State ethics board examining Martin O'Malley's purchase of mansion furniture

Baltimore Sun ^ | 8/29/15 | Doug Donovan

[W.]

Disgusting greedy bastards.

[kiryandil]

All he had to do was declare the junk status, and quietly pay most of the full initial price.

But, NO - he and his wife are just a couple of gruberment royals, used to committing fraud with the taxpayer dime like most of their fellows.

[MrEdd]

They should have just taken it and (if caught) claimed they thought it was meant for them personally.

Had they done so many Freepers would probably support them, since said Freepers did exactly that on a previous gubernatorial furniture incident.

[SamAdams76]

Here they are at the governor's mansion - surrounded by "worthless" furniture.

[kiryandil]

Who was that?

[MrEdd]

Huckabee.

[Genoa]

Wait — Is this the guy who is running for the Democrat presidential nomination?? And he’s being investigated? Hmmm.

[proxy_user]

Looking at the items and the prices, it seems to me that his underpayment was not that great.

Anyone familiar with the market for modern used furniture knows that it is very difficult to get any sort of decent price. The same thing is true of lesser antiques and vintage furniture. Anything that is at all big and heavy is a tough sell at auction.

[kiryandil]

Never been partial to the Arkansas Barrage Balloon, myself...

[PghBaldy]

...shortly after he criticized the DNC about it being a coronation of HIllary...

[Tupelo]

Nothing out of the ordinary here. O’Malley is a politician. Most politicians are corrupt. Besides, someone will find precedent involving a Republicrat and that will make it all hunky dory.

[rbg81]

...shortly after he criticized the DNC about it being a coronation of HIllary...

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Yup. Funny how they just ‘discovered’ this now, eh?

[MrEdd]

By their fruits year shall know them.

But the true believers desperately want him to be Dwight L. Moody or Billy Graham. Even when he is selling them Lindsay Graham they believe.

[FlingWingFlyer]

I smell Sir Hilary Rodham. Revenge of a woman scorned.

[bolobaby]

"Homer, I've got to sneak these valuable pieces of furniture out of the Governor's mansion, but I can't get out of my driveway because of these protesters!"

[Hildy]

Isn’t it interesting. How everyone except Biden is having issues.

[W.]

I want to know if the furniture was declared to be junk, why did they want it bad enough to steal it with an artificially engineered low price and cart it home? And kindly enlighten me as to the short story concerning the second sentence in your reply...

[HotHunt]

What is it with these democRATS? The Clintons take the silverware from the White House and the O'Malleys take the furniture from the governor's mansion. It's not like either one of them couldn't afford to buy their own stuff.

But if you think about it. Liberals are used to using taxpayers' money to spend. Why spend their own cash? Crooks, all of them.

[W.]

NM, I saw you named Huckabee. Did he pay for the stuff eventually? I remember Hillary tried to take everything from the white house that wasn’t nailed down, the thieving, low-class white trash whore.