Posted on 10/13/2009 3:48:23 PM PDT by Fawn
PALM BEACH COUNTY, FL---Our news partners at the Sun Sentinel report:
U.S. Rep. Robert Wexler, who represents Broward and Palm Beach counties, plans to resign from Congress.
He plans to announce his plans at a news conference Wednesday at 10 a.m. in Boca Raton.
A Democratic source with knowledge of Wexler's plans said he is likely to take a public policy job that deals with the Middle East.
Wexler, a senior member of the House Foreign Relations Committee, has long been involved in issues involving Israel and Turkey.
Insanity
I bet he’s been a bad congressman and is leaving before indictments or investigations hit the fan. He can’t be leaving untarnished.
Big time slime! OS he;s going ot the mid east...how about a cushy assignment with his pals the genociders the Turks.
Surrender Czar.
More like Surrender Sultan.
I believe that although he represents Florida he actually resides in Maryland. He "official" FL residence is a rented condo.
In other words he is taking a job at a liberal think tank working to sell out the Jewish voters that kept him in office for so long.
caight with a live boy or dead girl?
Like My MaMa said...” don’t let the door hit you in the ass...
100%. No other explanation for leaving the absolute money making Gold Mine of a corrupt congress.
Somebody came up with dirt.
Good. Wexler was the kind of scumbag who made you change the channel when he came on.
* Greg Simon, former chief domestic policy advisor to Vice President Gore and president of Simon Strategies, a strategic planning and public affairs consulting firm.
DEMOCRATS.COM - THE GORE CAMPAIGN CONNECTION: http://community.democrats.com/members/simon/ - notes that Simon was an"informal" adviser to the Gore campaign. But elsewhere Simon's role is suggested to be a little more than simply an informal advisor...
"With a full recount in Miami-Dade, said Gore senior adviser Greg Simon, "we would easily have a net gain to win the election." - Washington Post http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60380-2000Nov26.html
"The decision was certainly right for some of Gore's biggest benefactors, which quickly cashed in on what turned out to be a $75 million bonanza. Wall Street firms such as Morgan Stanley, Dean Witter & Company; Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc.; and Goldman Sachs & Co., Gore’s No. 3 career patron, collectively raked in at least $42 million in underwriting fees. Well-connected law firms, among them Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom and Patton, Boggs, earned nearly $11 million for their part in taking the company private. USEC retained J.P. Morgan & Company, Inc., as its adviser in the deal; J.P. Morgan, in turn, hired Greg Simon, Gore's domestic policy adviser, for a fee of $10,000 a month to help it select the new, privatized company's directors. " Simon was more than just an informal campaign advisor - he was an insider in the middle of the decision to retract the concession! Yet at the same time he was associated with an "independent" website that was promoting litigation in Florida AND collecting donations to do so during the election aftermath. Note again that Lytel registered www.trustthepeople.com on 11/8 before it was known that the recount battle would go on for months.
~ freeper GOPactivist
Dick Gebhardt doesn’t live in Missouri either, so it must be OK for Dems to poorly represent states they don’t live in.
A texas firm that within hours, maybe a few days was bought by an Indian company along with all its records.
...After the fund-raising scandal broke in late 1996, the Democratic Party returned $3 million in questionable or improper contributions, much of it from money donated or solicited by Mr. Huang or Mr. Trie.
Kent Cooper, a former election commission official who is now at PoliticalMoneyLine.com, which tracks money in politics, said some fines disclosed today appear surprisingly low. The election commission, he said, limited the fines assessed to some people based on their claims that they could not afford to pay more. "Some people will look at this and say the F.E.C. should have fined them more," Mr. Cooper said.
He noted, for example, that the election commission waived fines against a company called Global Resource Management based on the assertions by the company's president about its "present financial circumstances," the documents show.
The election commission found that the company, which was formed in Ohio in 1996 to resolve a "construction-related contractual matter" in Saudi Arabia, decided to make a $100,000 contribution to a national committee fund-raiser in New York on Aug. 18, 1996. The event was also billed as a 50th birthday celebration for Mr. Clinton. The company's officers made the contribution in order to meet with Ray Mabus, the former Mississippi governor and ambassador to Saudi Arabia, who helped plan the event, the election commission found.
But the money used to make the contribution was provided by Sheik Mohammed Oboud Al-Amoudi, a Saudi citizen, who wired $150,000 to the company. The company used this money for the donation "even though its officers had been informed that foreign national contributions are illegal," the election commission found.
----- Democrats Are Fined $243,000 for Fund-Raising Violations (People's Republic of China and Clinton) nytimes ^ | 9/21/2002 | RICHARD A. OPPEL Jr.
It’s really disgusting that people like this are running our country. How can the people in south Florida be so stupid? (And I used to live there)
doesn’t or didn’t? he isn’t a representative anymore.
Advice to all Democrats and Liberal Reps ... Follow the Leader; follow Wexler !
Don’t wait ... GO NOW!!!
Apparently graft and corruption pays more on the outside once you’ve made your connections.
Weird move by Wexler.
An acquaintance of mine who’s an insider in the Palm Beach County GOP tells me that it had been rumored for awhile that he would resign because he needed a better-paying job. It came as a shock to me, though.
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