Posted on 12/22/2006 7:56:44 PM PST by kingattax
TALLAHASSEE · Democrats in the Florida Senate are raising money to help re-elect fellow Democratic Sen. Gary Siplin, the Orlando legislator convicted earlier this year of felony grand theft.
Senate Minority Leader Steve Geller of Hallandale Beach and seven other Democratic senators are named as hosts on invitations that have been sent out to lobbyists and others for an evening fundraiser on Siplin's behalf. The event will be at a bar a block from the Capitol when legislators return to Tallahassee next month for committee meetings.
The invitations ask contributors to give Siplin $500 each, the maximum allowed by law.
Siplin, who is not up for re-election until 2008, would not comment.
Last month, Siplin, 52, was sentenced to three years probation, 300 hours of community service and $1,890 in court costs and fines after an Orange County jury found him guilty of a felony and a misdemeanor for making state-paid staffers work on his 2004 re-election campaign.
He is thought to be the first convicted felon ever to serve in the Florida Senate.
Siplin is appealing the conviction. And Senate leaders -- including Geller and Senate President Ken Pruitt, R-Port St. Lucie -- are standing behind him, saying Senate rules allow Siplin to remain in office while he awaits the outcome of his appeal.
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Is Nancy Pelosi expected at the fund-raiserss?
Corrupt Democrats? Really? This is hugh and series.
There is a segment of our society to whom a jail sentence is looked upon as a badge of honor.
This guy and Alcee Hastings....
What kind of politician would be considered TOO crooked for Floridians??
Look not to the culture of curruption in thy neighbor's Petri dish, but rather clean the slime from your own...
Don't look at me, I didn't vote for this idiot...
bump
This must be just like Mark Foley, another corrupt white politician, except this time a Demonrat, not a Republican. I could be wrong.
I don't get it. He can't vote, but he can be elected?
Ah shaddap! We have to live in the same State as these farking iceholes.
The only good thing about hastings is that he's too crooked for even pelousi................FRegards
Birds of a feather stick togeather.
Culture of Corruption bump.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
A fool and his money........
Ha! What kind of crook would be too crooked for Demonrats?! Like I always say, the Demonrats would elect Osama Bin Laden if he only ran for office!
I totally apologize....I shouldn't have swiped all Floridians with that brush.
I just get so frustrated when I see convicted crooks getting elected and re-elected to Congress.
A normal person would have trouble even getting a "regular" job if they have a criminal record, but that is OKAY just run for a job where you have a say so into spending ALL American's money...
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