Former Virginia governor Bob McDonnell’s downfall is wife’s fault, daughter says

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One of former Virginia governor Robert F. McDonnell’s daughters says his stunning downfall and conviction on public corruption charges can largely be attributed to the corrosive effects of just one person: her mother.

Jeanine McDonnell Zubowsky wrote in a blunt letter to a federal judge that it was former first lady Maureen McDonnell’s materialism and mental-health issues that derailed the rising political career of her husband. The letter of support for Robert McDonnell was part of a trove of 440 submitted by his attorneys, who are seeking leniency at his Jan. 6 sentencing in Richmond.

“My mom .?.?. has always been concerned about getting discounts or freebees,” McDonnell Zubowsky wrote. “She hid her coordination with people for free or discounted things or services and she didn’t communicate with my dad because she knew he would not approve. .?.?. The testimony about my mom was not just part of a defense strategy and was not an attempt to ‘throw her under the bus,’ but unfortunately, was the reality.”

In letters to the judge, McDonnell Zubowsky and another daughter, Cailin Young, also echoed themes that emerged at Robert McDonnell’s trial this summer, saying their father was an upstanding and religious man who was privately struggling with a crumbling marriage. Robert and Maureen McDonnell were convicted in September of using the prestige of the governor’s office to promote the company of nutritional supplement chief executive Jonnie R. Williams Sr. in exchange for lavish gifts and loans.

full: http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/crime/former-virginia-governor-bob-mcdonnells-downfall-is-wifes-fault-children-say/2014/12/27/af2e9073-d6a4-4482-ade1-1feddb678296_story.html

But wait, wasn't conservatism about personal responsibility or something?

If you actually want to read the letters, click here.

[TexasTowelie]

1. I'm surprised that she isn't trying to blame it on her brother's DUI arrest

even though that occurred after he was convicted.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10812029

[daredtowork]

2. Bob McDonnell can start asking for forgiveness

when he crawls out from up other women's uterus's.

And yes that's exactly as creepy as it sounds.

This man is the worst kind of hypocrite to have in office. For all his "personal struggles", he cares nothing for the struggles of the people who were less well off than his family.

[Fred Sanders]

3. Blame the woman. It is in the Fundie holy book, even the fundie women buy into it. Pathetic.

McConnell is still into forcible vaginal probing I see, although I understand his wife is playing along.

That is even more awfull...I hope the judge calls BS on the whole lot of them.

[2naSalit]

9. Excellent Point!

[malaise]

4. BS

but I do love real ReTHUG family values and scandals

[surrealAmerican]

6. not a wise choice here

Prison rape jokes are not funny. You might want to delete this.

[ChosenUnWisely]

7. You have got to be effing kidding!

Guess lots of folks got sticks stuck up their arses.

[Vinca]

8. Marking January 6 on the calendar. Buh-bye, Bob.

[yardwork]

10. He looks delighted with the sports car he was driving.

Where did he think she got the Rolex?