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| February 15, 2007
| John Hood
Posted on 02/15/2007 8:33:34 AM PST by george76
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Culture of Corruption...?
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posted on
02/15/2007 8:33:36 AM PST
by
george76
To: Howlin; Alia; Peach
Former House Speaker Jim Black will soon be a felon. Hell serve time. Hell give up the southern Mecklenburg House seat he defended by the skin of his teeth back in November. His political career will be remembered primarily for squalid scandal.
His aides and allies paid a steep price for participating in a corrupt political machine. His downfall coincided with the passage of new state legislation intended to require more disclosure and brighten ethical lines in the practice of lobbying and lawmaking in the state capital.
http://www.carolinajournal.com/exclusives/display_exclusive.html?id=3895
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posted on
02/15/2007 8:35:15 AM PST
by
george76
(Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
To: traviskicks; Constitution Day
First, the Jim Black affair demonstrates the temptation to conclude that the ends justify the means. Many, many politicians of all stripes truly believe their policy goals are so important that they must play the game, by which they mean break the law or transgress ethical boundaries in order to serve a greater good.
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posted on
02/15/2007 8:36:43 AM PST
by
george76
(Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
To: george76
But this is nowhere near as innnnnnteresting as Scalias daughters DUI
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posted on
02/15/2007 8:38:06 AM PST
by
digger48
To: TaxRelief
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posted on
02/15/2007 8:40:48 AM PST
by
george76
(Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
To: pissant
Democratic leaders, who avoided criticizing Black during the state and federal investigations, expressed little or no regret over not calling for his resignation earlier.
the investigation has led to the conviction of five of Black's associates, including a former lawmaker who said he took a $50,000 bribe to switch parties and support Black.
http://www.charlotte.com/mld/charlotte/news/politics/16702173.htm
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posted on
02/15/2007 8:46:57 AM PST
by
george76
(Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
To: george76
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posted on
02/15/2007 8:47:10 AM PST
by
Howlin
(Honk if you like Fred Thompson!!!)
To: george76
What is pathetic is that this has been coming for years. Everyone has known that Black was going down, yet he never stepped down before this, and no one in the Democratic party was demanding he step down. When Republicans get caught, they either step down voluntarily, or are forced out by their party. Democrats stay in power until they are either convicted or plead guilty.
To: AaronInCarolina
Two sets of rules.
One for us and a completely different set for liberals.
We mess up once and we are gone.
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posted on
02/15/2007 8:51:25 AM PST
by
george76
(Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
To: george76
Informative article by John Hood. Thanks for posting. Democrat Crime Syndicate Member MO BUMP!
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posted on
02/15/2007 8:53:18 AM PST
by
PGalt
To: Howlin
Todays plea bargain appears to involve other charges...
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posted on
02/15/2007 9:02:05 AM PST
by
george76
(Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
To: PGalt
Thank you.
There should more soon ?
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posted on
02/15/2007 9:02:48 AM PST
by
george76
(Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
To: george76; TaxRelief; Alia; 100%FEDUP; 2ndMostConservativeBrdMember; ~Vor~; A2J; a4drvr; Adder; ...
Good article re: the Jim Black scandals from National Review Online's The Corner.
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posted on
02/15/2007 10:44:19 AM PST
by
Constitution Day
(Off with their heads, jump from the hook, you're not obliged to swallow anything you despise)
To: Constitution Day; Alia
Black Pleads Guilty to Corruption Charge
Posted: 6 minutes ago
Raleigh Former House Speaker Jim Black pleaded guilty Thursday to a federal corruption charge, ending months of teetering on the brink as a growing list of associates who were convicted of various offenses.
http://www.wral.com/news/local/politics/story/1203494/
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posted on
02/15/2007 10:59:59 AM PST
by
Howlin
(Honk if you like Fred Thompson!!!)
To: Howlin
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posted on
02/15/2007 11:01:35 AM PST
by
Constitution Day
(Off with their heads, jump from the hook, you're not obliged to swallow anything you despise)
To: Howlin
Now we can wait for any state corruption charges ?
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posted on
02/15/2007 11:10:09 AM PST
by
george76
(Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
To: george76
According to Black and his allies, the last couple of years of high-profile investigations were merely the result of a conspiracy involving Republican prosecutors, the John Locke Foundation and other conservative groups, and their complaint handmaids in the news media.What a crock of bull!! Democracy South was the main group that initially blew the whistle on Black and they are non-partisan. One of my childhood friends works for them and he is a liberal.
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posted on
02/15/2007 11:26:33 AM PST
by
lwd
To: Constitution Day
And other state lawmakers may yet be caught in the dragnet.I haven't heard the other "annointed" NC politician in this state mentioned in the news media lately. Any chance Basnight could get caught up in any of the house cleaning going on?
I'd like to think this would change the stranglehold the RATS have on politics in this state but I tend to be a pretty pessimistic person. It sure did take a while for Black's crimes to catch up to him but I'm just heartened to see that they finally did eventually.
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posted on
02/15/2007 11:27:56 AM PST
by
mykdsmom
(Some people are like Slinkies..useless, yet still make you smile as you push them down the stairs)
To: lwd
Correction: I said "Democracy South", it's actually "Democracy NC"
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posted on
02/15/2007 11:32:57 AM PST
by
lwd
To: george76
took them until the 4th paragraph to identify him as a democrap
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posted on
02/15/2007 11:41:13 AM PST
by
Mr. K
(Some days even my lucky rocketship underpants don't help)
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