GOP to honor Hemmert despite drug charges

[sasquatch]

Source: Dayton Daily News

SPRINGBORO — Three weeks after being sentenced in two cocaine possession cases, former Springboro City Councilman Michael W. Hemmert will accept a Republican Congressional Medal of Distinction during a two-day celebration in the nation's Capitol culminating in a dinner honoring President George W. Bush.

"I will be attending my second President's Dinner on Wed., June 18, 2008. This is considered the 'Event in Washington, DC' each year," Hemmert said in an e-mail press release.

On May 27, Hemmert, 53, of Springboro, was granted treatment in lieu of conviction on two sets of charges of possession of cocaine and marijuana and a single count of possession of drug paraphernalia during a hearing in Warren County Common Pleas Court.

Judge James Heath ordered Hemmert to abstain from alcohol and drugs, submit to random drug tests and follow other restrictions while on probation for three years.

Provided Hemmert notifies his probation officer before leaving, "he shouldn't have any problem traveling," Scott McVey, administrator of the Warren County Common Pleas Court, said on Tuesday, June 3.



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This is SW Ohio politics though, hypocritical fascist douchebag republicans dominate this part of the state which is why the powers that be always try to fuck up Cleveland and all of northern Ohio so the Repugs can have a upperhand.

[predfan]

1. It's biblical. "Let he who hasn't received treatment

in lieu of conviction of two sets of charges of possession of cocaine and marijuana and a single count of possession of paraphernalia cast the first stone" And they all turned aside and walked away.

[Demit]

2. a "Republican Medal of Distinction", huh? He can display that next to his Republican Tough On Crime

and 'Taking Personal Responsibility' credentials. Well, as long as he said he was sorry for hurting his family and that he has suffered enough. IOIYAR.

[sasquatch]

3. Personal reponsibility is for us little people, not him

[sinkingfeeling]

4. Possessing and/or using cocaine isn't a problem to a Bush-led GOP.

[Baby Snooks]

5. "Give me a T, give me an E, give me a C...."

No doubt Kay Bailey Hutchison will be the featured speaker at the dinner. Entertaining one and all with her "t-e-c-h-n-i-c-a-l-i-t-y" cheer. "Give me a T, give an E, give me a C..."

Shame on all those women in Texas who call themselves Democrats but still voted for Kay Bailey Hutchison in 2006.

Kay Bailey Hutchison. The Republican cheerleader for Republican corruption.

[tanyev]

6. Heck, give him a Medal of Freedom, too.

Those don't mean much anymore, either.

[sasquatch]

7. Were going to need to rescind every medal ever given by Bush

In order to save their meaning.