Mezvinsky Pleads Guilty to 31 Federal Charges (Husband of Lying, Tax Raising Dem)

This is the husband of Marjorie Margolies Mezvinsky, who in 1993 cast the deciding vote to increase taxes, despite prior promises that she would not.

The price? A "town meeting" on entitlements in her district with Bill Clinton present

She lost the next race.

Haven't seen her since impeachment days on TV......

She wasn't around during impeachment. She served from 1992-1994.

After she cast the deciding vote, the Republicans all stood and waved, chanting "Bye, bye Marjorie."

Yes, I remember that.

I also have to apologize for my title. Everyone knows that saying "Lyinc, Tax Raising Dem" is redundant.

...a potpourri of schemes involving nonexistent African business deals,...

Is that where all of those emails about oil deals in Liberia are coming from?

If their lips are moving, they're lying.

Well, Ol'Geraldine (49 state looser) wasn't 'serving' during impeachment, but she sure nuff was on TV running her mouth.........Apologies if you thought I was equating 'service' and mouthing off on the tube.

I can see the writer followed the rules:

If Democrat, secret away the fact in the last line of the story, if at all.
If Republican, put in headline.

"The price? A "town meeting" on entitlements in her district with Bill Clinton present"

IT's worth considering the price that the Dems were willing to pay to get that tax increase. In that light, Bush's tax cut last year must have really got to them...

Ron Radosh, a former red-diaper baby and recovering
commie, wrote about Mezvinsky in his terrific book, "Commies"
published in 2001. Radosh says that Ed Mezvinsky was
a member of the Socialist Discussion Club (surprise!
Surprise!) in Iowa back in the 60's. He then went on
to become a Democrat, or maybe he just continued to
be a Democrat.

Marjorie Margolies Mezvinsky

Marjorie Margolies-Mezvinsky is the chair of Women's Campaign International (WCI), a group that provides political training for women throughout the world. In the last two years, Marjorie has traveled to Bosnia, Kazakhstan, China, Ireland, Turkey, Venezuela, and Romania. In 1995, she served as the Director of the United States delegation to the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, China. In 1998, Marjorie was the Democratic candidate for Lieutenant Governor of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

Marjorie is currently a senior lecturer at the Fels Center of Government at the University of Pennsylvania. She teaches: Empowering Women Leaders in Emerging Democracies, based on her work with WCI, Women in Legislatures, Looking Beyond: Immigrants, Immigration, and Philadelphia, and Media and Politics. She was a senior fellow at the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania as part of their Institute for Public Service. In addition to Empowering Women, she directed a summer course studying the Democratic and Republican Conventions of the 2000 presidential election. She is also a Princeton Woodrow Wilson Fellow, conducting lecturing lectures at colleges and universities throughout the country.

In 1992, Marjorie was the first woman ever elected to Congress from Pennsylvania in her own right. She was the first Democrat since 1916 elected from Pennsylvania's 13th district. During her term in the House, Marjorie served on the Committee on Energy and Commerce, with subcommittee assignments on Oversight and Investigations and Telecommunications and Finance. In addition, she was a member of the Committee on Small Business and the Committee on Government Operations.

Marjorie served as president of the Women's Campaign Fund and the Women's Campaign Research Fund from 1996-1998. The Women's Campaign Fund is the nation's oldest and largest nonpartisan political action committee supporting progressive women candidates running for all levels of public office. The Women's Campaign Research Fund is the non-profit 501 C(3) leadership training and political education arm of the Women's Campaign Fund.

A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and a CBS News Foundation Fellow at Columbia University, Marjorie began her career as a television journalist at WCAU-TV in Philadelphia. From 1971-1991, Marjorie was a journalist with NBC and its owned and operated stations in both New York and Washington, DC. She was contributing correspondent to the Today Show, Sunday Today, A Closer Look, CNBC, and Real Life with Jane Pauley. Marjorie's reporting has won five Emmy Awards as well as numerous other awards.

Following her award-winning series on the plight of Southeast Asian war orphans, Marjorie became the first unmarried U.S. citizen to adopt a foreign child. Lee Heh arrived from Korea in 1970 and was joined four years later by Holly from Vietnam. Marjorie chronicled their experiences in the 1976 best-seller, They Came to Stay, the first of four books she has authored. Her most recent book, written in 1993, is entitled A Woman's Place . . . The Freshmen Women Who Changed the Face of Congress.

In 1975, Marjorie married the Hon. Edward Mezvinsky (U.S. House 1972-1976 and former U.S. Ambassador to the UN Commission on Human Rights), who served on the House Judiciary Committee during the Watergate investigation. Between their combined family of 11 children and the refugee families they've been sponsoring since their marriage, their household has taken care of 25 children.

In 1992 she was persuaded to run for Congress herself, and became the only Democrat from that corner of the state ever elected to anything. Her career in Washington was short-lived, however. She cast the deciding vote that passed Bill Clinton's unpopular budget, and her constituents never forgave her. In recent times she's seen some personal troubles involving bad business decisions, personal bankruptcy, and criminal charges lodged against her husband for investment fraud.

Now she's on the lecture circuit, speaking on issues of women's empowerment and progress. She's at Lebanon Valley for a week, teaching and leading discussions.

Her appearance was sparsely attended. She asked for a show of hands of those who were required to be there, and half the audience responded. She talked about change, about "figuring it out" and following through to make things happen. She made some references to her brief time as a Congresswoman and her unhappy exit from that body. (I remember the photo of Bill Clinton hugging her after the vote. There were tears running down her cheeks. I would remember it sharply a few years later, when Bill Clinton finally lost my devotion.) She took questions at the end, but the audience was not really responsive to her and the session seemed to trail off without much conclusion.

She's written two books, one about her adoption process and one about her stint in Congress, but they're both out of print and not even remaindered copies were available at the back of the room.

BARFFFF-

Splllaat!

excuse me while I wipe off my monitor.

Both the Mezvinsky's nominated for petronski's The beackel Prize for giving FReepers the full Schadenfreud experience.

(Named for dim Dem Bob Beckel who tried to switch Nush electors to Gore in the 2000 presidential race. Beckel was blackmailed by a prostitute and lost his job and a consultancy after bring outed by the police for being a john.)

"a potpourri of schemes involving nonexistent African business deals, false statements to banks, and embezzlement ..."

Sounds like something a coke head would do.

Is this a possibility, considering that crowd out there?

"However, he has insisted that mental illness left him unable to appreciate right from wrong, and legally absolved him from blame."

Hell, that's no defense, it's a requirement for holding office as a democrat.

I remember this guy from the Nixon impeachment days. He was on the judiciary committee. He was clearly close to the dumbest guy there, and a suck actor. He tried to feign tears at how much it hurt him all so that he was going to vote to impeach, but he was unable to conceal his inner joy.

I was a student at Iowa when Ed Mez won his seat. He was a hard core lefty.

"However, he has insisted that mental illness left him unable to appreciate
right from wrong, and legally absolved him from blame."

Hell, that's no defense, it's a requirement for holding office as a democrat.

LOL. So true. If only the dim Dems could see themselves as others see them.