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3rd Palm Beach County Commissioner resigns in three years

Posted by Bill Jempty · Published: January 8, 2009 · Comments (1)

Lets get all the crooks out. Three down, four to go. From the Sun-Sentinel- County Commissioner Mary McCarty resigned today and said she plans to plead guilty to honest services fraud. McCarty becomes the third county commissioner in recent years to resign as a result of corruption charges. In her... [Full Story]

Rating: 5/5 (1 votes cast)

Taiwan's ex-president Shui-bian Chen indicted for corruption

Posted by Bill Jempty · Published: December 12, 2008

Bribes, money laundering, kickbacks. Taiwan's former president Chen Shui-bian was indicted on Friday for corruption, just months after finishing eight years in office marked by a pro-independence agenda that badly damaged ties with China. Legal experts say Chen, the island's first former leader to be indicted, could face life in... [Full Story]

Rating: 0/5 (0 votes cast)

IL Gov Rod Blagojevich approval rating is 8%

Posted by Bill Jempty · Published: December 12, 2008 · Comments (2)

Shouldn't it be Zero? The approval rating for Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich (blah-GOY'-uh-vich) is just 8%. That's the finding from a survey of people in Illinois in the days since his arrest this week on corruption charges. The poll by the Chicago-based Glengariff Group finds 73% of those who were... [Full Story]

Rating: 3/5 (1 votes cast)

Nevada Lt. Gov. Brian Krolicki indicted

Posted by Bill Jempty · Published: December 4, 2008 · Comments (4)

I think this throws a monkey wrench is his plans to run against Senator Harry Reid in 2010. Lt. Gov. Brian Krolicki was indicted Wednesday on four felony charges that he misappropriated state funds during his time as state treasurer. A Clark County grand jury returned the indictment against Krolicki... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.5/5 (4 votes cast)

Birmingham AL Mayor Larry Langford, arrested, jailed on federal charges

Posted by Bill Jempty · Published: December 1, 2008 · Comments (1)

It all went down early this morning. Birmingham Mayor Larry Langford was arrested this morning on federal charges and is being held at the federal courthouse, the FBI and other federal officials confirm. A special grand jury for several months has been investigating county bond deals and Langford's financial dealings.... [Full Story]

Rating: 4/5 (1 votes cast)

Obama's Ayers evasions don't hold up

Posted by Jim Addison · Published: April 28, 2008 · Comments (5)

Barack Obama has dealt with the exposure of his association with radical terrorist bomber William Ayers by asserting Ayers was just some eccentric English professor from the 'hood and, since Ayers' terrorist acts had taken place some forty years ago, when Obama was a mere child, it is unfair to... [Full Story]

Rating: 5/5 (9 votes cast)

Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick Indicted for Perjury and Obstruction

Posted by Larkin · Published: March 24, 2008 · Comments (5)

CNN has the scoop on the deep trouble that Detroit mayor Kwame Kilpatrick is in: Kilpatrick, who is married, has been snarled in a well-publicized sex scandal since January after The Detroit Free Press reported he exchanged romantic text messages with his then-chief of staff, Christine Beatty. The paper reported... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.5/5 (4 votes cast)

Measuring the Obama-Wright scandal

Posted by Jim Addison · Published: March 23, 2008 · Comments (2)

One of the great aspects of advancing computer and internet technology is that the new tools it brings to bear can be used in new and innovating ways by very different people for very different tasks. A recent "cool tool" is an internet measure of blog posts on Obama and... [Full Story]

Rating: 0/5 (0 votes cast)

GOP money guru was pocketing the cash

Posted by Jim Addison · Published: March 13, 2008 · Comments (2)

Christopher J. Ward was one of THE "go-to" guys for managing campaign funds on the Republican side. He served as Treasurer for the NRCC and dozens of other groups and campaigns in recent years. Now it seems he was shuffling the cash around between them illegally - and siphoning off... [Full Story]

Rating: 5/5 (1 votes cast)

Former Alaska Gov. Murkowski's Chief of Staff pleads guilty

Posted by Bill Jempty · Published: March 13, 2008 · Comments (1)

The man once called Alaska's most powerful non-elected official will be going to federal prison one day. From the Anchorage Daily News- Jim Clark, once at the heart of power as former Gov. Frank Murkowski's chief of staff, became a contrite, convicted felon Tuesday as he pleaded guilty to a... [Full Story]

Rating: 5/5 (1 votes cast)

Meiwa Mayor, assembly members sue woman politician over sex victim claims

Posted by Bill Jempty · Published: March 7, 2008

The wild and crazy world of Japanese politics. From the Mainchi Daily News- MEIWA, Gunma -- Meiwa Mayor Kenichi Inomata and seven members of the town's municipal assembly have sued a woman also serving on the chamber, saying she defamed them by association when pressing charges of indecent assault against... [Full Story]

Rating: 5/5 (1 votes cast)

Oregon mayor poses in underwear, loses job

Posted by Bill Jempty · Published: February 27, 2008

A successful recall has removed Mayor Kontur-Gronquist from office. ARLINGTON, Ore. - The mayor of an Oregon town who once stripped to her underwear and posed on a fire truck has been stripped of her office. Voters in this town of about 500 voted narrowly Monday to recall Carmen Kontur-Gronquist.... [Full Story]

Rating: 5/5 (3 votes cast)

More on Obama's Rezko history

Posted by Jim Addison · Published: February 26, 2008

While the US media maintains its soft and nurturing attitude towards the Obama campaign, the foreign media is still digging. The UK newspaper The Times broke new information about Chicago figure Tony Rezko's sources of income, according to Rezko Watch. A company tied to Iraqi billionaire businessman Nadhmi Auchi "lent"... [Full Story]

Rating: 0/5 (0 votes cast)

Republican Congressman Rick Renzi indicted in Arizona land deal

Posted by Bill Jempty · Published: February 22, 2008 · Comments (4)

The Federal charges against Renzi and a business associate include extortion. WASHINGTON - Republican Rep. Rick Renzi was charged Friday with extortion, wire fraud, money laundering and other crimes in an Arizona land swap that authorities say helped him collect hundreds of thousands of dollars in payoffs. A 26-page federal... [Full Story]

Rating: 5/5 (2 votes cast)

Ethics panel says Sen. Larry Craig acted improperly

Posted by Bill Jempty · Published: February 14, 2008 · Comments (5)

Anyone besides me wish the Idaho Senator would go quietly away. From AP- WASHINGTON - The Senate Ethics Committee said Wednesday that Idaho Sen. Larry Craig acted improperly in connection with a men's room sex sting last year and had brought discredit on the Senate. In a letter to the... [Full Story]

Rating: 0/5 (0 votes cast)

Huckabee to speak at anti-Catholic's church

Posted by Jim Addison · Published: December 22, 2007 · Comments (6)

Having accomplished his mission of pissing off every Mormon in the country (a group which has tended to vote heavily Republican in recent decades), Mike Huckabee apparently is aiming to alienate Catholics as well. While Catholic voters were long a part of the old FDR Democratic coalition, Republicans, beginning with... [Full Story]

Rating: 4/5 (7 votes cast)

Ron Paul won't return neo-Nazi cash, poses for picture

Posted by Jim Addison · Published: December 21, 2007 · Comments (9)

When a campaign contribution is received from a donor tainted by controversy, the usual practice is to return it, or donate it to charity. Ron Paul is no usual politician, though. He is keeping the $500 donation from a white supremacist who operates a radical website, as Brian Skoloff reports... [Full Story]

Rating: 3.9/5 (8 votes cast)

Hawaii governor speaks out on aide's blackmail case

Posted by Bill Jempty · Published: December 4, 2007

Governor Lingle's Chief of Staff was being blackmailed by a woman in the Philippines. From AP- HONOLULU (AP) -- After months of refusing to discuss her chief of staff's resignation, Hawaii Gov. Linda Lingle said his blackmail over a relationship with a woman in the Philippines was strictly personal and... [Full Story]

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Political bribes Thailand Style

Posted by Bill Jempty · Published: November 30, 2007 · Comments (1)

Guess what a politician is being accused of handing out to elderly male voters in that Asian country? BANGKOK, Thailand - Vote-buying is an old practice in Thai politics, but one candidate for December's Thai election has reportedly come up with a new tactic -- handing out Viagra instead of... [Full Story]

Rating: 3.3/5 (3 votes cast)

Rudy Giuliani vs Bill Clinton- Any difference?

Posted by Bill Jempty · Published: November 30, 2007 · Comments (5)

Unless you been asleep, on the moon, or visiting Botswana, you probably heard how former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani billed taxpayers for the security and travel of his mistress, now third wife Judith Nathan. Richard Esposito at ABC News reports- Well before it was publicly known he was... [Full Story]

Rating: 3.5/5 (6 votes cast)

Rudy tells Katie Couric security "scandal" a phony charge

Posted by Jim Addison · Published: November 30, 2007 · Comments (2)

After the "scandal" about Rudy Giuliani's security costs being "buried" among several city agencies while he was Mayor broke just before the Republican debate, he sat down with CBS' Katie Couric to rebut the charges: Katie Couric: We were talking earlier, Mayor Giuliani, about the scrutiny that you have to... [Full Story]

Rating: 5/5 (1 votes cast)

Anti-Mormon calls in Iowa

Posted by Jim Addison · Published: November 16, 2007 · Comments (3)

Somebody is "push-polling" in Iowa, apparently trying to use anti-Mormon language to damage Romney. Jonathan Martin reports at The Politico: In an apparent push poll, a research firm has called Iowa Republicans this week praising John McCain and critcizing Mitt Romney and his Mormon faith. An individual in Manchester, Iowa,... [Full Story]

Rating: 5/5 (2 votes cast)

Johnny, we hardly knew ye . . .

Posted by Jim Addison · Published: October 11, 2007 · Comments (20)

A guy walks into a bar. He meets a woman. They talk, perhaps share a laugh. Then, nature takes its course . . . and she produces a series of short web videos for him, which he bills to his nascent Presidential campaign, to the tune of $114,000.00. Man decides... [Full Story]

Rating: 4/5 (4 votes cast)

Thompson team hits Hillary on fundraising

Posted by Jim Addison · Published: September 12, 2007 · Comments (3)

Top Thompson adviser Rich Galen questioned the Clinton campaign on the Norman Hsu fundraising scandal, Bill Sammon reports for The Examiner: Galen was unconvinced. "You have to look at this with a great deal of skepticism that - having been through this sort of thing in '96 - that nobody... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.3/5 (6 votes cast)

Hillary's donors to undergo criminal checks

Posted by Jim Addison · Published: September 11, 2007 · Comments (3)

Not only is Hillary Clinton's campaign finally getting around to returning the $850,000 or so in contributions "bundled" by her former fugitive fundraiser, Norman Hsu, but donors will be given much closer scrutiny from now on, posts John Solomon at WaPo's campaign blog The Trail: Clinton's campaign, one of several... [Full Story]

Rating: 4/5 (2 votes cast)

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