Posted on 10/14/2014 11:31:16 AM PDT by AT7Saluki
The former mayor of North Carolina's largest city was sentenced Tuesday to nearly four years in prison in a federal corruption case that spanned the time he was a councilman to when he took over in the executive office.
Patrick Cannon had resigned in the midst of the case that stunned Charlotte residents who had once elected him as their youngest councilman.
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I actually thought that this was a Republican, since Demonicrats rarely pay the price for corruption.
Maybe he'll end up as Ray Nagin's cellmate.
Never trust anyone who goes into elected office as their first job. They are looking to be corrupt.
The Charlotte Observer’s ‘coverage,’ such as it is, has been of the ‘he was a good guy to me, he must have gone off the rails’ variety.
Rather than focus on Cannon who is still very much alive and very much guilty, they run stories on those who interacted with him as if he were deceased and memories are all that remain. Invariably, the memories are edited to include as many positives as negatives. This is cognitive dissonance on a grand scale, not least because they viewed him as the Barack Obama of Charlotte and a possible successor on the national stage. It was no accident that the DNC chose Charlotte for the convention and of course he was a key player.
This unintentionally hilarious headline may summarize their coverage:
‘Strip-club owner Slim Baucom on Patrick Cannon: ‘He was a good friend’
The judge couldn’t help himself. ‘You’re a good man, a very good man.’
Oh really? Then why are you about sentence this ‘good man’ to a prison sentence?
Political corruption stories that do not identify the villain as a Republican in the first sentence signify that the crook was a Democrat.
That, and NC has a pretty good state Attorney General named Roy Cooper. He's had a knack for shining flashlights into inconvenient places. Lots of D's, and a few R's, have been scuttling around looking for cover of late.
Rumor is that the AG is running for Governor in 2016. I'm not too happy about having to make a choice....Pat McCory (R) has done a good job, but I like Cooper (D).
NC seems extraordinarily corrupt. When I lived there it was amazing how often the news would report a govt official was under investigation/being charged/being convicted/going to jail/getting out of jail only to recycle. I think the people of that state like their corruption and corrupt officials a bit too much. I found it over taxed and not very livable.
And yet even with this corruption, the polls all show Democrats still winning the Senate seat.
If this guy was a Repub, the democrats would wrap this guy around the neck of the senate candidate and would win by ten points.
Are Republicans in NC afraid of calling out corrupt politicians? Take this guy (but don’t show his picture, God fobid) and few others Democrat liars, make an ad about the “Culture of the Democrat party” and its landslide city.
Is the RNC really this out of touch?
Roy Cooper was the DA who failed top prosecute the Duke lacrosse case stripper who made the false report that led to felony charges against innocent students. He let her go even though it was the second time she had made false charges. Once freed, she went on to murder a man and was convicted.
In a word, "Yes".
Thom Tillis, who, based on his record is probably a pretty decent Senate candidate, has run an atrocious campaign. He's in real jeopardy of losing to Kay Hagan, whose campaign consisted of showing up, and bleating "Tillis bad!" over and over again.
Tillis rarely showed up, and was barely on the radar until a few weeks ago when he decided to wade into the fight.
It's an ugly year in NC elections, this year.
“Roy Cooper was the DA who failed top prosecute the Duke lacrosse case stripper who made the false report that led to felony charges against innocent students. “
I thought that it was Mike Nifong! Did I miss something back then?
Excuse me?! Roy Cooper, who is shatting on the State Marriage Amendment and pushing for marriage redefinition? Sorry, he needs to be booted to the curb.
Another fake Democrat “rising star.”
Seems like a lot of Democrat rising star rise to the level of the prison doors!!!
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