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July 31, 2014 09:40 AM UTC
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It is difficult to come to any conclusion other than there are some serious shenanigans happening in Mesa County, where the good-old-boy network keeps getting caught with their hands in the various public cookie jars that they have sworn duty to safeguard on the citizens' behalf. The likelihood is that it has been going on for decades. I think the state and perhaps the federal government needs to launch an investigation. My prediction is that Steve King is the smelly tip of a malodorous iceberg.
There is a chance this year to get rid of a bit of that iceberg…and a whole lot of stench. The Dems have some well qualified candidates running for the house and senate. Only thing is, they have some uphill battles raising enough money to combat the huge bankroll of the Rethugs.. Claudette Konola for Senate (www.konolaforcolorado.com), Brad Webb, for House Dist. 54 (http://bradwebb2014.com/, and Chris Kennedy for HD 55 (www.kennedyforcolorado.com/
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I'm not an attorney but I am curious what those who are think?
Everyone sing along!
Five…filed…charges
Four no show jobs
Three felonies
Two misdemeanors
and a partridge in a pear tree.
…and a peacock in a jail cell.
better.
" . . . a GOPer fool in Mesa County."
Much better.
Not very specific.
Unfortunately, Hollywood probably won't see the inside of a jail cell. It's more likely they'll extract a guilty plea to a felony, thereby destroying his ability to make any kind of living in the cop/security world, and pile on a ton of community service.
I wouldn't lose any sleep waiting for him to resign his Senate seat. It's the only meager paycheck he has left.
Maybe he'll roll on the rest of the Syndicate?
ooh, ooh, that would be fun…
Not the jailer, but the jailee? He certainly won't be the sheriff, maybe, the jailee?
Finally! The scale and scope of ct's thinking begins to match the seriousness of the corruption in Mesa County.
The RICO idea is intriguing because it's how a network is investigated. It doesn't make sense to stop looking into the matter now that Steve King has been found out (and not for the first time — another reason to think "RICO"). That would be like filing charges against only one member of a drug ring, or looking for the individual who fired the rocket that hit a passenger plane.
Bullets are being sweated all over the Western Slope this morning.
Just for the record, Indy…
luck doesn’t have that much to do with it.
🙂
unless you mean 'dumb luck'
People are actually considering voting for theives in this election?
Your point?
To quote Alain Jourgensen…
"Steal a little and they throw in in jail, steal a lot and they make you king."
That's why he is called "King".
Now, in all fairness and honesty, how has King's performance been as chair of the Legislative Audit Committee?
His calendar and per diem requests indicate that he's been very active on the committee
I heard he was there every day, even when he had to be in Grand Junction at his other two jobs.
Maybe King will end up being Pat Sullivan’s cellmate. :).
I actually feel a little sorry for King. (As you know I ran against him in 2010, and am seeking that seat in this year's election.) We tried to alert the voters about his double dipping at a Club 20 event. When called on it, he was prepared, probably because of blogs by Ralphie. He pulled out of his pocket and showed me a pay stub from his congressional job, and indicated that it wasn't enough to support his family. I was so flabbergasted that I had no intelligent retort. Stealing from constituents aparently was okay because the voters voted for him even after all of that was exposed. Later, when he had his wrists slapped after an ethics complaint, our local newspaper quoted him as saying it was a relatively minor mistake. If, at that time, a mentor had taken him aside and suggested that he clean up his act, he might have listened and gotten his dream job of sheriff. Now he is out of a job, and those people who should have been mentoring him are busy throwing him under the bus. Evidently Republicans eat their own rather than nurturing them.
What you see as evident is axiomatic.
The malodorous stink of the King affair, and the likelihood (and expectation) that it is but the wift of a much larger rot, has caused not only those on the left to cast aspirasions, but also the sundry flakes on the right. The Country-Clubbers and Good-Old-Boys kept King propped up just long enough to get him though the Primary, which has those wh wer going to take over the world via another soverign sheriff steamed, so it will be interesting to see exactly in which configurations the wagons circle.
a goat is missing from Weld County. Where was King?