[Parsons] is also a cattle farmer and was moving his animals when he got the call Tuesday that Greitens was resigning.
This job does require someone familiar with - - manure.
What drove his wife to make that public statement? Stand by your man blah, blah. Maybe you have good reasons to do so in private, but to put it out there for public consumption. I don’t get why this still happens. An honor to serve? Honey, your husband was just ridden out on rail – one step ahead of an impeachment --for his politically nefarious activities and having an affair, chock full of humiliating details! Blink twice if you need rescue.
His legacy!
“Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens on Friday signed into law a measure that makes it a crime to try to blackmail a person using a private sexual image — the same allegation that led to his downfall.”
Projection: The GOP’s organizing principle.
The new definition of chutzpah.
The old one being: “that quality enshrined in a man who, having killed his mother and father, throws himself on the mercy of the court because he is an orphan.”
Hubris much?
He just signed this law to get back at somebody!
Wouldn’t it be nice if you or I committed a felony, that we could just quit our job and get away with it?
Because that’s exactly what Greitens just did.
So what do the lawyers think about the argument that an investigatory committee’s jurisdiction ceases as soon as the subject of the investigation resigns their office? Certainly congressional committees can – cough – Benghazi – pursue people long past their departure from office. If this one was convened specifically for the purpose of deciding whether or not to impeach? But does someone have to be in office to be impeached, since in the federal case, at least, the punishment includes barring them from subsequent officeholding?
Because if that list still has to be turned over, goodness gracious.
So Mr. Navy Seal, BA Duke Ethics, Philosophy, and Public Policy, Rhodes Scholar, Truman Scholar, Oxford MPhil and DPhil.
Greitens is a former Senior Fellow at the Harry S. Truman School of Public Affairs at the University of Missouri.[18] He has taught public service at the Truman School of Public Affairs and was an adjunct professor of business ethics in the MBA program at the Olin School of Business at Washington University in St. Louis.[19][20][21]
Should of checked out Hubris while studying at all those fancy pants schools.
His resignation is part of a deal with a St. Louis prosecutor to drop a felony charge alleging misuse of a charity donor list to raise money for his 2016 gubernatorial campaign. His voluntary departure also avoids the potentially dubious distinction of becoming the first Missouri governor to be impeached by the House.
Am I the only one who thinks this is a strikingly bad use of prosecutorial discretion? Either the guy committed a crime or he didn’t. Dropping the charge in exchange for resignation is completely inappropriate, political interference by a prosecutor. I’m unhappy he’s leaving because I was enjoying the havoc he was wreaking, but seriously, WTF is this?
It’s like rain on your wedding day
It’s a free ride when you’ve already paid
It’s the good advice that you just didn’t take
Who would’ve thought, it figures
Are any of those schools rethinking their curriculums, considering how such a star student and faculty member turned out?
Oh?
Did we really need to pay a “representative” to make a law stating this specific set of human maneuvers is illegal, while other variations have yet to be determined?
The leadership of the conservative movement is at base immoral.
Though he’s leaving, Greitens isn’t entirely clear of legal problems.
The Missouri Ethics Commission continues to investigate a complaint that Greitens’ campaign filed false documents about the charity donor list. The FBI also has received information about Greitens from the chairman of a House investigatory panel and a private attorney representing the ex-husband of the woman with whom he had an affair.
“If impeached, the statute says that judgment of impeachment shall not extend beyond removal from office, but will also not prevent punishment on the charges.”
So it appears in Missouri, being impeached does not preclude the individual from seeking office again.
In that case, even more important that all of these investigations continue.
From the impeachment perspective, it makes zero sense to continue. He has already removed himself from office, there is nothing else the Legislature can do.
That’s not to be confused with investigating criminal aspects, if that is what the committee is also doing…though I do tend to think that Legislatures are less than ideal forums for investigating crimes.