Posts Tagged ‘Corruption’

Jan 19

Chicago style politics lands in DC

Posted at 4:23 pm in Barack Obama & Business & Democrats

The DC Examiner reports that one of Barack Obama’s telecom advisers, the vice president of Clearwire and an Obama donor, is advising him to delay the television broadcast change over from analog to digital. Why? Because it will benefit his company while hurting his competitors. Here’s how:
After years of wrangling and negotiating, Congress and the [...]

Dec 09

Governor Blagojevich and his Chief of Staff cuffed and stuffed

Posted at 1:17 pm in Politicians & Politics

This is amazing. Have we ever seen such a spectacle before? A sitting governor and his chief of staff arrested and taken into custody on federal corruption charges. For how long have the Kos Kiddies and the DUmmies dreamt of Karl Rove perp walked for his phantom illegal activities just to have one of their [...]

Dec 07

Dollar Bill Jefferson defeated

Posted at 9:46 am in Politics

This is excellent news. Congressman William Jefferson, who was indicted on 16 counts of bribery, money laundering and a host of other corruption charges, was defeated yesterday by a political rookie.  Joseph Cao, a Vietnamese American, wiped the floor with Jefferson.
Anh Joseph Cao, a little-known 41-year-old community organizer and GOP attorney, knocked off nine-term Democratic [...]

Nov 25

Four more Joe the Plumber snoops get their wrists slapped

Posted at 10:08 am in Politics

The Columbus Dispatch writes that four more Ohio senior managers were “punished” for engaging in illegal and unethical searches on Joe Wurzelbacher. As Helen Jones-Kelley before them, instead of being fired, they were suspended without pay.
Jan Allen, acting agency director, announced yesterday that deputy child-support director Doug Thompson and assistant agency director Fred Williams would [...]

Sep 05

How Sarah Palin took down Alaska’s Corrupt Establishment

Posted at 9:46 pm in 2008 Presidential Election & Oil & Sarah Palin

Kim Strassel has a must read at the Wall Street Journal that outlines how Sarah took down the corrupt Alaska establishment which had been taking bribes from the oil industry. It’s really impressive how she brought former Governor Murkowski, other high profile government officials, and the oil industry to their knees:
Frank Murkowski made clear he’d [...]