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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: Nathan Zachary
Oh come on. Get real.

And you know this how? -- I am guessing you are referring to the personal use of donations by politicians for personal reasons. This is such a complex area that very few are ever prosecuted for this. It is simply to difficult to prove. Lunches, clothes, phone bills at hotels all during a political campaign. Who really itemizes a phone bill to separate a call home from a call to a donor? It is nitpicking to do so. That is just one quick example of the cross over between political funds and the personal use of them. We are talking about $140.00 a week, that is chump change.

If you have proof, please expose it. See above.

You can bring every corrupt politician down, and be a hero. Whistle blowers are rarely heroes.

Or maybe you are just defending this guy for some reason... -- What? Next your going to say I am a DU'er? They had the guy on bribery. Fine, he is a crook. But the rest of the charges were just added on by the prosecutors to make themselves look good.

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. -- I would think a person as intelligent as you are would understand that in the US Justice system charges in a criminal case are filed by the District Attorney, Prosecutor or the Justice Department's attorney's. I should not have to add all that to a simple post, when "they" is clearly understood by most people.

15 posted on 09/20/2005 5:40:23 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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