I fail to understand how elected officials can believe that they will successfully get away with this behavior.
Amen Brutha!!!
Scandals involving leaders of the Democrat Party
William Jefferson Clinton- Impeached by the House of Representatives
over allegations of perjury and obstruction of justice, but acquitted
by the Senate. Scandals include Whitewater - Travelgate Gennifer Flowersgate
- Filegate - Vince Fostergate - Whitewater Billing Recordsgate - Paula
Jonesgate- Lincoln Bedroomgate - Donations from Convicted Drug and Weapons
Dealersgate - Lippogate - Chinagate - The Lewinsky Affair - Perjury and
Jobs for Lewinskygate - Kathleen Willeygate - Web Hubbell Prison Phone
Callgate - Selling Military Technology to the Chinesegate - Jaunita Broaddrick
Gate - Lootergate - Pardongate
Edward Moore Kennedy - Democrat - U. S. Senator from Massachusetts.
Pleaded guilty to leaving the scene of an accident, after his car plunged
off a bridge on Chappaquiddick Island killing passenger Mary Jo Kopechne.
Barney Frank - Democrat - U.S. Representative from Massachusetts
from 1981 to present. Admitted to having paid Stephen L. Gobie, a male
prostitute, for sex and subsequently hiring Gobie as his personal assistant.
Gobie used the congressman's Washington apartment for prostitution. A
move to expel Frank from the House of Representatives failed and a motion
to censure him failed.
DNC - The Federal Election Commission imposed $719,000 in fines against participants in
the 1996 Democratic Party fundraising scandals involving contributions
from China, Korea and other foreign sources. The Federal Election Commission
said it decided to drop cases against contributors of more than $3 million
in illegal DNC contributions because the respondents left the country
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Sandy Berger - Democrat - National Security Advisor during the
Clinton Administration. Berger fined $50,000 for illegally removing highly
classified documents and handwritten notes from the National Archives
during preparations for the Sept. 11 commission hearings.
Robert Torricelli - Democrat - Withdrew from the 2002 Senate race
with less than 30 days before the election because of controversy over
personal gifts he took from a major campaign donor and questions about
campaign donations from 1996.
James McGreevey - Democrat - New Jersey Governor . Admitted to
having a gay affair. Resigned after allegations of sexual harassment,
rumors of being blackmailed on top of fundraising investigations and indictments.
Jesse Jackson - Democrat - Democratic candidate for President.
Admitted to having an extramarital affair and fathering a illegitimate
child.
Gary Condit - Democrat - US Democratic Congressman from California.
Condit had an affair with an intern. Condit, covered up the affair and
lied to police after she went missing. No charges were ever filed against
Condit. Her remains were discovered in a Washington DC park..
Eliot Spitzer- Democrat - New York governor - resigned from office
after being tied to a prostitution ring.
Melvin Jay Reynolds - Democrat U.S. Representative from Illinois
from 1993 to 1995. Convicted on sexual misconduct and obstruction of justice
charges and sentenced to five years in prison.
Don Siegelman - Democrat Governor Alabama - indicted in a bid-rigging
scheme involving a maternity-care program. The charges accused Siegelman
and his former chief of staff of helping Tuscaloosa physician Phillip
Bobo rig bids. Siegelman was accused of moving $550,000 from the state
education budget to the State Fire College in Tuscaloosa so Bobo could
use the money to pay off a competitor for a state contract for maternity
care.
John Murtha, Jr. - Democrat - U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania.
Implicated in the Abscam sting, in which FBI agents impersonating Arab
businessmen offered bribes to political figures; Murtha was cited as an
unindicted co-conspirator.