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House: Filner demonstrated "poor judgment" in airport incident
AP via SFGate ^ | 12/19/7

Posted on 12/19/2007 4:17:03 PM PST by SmithL

SAN DIEGO, (AP) -- The House Ethics Committee said Wednesday that it dropped its investigation of U.S. Rep. Bob Filner for his altercation with a baggage employee at Dulles International Airport.

Members of its investigative subcommittee unanimously agreed Filner's behavior demonstrated "poor judgment" that reflected badly on the House of Representatives, but they also felt the case was adequately handled in court, according to a committee statement.

The California Democrat entered a no-contest plea Nov. 26 in Loudoun County, Va., General District Court to misdemeanor trespassing charges after prosecutors dropped assault and battery counts. He was fined $100 and ordered to send a letter of apology

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TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 110th; airportdisruption; cultureofcorruption; democratscandals; doyouknowwhoiam; filner; rat; tsa
Nancy's ethics, huh?
1 posted on 12/19/2007 4:17:04 PM PST by SmithL
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To: Names Ash Housewares
About that apology: Airline Employee Calls Filner Apology "Pathetic"
2 posted on 12/19/2007 4:18:34 PM PST by SmithL (Merry Christmas and Happy Holy Days to you!)
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To: SmithL

I suspect if you or I had done this we’d still be incarcerated.


3 posted on 12/19/2007 4:19:26 PM PST by upchuck (And her experience is................................. where? What? When?)
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To: SmithL

Isn’t “don’t you know who I am” a code word for FU I am better then you?


4 posted on 12/19/2007 4:20:05 PM PST by rocksblues (Just enforce the law!)
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To: SmithL

You see why I call it the “Two-Party Cartel”.


5 posted on 12/19/2007 4:21:08 PM PST by Digger (If RINO is your selection, then failure is your election)
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To: upchuck
"I suspect if you or I had done this we’d still be incarcerated."

And forbidden on release to ever use any form of public transportation again... (the "Do Not Travel" list)

6 posted on 12/19/2007 4:22:56 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Turning the general election into a second Democrat primary is not a winning strategy.)
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To: SmithL
Filner barged past other customers, screamed at employees and repeatedly pushed her. He yelled "You can't stop me," according to her complaint.

...do da words "don't taze me bro" strike a familiar note?

7 posted on 12/19/2007 4:24:46 PM PST by Doogle (USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: SmithL

“Poor judgement” is having a house “ethics” committee. Come on... most of those guys and girls would be felons if they had to undergo the same legal scrutiny that we intelligent folks do. House Ethics Committee - the primo example of an oxymoron.


8 posted on 12/19/2007 4:37:30 PM PST by Da Coyote
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To: Da Coyote
House Ethics Committee - the primo example of an oxymoron.

I can top it; the United Nations Human Rights Council.

9 posted on 12/19/2007 5:50:25 PM PST by weegee (If Bill Clinton can sit in on Hillary's Cabinet Meetings then GWBush should ask to get to sit in too)
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To: Da Coyote

Bring back Foley to Congress. It is the least they can do.


10 posted on 12/19/2007 5:54:38 PM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper (Madmax, the Grinning Reaper)
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To: SmithL

Example # 118765481 of the laws that apply to you and me, not applying to congresscritters.


11 posted on 12/19/2007 7:49:49 PM PST by zeugma (Hillary! - America's Ex-Wife!)
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To: SmithL

Watch the puke get re-elected next time too.


12 posted on 12/19/2007 8:57:20 PM PST by Names Ash Housewares
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To: SmithL

“house: filner exercised poor judgement in airport incident.”

should read: there’s nothing to see here. move on. members of the revolution are beyond reproach.
(the donkey rules.)


13 posted on 12/20/2007 4:35:52 AM PST by ripley
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To: SmithL

Laws and manners are only for Republicans.


14 posted on 12/20/2007 4:37:00 AM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion: The Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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