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Posted on 10/23/2006 4:31:33 AM PDT by Hadean
NEW HAVEN, Conn. -- A cousin of President Bush is involved in a crash that takes the life of a Connecticut police officer.
Police officer Dan Picaglee died Saturday night, four days after being struck by an SUV.
The driver who struck that officer is a cousin of former President Bush, and he is also a federal judge.
Reports indicate a DUI test was not given to this man after the accident.
Officer Picaglee was with that police department for 17 years.
1) An evil SUV involved.
2) A Bush doing something 'bad'.
3) A police officer ('pig' in lefty parlance) killed.
Tragic.
RIP Officer Pigalee.
Strange that the article doesn't give the driver's name & identifies him only as a cousin of Bush41. He's a federal judge & they can't tell us who he is?
City officials identified the driver of the SUV that hit Picagli as John M. Walker Jr., a senior judge on the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York, who lives in Connecticut and maintains court chambers in New Haven.
Because they only want you to remember that a "Bush" killed somebody.
Indeed, the details are extraordinarily thin. Gotta get their spin going in the proper direction and then follow up with correcting details on page A-34 amidst the ads.
Sounds like a tragic accident that will be used for political gain.
RIP Officer.
From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_M._Walker,_Jr.
"He is the son of Dr. John Mercer Walker, Sr. and Elsie Louise Mead. His uncle is George Herbert Walker, Jr., cofounder of the New York Mets. He is the cousin of U.S. President George H.W. Bush, with a common grandfather, George Herbert Walker, and a once-removed first cousin of U.S. President George W. Bush."
The press went pretty light on him looks like to me. If they were looking for a stink {after da Bush's} they could have mentioned who appointed him to the bench.
My family was eating breakfast saturday morning and CNN was on the tv. (No one could find the clicker and no one was willing to get up and change the channel) In a span of 15 minutes ,The anchor repeated this story at least 10 times always making sure the "Bush" word was known. My 13 year old son finally had enough and got to change the station. Even he could see that all they wanted to do was use Bush in a negative way. When we found the remote I deleted tha station.
The Globe mentions his appointment:
http://www.boston.com/news/local/connecticut/articles/2006/10/22/new_haven_police_mourn_officers_death_after_being_struck_by_suv/
The driver of the SUV that hit Picagli is John M. Walker Jr., a senior judge on the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York, who lives in Connecticut and maintains court chambers in New Haven. He was leaving work when the accident occurred, police said.
Walker, a 1962 Yale graduate, was appointed to the federal bench by President Reagan in 1985. He was appointed to the 2nd Circuit in 1989 by his cousin, former President George H.W. Bush.
It's interesting how they put this in the story to leave the reader with the impression that the Judge was drunk and received some favoritism from the police. When in all likelihood he was coherent and obviously sober, which is why the police did not test him.
Six degrees to Bush?
To know he was a cousin, this author knew his name. There was no reason to not mention it in the article other than to try to make a tie, no matter how tenuous, to current President Bush. Since the current president is the one the leftist press wants to hurt, it would probably make more sense to them to just mention "Bush" instead of trying to make an indirect tie through his father, former President Bush.
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Chief Judge John M. Walker, Jr.
Judge Walker was born in New York City in 1940. He graduated in 1962 from Yale University and the University of Michigan Law School in 1966.
Following law school, he served as State Counsel to the Republic of Botswana. He then became an associate with the firm of Davis, Polk & Wardwell in New York. In 1970, he was appointed as an Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York. Five years later, he returned to private practice, first as an associate and then as a partner with the firm of Carter, Ledyard & Milburn. In 1981, he was appointed to serve as Assistant Secretary of the United States Treasury Department in Washington, D.C. There, he was responsible for Treasury policy in law enforcement, regulatory, and trade matters with oversight over the United States Customs Service; Secret Service; Federal Law Enforcement Training Center; Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms; and the Office of Foreign Assets Control.
In 1985, he was appointed as a United States District Judge for the Southern District of New York by President Ronald Reagan. From 1987 to 1992, he also served as Special Counsel to the United States Administrative Conference.
In 1989, President George H. W. Bush appointed him to the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. He became Chief Judge on October 1, 2000.
In his two decades on the bench, Judge Walker has authored decisions on many important legal and constitutional issues, including the liability of corporate directors for paying a “green mail” premium to stave off an attempted takeover; the First Amendment rights of Americans working overseas; the extent to which computer programs are protected by copyright; the availability to corporate employees of the Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination; the tension between the United States Sentencing Guidelines penalizing defendants who refuse to cooperate and their Fifth Amendment privilege; and whether the Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel is violated when a defendant’s lawyer has a conflict of interest.
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