Gov. Ernie Fletcher (R-KY) indicted.
By on May 11th, 2006 at 6:15 pm
Gov. Ernie Fletcher (R-KY) indicted.
A special grand jury investigating Kentucky state government hiring practices “indicted Gov. Ernie Fletcher on three misdemeanors for conspiracy, official misconduct and political discrimination.” Fourteen other indictments are currently under seal, likely covering alleged crimes committed by Fletcher’s staff that occurred before Fletcher “pardoned all administration officials except himself.”
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Not surprising. Another republican committing another crime.
May 11th, 2006 at 6:42 pmFinally Kentucky has made the big the BIG time like Ohio…Florida….and Washington DC, can we sent Ernie back to DC to be rolled into the mess there, that is where he was before he came here and brought the culture of corruption with him……..
May 11th, 2006 at 6:43 pmLordy, lordy, look at the “R” next to that boy’s name.
May 11th, 2006 at 6:43 pmOh Lord, please help me control my schadenfreude!
May 11th, 2006 at 7:35 pmThey should all go to hell – literally and figuratively.
May 11th, 2006 at 7:47 pmDoes anyone have a complete and current list of convicted, indicted, and under investigation republicans since 2000?
This would be interesting to see… it would make a great October commercial… maybe a 60 sec spot?
May 11th, 2006 at 7:55 pmIt’s open season on Republicans. Every Tom, Dick, & Harry prosecutor in the country who wants to make a name for himself as a democrat knows how to do it. Indict a Republican! If Democrats think people don’t see right through these bogus indictments they are fools. It’s a crime what democrat prosecutors are doing these days and it’s going to backfire on the democrats at the polls this November. Keep those bogus indictments coming boys!
May 11th, 2006 at 8:17 pmDavid,
Why do you think it’s open season on Republicans?
Answer: They’ve been destroying our country!
t-mac
May 11th, 2006 at 8:30 pmDavid if they had done nothing wrong Ernie zfletcher would have not PARDONED 15 people before all were even indited……think about it and then go away
May 11th, 2006 at 8:36 pmI see DAVID is a Corruption Apologist.
Hey DAVID, DUMBASS, Not a single person here paid a damn dime to any Democrat Lawyer, what the hell your talking sounds like a looney bin rantings of a Conspiracy theorist, I suppose next you will say its a VAST LEFTIST CONSPIRACY.
Of course it’s not, corruption is corruption.
BTW DUMASS DAVID, Remember when NEWT made a Name for himself, “Cleaning House” or some such tripe?
Yeh, Let me refill your memory hole;
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Delay had strong ties to Speaker Newt Gingrich.” In 1995 the Times noted how the relationship between Abramoff and the Speaker was fueling the K Street Project: “Jack Abramoff, a lobbyist here who is close to Mr. Gingrich, said House Republicans were watching very closely to see whether lobbyists were making more than a token effort to help Republicans stay in power.” That same year National Journal noted that Abramoff was climbing to prominence as the key middleman between corporate interests and Gingrich: “The GOP victories in 1994 transformed [Abramoff] into a valuable asset as law firms recruited activists with connections to the new Gingrich team.” By 1998 Washingtonian magazine noted that “few lobbyists in Washington are closer to House power brokers Newt Gingrich and Tom DeLay than Abramoff.”
But incredibly, reporters now ignore all of this, as it conflicts with the story line of Gingrich-as-clean-money-reformer–even while Gingrich himself is employed as a corporate shill. He is the head of the Center for Health Transformation–an organization, the Times recently noted, financed mostly by corporations that “pay yearly fees of up to $200,000″ for Gingrich’s legislative expertise in pushing corporate America’s profit-at-all-cost healthcare agenda.
The truth is, Gingrich’s posturing as an anticorruption “reformer” is as credible as Senator John McCain’s calling himself a campaign finance reformer right after being implicated in the Keating Five scandal, and right before using corporate jets to fly all over the country for his presidential campaign. Or, in pop culture terms, it’s as believable as Tony Soprano telling the police he’s outraged that hit men are carrying out his orders. Only it’s worse because the authorities–in this case the media–are swallowing the argument whole.
Wake up Coma Boy David
May 11th, 2006 at 8:54 pm#6 GW
May 11th, 2006 at 8:57 pmDo you think all their names could fit into 60 seconds?
SInce I know the GOP Corruption Apologists do not read;
I have compressed this;
“The GOP victories in 1994 transformed [Abramoff] into a valuable asset as law firms recruited activists with connections to the new Gingrich team.†By 1998 Washingtonian magazine noted that “few lobbyists in Washington are closer to House power brokers Newt Gingrich and Tom DeLay than Abramoff.â€
Thats Right Dave, LAW FIRMS. so huh, what do make of that? Corrupt Lawyers.
Would you like some cheese with your wine David?
May 11th, 2006 at 8:58 pm#11 – I can talk really, really fast! I volunteer to do the voiceover! Where’s the script?
May 11th, 2006 at 9:56 pmANOTHER ONE BITES THE DUST!!
May 12th, 2006 at 12:10 am#6 GW and #11 Marie #13 SKdeA,
Here’s a link of the requested list… I am sure is growing at rapid rate as i type. I would LOVE to hear this one!! You may need more than a 60 seconds spot though. If SKdeA could pull that off that would be pretty amazing!
http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/gopscorecard.htm
May 12th, 2006 at 2:28 amOh… and the following link is for all the Republicans and their Christians values… with in depth accounts of their molesting, raping and killing children.
http://www.dkosopedia.com/wiki/Moral_Values
May 12th, 2006 at 2:46 amJust keep ‘em coming! We’ll keep track for everyone come November. Tick…tick…BOOM!
May 12th, 2006 at 8:41 amIf there’s an R in paranthesis next to their name, they are criminals.
One more corrupt Reich Wing freak down, when are we going to get the ones in the white house?
May 12th, 2006 at 9:07 am#18 It appears that we are moving up the food chain. As soon as Chimpy and Chumpy are out of business, er, office, we will then be able to backtrack and see what they have done. They can’t hide forever.
May 12th, 2006 at 9:45 amClear the sperm banks…
…there’s a criminal conservative gene on the loose…
May 12th, 2006 at 10:25 amlkjdsfldsf
June 19th, 2006 at 10:57 am