Oh yes, the impeached federal judge who never should have been allowed to run for office.
Isn’t he the Florida judge that was impeached and then won a seat in Congress ? Kind of like Marion Barry .
“The 2014 payment to settle the case involving Hastings was not apparently included in a breakdown of payouts to settle discrimination complaints against House lawmakers from the past five years released last month by the Office of Compliance, which approves the payouts. That total included only one payment to resolve a sexual harassment claim — $84,000 paid to settle a complaint against Texas Rep. Blake Farenthold.”
ahem
The reputation of that former jailbird was certainly worth $220 K of taxpayers’ money. He should be in jail now.
Broward county trash....
A 2011 article on the charges:
https://www.ihatethemedia.com/alcee-hastings-has-been-a-very-bad-boy
“At the time, Hastings was the chairman of the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe,...”
How on earth does an ignorant ape (excuse me, foreign policy “expert”) like “Alcee” Hastings get appointed to chairman of the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe ?
Who would appoint a baboon like Hastings to anything... hey, wait a minute
Democrats gone wild? Looks we have another case of “Honey, Gibs me dat fine booty” here.
All payouts should come from their pension funds.
All payouts should come from their pension funds.
Kinda makes you wonder how American EVER self-governed back when all of our CongressCritters were PART TIME and had other meaningful employment of their own!
(Our first Congress in 1789? 50-cents per diem if they had to travel. No salary.)
Maybe we should try that again?
I hate them all. Seriously. OK, 99.99% of them!
ML/NJ
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Really?