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Posted on 11/28/2005 4:24:40 PM PST by wagglebee
Rush Limbaugh calls them "Schumer’s Plumbers” – two Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee staffers who worked for Senator Chuck Schumer and are now accused of illegally obtaining the credit report of a Republican candidate for the Senate.
The two staffers have resigned, and Sen. Schumer – chairman of the DSCC – denies any involvement.
In his latest must-read "Limbaugh Letter,” Rush writes that the media is continuing a cover-up of the scandal.
Limbaugh notes that despite Schumer’s denial of any involvement, his organization is picking up the $400-an-hour tab for the pair’s attorney.
The Senator from New York "has presided over a genuine scandal the Old Media has ignored,” Rush reports. "In a dirty tricks scheme worthy of the infamous Watergate ‘plumbers,’ two of Schumer’s DSCC staffers took their opposition research assignment to the max: preparing to smear Maryland Lieutenant Governor Michael Steel, a Republican candidate for Senate.”
DSCC research director Katie Barge – who came to Schumer directly from the liberal George Soros-funded Web site Media Matters – and staffer Lauren Weiner used Steele’s Social Security number, reportedly obtained from court records, to "fraudulently and illegally obtain his credit report,” according to Investor’s Business Daily.
As NewsMax reported earlier, the Fair Credit Reporting Act makes it a federal crime to knowingly and willfully obtain a person’s credit report without their consent or under false pretenses.
The felony is punishable with a fine and up to two years in prison.
Schumer, ironically, last April introduced a bill aimed at preventing identity theft.
But "he has not abandoned his dirt-diggers,” according to the Limbaugh Letter, and is paying "for Barge and Weiner’s attorney William Lawler III – the Democrat-infamy lawyer who represented ex-Gov. Jim McGreevey (D-N.J.) during his 2004 sex scandal.
"And the anti-Steele mud is still being slung.”
The Senatorial campaign of Steele, an African-American, blasted as "gutter racism” a blog containing a doctored photo showing Steele in minstrel makeup – part of what the Steele camp believe is a coordinated Democratic attack on the Republican.
Democrats have reportedly also called him "Uncle Tom” and "Sambo” and pelted him with Oreo cookies during a 2002 campaign debate.
Steele is seeking to fill the seat of Democratic Sen. Paul Sarbanes, who is retiring.
Democrats are hoping to increase their Senate numbers in 2006, and losing Maryland’s "safe” seat to Steele could spell disaster for that plan.
"I annoy them,” said Steele, "because I’m an independent-thinking black man who has not bought into their lies and rhetoric.”
IIRC, this was a juicy topic for radio-show host Hugh Hewitt maybe
two-three months ago.
If Chuckie Schumer is forced out, does Pataki (R) get to nominate a replacement? If so, how about Rudy Giuliani?
Not my favorite person or politician, but at least he's got an 'R' after his name.
My but isn't he quite the wit.
Okay, I demand that these two be fired and frog-marched. If Dems can make those kinds of demands, I can too.
Let's be honest. Chuckie Schmuckie won't be forced out. Not of New York. I mean, Ted Kennedy is responsible for somebody's death and he's still in office! New York's not too different.
"If Chuckie Schumer is forced out, does Pataki (R) get to nominate a replacement?"
If Pataki gets to pick, it will be a liberal. Pataki picked very liberal Howard Mills to run against Schumer, & Mills only received 24%. Pataki has ruined the NYS GOP.
But having said that, Schumer is here to stay. LibDems "do the crime, but never do the time."
But I thought that the boss was always expected to take responsibility for the actions of his employees.
Oops, rule does not apply. Schumer is a demonRAT.
Tell me about it. Pataki is too liberal, too arrogant, too stupid and too crooked to be allowed to serve in government anywhere civilized.
Here in NY, he fits right in.
The only reason Pataki got in in the first place was on the "ABC" platform- "Anybody But Cuomo."
Mario Cuomo literally pushed the citizens of one small, Republican upstate county to the brink of armed revolt over the siting of a nuclear waste dump. Cuomo backed down rather than call out the guard.
The rats make Nixon look like a saint.
Can you imagine of Elizabeth Dole, the head of the NRSCC, had obtained the credit records of a Democratic candidate that the media would be utterly silent, that she could go on any political chat show and never been barraged with questions about it as Schumer is able to safely do without nary a word being brought up about it?
Yeah, we have a free media...and Michael Jackson just likes to hang around little boys for the intellectually stimulating conversation.
Nixon was a saint!
Oh, yes. These are the kinds of people amenable to rational discourse and debate.
Sure. And Chucky Schumer is an honest man.
But.... but... Bloomberg! Oh well, it's NY, don't try to understand it. :)
Nope .. the DNC has nothing to do with this crime
nope .. nothing to see here
bttt
Go get 'em Rush. Good Luck to Michael Steele as well.
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