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Your honor, I plead stupidity.

Whitewing

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The unschooled and illiterate former mayor of the scandal-ridden suburban city of Bell had no training that would have alerted him that his huge salary was illegal, his lawyer told a jury in closing arguments.

Former Mayor Oscar Hernandez didn't have a college or high school degree and didn't even finish elementary school, defense attorney Stanley Friedman said at the corruption trial.

Hernandez is among six former Bell city officials charged with misappropriating funds. He was earning just under $100,000 a year for the part-time job.

The case was expected to go to the jury Friday after prosecutors conclude their rebuttals to defense lawyers' closing arguments. The six former officials face sentences ranging from 11 to 20 years in prison, if convicted.

http://news.yahoo.com/defense-mayor-didnt-know-salary-illegal-090737957.html

:lol: Ya just can't make this stuff up.
 

Mike

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As I have said before, nothing surprises me anymore.

What are the chances these "stupid" crooks were/are Democrats?
An audit by the state controller's office found that the city had illegally raised property taxes, business license fees and other sources of revenue to pay the salaries. The office ordered the money repaid.
 

Whitewing

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Mike said:
As I have said before, nothing surprises me anymore.

What are the chances these "stupid" crooks were/are Democrats?
An audit by the state controller's office found that the city had illegally raised property taxes, business license fees and other sources of revenue to pay the salaries. The office ordered the money repaid.

Grab your ankles buddy, coming to an America near you.
 

Whitewing

Well-known member
Mike said:
As I have said before, nothing surprises me anymore.

What are the chances these "stupid" crooks were/are Democrats?
An audit by the state controller's office found that the city had illegally raised property taxes, business license fees and other sources of revenue to pay the salaries. The office ordered the money repaid.

Here's a wiki link which I scanned quickly to find party affiliation. None was mentioned, which means they're all donks.

You gotta look at this piece Mike. What a rat's nest.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_Bell_scandal
 

Mike

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Whitewing said:
Mike said:
As I have said before, nothing surprises me anymore.

What are the chances these "stupid" crooks were/are Democrats?
An audit by the state controller's office found that the city had illegally raised property taxes, business license fees and other sources of revenue to pay the salaries. The office ordered the money repaid.

Here's a wiki link which I scanned quickly to find party affiliation. None was mentioned, which means they're all donks.

You gotta look at this piece Mike. What a rat's nest.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_Bell_scandal

Man 'O' man. This is rich.........................any defense attorney that defended these crooks should be disbarred himself.
 

Whitewing

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Okay Mike, so ya got me interested. I've been searching the net trying to find party affiliation for these guys....seems others have been doing so as well:

Nowhere in the Associated Press report is there any identification of the political party affiliation of anyone involved. The cop-out may be their party isn't identified when such elected officials are on the ballot. That's a pretty thin defense, given that such a concerted level of excess is involved, as this earlier LA Times report shows:

Okay, let's get to the party part.

Wikipedia tells us that "In the state legislature Bell is located in the 30th Senate District, represented by Democrat Ronald S. Calderon, and in the 50th Assembly District, represented by Democrat Hector De La Torre. Federally, Bell is located in California's 34th congressional district, which has a Cook PVI of D +23[32] and is represented by Democrat Lucille Roybal-Allard."

Hernandez and two Bell City Council members were listed as endorsers of Democrat Luiz Marquez in his bid to succeed the aforementioned De La Torre in the 50th Assembly District. Marquez finished third in a field of four candidates in the District's June Democratic primary.

That's enough of a start to suggest that the Associated Press and others (here, here, here, here, here and here, to name just a few) who have reported on the scandal -- none of whom I have found to have identified the party of the perps -- should be at least a little curious as to what political party could be involved with such a pervasive culture of greed. Given the info learned thus far, the odds that this corruption is a straight-ticket Democratic enterprise would appear to be pretty high.


http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tom-blumer/2010/07/25/name-party-bell-california-edition

I don't know their party affiliation but would like to so I'll keep searching.
 

Whitewing

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FINALLY! From Larry Elder:

In the wake of the Bell salary scandal, our readers noticed one part of the story has been left out by virtually all media sources, including our related editorials and columns: the political party affiliations of the five city council members who not only failed to protect city coffers, but participated in what amounts to shameless, if apparently legal, self-dealing.

All five council members are members of the Democratic Party.

http://www.larryelder.com/b/Editorial:-More-Bell-vibrations/-377676645279136796.html
 

Mike

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Whitewing said:
FINALLY! From Larry Elder:

In the wake of the Bell salary scandal, our readers noticed one part of the story has been left out by virtually all media sources, including our related editorials and columns: the political party affiliations of the five city council members who not only failed to protect city coffers, but participated in what amounts to shameless, if apparently legal, self-dealing.

All five council members are members of the Democratic Party.

http://www.larryelder.com/b/Editorial:-More-Bell-vibrations/-377676645279136796.html


Good job. Impeccable source in Larry Elder.

Being Democrats must be why the MSM isn't hitting very hard on this story?
 

Traveler

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Almost impossible to find a Republican in the hot seat that party affiliation isn't listed two or three times. Some things are just a given.
 

Whitewing

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Traveler said:
Almost impossible to find a Republican in the hot seat that party affiliation isn't listed two or three times. Some things are just a given.

Yeah, like during the Bush years whenever Cheney's name came up in an article, without fail you saw....former CEO of Halliburton. Didn't matter that he'd been VP and torturer-in-chief for 7 years, they had to mention Halliburton. What a bunch of tools.
 

okfarmer

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There is ~ 5 million dollars misappropriated, this guy is in the hot seat for 100k a year salary. Good.

But how many billions did Carzine steal and nothing has been done?

How many trillions has Obama misappropriated and nothing has been done?
 
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