“a hard worker and a dedicated public servant”? WTF? OK, all you other hard working, dedicated public servants with $90,000. squirrelled away in your freezer, raise your hands! Sounds to me like they just want to move his guilty ass out of the spotlight, let him make a deal, get off with a suspended 10-minute sentence, get Ray Nagin into his seat and carry on as usual.
They’re eating their own - enjoy it!
The most disgusting aspect of this is that Jefferson has always been dirty and everybody in Louisiana has known about it. Newspaper editorials about him go back to the 80s when he was just a local pol.
In southern Louisiana graft and corruption rule. Several governors have tried to change things (namely Buddy Roemer) but they got nowhere. Hopefully, Bobby Jindal will win this year and will take another crack at it.
My Dad told me stories about his contracting days when he would get calls from government officers asking him to increase his supposedly sealed bids.
Louisiana is better now than it used to be, but it still is as corrupt as a lot of third world countries.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,277774,00.html
The inch-thick, 94-page indictment was handed up in U.S. District Court in Alexandria, Va. If convicted on all charges, Jefferson could face a maximum prison term of 235 years.
“Sounds to me like they just want to move his guilty ass out of the spotlight”
Donna Brazile is just part of the Democrat machine. She is reading the script the party has given her. She is high up enough in the party that the media will report her “opinion”. By having her chime in on this, Pelosi and Co. and free to say something like “we don’t feel it is appropriate to comment on this on-going investigation...blah. blah, blah”