Chief Moose's wife: Give us book deal, we need 'antiques'!

WorldNetDaily.com ^ | Thursday, June 5, 2003 | Paul Sperry

[JohnHuang2]

ROCKVILLE, Md. -- Montgomery County Police Chief Charles Moose's wife complained about a lack of household "antiques" in trying to sway the county ethics board here to let her husband profit from a major book deal he signed after the Beltway sniper case, a transcript of her closed-door testimony reveals.

Montgomery County Police Chief Charles Moose and wife Sandy (Courtesy: Willamette Week )

Sandy Herman-Moose argued that her husband, who led the sniper investigation, was entitled to a special exemption to ethics rules against county officials profiting from the prestige of their office, because he has "served the public for 20 some years," sacrificing private gain.

She said she also has "worked hard," accumulating diplomas, books and papers, but few household luxuries.

"I was an activist in Portland. Before we moved here, basically we moved books and documents, and the mover said, 'Mrs. Moose, you don't have any antiques,'" she said. "And I said, 'My husband has a PhD and [I] have a law degree, and we have papers.'"

Chief Moose, testifying alongside her at the March 3 hearing here, cited "law school bills," among other things, in pleading for a waiver from conflict-of-interest rules. He said his $170,000 book deal was a "once-in-a-lifetime" opportunity, and he didn't want to pass up "this good fortune."

Ten people died in last fall's sniper shooting spree, several in Moose's jurisdiction. Three others were critically injured.

"We've been working our asses off for 20 years, all due respect," Sandy Moose told the five-member Montgomery County Ethics Commission.

The panel denied Moose's request for a waiver, effectively killing his book contract with New York publisher Dutton Publishing Inc.

But Moose, in turn, has filed a lawsuit against the county in federal court, charging it violated his right to free speech and expression under the First Amendment. He is pressing ahead with the book, which had been scheduled for release this fall with the start of the trials of sniper suspects John Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo.

His wife, a civil-rights activist, suggested at the hearing that the chief, who is black, was being discriminated against.

"He has served in organizations that's [sic] full of institutionalized racism beyond anything you can imagine," Sandy Herman-Moose said.

"And he is asking a fully white group to give him the permission to make some money," she added.

After the panel ruled against her husband, she compared him to Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela and other civil-rights leaders who "stood for principle."

Moose's lawyer, Ronald A. Karp, told WorldNetDaily yesterday that he does not plan to argue racial discrimination in his federal lawsuit.

Earning more than $160,000 a year, his client is the highest-paid official in the county, and the highest-paid police chief in the state.

[JohnHuang2]

Thursday, June 5, 2003

Quote of the Day by Senator Pardek

[Bonaparte]

Mr. and Mrs. Moose, the private sector awaits you, with all its opportunities for amassing wealth. Bye.

[Nick Thimmesch]

"We've been working our asses off for 20 years, all due respect," Sandy Moose told the five-member Montgomery County Ethics Commission.

By the looks of the Moose's Spoose: she ain't been working enough of that ass off.

[SkyPilot]

Words fail me.

[eno_]

Compare Chief Moose to a modern public school official. They are virtually identical: Lame Cracker Jack box Ph.D., overpaid for a public sector employee, greedy, sandbagging, etc.

This is the face of policing today. Anti-RKBA, anti-free speech, racist, over-credentialed and under-educated.

[aristeides]

She thought the ethics board would find her arguments persuasive?

[CholeraJoe]

This is vey series.

[small_l_libertarian]

"I was an activist in Portland. Before we moved here, basically we moved books and documents, and the mover said, 'Mrs. Moose, you don't have any antiques,'" she said. "And I said, 'My husband has a PhD and [I] have a law degree, and we have papers.'"

This has got to be the world's goofiest skank.

[Rodney King]

I detest these people, but see no reason why they can't have their book deal.

[Rebelbase]

"Earning more than $160,000 a year, his client is the highest-paid official in the county, and the highest-paid police chief in the state"

Cry me a river, Mrs. Moose.

[AbnSarge]

"I detest these people, but see no reason why they can't have their book deal."

Because his subordinates can't have a book deal. They want to enforce the ethics rules for those below them, but exempt themselves.

He is the highest-paid county official, is a Major in the AF Reserve, and teaches part-time at the college. I don't know what she does. If they still need money, it's their own fault.

As a Montgomery County, MD resident, I have seen no improvement, but only divisiveness during his tenure. He came in from the west coast and immediately accused the PD of racial profiling (which he later had to admit was a false accusation).

Portland can have them back, the sooner the better.

[JennysCool]

Once a fine state, Oregon's chief export now is loons.

[AppyPappy]

His wife, a civil-rights activist, suggested at the hearing that the chief, who is black, was being discriminated against.

Uhhh....she don't look so dark herself.

[upcountryhorseman]

Mr. Moose ought to be prosecuted for obstruction of
justice rather than being allowed to have a book deal!

[STONEWALLS]

....thanks for the post John....folks, this a classic example of the Left showing it's true colors....their deep sense of entitlement; their deep sense of priviledge....I live about 10 miles from Montgomery County and it's one of the more liberal counties in a liberal state.....so it comes as a very pleasant surprise that the Board of Ethics is holding the line on this....

[GovernmentShrinker]

She thought the ethics board would find her arguments persuasive?

Yeah, she's putting her law degree to work here (wonder where she went to law school -- practically ANY law school's faculty and admin would be cringing at an alum making goofy arguments like this in front of the mational media).