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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Sheldon Silver had 2 extramarital affairs, documents say
[NEWSDAY] Former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver had extramarital relationships with two women, one who lobbied him for clients with state business and the other whom he helped get a state job, prosecutors alleged in documents released Friday in federal court.

The lobbyist lobbied Silver "on a regular basis," the government claimed in a motion filed before Silver’s trial last year, and the other woman was recommended for a job "over which he exercised a particularly high level of control."

The names of the two women were redacted, but prosecutors said they had a recording of a conversation between Silver and the female lobbyist in which they discussed "both State and private business" and spoke "quietly and in whispers" about how to hide their relationship from news hounds.
Posted by: Fred || 04/16/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  who lobbied him for clients with state business

Tools of the trade. Simply tools of the trade. Let's move along shall we ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/16/2016 2:32 Comments || Top||

#2  Wouldn't it be more effective to take cash and hire pros?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/16/2016 6:24 Comments || Top||

#3  They forgot to put the 'D' after his name.

Funny that.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 04/16/2016 7:21 Comments || Top||

#4  So for the wimmin it was just part of the cost of doing business...
Posted by: Steve White || 04/16/2016 10:03 Comments || Top||

#5  Yup -- another opportunity to play "Name That Party!"
Posted by: Steve White || 04/16/2016 10:04 Comments || Top||

#6  "Spread sheets"
Posted by: Frank G || 04/16/2016 12:01 Comments || Top||

#7  Wouldn't it be more effective to take cash and hire pros?

Like setting up a foundation which could divvy out donations, then client could travel to a private island for services?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 04/16/2016 13:29 Comments || Top||

#8  I thought the 'D' after their names was assumed?
Posted by: Raj || 04/16/2016 18:00 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Republican leaders consider rewriting convention rules
[POLITICO] The new rules would throw more power to the individual delegates and away from a powerful convention chair.
Posted by: Fred || 04/16/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Excellent news! Any chance you could add term limits as well? I suppose not eh ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/16/2016 2:30 Comments || Top||

#2  "Cruze is one of us. We can rely on him." sorta thing?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/16/2016 4:13 Comments || Top||

#3  They rewrite the rules at each convention anyway.

So do the Dems.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 04/16/2016 7:19 Comments || Top||

#4  The only rule that counts is the one on the counting in November. If your process isn't focused on that one, you're spinning your wheels.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 04/16/2016 8:18 Comments || Top||

#5  So first they weren't going to change the rules, then they were, then they might, then they certainly weren't, now they are?

I can't imagine they want to change alot and get complaints about "stealing", but maybe one of the candidates forgot a requirement?
Posted by: Charles || 04/16/2016 9:23 Comments || Top||

#6  ..apparently, a lot of the (now formerly) registered party voters 'forgot' about the requirement too.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 04/16/2016 9:47 Comments || Top||

#7  There is no longer two parties. Both have now become one group that can be refered to as the "Political Class".
Posted by: Unelet Protector of the Sith2424 || 04/16/2016 15:04 Comments || Top||

#8  Rule 40b. Eliminate that and let the shenanigans begin. Its the only way the GOP rules-makers can nominate someone other than Cruz or Trump.
Posted by: Jatle Speaking for Boskone1015 || 04/16/2016 18:07 Comments || Top||


Soviet Immigrants to Sanders Supporters: "Have You Ever Lived Under a Revolution?’
[FRONTPAGEMAG] When I studied Russian I had several instructors who had escaped the 1917 (and later) festivities. One of them walked all the way across Siberia. They experienced Revolution™ up close and personal. Occasionally we'd see the rotting eggs necessary to make the Vietnamese omelette, too.
Posted by: Fred || 04/16/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Bernie strikes me as more of Pol Pot type.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/16/2016 4:20 Comments || Top||

#2  If I knew the the trunks would hold Congress, I'd vote for him in a heartbeat before the.
That said, we have a 10% chance of a Mattis nomination, he would win the general election (Yes I did) in a landslide.
Posted by: Shipman || 04/16/2016 7:47 Comments || Top||

#3  Soviet Immigrants to Sanders Supporters: "Have You Ever Lived Under a Revolution?’

Bernie is the role model of self indulgent 'white privilege', so you should understand his Freudian projection.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 04/16/2016 8:20 Comments || Top||

#4  Sanders wouldn't even go after Clinton over the email scandal. He's more a Trotsky with the Revolutionary Zeal ad all but he'll be erased by those with the willingness to violence.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 04/16/2016 9:32 Comments || Top||

#5  No he hasn't and yes he hasn't held a real job in his life and has always been a "Worker of the people" aka, government office holder sucking of the taxpayer teat.
Posted by: DarthVader || 04/16/2016 9:58 Comments || Top||

#6  A place for Bernie
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/16/2016 10:31 Comments || Top||


Clinton booed for linking Obama to super-PACs
[THEHILL] Hillary Clinton
... sometimes described as The Heroine of Tuzla and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another Walter Q. Gresham ...
was booed at Thursday night’s Democratic presidential debate after she defended raising money from Wall Street by arguing that President B.O. had done the same.

"Make no mistake about it, this is not just an attack on me, it’s an attack on President B.O.," Clinton said, provoking jeers from the Brooklyn crowd.

"Let me tell you why -- you may not like it, but let me tell you why," the former first lady responded.

"President B.O. had a super-PAC," she continued. "President B.O. raised tens of millions of dollars from campaign contributors, and President B.O. was not at all influenced when he made the decision to pass and sign Dodd Frank, the toughest regulation on Wall Street in many a year."

Her primary rival, Bernie Sanders
...The only openly Socialist member of the U.S. Senate. Sanders was Representative-for-Life from Vermont until moving to the Senate for the rest of his life in 2006, assuming the seat vacated by Jim Jeffords...
, began the exchange by attacking Clinton’s judgment, saying she could not possibly be committed to overhauling the nation’s banking system because she’s influenced by tens of millions of dollars the industry has given to groups supporting her campaign.

"This is a phony attack designed to raise questions when there is not evidence or support to undergird the insinuations he’s putting forward," Clinton said.
Posted by: Fred || 04/16/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Bernie Earned Less in Year than Hillary Made in Single Speech
[WEEKLYSTANDARD]
Posted by: Fred || 04/16/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Which is more than the average taxpayer will make in years in his case, and a lifetime in her case.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 04/16/2016 8:22 Comments || Top||

#2 
Posted by: junkiron || 04/16/2016 11:06 Comments || Top||


Colorado Volunteers: Ballot Errors Could Have Violated State Rules
[BREITBART]
Posted by: Fred || 04/16/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Voting was rather... fast and furious. Anything could have happened.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/16/2016 2:33 Comments || Top||

#2  It looks, from reading the entire article through, that this wasn't against any particular Candidate. It was a clusterfuck all through where massive mistakes were made by the Colorado GOP in reference to voting id-numbers of the delegates.

In those instances where something like that happens, it's usually the person with the Ground Game present to correct the mistakes that comes out on top. You can tell from the testimonies that the Trump delegates were left floundering with no guidance from Campaign officials.

So basically the article is confirming Trumps ground game doesn't exist, and that Party Officials screw up. The former made sure the later didn't get fixed in time for TeamTrump.

Which is a perfect example of why Manafort has been brought in to desperately put something together on-site for Trump.
Posted by: Charles || 04/16/2016 9:43 Comments || Top||

#3  Confirmed: Fred is a Trumpkin
Posted by: Dino White5186 || 04/16/2016 18:05 Comments || Top||

#4  ^LOL kookie
Posted by: Shipman || 04/16/2016 18:08 Comments || Top||

#5  Trump didn't fire a lot of his Colorado staff the week before the convention because he was tricked by Lying Cruz. Or was he?
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 04/16/2016 22:25 Comments || Top||



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