Posted on 06/13/2011 11:21:01 AM PDT by Hojczyk
The one thing we can’t say with certitude is that Anthony Weiner has been registering his vehicles with the DMV. The New York Daily News did a little investigating after seeing expired tags on his Nissan Pathfinder, and discovered that not only has the car not been registered, but the plates on them belong to a different car (via JWF):
When Weiner (D-Queens, Brooklyn) was photographed by the Daily News fleeing the Capitol in his Nissan Pathfinder, it was clear the July 2007 registration sticker in his window was expired, and there was no inspection sticker to be seen. Weiner, through a staffer, said the 1988 Nissan Pathfinder was registered in New York State.
Not so, said the state Department of Motor Vehicles.
The New York license plate bolted on Weiner’s Pathfinder - US Congress 9 – had expired as of 2006, according to the DMV.
“That license plate should not be on a car,” a DMV spokeswoman said. It wasn’t even issued to the Pathfinder, but to another one of Weiner’s cars, a Honda, according to vehicle records.
As abuses of power go, this one is decidedly tamer than the scandal surrounding Weiner the last couple of weeks. Still, as one investigator told the NYDN, swapping plates is something one would normally expect of a criminal, not a member of Congress. Or is that a redundancy?
This new peek into Weiner’s approach to responsibility may lend itself less to double entendres and hilarious jokes, but it may also be more revealing. Until now, Weiner earned $174,000 in annual salary as a Congressman. His wife earns almost the same amount working for Hillary Clinton, putting their combined household income at a figure exceeding $325,000 per year. Weiner has agitated for higher taxes and more government regulation, but has apparently evaded his responsibility to pay for fees owed the state of New York for the last four years — even switching plates to save himself a few hundred dollars.
If that’s less sexy than Weiner’s social-networking scandal (in all senses of the word), it speaks more directly to a ruling-clique sensibility and utter hypocrisy.
Sounds like Marion Barry. Hah!
Liberals love everything about taxes and regulations except paying them and following them.
“The Breitbart set me up!”
Is there such a thing as an honest pervert?
Laws are for the “little people”.
Does Anthony’s incapacity for following the rules know any limits? I bet his next job will be a ‘Takes thief’ ferreting out online perverts.
OK, I am stealing that line.
Nickle and diming it all the way on the public's tab..
Personally speaking, I think annual “registration” is nothing more than a scam. If I own a vehicle, why am I re-registering every year? If nothing has changed, I don’t see the need other than a state sucking more money out of its citizens.
This leads one to suspect that perhaps his income taxes might deserve a little scrutiny, given his scofflaw and self-centered pattern of behavior.
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I was thinking the exact same thing.
Can this be true ?
A socialist rat sob that doesn’t drive a ride from the unions big three ?
A foreign non union built Jap import !
Turn in yer democrat rat badge you you you Weiner you !
Yes there is. It's called Separation of Sex and state, a liberal mantra. BJ Clinton is the purest example. -sarc
His cheating on plates was not a surprise. The fact that he drives an ‘88 Pathfinder is the shocka.
See what happens when you ignore the Party Bosses when they “suggest” that you resign? All the apparatus of government starts working overtime to find out where you might have cut a corner.
You absolutely know that this story would not have seen the light of day if Anthony Weiner were still in the good graces of the NY Democrat Party.
Are we there yet?
Crimes of moral turpitude:
* crimes which involve either an intent to defraud or an intent to steal as an element;
* crimes which involve an element of intentional or reckless infliction of harm to persons or property;
* sex crimes, in which “lewd” intent is an element.
Additionally, felonies and some misdemeanors in which malice is an element are commonly held to be crimes of moral turpitude.
Serious offenses, such as murder, voluntary manslaughter, kidnapping, sexual assault, robbery, buglary, larceny, aggravated assault, prostitution, and even shoplifting have been held to involve moral turpitude.
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