A federal judge on Monday sentenced former U.S. Rep. Corrine Brown to five years in prison on fraud and other charges related to a purported charity for poor students that she used as a personal slush fund.
Black woman goes to jail, white man goes to the Senate.
SNAFU. The new “Model” Policy for American Government.
America has 336 days to pull it’s head out and start fixing the problem
She never had a chance. I live in Atlantic Beach ( a part of Jax ) and I can say comfortably: she never had a chance. She was a legislator of little accomplishment, divisive as hell with a long history of rebukes for fraud, forgery and accepting bribes. That all caught up with her. She did what she was found guilty of. It wasn’t a first time. When it became obvious that she did she lost support all over Duval County. She was replaced by a candidate that made no bones about her unfitness for office. The Democrats are better off without her.
Don’t forget the Presidency.
45 did the same thing too.
I am not going to pile on, but Corrine Brown is one reason why the Florida Democratic Party is in such a mess. Brown is one of the Democratic legislators who, in cahoots with Republicans, actively tried to thwart a public referendum to make legislative apportionment less susceptible to gerrymandering. When Brown’s district was held to have been illegally gerrymandered, she sued to keep its original boundaries. Once upon a time I can believe that she sought office for a higher purpose, but after a while she started to view it as a personal right. No doubt that attitude factored into why she thought she could get away with running such an obvious sham charity.
Well, at least Allan West is gone.