The Wall Street Journal’s editorial board has taken some heat for being slow to condemn the Jack Abramoff corruption. But it took the gloves off in an editorial today, calling on GOP lawmakers to “banish the Abramoff crowd from polite Republican society, and start remembering why you were elected in the first place.” The editorial acknowledged that Democrats are also stained by the scandal, but it focused fault on self-styled conservatives — including Rep. Tom DeLay, R-Texas — “who claimed to want to clean up Washington instead of cleaning up themselves.” And it noted that “the party that swept to power on term limits, spending restraint and reform has become the party of incumbency, 6,371 highway-bill ‘earmarks,’ and K Street.”
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Tanker Todd should head the list.
Amerika should be REAL PROUD: We have the BEST political system MONEY CAN BUY!
Dubya!
Notice the the Wall Street Journal editorial conveniently left out the most powerful lobby in Washington, you know the one, the one that helped into Iraq and claims ownership of 2/3 of the House and 1/2 of the US Senate, along with the US President, Secretary of State, and the Pentagon.
Probably just an oversight by those bastards.
Why don’t you run against Tiahrt, Ben? Are shellacking’s not good for your liberal self-esteem, or are you just gutless?
Well Joe; I would have to learn to be as crooked as he is to get the massive amounts of money he has. As you know, the key is to be crroked enough to get a lot of dirty money and Todd is real good at that. And, of course, you like crookedness as long as it is YOUR crookedness.
Tiahrt received $5,440 worth of in-kind contributions.”Sen. Sam Brownback received $44,500 in campaign contributions linked to the disgraced Washington lobbyist, according to federal records.
All this was in the Eagle today. Why do we put up with these corrupted Republicans?http://tiahrtfolly.blogspot.com/
Otto – we put up with it in return for all those Tanker jobs Tiahrt got for us.
Forget which party, the party’s over! any elected official who takes campagn money, or anything else from anybody, in exchange for his vote, should go directly to jail, should not pass go, and should collect nothing! It’s time the people had the representation thier entitled to. A congressman’s vote is not his to sell; it belongs to the people who elected him, and any attempt to sell it is theft, and any attempt to buy it receipt of stolen property! Please prosecute!
Ben, Otto, guess that’s a no from both of you!! Figured! All hat, no cattle. You’re in the right party!
Glickman got us the Tanker re-engine contract that lasted 20 plus years. Glickman kept Kansas’s largest employer strong and intact. Tiafart has sold us out. Kansas has lost a lot of good jobs. Our aircraft jobs are in China, Moscow, and India. It is past time to get rid of that sell out conservitive basterd!
Get rid of tiafart!
Vote your pocket book! Vote for your job! Don’t pay attention to the bible bangers mis-information! They won’t feed you when Todd takes your job overseas. Want to eat? Get rid of the gas and get rid of Tiafart!
Spirit,Excellent post! It is too bad a lot of people vote with what they percieve as Christian, bible- thumping right wing politicians. The problem with somebody like Tiafart is he stops drilling them long enough to run around in front and kiss them. Politicians like him, Sam Brownnose, and George Bush have hijacked Christianity much like Osama bin Laden has done to Islam. They say they are religious and lead their lives accordingly, but they have no problem with a war against a country that did not do anything to us. They gut social programs to pay for tax cuts for the wealthy. They are pathetic. It is hard to believe they would vote to impeach Clinton for a personal indescretion, yet it is ok to do some of the things they have done, sold out the middle class, and working on shredding the constitution, and they think he is a saint. Didn’t Bush say the constitution was just a g-d piece of paper?Well, at least he figured out a way to get God’s name in there.
On a previous thread, I was accused of a “cheap shot” in saying that Republicans were more corrupt than Democrats and I should “prove it.”
Okay, here’s the short list is for those of you that haven’t been paying attention.
Enjoy–
“No man is above the law, and no man is below the law. That’s the principle that we all hold very dear in this country.”- Rep. Tom DeLay (R-TX) – 10/98
“As John Adams said, we are a nation of laws, not of men. Our nation has survived the failings of its leaders before, but it cannot survive exceptions to the rule of law in our system of equal justice for all.”- Rep. Asa Hutchinson (R-AK) – 12/98
“The rule of law protects you and it protects me from the midnight fire on our roof or the 3 a.m. knock on our door. It challenges abuse of authority.”- Rep. Henry Hyde (R-IL) – 12/98
“[A] nation of laws cannot be ruled by a person who breaks the law. Otherwise, it would be as if we had one set of rules for the leaders and another for the governed.”- Rep. Richard Armey (R-TX) – 12/98
“No one is above the law, not even the president.” – Rep. Nancy Johnson (R-Connecticut) – 12/98
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Jack Abramoff—super Republican fundraiser, indicted on wire fraud and conspiracy
Michael Scanlon—one of Abramoff’s close associates, indicted on conspiracy to defraud Indian tribes in a casino scam
Adam Kidan—one of Abramoff’s minions, indicted on wire fraud and conspiracy
Governor of California, Arnold Swartzenegger–Ethics probe for accepting salary from two men’s fitness magazines while governor, possible kickback from American Media publisher to Schwarzenegger charity and silence money to a woman who had an extramarital affair with Schwarzenegger. This probe may go criminal.
Randy “Duke” Cunningham–resigned in late November after pleading guilty to taking $2.4 million in bribes to steer defense contracts to companies. http://www.pensitoreview.com/category/gop-scandals/
Brent Wilkes—resigned his California positions after it was revealed that he was appointed based on recommendations of Randy Cunningham after the Dukester gave Gov. Swartzenegger 70,000 dollars. The Dukester claims that Wilkes gave him $ 635,000 in bribes for which Cunningham funneled millions in federal money to Wilkes’s company.Wilkes further used his company as a front to circulate money to other candidates and office holders including but not limited to Henry Bonilla, Roy Brown, Rick Clayburgh, John T. Doolittle, Maria Guadalupe Garcia, George W. Gekas, Lindsay Graham, Duncan Hunter, Darrell Issa, Samuel Johnson, Thaddeus G. McCotter, Constance Morella, Devin Nune, Steve Pearce, Bill Van de Weghe Jr., Jerry Weller, Tom DeLay, Dick Cheney and even George W. Bush.http://cernigsnewshog.blogspot.com/2005/12/gop-scandals-tip-of-iceberg.html
Ralph Reed—former leader of the “Christian Coalition” and candidate for Lt. Governor of Georgia. He allegedly stands to take $4.2 million from Jack Abramoff.
Bob Ney—Republican Congressman from Ohio. According to the WaPo, “Ney has received campaign contributions from Abramoff and has accepted favors, including dinners at the lobbyist’s downtown restaurant, a fundraiser at the lobbyist’s MCI Center box, and a golfing trip to Scotland in August 2002.”http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/04/AR2005110401197.html
Connecticut Gov. John Rowland—convicted and imprisoned in 2004 of felony charges of accepting free renovations to his vacation cottage as well as charter flights and vacations from a state contractor, and of defrauding the Internal Revenue Service by not paying taxes on the free services. He also lied to investigators and the public.
Steve Rosen, American-Israel Public Affairs Committee (the infamous AIPAC)—indicted for conspiracy to obtain classified information
Lewis “Scooter” Libby, VP’s Cheney chief of staff—indicted on five counts of false statements and perjury
Republican National Treasurer Bob Kjellander–Under Federal probe for steering investment contracts to Illinois Teachers Retirement Fund.
Former Illinois State House Leader State Rep. Lee Daniels (Elmhurst)– Under Federal investigation for misuse of state employees for political activity and state contract kickbacks
Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels—Under Federal investigation for soliciting contributions from the state highway system
Kansas Congressional Candidate Adam Taff (2004)–indicted for campaign violations and wire fraud.
Kentucky Gov. Ernie Fletcher—Criminal probe ongoing over state employee “merit pay.” Also received tainted money from Abramoff’s ARMPAC.
Mass. Vice GOP Chair Lawrence Novak—Arrested by FBI for money laundering
Missouri Rep. Roy Blunt, House Majority Leader–Investigated for trading illegal PAC money with DeLay through Blunt’s Rely on Your Beliefs Fund. Received Indian casino money from tribes represented by Abramoff.
James Tobin, Northeast political director National Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee–Indicted, conspiracy, GOTV phone line jamming, Sununu 2002 campaign. Convicted Dec. 15, on 2 telephone harassment charges.
Chuck McGee, former Exec. Dir. New Hampshire Republican Party–Pleaded guilty, conspiracy, GOTV phone line jamming, Sununu 2002 campaign
New York Sen. candidate Westchester County District Attorney Jeanine Pirro–Probed for campaign donations from mobsters. Her husband served a year in prison for tax evasion
Ohio Govenor Robert Taft–Misuse of state funds/ethics violations Convicted, four first degree misdemeanors, pleaded no contest (admission of guilt). $4000 fine and public apology, two Federal Grand Juries, one state Grand Jury still investigating Taft.
Thomas Noe, Bush-Cheney 04 campaign chair, NW Ohio; Turnpike Commissioner; University Regent–Misuse of state funds for rare coin fund. Indicted by Federal grand jury, arrested in Florida.
Brian Hicks, Taft chief of staff, member Ohio University Board of Trustees and Cherie Carroll, Taft Chief of Staff Executive Secretary—both convicted
Walden O’Dell, Chairman & CEO of Diebold, Bush-Cheney major campaign contributor who promised to “deliver” Ohio to Bush in 2004–Resigned for “personal reasons” Dec. 13, 2005 after initiation of a class action lawsuit against Diebold for securities fraud.
State Rep. Dan Doyle, Oregon—convicted of misuse of campaign funds
Wyoming Rep. Bill Janklow–Guilty, second degree manslaughter, imprisoned. Recipient of contributions from Abramoff. Lied to investigators.
U.S. Senator and Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist–Under Securities and Exchange Commission investigation for insider trading on his Hospital Corporation of America (HCA) stock. Lied about his portfolio being a “blind trust.”
Rep. Tom DeLay, House Majority Leader–Probed for campaign finance fraud, ties to Abramoff/Kidan, Saipan sweat shops. Grand Jury, Travis County prosecutor, and House Ethics Committee probing DeLay. Indicted by Travis County District Attorney for 1 count of criminal conspiracy and 2 counts of money laundering. Arrested and booked at Harris County jail October 20, 2005. Recipient of contributions from Abramoff. Conspiracy to commit money laundering and money laundering charges still stand after Texas Judge dropped the one count of criminal conspiracy on December 5, 2005.
Jim Ellis, Director Americans for a Republican Majority (ARMPAC) PAC tied to DeLay and Abramoff , John Colyandro, Texans for a Republican Majority (TRMPAC), DeLay associate, Warren RoBold, Lobbyist and DeLay associate—all indicted.
I had to go hunt that one up.PL, in the context of the discussion, you DID take a cheap shot. That seems to be your MO nowadays. I didn’t see where anybody challenged you to prove anything. Whatever.You used to be someone worth listening to until you fell off the left side of the planet.
I accept your apology.
I question your hubris.
We repub licans are the only party in control. We have all the money. We have all the votes. We have all the pretty people. We have bought the news companies G.E. bought em and Fox. We have the best party in this one party democracy! If ya can’t beat us …. you ought to join us! Or else! Welcome to freedom in Amerika. How much can you buy?
The American people will decide in November whether they endorse such corruption. Endorse it by voting for the recipients; condemn it by turning them out.
Question whatever you like, but deal with the facts of the post–DeLay RESIGNED today. Frist is under investigation. Then there’s Abramoff.
How can anyone look at that evidence and say that Republicans aren’t more corrupt than Democrats?
Outlander wanted prove. Well, it’s not exactly proof but the above post is damn good evidence.
What have YOU got?
Yes, Delay resigned and that’s a good thing….or is it? With Delay out of the picture, who are you going to use for the poster child of corruption/boogyman?
“Well, it’s not exactly proof but the above post is damn good evidence.”
Not really. I suppose a person could google a lot of Democrats that ran afoul of the laws over the years, too. It may be convincing to you, but you were convinced anyway.
Too bad. You were an interesting contributor before you fell off into the swamp.
Anon–
why don’t you make a list like I did so we can compare?
And no fair going back “over the years.” My list is all people from 2004-2005 . . . in other words, current.
Former state Sen. Charles Walker surrendered himself to a federal prison on Thursday afternoon after a last-minute appeal to federal judges failed.Walker was sentenced this month to more than 10 years in federal prison for tax evasion, mail fraud and conspiracy charges.Walker, the state Senate’s former Democratic majority leader, was ordered to serve 121 months in prison for charges that included illegally profiting from advertisers of his Augusta newspaper, defrauding campaign contributors and illegally doing business with the state through two public hospitals. He was also charged with walking away with more than $400,000 from a charity football game, leaving “only the crumbs” for scholarships for students, said Judge Dudley Bowen Jr.Last fall, in our report on George Soros, we noted that “The media consistently ignore the fact that this so-called ‘philanthropist’ has had several brushes with the law,” including a conviction in France for insider trading.
Norman A. Porter, also known as J. J. Jameson, one of Chicago’s prominent anti-war figures and a member of the community of leftist anti-war poets. Jameson, the author of two books, a congregation leader at a church, and named Chicagopoetry.com’s poet of the month in March 2004, was the very model of a modern “enlightened” cultural leader. He is also a man whose two life sentences were commuted by Mike Dukakis.Porter is a double-murderer. He blew the back of a store-clerk’s head clean off with a sawed-off shotgun during a robbery and was complicit in the killing of the Chief Jailer at Middlesex County jail in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Porter escaped. His partner committed suicide, and Porter was caught a week later in Keene, N.H., while he was robbing a grocery store. Porter pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in both slayings and was sentenced to two consecutive life terms.
In the last 7 months in the St. Louis Metro Area here is a slice of what we have witnessed:Nov. 18: Nine Democrat precinct committeemen appear before a federal grand jury probing vote fraud during the Nov. 2 election.December: In St. Louis Six volunteers pleaded guilty in December of dozens of election law violations for filling out the cards with names of the dead and other bogus information. One still faces charges.January 21: Kelvin Ellis, a top administrator at East St. Louis City Hall, was indicted for plotting to kill a witness in the year long East St. Louis, Illinois federal vote fraud investigation.February 10: In St. Louis Nonaresa Montgomery was found guilty by a jury of perjury in a trial in St. Louis Circuit Court in the St. Louis vote fraud trial.March 22: Precinct committeemen Leroy Scott Jr., 46; Lillie Nichols, 51; Terrance R. Stith, 43; and his wife, precinct worker Sandra Stith, 54; plead guilty to one count each of vote-buying.March 23: The chairman of the East St. Louis Democratic Central Committee and councilman Charles Powell Jr. is charged with conspiracy to commit election fraud. Charged with conspiracy as well as election fraud are East St. Louis City Hall employees Jesse Lewis, Sheila Thomas, Kelvin Ellis, and Yvette Johnson.June 29: All five defendants are convicted on all counts.That comes out to 16 different Democrats convicted of election violations in the last 7 months in the St. Louis area.That does not include all of the convictions.
Sandy Berger – Democrat – National Security Advisor during the Clinton Administration. Berger became the focus of a criminal investigation after removing highly classified terrorism documents and handwritten notes from the National Archives during preparations for the Sept. 11 commission hearings.James McGreevey – Democrat – New Jersey Governor . Admitted to having a gay affair. Resigned after allegations of sexual harassment, rumors of being blackmailed on top of fundraising investigations and indictments.
Sowande Ajumoke Omokunde – Democrat – the son of newly elected U.S. Rep. Gwen Moore, was booked on charges of criminal damage to property for allegedly slashing tires on 20 vans and cars rented by the Republican Party for use in Election Day voter turnout efforts.Former Treasurer of Caucus of Connecticut Democrats Convicted in Thefts from Political Group.TERRY M. KELLIHER, age 49, of Enfield, pled guilty today in Enfield Superior Court to one count of Forgery in the Third Degree and was sentenced by Judge Howard Scheinblum to six months, execution suspended, and a two-year conditional discharge.
Now, let’s make it fair. Lets look at criminality when Democrats were in power. Money follows power, after all.
William Jefferson Clinton- Impeached by the House of Representatives over allegations of perjury and obstruction of justice, but acquitted by the Senate. Scandals include Whitewater – Travelgate Gennifer Flowersgate – Filegate – Vince Fostergate – Whitewater Billing Recordsgate – Paula Jonesgate- Lincoln Bedroomgate – Donations from Convicted Drug and Weapons Dealersgate – Lippogate – Chinagate – The Lewinsky Affair – Perjury and Jobs for Lewinskygate – Kathleen Willeygate – Web Hubbell Prison Phone Callgate – Selling Military Technology to the Chinesegate – Jaunita Broaddrick Gate – Lootergate – Pardongate
Edward Moore Kennedy – Democrat – U. S. Senator from Massachusetts. Pleaded guilty to leaving the scene of an accident, after his car plunged off a bridge on Chappaquiddick Island killing passenger Mary Jo Kopechne.
Barney Frank – Democrat – U.S. Representative from Massachusetts from 1981 to present. Admitted to having paid Stephen L. Gobie, a male prostitute, for sex and subsequently hiring Gobie as his personal assistant. Gobie used the congressman’s Washington apartment for prostitution. A move to expel Frank from the House of Representatives failed and a motion to censure him failed.
DNC – The Federal Election Commission imposed $719,000 in fines against participants in the 1996 Democratic Party fundraising scandals involving contributions from China, Korea and other foreign sources. The Federal Election Commission said it decided to drop cases against contributors of more than $3 million in illegal DNC contributions because the respondents left the country or the corporations are defunct.
Sandy Berger – Democrat – National Security Advisor during the Clinton Administration. Berger became the focus of a criminal investigation after removing highly classified terrorism documents and handwritten notes from the National Archives during preparations for the Sept. 11 commission hearings.
Robert Torricelli – Democrat – Withdrew from the 2002 Senate race with less than 30 days before the election because of controversy over personal gifts he took from a major campaign donor and questions about campaign donations from 1996.
James McGreevey – Democrat – New Jersey Governor . Admitted to having a gay affair. Resigned after allegations of sexual harassment, rumors of being blackmailed on top of fundraising investigations and indictments.
Jesse Jackson – Democrat – Democratic candidate for President. Admitted to having an extramarital affair and fathering a illegitimate child.
Gary Condit – Democrat – US Democratic Congressman from California. Condit had an affair with an intern. Condit, covered up the affair and lied to police after she went missing. No charges were ever filed against Condit. Her remains were discovered in a Washington DC park..
Sowande Ajumoke Omokunde – Democrat – the son of newly elected U.S. Rep. Gwen Moore, was booked on charges of criminal damage to property for allegedly slashing tires on 20 vans and cars rented by the Republican Party for use in Election Day voter turnout efforts.
Daniel David Rostenkowski – Democrat – U.S. Representative from Illinois from 1959 to 1995. Indicted on 17 felony charges- pleaded guilty to two counts of misuse of public funds and sentenced to seventeen months in federal prison.
Melvin Jay Reynolds – U.S. Representative from Illinois from 1993 to 1995. Convicted on sexual misconduct and obstruction of justice charges and sentenced to five years in prison.
Charles Coles Diggs, Jr. – Democrat – U.S. Representative from Michigan from 1955 to 1980. Convicted on eleven counts of mail fraud and filing false payroll forms- sentenced to three years in prison.
George Rogers – Democrat – Massachusetts State House of Representatives from 1965 to 1970. M000ember of Massachusetts State Senate from 1975 to 1978. Convicted of bribery in 1978 and sentenced to two years in prison.
Don Siegelman – Democrat Governor Alabama – indicted in a bid-rigging scheme involving a maternity-care program. The charges accused Siegelman and his former chief of staff of helping Tuscaloosa physician Phillip Bobo rig bids. Siegelman was accused of moving $550,000 from the state education budget to the State Fire College in Tuscaloosa so Bobo could use the money to pay off a competitor for a state contract for maternity care.
John Murtha, Jr. – Democrat – U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania. Implicated in the Abscam sting, in which FBI agents impersonating Arab businessmen offered bribes to political figures; Murtha was cited as an unindicted co-conspirator
Gerry Eastman Studds – Democrat – U.S. Representative from Massachusetts from 1973 to 1997. The first openly gay member of Congress. Censured by the House of Representatives for having sexual relations with a teenage House page.
James C. Green – Democrat – North Carolina State House of Representatives from 1961 to 1977. Charged with accepting a bribe from an undercover FBI agent, but was acquitted. Convicted of tax evasion in 1997.
Frederick Richmond – Democrat – U.S. Representative from New York from 1975 to 1982. Arrested in Washington, D.C., in 1978 for soliciting sex from a minor and from an undercover police officer – pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor. Also – charged with tax evasion, marijuana possession, and improper payments to a federal employee – pleaded guilty.
Raymond Lederer – Democrat – U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania from 1977 to 1981. Implicated in the Abscam sting – convicted of bribery and sentenced to three years in prison and fined $20,000.
Harrison Arlington Williams, Jr. – Democrat – U.S. Senator from New Jersey from 1959 to 1970. Implicated in the Abscam sting. Allegedly accepted an 18% interest in a titanium mine. Convicted of nine counts of bribery, conspiracy, receiving an unlawful gratuity, conflict of interest, and interstate travel in aid of racketeering. Sentenced to three years in prison and fined $50,000.
Frank Thompson, Jr. – Democrat – U.S. Representative from New Jersey from 1955 to 1980. Implicated in the Abscam sting, convicted on bribery and conspiracy charges. Sentenced to three years in prison
Michael Joseph Myers – Democrat – U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania from 1976 to 1980. Implicated in the Abscam sting – convicted of bribery and conspiracy; sentenced to three years in prison and fined $20,000; expelled from the House of Representatives on October 2, 1980.
John Michael Murphy – Democrat – U.S. Representative from New York from 1963 to 1981. Implicated in the Abscam sting. Convicted of conspiracy, conflict of interest, and accepting an illegal gratuity. Sentenced to three years in prison and fined $20,000.
John Wilson Jenrette, Jr – Democrat – U.S. Representative from South Carolina from 1975 to 1980. Implicated in the Abscam sting. Convicted on bribery and conspiracy charges and sentenced to prison
Neil Goldschmidt – Democrat – Oregon governor. Admitted to having an illegal sexual relationship with a 14-year-old teenager while he was serving as Mayor of Portland.
Alcee Lamar Hastings – Democrat – U.S. Representative from Florida. Impeached and removed from office as federal judge in 1989 over bribery charges.
Marion Barry – Democrat – mayor of Washington, D.C., from 1979 to 1991 and again from 1995 to 1999. Convicted of cocaine possession after being caught on videotape smoking crack cocaine. Sentenced to six months in prison.
Mario Biaggi – Democrat – U.S. Representative from New York from 1969 to 1988. Indicted on federal charges that he had accepted bribes in return for influence on federal contracts.Convicted of obstructing justice and accepting illegal gratuities. Tried in 1988 on federal racketeering charges and convicted on 15 felony counts.
Lee Alexander – Democrat – Mayor of Syracuse, N.Y. from 1970 to 1985. Was indicted over a $1.5 million kickback scandal. Pleaded guilty to racketeering and tax evasion charges. Served six years in prison.
Bill Campbell – Democrat – Mayor of Atlanta. Indicted and charged with fraud over claims he accepted improper payments from contractors seeking city contracts.
Frank Ballance – Democrat – Congressman North Carolina. Pleaded guilty to one charge of conspiracy to commit mail fraud and money laundering related to mishandling of money by his charitable foundation.
Hazel O’Leary – Democrat – Secretary of Energy during the Clinton Administration – O’leary took trips all over the world as Secretary with as many 50 staff members and at times rented a plane, which was used by Madonna during her concert tours.
Lafayette Thomas – Democrat – Candidate for Tennessee State House of Representatives in 1954. Sheriff of Davidson County, from 1972 to 1990. Indicted in federal court on 54 counts of abusing his power as sheriff. Pleaded guilty to theft and mail fraud; sentenced to five years in prison.
Mary Rose Oakar – Democrat – U.S. Representative from Ohio from 1977 to 1993. Pleaded guilty to two misdemeanor charges of funneling $16,000 through fake donors.
David Giles – Democrat – candidate for U.S. Representative from Washington in 1986 and 1990. Convicted in June 2000 of child rape.
Edward Mezvinsky – Democrat – U.S. Representative from Iowa from 1973 to 1977. Indicted on 56 federal fraud charges.
Lena Swanson – Democrat – Member of Washington State Senate in 1997. Pleaded guilty to charges of soliciting unlawful payments from veterans and former prisoners of war.
Abraham J. Hirschfeld – Democrat – candidate in Democratic primary for U.S. Senator from New York in 1974 and 1976. Offered Paula Jones $1 million to drop her sexual harassment lawsuit against President Bill Clinton. Convicted in 2000 of trying to hire a hit man to kill his business partner.
Henry Cisneros – Democrat – U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development from 1993 to 1997. Pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of lying to the FBI.
James A. Traficant Jr. – Member of House of Representatives from Ohio. Expelled from Congress after being convicted of corruption charges. Sentenced today to eight years in prison for accepting bribes and kickbacks.
John Doug Hays – Democrat – member of Kentucky State Senate from 1980 to 1982 Found guilty of mail fraud for submitting false campaign reports stemming from an unsuccessful run for judge. He was sentenced to six months in prison to be followed by six months of home confinement and three years of probation.
Henry J. Cianfrani – Democrat – Pennsylvania State Senate from 1967 to 1976. Convicted on federal charges of racketeering and mail fraud for padding his Senate payroll. Sentenced to five years in federal prison.
David Hall – Democrat – Governor of Oklahoma from 1971 to 1975. Indicted on extortion and conspiracy charges. Convicted and sentenced to three years in prison.
John A. Celona – Democrat – A former state senator was charged with the three counts of mail fraud. Federal prosecutors accused him of defrauding the state and collecting hundreds of thousands of dollars from CVS Corp. and others while serving in the legislature. Celona has agreed to plead guilty to taking money from the CVS pharmacy chain and other companies that had interest in legislation. Under the deal, Celona agreed to cooperate with investigators. He faces up to five years in federal prison on each of the three counts and a $250,000 fine
Allan Turner Howe – Democrat – U.S. Representative from Utah from 1975 to 1977. Arrested for soliciting a policewoman posing as a prostitute.
Jerry Cosentino – Democrat – Illinois State Treasurer. Pleaded guilty to bank fraud – fined $5,000 and sentenced to nine months home confinement.
Joseph Waggonner Jr. – Democrat – U.S. Representative from Louisiana from 1961 to 19 79. Arrested in Washington, D.C. for soliciting a policewoman posing as a prostitute
Albert G. Bustamante – Democrat – U.S. Representative from Texas from 1985 to 1993. Convicted in 1993 on racketeering and bribery charges and sentenced to prison.
Lawrence Jack Smith – Democrat – U.S. Representative from Florida from 1983 to 1993. Sentenced to three months in federal prison for tax evasion.
David Lee Walters – Democrat – Governor of Oklahoma from 1991 to 1995. Pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor election law violation.
James Guy Tucker, Jr. – Democrat – Governor of Arkansas from 1992 to 1996. Resigned in July 1996 after conviction on federal fraud charges as part of the Whitewater investigation.
Walter Rayford Tucker – Democrat – Mayor of Compton, California from 1991 to 1992; U.S. Representative from California from 1993 to 1995. Sentenced to 27 months in prison for extortion and tax evasion.
William McCuen – Democrat – Secretary of State of Arkansas from 1985 to 1995. Admitted accepting kickbacks from two supporters he gave jobs, and not paying taxes on the money. Admitted to conspiring with a political consultant to split $53,560 embezzled from the state in a sham transaction. He was indicted on corruption charges. Pleaded guilty to felony counts tax evasion and accepting a kickback. Sentenced to 17 years in prison.
Walter Fauntroy – Democrat – Delegate to U.S. Congress from the District of Columbia from 1971 to 1991. Charged in federal court with making false statements on financial disclosure forms. Pleaded guilty to one felony count and sentenced to probation.
Carroll Hubbard, Jr. – Democrat – Kentucky State Senate from 1968 to 1975 and U.S. Representative from Kentucky from 1975 to 1993. Pleaded guilty to conspiring to defraud the Federal Elections Commission and to theft of government property; sentenced to three years in prison.
Joseph Kolter – Democrat – member of Pennsylvania State House of Representatives from 1969 to 1982 and U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania from 1983 to 1993. Indicted by a Federal grand jury on five felony charges of embezzlement at the U.S. House post office. Pleaded guilty.
Webster Hubbell – Democrat – Chief Justice of Arkansas State Supreme Court in 1983. Pleaded guilty to federal mail fraud and tax evasion charges – sentenced to 21 months in prison.
Nicholas Mavroules – Democrat – U.S. Representative from Massachusetts from 1979 to 1993. Pleaded guilty to charges of tax fraud and accepting gratuities while in office.
Carl Christopher Perkins – Democrat – Kentucky State House of Representatives from 1981 to 1984 and U.S. Representative from Kentucky from 1985 to 1993. Pleaded guilty to bank fraud in connection with the House banking scandal. Perkins wrote overdrafts totaling about $300,000. Pleaded guilty to charges of filing false statements with the Federal Election Commission and false financial disclosure reports. Sentenced to 21 months in prison.
Richard Hanna – Democrat – U.S. Representative from California from 1963 to 1974. Received payments of about $200,000 from a Korean businessman in what became known as the “Koreagate” influence buying scandal. Pleaded guilty and sentenced to federal prison.
Angelo Errichetti – Democrat – New Jersey State Senator was sentenced to six years in prison and fined $40,000 for his involvement in Abscam.
Daniel Baugh Brewster – Democrat – U.S. Senator from Maryland. Indicted on charges of accepting illegal gratuity while in Senate.
Thomas Joseph Dodd – Democrat – U.S. Senator from Connecticut. Censured by the Senate for financial improprieties, having diverted $116,000 in campaign and testimonial funds to his own use
Edward Fretwell Prichard, Jr. – Democrat – Delegate to Democratic National Convention from Kentucky. Convicted of vote fraud in federal court in connection with ballot-box stuffing. Served five months in prison.
Jerry Springer – Democrat – Resigned from Cincinnati City Council in 1974 after admitting to paying a prostitute with a personal check, which was found in a police raid on a massage parlor.
Guy Hamilton Jones, Sr. – Democrat -Arkansas State Senate. Convicted on federal tax charges and expelled from the Arkansas Senate.
Daniel Flood – Democrat – U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania from 1945 to 1947, 1949 to 1953 and 1955 to 1980. Pleaded guilty to a conspiracy charge involving payoffs and sentenced to probation.
Otto Kerner, Jr – Democrat – Governor of Illinois from 1961 to 1968. While serving as Governor, he and another official made a gain of over $300,000 in a stock deal. Convicted on 17 counts of bribery, conspiracy, perjury, and related charges. Sentenced to three years in federal prison and fined $50,000.
George Crockett, Jr. – Democrat – U.S. Representative from Michigan. Served four months in federal prison for contempt of court following his defense of a Communist leader on trial for advocating the overthrow of the government.
Cornelius Edward Gallagher – Democrat – U.S. Representative from New Jersey from 1959 to 1873. Indicted in on federal charges of income tax evasion, conspiracy, and perjury
Mark B. Jimenez – Democrat fundraiser – sentenced to 27 months in prison on charges of tax evasion and conspiracy to defraud the United States and commit election financing offenses.
Bobby Lee Rush – Democrat – U.S. Representative from Illinois. As a Black Panther, spent six months in prison on a weapons charge.
Bolley ”Bo” Johnson – Democrat – Former Florida House Speaker – received a two-year term for tax evasion.
Roger L. Green – Democrat – Brooklyn Democrat Assemblyman. Pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor for accepting travel reimbursement for trips he did not pay for and was sentenced to fines and probation.
Gloria Davis – Democrat – Bronx assemblywoman. Pleaded guilty to second-degree bribe-taking.
Here’s something from Howard Dean:
DEAN: There are no Democrats who took money from Jack Abramoff. Not one. Not one single Democrat. Every person named in this scandal is a Republican, every person under investigation is a Republican, every person indicted is a Republican. This is a Republican finance scandal. There is no evidence that Jack Abramoff ever gave any Democrat any money, and we’ve looked through all those FEC reports to make sure that’s true.
BLITZER: [Stammering] But through various Abramoff-related organizations, and outfits, a bunch of Democrats did take money that presumably originated with Jack Abramoff.
DEAN: That’s not true either. There’s no evidence for that either, there’s no evidence…
BLITZER: What about Senator, what about, what about, what about Senator Byron Dorgan?
DEAN: Senator Byron Dorgan and some others took money from Indian tribes. They’re not agents of Jack Abramoff. There’s no evidence that I’ve seen that Jack Abramoff directed any contributions to Democrats. I know the Republican National Committee would like to get the Democrats involved in this. They’re scared. They should be scared. They haven’t told the truth, and they have misled the American people, and now it appears they’re stealing from Indian tribes. The Democrats are not involved in this.
BLITZER: [Long pause, apparently getting direction in his earpiece] [Sigh] Unfortunately, we, uh, Mr. Chairman, we’ve got to leave it right there.
Okay, thanks Anonymous for proving my point–you had a couple of low-level sleaze bags, Chicago precinct committee men(the Berger charges never stuck) and then you had to dig through the decades going back to WW2.
BTW, I didn’t include sexual misconduct in my list; I stuck solely to graft–if’d included that, it would have been twice as long.
You’re not man enough to admit it, but you are wrong, and your post proves it.
Obviously you didn’t read the post. I believe I added a qualifier on the older stuff. I went back to when Democrats were in power. No, I didn’t follow your rules because last I heard, you don’t make the rules. The Libs on this blog may kow tow to you and kiss your butt, but I don’t. Prove your point? You’re deluded.
“You’re not man enough to admit it, but you are wrong”.
Why? Because you say so? There’s that hubris thing again. And you don’t know what kind of man I am.Since you can’t prove your point, I expect your next post will contain the usual insults.Go back to the swamp, PL.
XXX and PL,
Here’s the videolink for Howard Dean’s sticking it to Wolf Blitzer:
Off Topic–
Here’s Howard Dean debunking the GOP’s “it’s a bipartisan scandal” spin: this is PRICELESS.
http://www.canofun.com/blog/videos/2006/DeanAbramoffDemocrats.asx
Howard DEAN is THE MAN.
Yeah, I caught that earlier. Ain’t-life-great! LOL!!!!!
Everytime I start to think Dean may be a liability, he does something that makes me want to jump up and say YEAH!
Hey anonymous….are you gettin this?
XXX,
Indeed. The reason the GOP-media runs him down is that he scares the hell out of them. Wolf Blitzer’s ‘Sigh!’ really says it all.
Kill me now, so I can die happy!
I just sent $25 to the DNC as a thank-you for Dr. Dean’s performance. Share the love, lefty homies.
Amouse–
Let’s review. I said that the Republicans are more corrupt than Democrats.
I got called on that statement and I backed it up by showing QUANTIFIABLY that far more nationally prominent Republicans–including both the (former) Speaker of the House and the Senate Majority Leader–are embroiled in financial corruption, bribery, and conspiracy charges than are Republicans.
You proved my contention when you were not able to find anywhere near the NUMBER nor the PROMINENCE of Democrats involved in recent finacial scandals as I found Republicans.
You lost. Get over it.
correction . . . “conspiracy chargest than are Democratic.”
PL, charges don’t count for anything. Last I heard, in this country, you’re innocent until proven guilty.I lost? What do you think this is, Monopoly? Get over yourself!
By the way, what is a “conspiracy chargest”?
That’s why you conservatives are so dangerous for this country.
You maintain your beliefs despite the facts and the evidence.
“Democrats are just as guilty as Republicans.”
“The war in Iraq is going splendidly.”
“Bush never said that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction and that Iraq was an imminent threat.”
“Everyone is ‘innocent until proven guilty’ unless their last name is Clinton.”
“Government debt doesn’t matter.” (quote from VP Cheney)
“Those who say we didn’t find weapons of mass destruction are wrong. We found them.” (GW Bush)
But wait, there’s more.
Here’re some more facts for you to convolute and ignore:
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2005-05-06-abramoff-bush_x.htm
Controversial lobbyist had close contact with Bush teamWASHINGTON (AP) — In President Bush’s first 10 months, GOP fundraiser Jack Abramoff and his lobbying team logged nearly 200 contacts with the new administration as they pressed for friendly hires at federal agencies and sought to keep the Northern Mariana Islands exempt from the minimum wage and other laws, records show.Abramoff remains under investigation for some of his lobbying work.Dennis Cook, AP
The meetings between Abramoff’s lobbying team and the administration ranged from Attorney General John Ashcroft to policy advisers in Vice President Dick Cheney’s office, according to his lobbying firm billing records.
Abramoff, a $100,000-plus fundraiser for Bush, is now under criminal investigation for some of his lobbying work. His firm boasted its lobbying team helped revise a section of the Republican Party’s 2000 platform to make it favorable to its island client.
In addition, two of Abramoff’s lobbying colleagues on the Marianas won political appointments inside federal agencies
“That’s why you conservatives are so dangerous for this country.”
PL, what makes you think I’m a conservative? As you’ll recall, I affirmed that you took a cheap shot. That doesn’t make me a conservative. It just means I don’t agree with you.You asked me to provide some specific information, so I did. That doesn’t mean I’m a conservative, I just provided what you asked for. Providing requested information doesn’t make one a conservative.
Conservatives aren’t the only ones on this site who disagree with you.
Hehehe, you’re getting desperate now.
And you’re just making your humiliating loss worse . . .
Note to anonymous: How did PL know you were conservitave? You answered that when you said “I just provided what you asked for. Providing requested information doesn’t make one a conservative”Actually, it does. A liberal, when faced with a subpoena to deliver documents to the court, hides the documents in her trunk and drives around with them for several years until she “forgets” about them.
And for comparison, Foley resigned for only having talked about gay sex sith an underage page, Congressman Gerry Studds (democrat, MA) kept his job even after admitting to actually having sex with an underage pageboy. Apparently, there was no shame or discrace in his party for thay type of behavior.