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Daily Kos Gleefully Boasted About Being Bribed by Mark Warner
NewsBusters ^ | October 11, 2014 | P.J. Gladnick

Posted on 10/11/2014 9:14:31 AM PDT by PJ-Comix

Whenever your humble correspondent dips a strawberry into the chocolate fountain at the Golden Corral, one thought always comes to mind: Mark Warner bribery. Why? Because back in 2006 when Warner was governor of Virginia he attempted to influence the Daily Kos convention in Las Vegas, then known as the YearlyKos, into favoring his possible bid for the presidency with a lavish party at the Stratosphere. As we shall see, the Kossacks absolutely loved the idea that they were being bribed as they feasted on the sushi, drank down alcoholic concoctions, and dipped into the chocolate fountain.

Therefore it is not surprising that there are now new allegations of bribery being made against Mark Warner. This time it involves the charge that he attempted to bribe a Virginia state senator not to leave his post by making job offers for his daughter. You can read the details in this Washington Post article and in this local Richmond NBC video. After reviewing the latest bribery charges we shall take a trip back in time to 2006 to party down with the Kossacks at the Stratosphere in Las Vegas to enjoy the goodies provided by Mark Warner.

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TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: Nevada; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: bribery; dailykos; edgillespie; lasvegas; markwarner; nevada; stratosphere; virginia; yearlykos
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It's true! I always think of Mark Warner bribery whenever I dip a strawberry into the chocolate fountain at the Golden Corral. Nowadays chocolate fountains are at many buffets but back in 2006 they were fairly rare. First I ever hear of them was when reading about Mark Warner's bribery party at the Stratosphere.
1 posted on 10/11/2014 9:14:31 AM PDT by PJ-Comix
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To: PJ-Comix

Never in a million years would I ever dip a strawberry (or anything else) into one of those chocolate fountains!

It doesn’t clean the chocolate as it cycles it and who knows what was on the fingers that get into the stream. Did you know 30% of all people don’t use soap when washing their hands are using the restroom and 10% don’t do so at all?

*yech*

Now that may be an ever better mental association with mark warner...


2 posted on 10/11/2014 9:25:59 AM PDT by freedumb2003 (Zimmerman, Brown, Fast & Furious, IRS harassment, Philly ignorance: holdering in 1st degree)
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To: PJ-Comix
Can any Virgina Freepers comment on the possibilities of Warner not being re-elected due to this bribery scandal. I'm well aware that GOP candidates view the seven deadly sins as something to be avoided, at least until they are safely elected.

But the Democrats view them as more of a punch list.

3 posted on 10/11/2014 9:26:31 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: PJ-Comix

Can someone bribe me? I feel left out


4 posted on 10/11/2014 9:28:28 AM PDT by woofie
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To: freedumb2003

You don’t hold the strawberries in your hand while dipping. You put them on the end of a wood stick first. However, I might think twice before dipping at the Liberian Golden Corral.


5 posted on 10/11/2014 9:30:00 AM PDT by PJ-Comix (Kim Jong Un last seen on a buffet line)
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To: freedumb2003

I am glad to know at least one person besides me avoids those fountains.


6 posted on 10/11/2014 9:31:19 AM PDT by wally_bert (There are no winners in a game of losers. I'm Tommy Joyce, welcome to the Oriental Lounge.)
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To: wally_bert

I saw a guy dump his scrambled eggs back into the eggs at a breakfast buffet, saying, “Ahma git me uh omlet”.

This cowgirl doesn’t do buffets.


7 posted on 10/11/2014 9:33:20 AM PDT by Cowgirl of Justice
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To: PJ-Comix

>>You don’t hold the strawberries in your hand while dipping. <<

You are supposed to but at every single function I have been at with one I see people hand-dipping. And who knows about re-dips even if on a skewer.

No thanks and you might want to think about passing as well in the future...


8 posted on 10/11/2014 9:35:44 AM PDT by freedumb2003 (Zimmerman, Brown, Fast & Furious, IRS harassment, Philly ignorance: holdering in 1st degree)
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To: PJ-Comix
chocolate fountains are at many buffets

In todays world, I wouldn't go near a buffet.

Many of my best, high end breakfasts were at buffets for high rollers in many casinos, but with the trash {drug dealers, hookers, pimps etal} that now passes for high rollers, you couldn't pay me to eat at those buffets.

It will never come back, but many memories were at casinos where jackets {and in some places, ties, (still are at the fine casinos in Monte-Carlo) were required to get in}.

Dress codes change, and for now, pig-pennish is in vogue, with asses and boobs hanging out, unshaven men being seen as cool and manly, fake big ass cheeks on wymen, and trannys being the best dressed women??? on the planet.

I'm glad to have lived in the era that I have, and am sorry that so many young folks will never get to experience what I can only describe as "the good life".

9 posted on 10/11/2014 9:36:20 AM PDT by USS Alaska (Exterminate the terrorist savages, everywhere.)
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To: USS Alaska

Flying used to be a pleasant experience but now seems more like an airborne bus.


10 posted on 10/11/2014 9:43:32 AM PDT by PJ-Comix (Kim Jong Un last seen on a buffet line)
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To: PJ-Comix

“Dip once, and end it!”


11 posted on 10/11/2014 9:51:35 AM PDT by Argus
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To: PJ-Comix

Amen to that. I really used to love flying years ago. Not now.


12 posted on 10/11/2014 9:56:34 AM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear
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To: PJ-Comix

I wonder why the mass media would start reporting corruption on a Democrat? They don’t really care about corruption, unless it involves a Republican. Never have.

Their only concern has always been the promotion of socialism through Democrat victories.

Something else is going on.


13 posted on 10/11/2014 10:01:03 AM PDT by stinkerpot65 (Global warming is a Marxist lie.)
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To: PJ-Comix

You’re correct, but back it the “good old days” it was bloody expensive also. The “right crowd and no crowding” as they used to say.


14 posted on 10/11/2014 10:01:32 AM PDT by nascarnation (Toxic Baraq Syndrome: hopefully infecting a Dem candidate near you)
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To: Vigilanteman

That’s the same reason why I don’t eat ate salad bars and Buffets. I attended a WMD class one and the speaker explained how a cult in Oregon poisoned the local salad bar to make people so sick they couldn’t vote and their appointed canditates would win. It kind of killed the appeal of those things.


15 posted on 10/11/2014 10:08:49 AM PDT by Yorlik803 ( Church/Caboose in 2016)
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To: Cowgirl of Justice

I try my best to avoid them.

One reason is my weight and the other is mainly a lot of the types I see more and more that would have a lot in common with your fellow diner.

I dread the mandatory mostly annual visit to the carbon copy state fair since the spouse loves to go. It is the same every year. Goes double for the food. I try not to touch any.


16 posted on 10/11/2014 10:15:03 AM PDT by wally_bert (There are no winners in a game of losers. I'm Tommy Joyce, welcome to the Oriental Lounge.)
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Can any Virgina Freepers comment on the possibilities of Warner not being re-elected due to this bribery scandal.

He is worshiped by the leftists in this state and will win. He could get caught shooting newborn babies and would get elected.

Virginia is being ruled by the commies in Fairfax County, Prince William County, and the areas around Richmond and Newport News. The rest of the state is very conservative but the scum from DC and Maryland moved here years ago after trashing the place where they lived, just like a plague of locusts.

17 posted on 10/11/2014 10:17:42 AM PDT by OldMissileer
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Ed Gillespie

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18 posted on 10/11/2014 10:23:54 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: USS Alaska
I recently brought up a memory of my childhood on MLB.com, the 1968 St. Louis Cardinals v. Detroit Tigers World Series.

In the stands there was no shortage of men in white shirts, ties and hats. Many ladies wore long gloves.

Society enforced a certain level of dress and decorum back then.

19 posted on 10/11/2014 1:36:18 PM PDT by Jacquerie (Democracy - The opiate of the ignorant.)
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To: freedumb2003; PJ-Comix
Kind of off-topic, but the sickest I've ever been was on a road trip after eating at our first Golden Corral....we'd seen their nice commercials and happened to be next to one when we stopped in St. George, Utah.

I started barfing with the added pleasure of explosive pudding all that night.

Ditto, Idaho Falls the next night.

Ditto, Cody Wyoming the next night.

Get-well day finally came in Wall, South Dakota.

No mas, Golden Corral...

20 posted on 10/11/2014 1:46:20 PM PDT by ErnBatavia (It ain't a "hashtag"....it's a damn pound sign, number sign, or octothorpe. ###)
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