I have condemned the DNC in posts shortly after it's occurrence. Of course I think they should be neutral, unless they go to a selection process. That could be a step in the right direction or a total cluster. Still considering options there. It would remove the money influence. Then again pressure (from both sides) on our reps would create a law. The lack of any law was what allowed the SCOTUS to rule favorably for Citizens United. It needs to go, quickly. The "evil" republicans have used religion before, it just seems to have disappeared for this race. No moral majority to check the Trumpster.
another Clinton cronie goes down.. we're gonna be seeing a lot of this through the fall. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/16/us/trial-kathleen-kane-pennsylvania-attorney-general.html?_r=0 NORRISTOWN, Pa. — She was a rising Democratic star. She was the first in her party to be elected state attorney general. She was one of the most powerful women in Pennsylvania. But on Monday night, Kathleen G. Kane, the state’s top prosecutor, became a convicted criminal. Update: Attorney General Kathleen G. Kane resigned Tuesday. A jury found Ms. Kane, 50, guilty of nine criminal charges, including perjury and criminal conspiracy, convicting her of leaking grand jury information, and then lying about it, in an effort to discredit a political rival. Ms. Kane was caught up in a web of scandal and counterscandal, threaded with lewd emails, political rivalries and alleged leaks. It has cost other state officials, including two State Supreme Court justices, their jobs and Ms. Kane her law license, although she has remained on the job as attorney general. Ms. Kane stared straight ahead as the word “guilty,” uttered decisively by a juror in a flowered dress, echoed nine times around the courtroom. The lawyers immediately went into a private conference with the judge, leaving Ms. Kane, who campaigned on a promise to uncover political interference in Pennsylvania, alone at the defense table. And when Judge Wendy Demchick-Alloy returned to the courtroom, she turned directly to Ms. Kane with a stern warning, her words slicing through the silence. “There is to be absolutely no retaliation of any kind against any witness in this case, either by your own devices, from your own mouth or your hand, or directing anybody to do anything,” the judge said. She threatened Ms. Kane, who is currently free on bail, with immediate incarceration if she failed to comply. “Is that clear, Ms. Kane?” the judge asked. “Yes it is, your honor,” Ms. Kane said. After the verdict, Gov. Tom Wolf immediately renewed his call for her to step down. “The Office of Attorney General and its employees, as well as the people of Pennsylvania deserve to move on,” Mr. Wolf said in a statement. Gerald Shargel, a lawyer for Ms. Kane, said a decision about her job would be made in the coming days. Ms. Kane was elected in 2012. The first half of her tenure was marked with moments that she claimed as successes, like closing a loophole in gun laws. But she soon became embroiled in scandal, in a state with a rich history of them. “It turns on the perception that she abused her power. She is the chief law enforcement officer for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania,” said David Zellis, a former prosecutor in Bucks County who has observed the trial but is not involved. He added, “I think that it’s turned the whole criminal justice system in the state upside down.” To her detractors, she had abused her power and broken the law; to her supporters, she had rousted the state’s old-boys’ network and become a victim herself. But in court, she was silent: Though her defense team cross-examined the prosecution’s witnesses, it rested without calling a single one of its own. Ms. Kane, who faced nine charges, including two felony perjury counts, criminal conspiracy and obstruction, was accused of leaking secret grand jury documents to the news media in an effort to discredit the prosecutor Frank Fina, and then lying to cover it up. “‘This is war,’ the defendant’s words,” said the lead prosecutor, Kevin Steele, in reference to an email written by Ms. Kane. “Wars have casualties. Wars leave scars.” Earlier Monday, in a nearly two-hour closing statement, wrought with text messages, newspaper front pages and grand jury testimony, Mr. Steele painted a picture of Ms. Kane trying to “go on the offensive” after a newspaper article that criticized her for shutting down an undercover investigation into possible corruption by Democratic state representatives. Prosecutors say she believed Mr. Fina was behind the story. Ms. Kane, he said, sought to leak details from a 2009 grand jury investigation into the financial affairs of J. Whyatt Mondesire, a former leader of the N.A.A.C.P., because she wanted residents to know that Mr. Fina had chosen not to prosecute. She then lied about it when a grand jury investigated, Mr. Steele said. A defense lawyer, Seth Farber, said the state had not proved its case, urging the jurors not to take Ms. Kane’s words out of context. “Things that the commonwealth says do not hold up to scrutiny when you look at the actual evidence,” Mr. Farber said, and cast blame instead on two prosecution witnesses: Adrian King, a former deputy to Ms. Kane, and Josh Morrow, a political strategist who was given immunity to testify. “Those are two witnesses who will say whatever they need to in order to protect themselves,” Mr. Farber said, adding, “You would not even buy a used car from one of them.” Ms. Kane was elected after she campaigned with a promise to review the investigation into Jerry Sandusky, the assistant football coach for Penn State who was convicted of sexual abuse, which was led by the attorney general at the time, Tom Corbett, and Mr. Fina. She did not find evidence of political interference, but Ms. Kane did find that lewd and racist emails had been exchanged by state officials, and began to release them to the news media. She has said that some in the state’s male-dominated political establishment have concocted her political difficulties to retaliate for the disclosures and to prevent more emails from being leaked. Judge Demchick-Alloy limited discussion of those emails at the request of prosecutors — a point to which Ms. Kane’s lead attorney, Mr. Shargel, seemed to allude after he left the courtroom. “We have been denied the opportunity to mount a full defense,” said Mr. Shargel. Outside the courthouse, Michelle Henry, a prosecutor in the case, said she was “offended” by Ms. Kane’s crimes. “What she did while she was attorney general — the fact that she committed criminal acts when she’s the top prosecutor — is a disgrace,” Ms. Henry said. The judge has not yet set a sentencing hearing, but Ms. Kane could face prison time. The two felony perjury charges alone each carry up to seven years in prison.
we expect these things from the Republicans, not from the party of unity and acceptance for all. It was disgraceful and an embarrassment. We condemn other governments for doing less. they need to immediately do away with the superdeligates. Hillary had 700 superdeligates in the bag before a vote was even cast. Bernie won state after state and kept losing the delegate count. that system must be abolished.
RealClearPolitics - Politics - Apr 14, 2012 - Murphy-Kane race for AG a study in contrasts Thank You - ICG
Greenie.. i know we disagree on pretty much everything politics. but i do miss you and always enjoy the back and forth.
You know i'm no Democrat.. BUT i would more than likely vote for Biden or Kaine over Trump of they were running. There is just too much baggage surrounding these Clinton's. even if 99% of it is false.. that 1% truth is really bad. but there's no way that almost 40 years of scandal and allegation and coincidence and circumstantial evidence can all be false. The math just doesn't add up. Gonna just stick with the usual local and state candidates who actually do something useful.
how is he "literally hitler?" you do realize that Hitler was a socialist right? He used the government to take over private business, banned guns, slaughtered millions, controlled the media.. none of which Trump advocates.
I'd say that Clinton is more like Hitler with her collusion with the media, gun control advocate, and her wanting to continue to increase the scope and power of the federal government. but neither one of them should be compared to such a horrible person.. that would be outrageous.
gotchya.. don't know the poster well enough to realize that, since a lot of folks actually think what he said.
CNN forced to report the news.. These 14,900 emails are separate from the 33,000 deleted emails that were about yoga and wedding plans. State Department ordered to review 15,000 new Clinton documents in email case - CNNPolitics.com Washington (CNN) A federal judge set a preliminary schedule Monday for the release of nearly 15,000 documents between Hillary Clinton and top aides when she was the secretary of state. The State Department was directed to assess 14,900 documents it received from the FBI as part of the investigation into Clinton's use of her private email server while she was secretary of state, determine a plan to release the documents and report back to the court September 23. The State Department had proposed releasing the documents the second week of October, but Judge James Boasberg of the US District Court for the District of Columbia, at the request of the conservative watchdog group, Judicial Watch, is asking State to focus on new documents uncovered by the FBI. It's unclear how many of the documents are emails. FBI Director James Comey said in July the FBI "discovered several thousand work-related e-mails that were not in the group of 30,000 that were returned by Secretary Clinton to State in 2014." "As we have previously explained, the State Department voluntarily agreed to produce to Judicial Watch any emails sent or received by Secretary Clinton in her official capacity during her tenure as Secretary of State which are contained within the material turned over by the FBI and which were not already processed for FOIA by the State Department," State Department spokesman Mark Toner said Monday. Meanwhile, Republicans on Capitol Hill upped the political pressure on Clinton by subpoenaing three technology companies involved in her unusual home server setup. The subpoenas were issued after the companies did not cooperate with a House committee's investigation into the issue, said Rep. Lamar Smith, R-Texas, who chairs the House Science, Space and Technology Committee, "Companies providing services to Secretary Hillary Clinton's private email account and server are not above the law. These companies have failed to comply with our committee's request for documents and interviews that would provide information critical to understanding Secretary Clinton's private server and informing policy changes in how to prevent similar email arrangements in the future," said Smith who added the information was needed to determine if Clinton's servers met federal government security standards. The letters to the companies containing the House subpoenas were also signed by Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wisconsin, who chairs the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, which is looking into the issue. "The companies have direct and unique knowledge of her private server and email account. The information being sought is a crucial step in bringing greater transparency to Secretary Clinton's 'extreme careless' -- I would call it dangerously reckless and grossly negligent -- email practices," said the senator who is facing a tough re-election race this year. The subpoenas were issued to Platte River Networks in Denver, Colorado, SECNAP Network Security Corporation in Boca Raton, Florida, and Datto, Incorporated in Norwalk, Connecticut.
He's correct lol idk hillary has people killed thats pretty hitler-y. Also HItLeR, HILLaRy see the similarities in their names!?! Sent from my iPhone using Grasscity Forum mobile app
lmao.. sorry dude. Didn't mean to get all serious. I usually have a pretty good sarcasm detector. But people do say that a lot.. He might be nuts but he is far from Hitler. Peace dude..