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Questions Deserve Answers

Mike

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Yesterday Jim Moran, a congressman whose district encompasses Arlington and Alexandria, Virginia held a community forum entitled “Preventing Another Newtown: A Conversation on Gun Violence in America.”

During the course of the two hour event the Congressman encountered a question that elicited cheers from the attendees, but Moran chose to ignore.

Celia Bigelow, a 23 year old AR-15 owner and conservative activist, asked Moran “Why aren’t you pro-choice for self-defense for women?”

Following the question the crowd erupted in cheers and Bigelow dug deeper with her line of questioning. “Why do male politicians like to stand from their ivory towers and like to tell women how they should defend themselves?”

“For example, why don’t you guys listen to the young rape victims in Colorado when they said that if they had a gun they could have prevented their attacker?”

“Why do you keep trying to legislate women into being victims? That is all I want to know.”

Representative Moran, a devout proponent of gun control, refused to acknowledge and respond to Bigelow’s question by saying “On to the next question. Let the gentleman now speak.”

When asked by Bigelow why he refused to answer the question Moran’s only comment was “I’m choosing to move to the next question.”



Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2013/03/12/congressman-cant-answer-why-arent-you-pro-choice-for-self-defense-for-women/#ixzz2NQ8TP1RB
 

Whitewing

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Typical donk:

Moran's support for harsher bankruptcy law provisions and sponsorship of stricter bankruptcy legislation brought allegations in 2002 that his support came in return for financial favors by financial institutions which could benefit from such laws. In January 1998, one month before he introduced the legislation, credit card bank MBNA advocated that it would restrict the ability of consumer debtors to declare bankruptcy. Moran received a favorable debt consolidation loan from the bank that allowed him to avoid personal bankruptcy arising from credit card and stock market losses. The $447,000 loan at a favorable interest rate was the largest loan to an individual MBNA issued in 1998. Its belated disclosure triggered a Federal Elections Commission investigation into whether or not it constituted an improper contribution.

The Lieutenant Governor of Virginia at the time, Tim Kaine, joined Republican lawmakers in calling for a House Ethics Committee investigation into the loan, saying that Moran had made "an error in judgment" by accepting it. In his own defense, Moran said that the timing of the legislation's introduction was coincidental and had nothing to do with the loan. MBNA spokesman Brian Dalphon said that the bank had offered the mortgage package not knowing that Moran was a member of Congress, and that the loan "made good business sense" because with the mortgage loan, "we improved our position by getting security for an unsecured loan.... He had credit cards with us, he was having financial difficulties; this put him in a better position to be able to pay us back from a cash-flow standpoint."

On October 24, 2012 a video was released showing Patrick Moran, the Congressman's son and a field director with his father's campaign, discussing a plan to cast fraudulent ballots proposed to him by someone who posed as a fervent supporter of the campaign.[103] In response to the person's suggestion about trying to cast votes in the names of 100 inactive voters, Patrick Moran attempted to discourage the scheme, but also discussed the practical difficulties of forging documentation such as utility bills.[104] The person he was speaking with was actually a conservative activist with James O'Keefe's Project Veritas, and was secretly recording the conversation.[104] Patrick Moran resigned from the campaign, saying he didn't want to be a distraction during the election, and stating, "at no point have I, or will I ever endorse any sort of illegal or unethical behavior. At no point did I take this person seriously. He struck me as being unstable and joking, and for only that reason did I humor him. In hindsight, I should have immediately walked away, making it clear that there is no place in the electoral process for even the suggestion of illegal behavior, joking or not."[104]

The following day, the Arlington County Police Department opened a criminal probe into the matter.[105] Two days after the video was released, the Virginia State Board of Elections asked Attorney General of Virginia Ken Cuccinelli to investigate Moran's campaign for voter fraud.[106] On January 31, 2013, Arlington County announced that the investigation, by its police department in collaboration with the Offices of the Virginia Attorney General and the Arlington County Commonwealth’s Attorney, had concluded and that no charges would be brought.
 
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