and the RATS, take another one in the...............HA ha!!!
Posted on 05/28/2007 9:11:11 AM PDT by Sicvee
WASHINGTON -- Rep. Jim McDermott has had the luxury of winning big and cheaply in recent elections, facing only token opposition
But that fortunate history could pose a problem for McDermott if the Seattle Democrat is forced to pay more than $1 million in legal fees and penalties to settle his long-running legal battle with House Minority Leader John Boehner.
Unlike colleagues who have been able to tap into campaign funds for legal costs, McDermott doesn't have enough cash in his coffers to cover his bills.
The prospect that McDermott soon will be liable for a huge payout became a real possibility earlier this month after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled 5-4 against him. The defeat leaves him with one remaining legal recourse -- an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court. McDermott and his lawyers have until July to decide, but legal observers say it's highly unlikely an appeal would be successful.
That would mean by midsummer, McDermott would have to ramp up a fundraising effort that has been gathering dust for nearly a decade. He must pay a court-ordered $60,000 fine and Boehner's legal fees, which attorneys estimate are $880,000 and counting. McDermott also would have to pay his own legal bills, which, after 10 years of fighting Boehner in federal court, are substantial.
(Excerpt) Read more at seattlepi.nwsource.com ...
It should cost him his seat in congress, and his freedom. His sorry butt should be behind bars.
Let him sweat. He deserves to.
I don’t think that he will run again for Congress, but he will be replaced by another moonbat Democrat. It’s a “safely Democratic” Congressional seat.
What a novel thought: Holding Democrats accountable for their actions.
“Hello, Baghdad presidential palace? This is Congressman McDermott. When Saddam steps back in, please tell him his old buddy called, and could use some help with . . . . oh, damn!”
The Liberal Mafia will be forced to waste $1 million bailing this creep put. That is $1 million less to injure the USA.
Happy Memorial Day!
And blame it on Republicans.
Even if it took ten years still in office and unfairly trashed the reputation of an opponent, it will be good if he has to pay.
Curious, the PU didn’t happen to mention the trouble McDimwitt got himself into for trying to hide his assets (principally real estate) in order to frustrate efforts to collect on this obligation.
Oh well, what do you expect from a rag who considers this traitor a “moderate national profile”?!
The comments to the article agree with you, in the main. He’s apparently not well-liked.
This is the same Pelz who just got the Wa state dem party to support the cowardly refusal of Lt. Ehren Watada to deploy to Iraq with his Stryker unit. The actions of all three are despicable.
I never understood how those two people got to see him without an appointment.
Didn’t McDerbutt visit Sadamn only weeks before the coalition invasion in Iraq?
What are you, some kind of radical right winger? /sarc
I forgot about this phone conversation being recorded from a police scanner. Can someone explain this to me? Are phone calls nor secure? How about cell phones?
“The cell phone conference call was recorded by a Florida couple, John and Alice Martin, who stumbled onto the conversation while listening to a police scanner.”
BS
These were Dem operatives spying on the option. Nixon had to resign for the ramifications of this sort of activity.
Boehner sued McDermott in 1998, accusing him of violating his right to privacy for making public a telephone conversation involving Boehner, then-House Speaker Newt Gingrich and other senior Republicans who were discussing ethics allegations against Gingrich.
The cell phone conference call was recorded by a Florida couple, John and Alice Martin, who stumbled onto the conversation while listening to a police scanner.
The claim that this couple just happened to be behind the Congressman's car, scanning frequencies, hooked in to a taping system, didn't pass the smell test then and it has been virtually ignored by the sycophantic bastard media. The time for paying every damned penny is now at hand ... but as usual the media will keep the facts from the public at large and the full truth of this crap will be bought off by paying Baghdad Jim's bills from bottomless funds provided by men like SOros whose life's work is to destroy this nation. Democrats are a disease ...
It’s a little known fact that Indian tribes can donate unlimited amounts of cash and there are no reporting requirements.
McDermott just pushed through recognition for the Duwamish tribe, in West Seattle, and they will have a Casino beneath the W. Seattle Bridge within 5 years.
It was all hush hush and now it’s a done deal.
Nobody is asking him how much money the tribe gave him to get this done.
I’m betting he will write one check to pay off this bill and it will be “new money” from the tribe.
As an aside, the snobby liberals in W. Seattle are the ones who return McDermott to office every two years and they will be supremely pissed when this casino plan is divulged in the press.
But they will no hold him accountable in the least.
Between McDermott, Berger and William Jefferson the dems have done an excellent job stonewalling the media and the public as to the extent of their corruption and treasonous behavior. It really is discouraging to see these criminals in power.
I don’t think I read anywhere in the entire article that what McDermott did was illegal and that he should have been thrown in jail.
Just like Sandy Berger.
If he raises money for his legal fees isnt he liable for the taxes on all that money?
...The Martins gave the tape to McDermott, who at the time was a member of the House Ethics Committee. McDermott provided the tape to reporters for The New York Times and The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
"The most recent decision by the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia seriously undermines the First Amendment protections guaranteed by the Constitution, and we continue to review the significant constitutional issues involved," McDermott said
This POS has the unmitigated gall to speak of the first amendment being undermined when he was the one who violated just about every ethic in the book concerning the right to privacy and broke several laws to boot.
I forgot, only democrats have to right to privacy
Exactly.
Leftist Democrats are indeed a disease. They are ruled by hatred, arrogance, and a corrupted sense of compassion.
Option = opposition (spell check error)
Fine the SOB and get him out of Seattle. Of course he’ll be replaced by another Democrat, this being Seattle, but
McDermott is a spectacular lo-life even for the Democrat cult.
That is correct. Also unexplained is how their scanner managed to catch both sides of the conversation. They're on different frequencies.
It is interesting how the intervening seven years have done so little to obscure the fantastic level of corruption that was the Clinton administration. Hill's campaign has a good deal of work to do in this area. This particular incident hits most of the high points - McDermott, in a position of trust as co-chair of the House Ethics Committee, was involved in an active and approved character assassination campaign against Newt Gingrich - approved, that is, by the Clinton White House. The Democrats sent out wiretappers to spy on Gingrich's communications. The Martins were openly Democratic operatives. The law under which this activity is illegal makes it a felony and McDermott actually voted in favor of it, knowing full well that laws didn't apply to Democrats as long as the Reno "Justice" Department had their backs.
And so it did. The "investigation" into the matter was completely stonewalled by McDermott's staff and Reno's chumps just threw their hands up and said "nothing to see here."
Let's put a perspective on this - what Gingrich was doing was against absolutely no law; what McDermott orchestrated was a felony.
But the smear worked, the crime accomplished its object and went unpunished. The media, who were complicit in the anti-Gingrich campaign, tactfully turned their eyes away from a crime as blatant and with even more connections throughout the sitting administration as Watergate was.
In fact, the actual events bore a striking resemblence to those of Watergate with the exception only of the identity of the victims. In terms of pure media bias this incident constitutes one of the mose shameful abdications of responsibility in memory.
This is what we will have to look forward to under a third Clinton administration and there will be absolutely no one to protect the public from this sort of predation. Those who attempt it will be shouted down or shut down. This isn't a prediction, it's a recitation of history.
He's one of those people you immediately dislike....the fact that he's a democrat doesn't matter...he just seems very punchable.
With the proper data files, I could pump out a book on this incident in three months or less, and it could get published within a year to open a few eyes regarding the corrupt clintons and their DNC sycophantic media goons. Trouble is, no one wants to go up aganist the arkanciders ... except I’m old enough and retired from public enough to enjoy their demise through mere telling of the truth about the bastards! Sadly, I don’t have the data files to use for a book on this sorry episode in American History of political corruption ... and I would love to write it if for no other reason than to expose the lies propagated by media about Newt.
WA state ping request (or I’ll do it with the list)
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