Bill's Party Does What You Gotta Do - Democrats still have Clinton's election ethics ~ Bob Bartley

The Wall Street Journal. / Opinion Journal ^ | October 21, 2002 | Robert L. Bartley

[Elle Bee]

"You gotta do what you gotta do," a victorious Bill Clinton told Bob Dole when he complained about the demagogic Medicare ads that helped defeat him. By now this seems to have become the mantra of Mr. Clinton's party.

To put the current midterm election in perspective, consider how the Democrats won their one-vote Senate majority. After losing the House and the White House, they won the Senate by persuading Vermont's Jim Jeffords to abandon the party in which he'd just been elected. For voting with the other side in organizing the Senate, he was rewarded with a committee chairmanship and an eventual expansion of his beloved Northeast dairy subsidy, a piece of pork notorious even in cynical Washington.

[Elle Bee]

Dead Men Voting - Voter Fraud Wanders Off the Reservation ~ John Fund

Trouble in Paradise - Elections in Hawaii may not be a luau for Democrats ~ John Fund

OLD news to FReepers

....Nuck,Nuck, Nuck

MoeJo White-Wash

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Passing on the Torch - Sen. Torricelli escapes prosecution ~ WSJ.

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Big Labor's Enron ~ WSJ. How some union insiders made a dubious killing in the telecom bubble.

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Global Crossing: Labor's Questionable Windfall

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Federal Officials Probe Stock Offer To Union Chiefs by Global Crossing ~ WSJ.

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Ex-Governor to Look Into Union Stock Deal [AFL-CIO / Global Crossing]

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A Link To Global Crossing, Terry McAuliffe and AFL-CIO

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Boilerplate Whitewater ~right down tothe straw-man father-in -law
By September it was revealed that Terry had underwritten the Clinton Mortgage in NY ~ the case seems to have died

ELECTRICAL WORKERS (IBEW)
DOL Sues Union Fund Tied to Clinton-Crony McAuliffe
The U.S. Dep't of Labor filed suit May 5 against two trustees of the $8.3 billion Nat. Electrical Benefit Fund charging improper dealings between the fund and top Clinton-fundraiser Terence R. McAuliffe. According to DOL, NEBF trustee John Grau and ex-trustee Jack F. Moore imprudently lent over $6 million in pension assets. NEBF is operated jointly by the Int'l Bhd. of Electrical Workers, from which Moore retired as secretary in 1997, and the Nat. Electrical Contractors Ass'n, of which Grau is a vice president.

The scam involved a $6 million loan in 1992 to Columbia Land & Development Corp. of Orlando to buy a subdivision called Country Run which was to be developed into 545 lots. McAuliffe and his wife, Dorothy S. McAuliffe, own Columbia. The loan was in default from Dec. 1992 to Oct. 1997. DOL says NEBF should have known the loan couldn't be repaid in full with interest. The suit seeks the trustees to reimburse the fund for losses, including interest.

The McAuliffes also own Am. Capitol Management, a partner with NEBF in a separate investment called Am. Capitol Group I Assets LP, which guaranteed payment of the Columbia loan.  In a separate 1991 investment, NEBF paid $38.7 million to buy five apartment complexes and a shopping center near St. Petersburg. The partnership bought the properties from the Resolution Trust Corp., which had taken control of them from a bank in receivership that had been owned by McAuliffe's father-in-law.

DOL alleges NEBF imprudently purchased a $2.45 million interests in ACGIA, a move that reduced the value of the ACM guarantee on the Columbia loan. McAuliffe's holdings in ACM had been collateral for the loan. The suit further alleges trustees made one of the purchases in the ACM partnership even though the Columbia loan was in default. The pension fund then reportedly sold its share of the partnership and the Columbia loan to ACM at a loss. [Pensions & Investments 5/17/99]

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Judge Allows DOL's Terry McAuliffe Suit to Proceed ~ another Helps DNC/AFL-CIO Suppress FEC Documents

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Mary Jo White's Tenure in the Southern District of New York ~ Capital Research Center

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[governsleastgovernsbest]

"What you got to do" standards and "meaning of is is" localisms persist because voters tolerate them. Perhaps it's time for voters in places like New Jersey, South Dakota and Missouri to call a halt.

I wouldn't hold my breath.

[Elle Bee]

I agree

I've little confidence in the voting public and they rarely let me down

Passing on the Torch - Sen. Torricelli escapes prosecution ~ WSJ.

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[Ann Archy]

Fat chance for Democrats to change their LYING spots! Fat Chance....they HATE America and want to see it DESTROYED.

[uncbob]

Discuss the corrupt democrats and their tactics till doomsday but the fact remains they couldn't get away with this BS without a left wing media carrying their water and covering for them .

A Free Press is supposed to be a bullwark against a corrupt government
In the USA the media ABETS the criminal enterprise known as the democrat party

Talk Radio and the Internet are the only exceptions and they don't reach enough of the boob American voters that mainly get brain fried by TV

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

Sen. Torricelli escapes prosecution

The best analogy I can think of to Torricelli is Spiro Agnew.

Agnew was prosecuted, pled "nolo contendre", and resigned. Torricelli was not prosecuted, was renominated by his party, and still sits in the U.S. Senate.

And I have a friend who was incensed at the idea of Torricelli being down in the polls, never mind having the Democrats out of the money in a Senate race in October.

To vote Democrat in NJ in the year 2002 would be disgraceful behavior.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

To vote Democrat in NJ in the year 2002 would be disgraceful behavior.

But what journalist would point out that obvious fact?

[lepton]

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[RJCogburn]

good post bump.