Monday, March 24, 2008
Luv mayor
I'll bet you a nickel that Taranto will pick on this story, and ask: to which party does this guy belong? Mystery. As for Spitzer & al, the MSM won't say (unless it's someone like Craig, in which case you'll see an (R) in the very title).
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Was this guy a vice judge or something?
This isn't nearly as bothersome as Spitzer, the Vice Judge by day, the whore-monger by night.
Also: is Christine Beatty hot? Do we have pics? We gotta get on this.
You can see both on his official web site. This is a different issue than with the Spitzerman -- the mayor (and the aide, I guess) committed perjury when asked about the affair. So he (and perhaps she?) faces criminal charges -- something like 15 years. Spitzer may plea-bargain or escape indictment altogether (we'll see), but this guy is on the hot seat for the attempted cover-up, from the little I understand of the story.
More details:
The charges against Kilpatrick are conspiracy to commit obstruction of justice, obstruction of justice, two counts of misconduct in office and four counts of perjury. Beatty faces seven similar charges.
Perjury, the most serious, is punishable by up to 15 years in prison. The conspiracy, obstruction and misconduct in office charges each carry penalties of up to 5 years in prison upon conviction.
In her news conference, which brought much of metro Detroit to a standstill, Worthy said Kilpatrick ruined the lives of three former police officers who were connected to an investigation of his family, then used $8.4 million in tax money to buy their silence when he learned their lawyer had obtained text messages showing he and Beatty lied at trial.
Sounds like they really screwed up a cabinet...
They had s-s-s-sex and lied about it? To the amayrican payple? why that's a truly horrific crime.
The Clinton coverup machine back at work. Nothing to see here, just MoveOn. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Perjury, obstruction of justice (the crimes Bubba was convicted for in the House inquiry) -- mere trifles, as long as said politicos toe the pinko Party Line.
AI - I'd say the same thing if this happened to you. People's sex lives is nobody's business.
OK, amen to that -- but consider that (1) public figures are held to slightly different standards, and (2) there are laws on the books governing perjury and obstruction of justice. Don't know if the Nappy code deals with such things (maybe the French don't have the notion of perjury in their vocabulary?) but the Anglo-Saxons do. And it's the coverup that usually gets these politicos really in trouble.
I'd be more interested in wrestling with this guy's political ideologies than about who he was wrestling with in the sack. These politicians should stop making it so easy for prosecutors, though. Yet I agree that we shouldn't lose sight that we're mammals. Does elevation to office somehow change that? Maybe in the Divine Right days of old. But those days sucked a shit-ton more than the days of today.
Even Thomas Jefferson was porking Sally Hemings, and that also was nobodies fucking business. Even worse, long after the president was dead, countless historians acted as though it could never have happened — these historians, mind you, were trained in the Ulrich B. Phillips days.
DNA evidence proved Sally Hemings and T.J. had at least one, and possibly several children, and delusional lawyers and historians to this day still post essays to denounce it. Montecello.org has the skinny on it all, though: "...Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings had a relationship over time that led to the birth of one, and perhaps all, of the known children of Sally Hemings."
I just re-read that, and it's still not a big deal to me. I think it's even kind of nice that T.J. and Sally could have such a relationship. The relationship came after T.J.'s first wife, Martha, died. On her deathbed, Martha asked her husband to never marry again — more evidence why women still aren't funny. Although T.J. was quite lacking in the humor department as well (he is said to have taken Tristram Shandy literally).
AI, hasn't Rush Limbaugh had about three wives? How come no-one makes a big deal about his inability to keep a relationship together privately while publicly moralizing to us on the airwaves?
This is getting off track -- reminds me of Obama's speech, where he threw his grandmother under the bus, to try and wiggle out of his relationship with Wright. One more time: the indictment of that mayor (and his paramour) is not for what they did or did not do in the sack. It's about perjury, obstruction of justice, messing up with witnesses, abuse of power, the works. Sounds we're moving on parallel tracks on this one, like trains in the night...
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