Posted on 05/28/2007 9:11:11 AM PDT by Sicvee
WASHINGTON -- Rep. Jim McDermott has had the luxury of winning big and cheaply in recent elections, facing only token opposition
But that fortunate history could pose a problem for McDermott if the Seattle Democrat is forced to pay more than $1 million in legal fees and penalties to settle his long-running legal battle with House Minority Leader John Boehner.
Unlike colleagues who have been able to tap into campaign funds for legal costs, McDermott doesn't have enough cash in his coffers to cover his bills.
The prospect that McDermott soon will be liable for a huge payout became a real possibility earlier this month after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled 5-4 against him. The defeat leaves him with one remaining legal recourse -- an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court. McDermott and his lawyers have until July to decide, but legal observers say it's highly unlikely an appeal would be successful.
That would mean by midsummer, McDermott would have to ramp up a fundraising effort that has been gathering dust for nearly a decade. He must pay a court-ordered $60,000 fine and Boehner's legal fees, which attorneys estimate are $880,000 and counting. McDermott also would have to pay his own legal bills, which, after 10 years of fighting Boehner in federal court, are substantial.
(Excerpt) Read more at seattlepi.nwsource.com ...
It should cost him his seat in congress, and his freedom. His sorry butt should be behind bars.
Let him sweat. He deserves to.
I don’t think that he will run again for Congress, but he will be replaced by another moonbat Democrat. It’s a “safely Democratic” Congressional seat.
What a novel thought: Holding Democrats accountable for their actions.
“Hello, Baghdad presidential palace? This is Congressman McDermott. When Saddam steps back in, please tell him his old buddy called, and could use some help with . . . . oh, damn!”
The Liberal Mafia will be forced to waste $1 million bailing this creep put. That is $1 million less to injure the USA.
Happy Memorial Day!
And blame it on Republicans.
Even if it took ten years still in office and unfairly trashed the reputation of an opponent, it will be good if he has to pay.
Curious, the PU didn’t happen to mention the trouble McDimwitt got himself into for trying to hide his assets (principally real estate) in order to frustrate efforts to collect on this obligation.
Oh well, what do you expect from a rag who considers this traitor a “moderate national profile”?!
The comments to the article agree with you, in the main. He’s apparently not well-liked.
This is the same Pelz who just got the Wa state dem party to support the cowardly refusal of Lt. Ehren Watada to deploy to Iraq with his Stryker unit. The actions of all three are despicable.
I never understood how those two people got to see him without an appointment.
Didn’t McDerbutt visit Sadamn only weeks before the coalition invasion in Iraq?
What are you, some kind of radical right winger? /sarc
I forgot about this phone conversation being recorded from a police scanner. Can someone explain this to me? Are phone calls nor secure? How about cell phones?
“The cell phone conference call was recorded by a Florida couple, John and Alice Martin, who stumbled onto the conversation while listening to a police scanner.”
BS
These were Dem operatives spying on the option. Nixon had to resign for the ramifications of this sort of activity.
Boehner sued McDermott in 1998, accusing him of violating his right to privacy for making public a telephone conversation involving Boehner, then-House Speaker Newt Gingrich and other senior Republicans who were discussing ethics allegations against Gingrich.
The cell phone conference call was recorded by a Florida couple, John and Alice Martin, who stumbled onto the conversation while listening to a police scanner.
The claim that this couple just happened to be behind the Congressman's car, scanning frequencies, hooked in to a taping system, didn't pass the smell test then and it has been virtually ignored by the sycophantic bastard media. The time for paying every damned penny is now at hand ... but as usual the media will keep the facts from the public at large and the full truth of this crap will be bought off by paying Baghdad Jim's bills from bottomless funds provided by men like SOros whose life's work is to destroy this nation. Democrats are a disease ...
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