Posted on 06/23/2002 5:28:44 AM PDT by Elle Bee
Edited on 04/13/2004 2:02:30 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
NOT ENTIRELY COMPOSED WHEN DEPOSED. That would be Democratic gubernatorial nominee Ed Rendell, who was recently deposed in a federal lawsuit in which he is a defendant.
Rendell appeared at times angry, frustrated and incredulous over some of the questions asked during the June 14 deposition in Philadelphia. More than once, he threatened to walk out of the proceedings.
(Excerpt) Read more at pittsburghlive.com ...
That is why JW files these lawsuits. Often the only thing that they get out of these politico-criminals is watching them sweat out their carefully parsed answers knowing that the inquisitor is not as naive as the proletariat at large and will not settle for bovine droppings, but will make them tell the truth, something that for many of these people is akin to committing political suicide.
For Larry, suing IS fun. :-)
They deserve MUCH, MUCH better. Klayman will get in the way of any justice for them.
He's the democratic nominee for the governorship of Pennsylvania in the upcoming election. I believe he's heavily favored to win.
Here's an excerpt from an April report in the Pittsburgh Tribune, Ed Rendell used to being in public eye
Lately, Rendell has been fending off queries about his job at the Philadelphia law firm of Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll for which he is paid $250,000 for doing, he admits, "very little work."Like Clinton, Rendell also set up his wife. In fact, through Clinton, Rendell set up his wife.While Rendell was chairman of the board of the Philadelphia Housing Authority, the authority hired Ballard Spahr to represent the agency during an investigation by the Office of Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
The OIG found that the housing authority, during Rendell's tenure, violated its own personnel policy and engaged in conflicts of interest in the hiring of politically connected employees.
The authority hired Ballard Spahr and other consultants, including an international private detective agency, to conduct its own investigation, which absolved the authority of any violations.
HUD officials, in a letter to Rendell, said the private investigators "shadowed" auditors and accused Ballard Spahr attorneys of trying to impede the probe. The federal auditors also complained that the PHA used the exit interview, a chance for the agency to respond to the findings, to criticize the OIC to "detract from the issues" in the audit.
After the March 26 letter from HUD was released, Rendell resigned as chairman of the authority. Rendell said he was planning to leave the authority anyway and denied his resignation had anything to do with the audit critical of the PHA.
Rendell joined Ballard Spahr as a partner in January 2000. The managing director of the firm is David Cohen, who served as Rendell's chief of staff while Rendell was mayor.
Marjorie (Midge) Osterlund-Rendell, Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.
As I understand that's two federal judiciary appointments by Clinton. One to the Federal Bench, and a follow-up to the court of Appeals.
Guess the Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee found Mrs. Rendell to be kind of team player we need on the Federal Bench.
Clinton required a bit more than a good word. As I understand and remember from a source who worked with Mr. Rendell, Clinton required 250,000 good words, transfered from Rendells campaign chest to one of Team Clinton's. $250,000 for the Judgeship, $250,000 for the Appeals level.
Who says Judges can't be fair? Why of course a Judge can be fair. Just sometimes there's a fee for fairness.
I agree with you. It almost seems as if LK was trying to give Rendell a favorable backlash in the media and in the eyes of the public.
After the violence, Johnny Morris got before the cameras and claimed that the violence was in response to "anti-Hillary" and "anti-Chelsea" slogans being shouted by the patriots. Then later on TV, I saw Rendell repeating the same lies. Now, how did he know to say that? It was because it was one of the pre-arranged agreed-upon talking points. They knew there was going to be violence, and knew what the cover story was going to be.Sure sounds that way, Kevin.
I sure hope that the case isn't lost by the time they get to you.
Not sure it will matter though. Rendell owns the Philly vote fraud machine. I am not sure he is beatable no matter how many actual votes we win over statewide.
Gee,I wonder what would happen to any of US who told a judge they would walk away from a court proceeding they were ordered to be at?
BTW,all you NRA members should know that Rendell and the LaPierre/senile Heston clique are bestest buddies. So good in fact that the NRA agreed to ban conclealed weapons by PA CCW permit holders at the NRA convention in Philly!
God Bless Don and Teri.
So we all agree that this is poltical harrasment and not a legal deposition?
Klayman is an ego maniac who will cause Don and Terri more harm than good.
Actually it could be a lot worse. You could have the Republican Senator from Pennsylvania who was chief lawyer for the Warren Commission and who let Clinton off in the Senate trial. At least Rendell believes in American law and not Scotish.
I imagine if there were any real dirt on him, his teamsters opponents would have used it.
I'm not being naive, just hopeful.
Perhaps, but Rendell certainly didn't come off favorable in my reading of the article (Of course, I'm biased).
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