’s staff. The staff member had previously worked for Dick Gephardt.

He is accused of soliciting sex from a 13 year old boy.

A member of U.S. Sen. Maria Cantwell’s staff has been charged in federal court after a sting operation in which he allegedly solicited sex from what he thought was a 13-year-old boy.

James Michael McHaney, 28, was charged Saturday in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., with using a computer to arrange a sexual encounter with an informant posing as a boy, according to court records.

McHaney was arrested Friday afternoon by the FBI after he allegedly told an FBI witness he was ready to meet. He later asked for the boy’s photo.

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From The Smokinggun.com

McHaney were conversing online Friday afternoon when the CW asked whether McHaney was interested in engaging in anal sex with a 13-year-old boy. “I’ll be there,” McHaney allegedly replied. He later asked for a photo of the child with whom he and the CW would have sex and whether the boy had “any pubes.” When told no, McHaney allegedly replied, “That’s hot.” McHaney was nabbed in the lobby of an unnamed “predetermined location,” where he had arranged to meet CW. Until his arrest Friday, McHaney had worked as the D.C. scheduler for Democratic Senator Maria Cantwell. A caller to Cantwell’s office was told late today that, as of last Friday, McHaney no longer worked for the Washington state politician.

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