Posted on 01/06/2015 12:27:10 PM PST by iowamark
A question never asked.. most don’t want to KNOW>...
HOW DEEP DOES THE CORRUPTION GO?..
I hope that they throw the book at his wife.
Is that all?
What did Tammy Faye McDonnell get?
McDonnell’s big mistake?
He should have switched over to the Democrat party just before he left office.
Democrats never go on trial for corruption.
Rod Blagojevich wishes this were true. As does William Jefferson.
Two years to serve. His crime? He accepted two free golf games at a country club from a businessman. For that, the businessman and his business got nothing from the governor or the state.
By contrast, Obama has accepted the gifts of hundreds of golf games from businessmen. Where are his indictments?
McDonnell addresses the court saying he’s a humbled man. Then further into the article it says he’s expected to appeal his sentence. Yeah, he’s humbled alright.
What corruption /s Isn’t this basically the same crap that goes on in Washington with lobbyists and union goons where people are bought and paid for with bribes to do what they say or else...
yet Harry Reid gets away with bribing Democrats god knows how many millions to vote for Obama-Care?
A NPR article and no mention of the Governor’s party affiliation?!
A pity.
What was his role again in the ‘12 primary process?
I like Bob McDonnell and still hope he’s innocent and wins his appeal. If he’s guilty and goes to prison, by his statement this afternoon it seems like the Lord will use him in prison ministry like Chuck Colson.
Don’t care. They can all pound sand.
Never let facts get in the way of a good conspiratorial rant.
Remember, both of these crooks got caught with their arms in the cookie jar up to the shoulder. There was never any doubt about guilt. Blago was heard auctioning off Obama's senate seat. Jefferson could never explain the bricks of cash in his deep freezer. However, they both know too much to expect anything less than a total pardon for all crimes ever committed, all the back to the Big Bang.
Otherwise, if they talk, their wives and children could have an unfortunate accident, involving acid.
In this case, there's no need for conspiracy. Media leftists don't need to get together to distort the news. Their looking glass worldview means that they all interpret it a certain way, without any need for coordination.
Democrats probably let a lot of things slide. That's perhaps how Jon Corzine got away scot-free despite diverting client funds into company accounts at MF Global. It's how Loral's Bernard Schwartz got away with providing rocket technology to China without a lengthy prison term. Clinton basically used Loral as a cut-out to provide this technology, in exchange for Chinese campaign money. Thanks to that sob, China can now be certain that their ICBM's will land where they want them to land.
Bottom line is that stopping these things requires direct executive intervention. Clinton kept Loral's chestnuts of the fire thereby shielding his own. Obama kept Corzine out of prison. Blagojevich and Jefferson were investigated and indicted under GWB.
It was a lot more than that, a lot more. Sure, Dem's have done worse, but this McDonnell fellow was either casually corrupt or very stupid.
It is easy to say “a lot more.” It is harder to point to anything McDonnell got from Williams. The loans were to a company that McDonnell had no personal exposure for. The lake house week vacation involved no exchange of money. He got to drive a Ferrari. It was the first time he had driven in 3 years!
Governor Warner=$180,000 in gifts.
Governor Kaine=$190,000 in gifts.
But no indictments for them.
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