Posted on 04/06/2021 9:26:17 AM PDT by cotton1706
“Hastings made the world a better place by the leaving of it.”
Good one.
That Alcee Hastings was even elected to the House says a lot about the low-lives in the Florida district who elected him. Hastings was impeached (by a Demonicrat-controlled House), convicted by the Senate, and removed as a U.S. District judge for corruption.
A+++++
yup.
Well said.
He was convicted. The House and Senate didn’t declare him ineligible for office. They have to do that. It’s not automatic.
As someone (Mark Twain?) put it ...
“You should only say good things about the dead. ‘So-and-so’ is dead. Good”.
I’ll say this. I hate cancer.
One less Florida Corruptocrat....
Hmm...bribery, perjury, corruption, abuse of office, at least he died doing something he loved.
He’s dead. It’s a start. He epitomized the dem ethos: public “service” is a means to personal riches, nothing more. He rode the corruption train - even after impeachment as a fed judge - into office and reaped the financial benefits all the way to death. I suspect he was just as useless to his district while dying of cancer - and concealing it from the public so the gravy train wouldn’t halt - as before. Val demings eulogized him, saying he served his constituents blah blah blah. He’ll be replaced by a dem cookie-cutter pasha.
His impeachment was in the Florida legislature iirc
I could have missed something but two of these vacant districts are solid GOP (or did I miss a special election?)
Two are solid DemoKKKrat. Are the remaining two truly open?
Another reason why not caving on the Miller Meeks seat was so important.
America’s deep state and permanent Federal bureaucracy remind me more and more of the Soviets in the 1980s
You climb the greasy pole of statist, glad-handing bureaucratic politics, you establish your patronage networks and form protective political cliques, you steal and skim what you can - and you only leave when you die.
That’s Alcee Hastings. Joe Biden is America’s Konstantin Chernenko.
Dying In Office After A Long Political Career =The Ongoing Need For Term Limits
To bad rubbish!
Excellent.
Impeached by the House, and removed by the Senate. It’s odd that 67 Senators voted to convict (and remove) him, but 51 couldn’t (or wouldn’t) vote to disqualify him from holding office in the future.
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