Discussion for article #224183
âEx-Va. State Senator Whose Resignation Prompted Investigation Lawyers Upâ
Whats wrong Tommy ? Someone gave you a âHEADS UPâ ? LOL!!!
Corruption so obvious cannot go unpunished. There WAS a quid pro quo on the table at the time of the resignation. He accepted a bribe with a promise of a monetary payoff, plain and simple, IMO.
âFrom looking at it in a preliminary fashion, I donât see a crime,â Bondurant told the newspaper. âWeâll continue to do our investigation and respond to whatever we need to at the appropriate time.â
Right. Because people are going to believe your report just as much as they believed Christieâs lawyersâ report on Bridgegate.
Judge Haller: Once again, the communication process is broken
down. It appears to me that you want to skip the arraignment process, go
directly to trial, skip that, and get a dismissal. Well, Iâm not about
to revamp the entire judicial process just because you find yourself in
the unique position of defending clients who say they didnât do it. The
next words out of your mouth better be âguiltyâ or ânot guilty.â I donât
want to hear commentary, argument, or opinion. If I hear anything other
than âguiltyâ or ânot guiltyâ, youâll be in contempt. I donât even want
to hear you clear your throat. Now, (enunciating) how do your clients plead?
whats the ole sayin lay down with republicon dogs and ya wind up with a fleas and a jail cellâŚyeah sounds about right
Maybe he can have his daughter hear his case.
There is no crime because SCOTUS said soâŚlegal quid pro quoâŚcorruption is here to stayâŚ
I still have yet to hear how indeed his seat gets filled for the remainder of his term? Special election? Gubernatorial appointment? Wait until November? Please, someone tell me.
I believe itâs a special election. The problem is that his seat is in a reddish-purple district, without an incumbent it will be a real dogfight.
If itâs not a crime, it ought to be.
His lawyer âdoesnât see a crime.â That should settle it.
Thanks. McCauliffe better get someone good going there.
I think what he meant was at the moment he was interviewed, he could not literally see any crimes. His desk, monitor, phone, some pens and papers, thatâs what he was seeing. No crimes.
A public representative behaving in this way to help the opposite party in exchange of some âbenefitsâ surely amounts to âbribeâ. Even if he is âtechnicallyâ found to have not done anything âwrongâ, this action of Puckett shall be written in history as betraying the peoplesâ cause. And I am sure, ultimately he will loose everything. He has already lost his elected position, lost his chance to be a commissioner and now the possibility of his daughterâs judgeship, I am sure, is in the tank. Betrayers never ever gain anything.
How can his daughter now accept, or even be considered for, a judgeship?Her integrity, if she ever had any, is forever tainted. She should be disbarred. For her to actively, knowingly, and willingly, participate in this entirely pathetic and selfish douchebagery demonstrates that she is not fit to judge others. The apple certainly did not fall far from the tree. Way to screw FOUR HUNDRED THOUSAND people out of health care. FOUR HUNDRED THOUSAND for a job. We need more female judges, but not this way.
I just donât see this going anywhere. unless they find written, incontrovertible evidence (and I doubt they will), this investigation will go nowhere.
Unfortunately, since Puckett was first elected, itâs become not just reddish-purple but deep red. It went for McCain 59-41 and Romney 67-33. I wouldnât be surprised if Puckett figured he wasnât going to be reelected, this round or next, and figured he might as well get something out of losing his office. There was a depressing article in the Washington Post yesterday about how many people in the district desperately need the Medicaid expansion, and are forcefully against it. Iâm hoping the Dems can get a good campaigner to run, but itâs going to be a hell of an uphill climb to get these people to vote in their own interests.
Thanks for that link. Those people are stone-cold idiots. Itâs like theyâre campaigning for a Darwin Award. I still think Puckett deserves all the outrage thrown his way for such blatant corruption, but that by no means needs to be rooted in sympathy for his moranic constituents, who apparently will probably fill the vacancy with some Teabilly.
They GOTP paid nowâŚ
Itâs acceptableâŚ