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Originally Posted by Ustwo
Of course how could I miss the obvious connection. Its obviously a politically biased investigation, much like the one that destroyed the Republican party in Illinois. Oh wait....
There is your key word, otherwise you just end up on the police blotter, but the same goes for any crime with a public offical.
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Ustwo, how many times would I have to hold you down and rape you anally before you started trembling just from seeing my car turning into your driveway? You're a smart man, how come you feign no understanding of what I am talking about?
Ustwo, this statement turned out to be misleading enough to charecterize as a lie...why would they lie like that?
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http://www.algop.org/News/Read.aspx?ID=7168
Sunday, February 24, 2008
ALGOP Statement Regarding Jill Simpson's Accusations to Air on 60 Minutes
Statement by Alabama Republican Party Chairman Mike Hubbard on the Dana Jill Simpson Accusations Aired by CBS’ 60 Minutes
....“Our staff has done an exhaustive search of Alabama Republican Party records going back several years, and we can find not one instance of Dana Jill Simpson volunteering or working on behalf of the Alabama Republican Party – as stated by 60 Minutes reporter Scott Pelley. Nor can we find anyone within the Republican Party leadership in Alabama who has ever so much as heard of Dana Jill Simpson until she made her first wave of accusations last summer in an affidavit originally released only to the New York Times..
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http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/nation/5566317.html
Feb. 24, 2008, 8:22PM
Alabama GOP disputes ex-campaign worker's claims
By BEN EVANS
Associated Press
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WASHINGTON — A former Republican campaign volunteer in Alabama told CBS's 60 Minutes of what she viewed as a secret five-year campaign to ruin former Democratic Gov. Don Siegelman, a claim aired Sunday that was denounced as a fabrication by the state GOP.
....Alabama Republican Party officials said Simpson was fabricating her stories.
"We can find not one instance of (Simpson) volunteering or working on behalf of the Alabama Republican Party," state GOP chairman Mike Hubbard said in a written statement. "Nor can we find anyone within the Republican Party leadership in Alabama who has ever so much as heard of (Simpson) until she made her first wave of accusations."
Simpson's attorney, Priscilla Duncan, disputed that account and said Simpson could provide details of fundraisers and other activities she helped arrange....
....Siegelman's bribery conviction stemmed from his appointment of former HealthSouth CEO Richard Scrushy to an influential hospital regulatory board in exchange for Scrushy arranging contributions to Siegelman's campaign for a state lottery.
The Justice Department — as well as the career prosecutors who handled the case — have insisted that politics played no role in the case, emphasizing that Siegelman was convicted by a jury.
Congressional Democrats, however, have been looking into the case as part of a broader investigation into possible political meddling by the White House at the Justice Department.
Also, about 50 former attorneys general — most of them Democrats, but including some Republicans — have asked for a congressional investigation into the case.
"I haven't seen a case with this many red flags on it that pointed towards a real injustice being done," Grant Woods, a former Republican attorney general of Arizona, said on the 60 Minutes segment. "I personally believe that what happened here is that they targeted Don Siegelman because they could not beat him fair and square. This was a Republican state and he was the one Democrat they could never get rid of."....
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http://www.al.com/news/mobileregiste...950.xml&coll=3
Siegelman treatment standard?
Yes, say experts; but some surprised judge didn't allow voluntary surrender
Sunday, March 09, 2008
By BRIAN LYMAN
Capital Bureau
...Still, it was "stunning" to one well-regarded Washington lawyer that the situation involved a white-collar criminal. "I've only heard it happening on one other occasion," said Michele Roberts, who practices at Akin, Gump, Strauss Hauer & Feld.
The scene -- noted in a recent "60 Minutes" report -- has been invoked by Siegelman's supporters, who contend that his conviction on bribery and obstruction of justice charges was politically motivated.
The defendants were not allowed to say goodbye to their families, noted Siegelman defense attorney David McDonald last week.
"Governor Siegelman could have driven there (the prison in Louisiana) from his home and voluntarily surrendered," McDonald said. "Instead, he was jerked off right away and sent to maximum security prison in Atlanta, then carted all over the country."
Some other politicians caught up in criminal prosecutions have received voluntary surrender dates. Former U.S. Rep. Bob Ney, R-Ohio, who pleaded guilty in October 2006 to corruption charges, was sentenced to 30 months on Jan. 19, 2007, and reported to prison March 1, 2007.
"Unless the court is convinced there was a real risk of flight, it sounds more like a situation where the court wanted to start the punishment," William Lawler, one of Ney's attorneys, said of the Siegelman/Scrushy case....
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How many opposition politicians does the Bush DOJ have to single out for "special treatment" before questioning everything they tell us becomes acceptable to you, Ustwo......one governor....two.....three?
Last edited by host; 03-10-2008 at 06:15 PM..
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