Difference between revisions of "Political scandals"

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Instances when conduct of a public official brings great discredit and embarrassment to oneself and one's office.

September/October 2005: House Majority leader Tom Delay (R-Tex) was indicted on September 28th on the counts of conspiracy to violate campaign finance law with two of his co-workers. Delay was charged of conspiring to use illegal corporate campaign contributions in the 2002 congressional elections. The indictment prompted Delay to step-down from his position as House Majority leader. On October 19th of 2005, Delay was issued an arrest warrent by a Travis County and was processed at the Fort Bend County Jail. [1]
August 2007: On August 28th, Larry Craigh (R-Miss.) pleaded guilty to a disorderely conduct charge after his arrest for solicitation of sexual contact in an airport bathroom stall.[2]
February, 2008: Carl Stanley McGee (D), a Leftist gay official in Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick’s administration, is arrested for sexually assaulting a 15 year old boy in the steam room of a Florida resort. [3] [4]
February 2008: Leftist New York Governor Eliot Spitzer breaks wife's heart when discovered to have solicited prostitutes while in office. [5]
March, 2008: Leftist Detroit mayor Kwame Kilpatrick charged in text-messaging sex scandal. [6]
April, 2008: Thomas Athans, co-founder of the liberal TalkUSA Radio network and a married Michigan Democrat is charged with soliciting a prostitute. [7]

April, 2008: Oklahoma state prosecutors filed 35 felony charges against Democrat Sheriff Mike Burgess of Custer County for running a sex-slave operation out of his jail using female inmates he bribed for the purpose. Charges include 14 counts of second-degree rape, seven counts of forcible oral sodomy and five counts of bribery by a public official. [8]

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 ==Examples==
+*  September/October 2005: House Majority leader Tom Delay (R-Tex) was indicted on September 28th on the counts of conspiracy to violate campaign finance law with two of his co-workers. Delay was charged of conspiring to use illegal corporate campaign contributions in the 2002 congressional elections. The indictment prompted Delay to step-down from his position as House Majority leader. On October 19th of 2005, Delay was issued an arrest warrent by a Travis County and was processed at the Fort Bend County Jail. [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/19/AR2005101900789.html]
+*  August 2007: On August 28th, Larry Craigh (R-Miss.) pleaded guilty to a disorderely conduct charge after his arrest for solicitation of sexual contact in an airport bathroom stall.[http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,294927,00.html]
 *  February, 2008: [[Carl Stanley McGee]] (D), a Leftist gay official in Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick’s administration, is arrested for sexually assaulting a 15 year old boy in the steam room of a Florida resort. [http://www.examiner.com/a-1207714~Gov_s_Aide_Accused_of_Sex_Assault_on_Boy.html] [http://www.moonbattery.com/archives/2008/02/gay_massachuset.html]
 * February 2008: Leftist New York Governor Eliot Spitzer breaks wife's heart when discovered to have solicited prostitutes while in office. [http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2008/03/11/2008-03-11_spitzer_may_have_spent_tens_of_thousands-2.html]