<----Alcee Hastings a Democrat who believes in violence in politics
Posted on 11/01/2008 5:02:35 AM PDT by tobyhill
Florida police are investigating an allegation that Rep. Alcee Hastings, D-Fla., directed a death threat at his Republican challenger, Marion Thorpe, at a candidates forum on Thursday.
Thorpe, a former state chief medical officer, filed a report with the Boca Raton Police Department on Thursday night after the forum, alleging he was threatened by the eight-term congressman during the event at Temple Beth El in Boca Raton.
The two are vying for the congressional seat in Florida's 23rd District, which includes Fort Lauderdale and West Palm Beach.
Click here to see the police report.
"We had a very unfortunate interaction last night," Thorpe told FOXNews.com.
After their three-question debate, Thorpe said he and Hastings shook hands with their backs partially turned toward the audience. He said Hastings pulled him in closer and said, "You mention that impeachment [expletive] again and I'm taking you out permanently."
(Excerpt) Read more at elections.foxnews.com ...
Once a thug always a thug!!!
Is there an extra season of the Sopranos I missed where Tony runs for office? Sorry I missed that.
No surprise here, folks.
When it comes to political power, dims will stop at nothing to achieve it and then hold onto it.
Good grief. But Hastings will get away with it, never fear. Being a Dem means never having to say you’re sorry.
Alcee belongs in jail, with all the fixins.
Don’t fool around with this kind of intimidation tactics. File formal charges right now.
<----Alcee Hastings a Democrat who believes in violence in politics
“This” should be “these”.
Dr. Marion Thorpe
Dr. Marion Thorpe’s EDUCATION
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
School of Medicine
Doctor of Medicine Degree
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
School of Public Health
Master of Health Policy and Administration Degree
Duke University
Durham, North Carolina
Bachelor of Science Degree
The Asheville School
Asheville, North Carolina
High School Diploma
EMPLOYMENT
Chief Medical Officer
Agency for Health Care Administration
State of Florida
Vice-Chairman
Quantum Group
Palm Beach County
Chief Medical Officer
Syndeos Corporation
Celebration, Florida
CEO and Chairman
Medical Net Information Management Group
Miami, Florida
PUBLIC SERVICE
Chairman
Medicaid Reform Advocates Coalition
State of Florida
Chairman
Care Broward
Broward County
Chairman
Technology Committee
Broward County Medical Association
Delegate
Florida Medical Association
Tallahassee, Florida
Delegate
Healthy Florida Foundation
State of Florida
Expert On-Air Homeland Security Analyst
CBS News
Miami, Florida
Founding Member
State-Wide HMO Report Card Panel
State of Florida
POLITICAL EXPERIENCE
Delegate (Alternate)
Republican National Convention
New York, New York
Member
National Black Republican Association
Washington, D.C.
Member
Black Republican Caucus
Palm Beach County
Member
Jerome Gray Republican Club
Broward County
Political Director
Young Republicans
Miami, Florida
Alcee Hastings—the congressman from Florida’s 23rd Congressional District—was elected to office in 1992, even though controversy surrounded Hastings throughout his 1992 campaign, election, and subsequent seating in the House of Representatives. While serving as a U.S. federal judge in 1988, he was impeached by the Congress of the United States, and then convicted of perjury and conspiracy to accept a bribe and was removed from office in 1989. He has been re-elected twice since then.
Hastings’s troubles in the judiciary stemmed from a case in 1981 when he was indicted by a grand jury in the Southern District of Florida on charges of plotting to obtain a $150,000 bribe in exchange for giving two convicted Miami mobsters lighter sentences. According to a report in the Congressional Quarterly Weekly Report, after Hastings’s acquittal in 1983, a special investigating committee of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Hastings had fabricated evidence to win acquittal and two fellow judges alleged that Hastings had perjured himself to avoid conviction. The panel sent findings to Congress recommending that Hastings be impeached.
Under the Constitution, Congress has the power to remove federal officials for “high crimes and misdemeanors.” The House votes on impeachment and the Senate conducts the trial. In Hastings’s case, the House voted 413-3 to impeach and the Senate voted 69-26 to convict on charges of perjury and conspiracy to accept a bribe. At that point, Hastings was stripped of his lifetime position.
http://www.answers.com/topic/alcee-hastings
One, two, three,..., fire!
House Intelligence Committee controversy
After the 2006 United States House of Representatives elections, Hastings attracted controversy after it was reported that incoming House Speaker Nancy Pelosi might appoint him as head of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. Pelosi reportedly favored Hastings instead of the ranking Democrat Jane Harman due to political differences and support for Hastings by the Congressional Black Caucus.[5]
However, Hastings’ impeachment led to accusations that Democrats, who had campaigned against a Republican “culture of corruption,” were themselves elevating a corrupt official to a committee chair. On November 28, 2006, Pelosi announced that Hastings would not be the next chairman of the House Select Committee on Intelligence.[6]
In January of 2007 Speaker Nancy Pelosi choose Congressman Sylvester Reyes of Texas as the next Chairman of the powerful Select Committee on Intelligence. While Congressman Hastings was passed over to chair the full committee he became chair of the sub-committee.
So true! I saw a post on here that a kid got in trouble in school for pointing a FISH STICK at another student, and a kid got in trouble for making terroristic threats by drawing a picture of a vampire at halloween! The democrats made the rules, now let them live by them!
While serving as a U.S. federal judge in 1988, he was impeached by the Congress of the United States, and then convicted of perjury and conspiracy to accept a bribe and was removed from office in 1989. He has been re-elected twice since then.
So what does that tell you about the VOTERS who RE-ELECTED him?!!!??
My f-ing congress crook.
In a gerrymandered district that goes to predominately black neighborhoods from Ft. Lauderdale to Fort Pierce.
A district made up solely for the purpose of getting any black in office.
Unfortunately I live in a very narrow rural area of this crap district.
Hastings is a thug, crook, and an embarasment that should be in prison.
He is from a gerrymandered district put together to insure a black in congress.
Get predoiminately black slums in Broward, Palm Beach Martin and St. Lucie counties and attach them all by narrow little strips of land. Call it a congressional district and you’ve created a haven for a crook like Hastings.
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