Hillary Appoints Impeached Judge As Campaign Chair
Impeachment - The Tie That Binds
By California Yankee Posted in 2008 — Comments (17) / Email this page » / Leave a comment »
Hillary appointed impeached federal judge, Florida Congressman Alcee Hastings, as a co-chair of her presidential campaign.
Hillary's decision to make Hastings co-chair speaks volumes about the ethics we can expect from a second Clinton presidency.
In 1981, then Judge Hastings was charged with accepting a $150,000 bribe in exchange for a lenient sentence and a return of seized assets for 21 counts of racketeering by Frank and Thomas Romano, and of perjury in his testimony about the case. He was acquitted by a jury after his alleged co-conspirator, William Borders, refused to testify in court (resulting in a jail sentence for Borders).
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In 1988, the Democratic-controlled U.S. House of Representatives considered the case, and impeached Hastings for bribery and perjury by a vote of 413-3. Hastings was then convicted in 1989 by the United States Senate, becoming only the sixth federal judge in the history of the United States to be removed from office by the Senate.
Alleged Hastings co-conspirator, William Borders, went to jail again for refusing to testify in the impeachment proceedings, but was later given a full pardon by Bill Clinton on his last day in office.
One would think that all the noise made about the "culture of corruption" would make a presidential wannabee think twice about making someone so ethically challenged head of a national presidential campaign.
Even Nancy Pelosi decided his disgraceful misconduct disqualified Hastings from being head of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. But Hillary fails to see the "culture of corruption" problem. Perhaps this is because the Clintons share a common bond with Hastings - impeachment. Why would Hillary want to focus attention on impeachment?
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I know they do because on some level they all think alike and who better then someone as sneaky as you to be handling your campaign. The lies and deceit should be pretty mindblowing and give us plenty to talk about for the next 18 months.
...Hillarys' candidacy. I hope it does. But the reality of this will be glossed over by the MSM so that few hear of it.
By this appointment, Hillary has inserted the knife that we should twist until her "campaign" is no more!
”The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing”…Edmund Burke
Maybe gets Hillary on the record about this ?
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"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it."
-Thomas Paine: The American Crisis, No. 4, 1777
You and I both know that any Republican who dares bring this up would be tarred and feathered as a member of the Ku Klux Klan by the media.
George W. Bush: He's A Folder ... Not A Fighter.
Was any reporter that had the temerity to ask the questions would be branded a kook. Like the guy from cyber news network who asked the whitehouse reasonable questions.
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"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it."
-Thomas Paine: The American Crisis, No. 4, 1777
To every shady character everywhere that she will allow serious graft.
It's intentional. She will run it like Bill ran it. Take cash from the chinese in exchange for national-security and industrial espionage interests.
To find out who thinks this is a good idea, watch who supports her. At least we will know who they are.
and an impeached husband. Nice bookends for the Soprano family campaign.
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"Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm." -- James Madison
I linked it over at the Stop Her Now Blog
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Kevin Holtsberry
www.kevinholtsberry.com
Criminals tend to associate with each other.
I HATE Vista!
and every village contains a crook or two.
Maybe she will bring back some of the old Arkansas crowd, Susan McDermott as Secretary of the Interior, etc.
She's a gangster in her heart, and a lot worse.
"a man's admiration for absolute government is proportinate to the contempt he feels for those around him". Tocqueville
have no core moral values. This is just another confirmation.
Envisioning when all that is Left is the Right.
Because at the end of the day the only people concerned about this will be us.
Now a Fred Thompson/Hillary debate, that gets the blood pumping.
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
--Aristotle
Pay no attention to that impeached Judge and the impeached President behind the curtain!