As Bush's Term Ends, Some Big Names Seek Pardons

The WaPo ^ | Carrie Johnson | Nov 24, 2008

[RDTF]

With a backlog of applications piled up at the Justice Department, high-profile criminals and their well-connected lawyers increasingly are appealing directly to President Bush for special consideration on pardons and clemency, according to people involved in the process.

Among those seeking presidential action are former junk-bond salesman Michael Milken, who hired former solicitor general Theodore B. Olson, one of the nation's most prominent GOP lawyers, to plead his case for a pardon on 1980s-era securities fraud charges. Two politicians convicted of public corruption, former congressman Randy "Duke" Cunningham (R-Calif.) and four-term Louisiana governor Edwin W. Edwards (D), are asking Bush to shorten their prison terms.

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[weegee]

Louisiana's governor race is an open primary called the jungle primary. Translation: regardless of party, candidates are listed on one ballot and voters are not limited in their choices. Unless one candidate takes more than 50% of the vote in the first round, a run-off election is held between the top two candidates.

Democrats voted for David Duke who was listed as a Republican. Keep on trollin, Truman.

[trumandogz]

Democrats voted for David Duke who was listed as a Republican. Keep on trollin, Truman.

Not "trollin" weegee but simply pointing out that when you were incorrect when you wrote:

"The only reason this two-term crook got re-elected AFTER being convicted (and then he "crooked" some more) was because a significant number of Democrats voted for David Duke in the GOP primary in Louisiana."

You see weegee, there was not such thing as a GOP Primary when Edwin Edwards the Democrat beat David Duke the Republican in a runoff for Louisiana governor.

Moreover, in the 1991 Open Primary and runnoff there is no evidence whatsoever that Democrats voted in significant numbers for David Duke. Instead, exit poll data show that 55% of Whites in the State of Louisiana voted for David Duke in that runoff.

As for me, I voted for the Crook, Edwin Edwards as opposed to the Klansman, David Duke.

So, weegee, who would have you voted for, David Duke or Edwin Edwards?