Posted on 08/15/2010 10:39:27 PM PDT by Outside da Box
In February 2005, as his troubled son was facing felony robbery charges in Virginia, Rep. Nick Rahall (D-W.Va.) wrote a letter to a Fairfax County judge on congressional stationery, imploring him to show mercy on the then-27-year-old Nick Joe Rahall III.
Nick Joe Rahall, the congressman’s only son, was given a four-year suspended sentence, avoiding prison time in this instance despite being incarcerated twice in the previous four years.
Rahall acknowledged to POLITICO that he should not have used congressional stationery for the Feb. 14, 2005, letter but said it was not the same type that he uses for official or committee business. House ethics rules bar the use of congressional stationery for anything but government-related activities.
Rahall also denied that his son was granted any special breaks because of Rahall's status as a member of Congress or because of his intervention.
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
Hey, rules and laws apply only to the peasants in this country—not to the democrat elite who make up the rules for themselves on a day to day basis.
“Rahall added that he “will be reimbursing the Treasury [Department] for the paper.”
While I have sympathy for this man and his son’s obvious drug problems, what he said there is incredibly lame. Reimburse them for what? 1 or 2 sheets of paper and an envelope?
WAKE UP CONGRESSMAN!
Red herring is an idiomatic expression referring to a rhetorical tactic of diverting attention away from an item of significance.
Please pray that this man Rahall is defeated in November. He is a prime example of what is wrong with our federal government. He is part of the Leftist/Liberal machine that has wrestled the power of government away and has used it to enrich himself and destroy America. He is for cap and tax while representing the central Appalachian coal field. He is of Lebanese extraction and is very suspect in his true allegiances. Spike Maynard, very conservative Democrat who flipped to Republican to run against this guy. I trust Spike to stay true to his conservative background. This man, Rahall, is the Nancy Pelosi of southern West virginia. He must go. Pray for a win for the good guys. God help the Republic.
Having been on the receiving end of a hit-and-run motor vehicle collision with junior behind the wheel, I am familiar with the way senior operates. He appropriates the local police federal funding for its “Smooth Operator” aggressive driver interdiction program, and magically all charges are dropped.
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