Supreme plot (Palm Beach Commissioner fined - 2000 Election Tie-in)

[RamboLiberal]

http://www.dailybusinessreview.com/news.html?news_id=27057

In a case with national political implications, the Florida Elections Commission has ruled that Palm Beach County Commissioner Mary McCarty violated state campaign finance rules in working to oust three Florida Supreme Court justices. It will decide next month whether to impose up to $450,000 in fines against her.

On May 21, the FEC voted 7-0 to adopt an administrative law judge’s findings that McCarty violated state election laws in the collection, expenditure and reporting of tens of thousands in political action committee (PAC) funds.

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At her hearing, McCarty testified she was drafted into the presidential recount battle on the morning after the Nov. 7 election meltdown in Florida. Top Republicans recruited her to oversee the ballot recount in Palm Beach County, home of the notorious butterfly ballot that confused many voters. Members of the Bush-Cheney campaign “took up residence in my office,” she said.

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McCarty testified that between Nov. 13 and Nov. 16, Stone called her at her home. “He explained to me that people were very, very upset with the way the Florida Supreme Court was conducting itself, and that in Florida we have a merit retention system.”

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McCarty testified she previously had met Stone at a campaign fund-raiser for Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., and that they had worked together briefly when she considered running for Congress in the late 1990s. So, when Stone told her he was forming a committee “for the purposes of taking action against the Florida Supreme Court” — which is what Judge Hooper subsequently found — she decided to go along.

[nannygoat]

1. And people think we should get over this... ! n/t

[tomp]

3. i've long been over kerry. n/t

[leftchick]

2. corruptness runs through the repug party like a

cancer. The cure for it is most likey as elusive.

[tomp]

4. if you think the dems are clean, i have...

...a bridge to sell you. corruption is rampant through every level of the govt, politics, business, and society in general. it's a fact.

[leftchick]

6. I am not looking for a bridge

and I never said the Democrats were "clean". The blatant dirty tricks and corruption displayed by the repubs, with NO fear of repercusion, is certainly worth noting and highlighting. Especially in the current misadministration. Or should we give them a pass?!?

[tomp]

8. your post showed a common lack of balance...

...with regard to corruption. did you intend to let the dems off the hook? the current misadministration may be the height of corruption but the dems' dirty trick is to pretend to be opposing the repubs while actually aiding and abetting them. sure you don't want that bridge?

[NewYorkerfromMass]

9. the corruption in Florida- Nov. 2000 to be specific

defies all precedent. And we would be a hellofalot better off with Dems in control than not.

[TankLV]

10. Dems take a dollar, Repukes take a billion dollars.

That's how much more corrupt the repukes are.

It's no contest.

It's like the claims made that enron supported the dems equally with repukes. Not in the same universe, at all.

Nice try to be "fair" and point it out, tho. NOT!

Democrats as a whole are INFINITELY more honest and trustworthy as opposed to Repukes. Everytime, all the time. I can stake my life on that.

[oneighty]

5. National political implications

For sure, for sure.

I hope.

180

[shirlden]

7. I am sure that McCarty will now

make a run for the House or even the Senate. Isn't that how Florida awards their evil witches? (no offence to my Wicca friends). She was just being the good little Repug whore, following in the kneepads of her sister in crime, Ms. Harris.

:argh: