Corruption
Ted Stevens Indicted
Sen. Ted Stevens (R-AK) has been indicted by a federal grand jury. Steven, 84, the nation’s longest-serving GOP senator has been indicted on seven counts of falsely reporting hundreds of thousands of dollars in services he received from a company that helped renovate his home.
Unlike our Democrat brethren, we should not defend or protect [...]
Hoyer Claims Economy Needs Foreclosure Slush Fund
House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD) claims that the pork-laden, slush fund recently passed by Congress is needed to help stabilize the U.S. economy. Of course this has nothing to do with the fact that PG County, which is partly in Hoyer’s district, make up 30% of Maryland foreclosures. Nor does it matter [...]
Mortgage Bailout Unsound - What Will Be Cost?
Hans Bader at OpenMarket.org reports that the bailout of Fannie Mae is structurally unsound. Just as distressing is the fact that the announced $25 Billion price tag is a “Wild Guess” at best.
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Open Government - A Chance for Bipartisanship?
Can the battle for transparency in government spending be a truly bipartisan effort? Soren Dayton and Matt Stoller seem to think so. It’s a genuinely intriguing idea.
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Let’s Sell Those Conventions!
Soren Dayton over at The Next Right explains how the Democrats have gutted their own “ethics reform” rules in order to keep the special interest money flowing at this year’s conventions. I’m sure they would have made sure that the new rules wouldn’t apply to the GOP convention if they only had more time.
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Perhaps the Salisbury City Council Could Learn a Lesson
In Virginia, a majority of the Gloucester County Board of Supervisors and the county Sheriff have been indicted for meeting in secret. Between all of the seemingly unnecessary closed sessions and “Privileged and Confidential” memos, the poor folks on the Middle Peninsula can’t hold a candle to our own body of Barrieland Bandits.
As I [...]
Virginia More Corrupt Than Maryland?
My friend and Red Maryland colleague Chet Dembeck produced an interesting post about the level of corruption in the People’s Republic of Maryland. Personally, I was more shocked that Maryland had been ranked 37th in 2004 than the fact that they were now ranked the 19th most corrupt state in the union.
What really shocked [...]
What’s A Fine When You Can Reap Millions?
In what may prove to be Maryland’s ultimate pay to play scandal, developer Edward St. John illegally paid out over $25,000 in contributions to Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley and Baltimore County Executive Jim Smith. Tack on a fine of $55,000. What’s the payoff?
For St. John’s “investment” of less than $100,000 (illegal contributions plus [...]
Arrogance or Corruption at the Wicomico County Liquor Control Board?
The Wicomico County Liquor Control Board, notably commissioners Stewart Haemel and Ron Alessi seem to believe that former Maryland Gov. Bob Ehrlich appointed them lords of their own little fiefdom. Gov. Ehrlich neither possessed the power to do so, nor do I believe that was his intention.
Let’s remember, all of the funds taken in [...]
Hypocrisy and Hillary
You won’t often see me quoting the Huffington Post, but they have a fabulous article on that great liberal icon - Hillary Rodham Clinton (sorry, we’re supposed to leave the “Rodham” part out this year).
Hillary’s been trying to get anything to stick on Barack Obama. One of the trees she’s been barking up is [...]
Hypocrisy Reigns in Salisbury (Along With the Usual Lies)
In this morning’s Daily Times the public was fed more misinformation from the Tilghman administration as well as hypocrisy. Again, City Adminstrator John Pick is the Tilghman appointee charged with feeding falsehood to the taxpayers and voters of Salisbury.
City Administrator John Pick stressed the financial wing of the Internal Services Division, with three people
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A Lie Here, A Lie There …
… it’s Salisbury. What do you expect.
On the 7PM news broadcast this evening on WBOC we witnessed something that should shock, but unfortunately no longer does - the Salisbury city administration lying to its citizens. Tonight Salisbury Mayor Barrie Tilghman, through City Administrator John Pick tried to brush aside new evidence of the [...]
DeLay Rants Against McCain
FORMER House Majority Leader Tom DeLay claims that Sen. John McCain is responsible for the demise of the Republican Party. In all fairness to DeLay, 90% of the charges leveled against him by Democrats were false. However, the last time I checked it wasn’t John McCain who permitted a complete retreat from fiscal [...]
A Call for Transparent Government in the First State
Delaware Sen. Steven H. Amick (R-10) has introduced legislation to end the “desk drawer veto” in the Delaware Senate. The corrupt practice permits a committee chair to unilaterally kill a piece of legislation without a committee hearing or any other public discussion.
Thanks to First State Politics for the link.
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Public Chicanery in the Land of Barrie
“Public affairs go on pretty much as usual: perpetual chicanery and rather more personal abuse than there used to be… Our American Chivalry is the worst in the world. It has no Laws, no bounds,no definitions; it seems to be all a Caprice.”– John Adams (letter to Thomas Jefferson, 17 April 1826)
Reference: The Adams-Jefferson Correspondence, [...]
