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To: SmithL
Newton also admitted ... diverting $40,000 in campaign contributions for personal use over five years.

Wow, $8,000 dollars a year? That is $22.00 a day, chump change. Kind of sounds like they were piling the charges on him just a tad. Every politician uses such funds for personal reasons.

Oh well, kick em when they are down, I guess.

12 posted on 09/20/2005 4:42:52 PM PDT by Michael.SF. ('That was the gift the president gave us, the gift of happiness, of being together,' Cindy Sheehan")
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To: Michael.SF.
"Wow, $8,000 dollars a year? That is $22.00 a day, chump change. Kind of sounds like they were piling the charges on him just a tad. Every politician uses such funds for personal reasons.

Oh well, kick em when they are down, I guess.

And you know this how? If you have proof, please expose it. You can bring every corrupt politician down, and be a hero.

Or maybe you are just defending this guy for some reason...

Who is "they" as in "they were just piling the charges on"?
I've never been able to put a name to the mysterious "they" organization.

14 posted on 09/20/2005 5:20:29 PM PDT by Nathan Zachary
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To: Michael.SF.
Wow, $8,000 dollars a year? That is $22.00 a day, Why don''t you count by the second --- the nuber will be even smaller, as if can prove the point.

It appears that you view immorality and illegality of something depending on the damage done. Neither is correct: only the restituion depends on that.

Kind of sounds like they were piling the charges on him just a tad.

Somone steals $40,000 and only because it sound like "chump change" to you --- apparently wealthy person, since an average American family makes $45,000/year --- you think that THEY are piling charges?

Where does your simpathy compe from? Certainly not from prinicple. What comes to mind is for how long has he been doing the stealing, all the whhile chapmpioning the cause of the "people" against corportations and "blacks" against "whites?" (the last one seems to be suggested by the list of his awards)

Every politician uses such funds for personal reasons.

Firsty, it's not true: it's only your image of them (they are all liars, robbers, etc. aren't they?). Again and even if it were true, didn't your mother tell you that something does not become right only because other people do that?

I am really astonished. It's not that I disagree with your conclusions --- your thinking does not appear to involve morality. Oh well, kick em when they are down, I guess.

16 posted on 09/20/2005 6:04:47 PM PDT by ExitPurgamentum
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To: Michael.SF.

The last sentence in my last post was accidentally retained from yours. Please disregard it.


17 posted on 09/20/2005 6:05:44 PM PDT by ExitPurgamentum
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