DNC Research: 50 plus recent Republican resignations, pleas, sentences and scandals.

[madfloridian]

All pulled together into one place to be easily perused. Good idea, since they make hay of every single thing a Democrat does.

More than 50 recent Republican resignations, pleas, sentences and scandals.

Just a few examples from the site:

Michael Mixon - Mixon, a major NRCC donor, was indicted on charges of fraud and funding terrorism.

Thomas Noe - Noe, a Bush Pioneer, pleaded guilty in May 2006 on charges of money laundering in connection to his political fundraising. He was also the key figure in the Ohio “Coingate” scandal.

Ralph Reed - Reed, a Bush Pioneer (2000), Ranger (2004) and prominent Republican lobbyist, is being investigated because of a $4 million payment that Abramoff made to Reed.

James Tobin - Former NRCC, RNC and Bush-Cheney ’04 staffer was convicted in December 2005 for his role in a plot to stop people from voting in New Hampshire in 2002.

Brent Wilkes - Wilkes, George W. Bush's finance co-chairman in California, was indicted in February 2007 by a Grand Jury on corruption charges in connection with his campaign contributions to Republican members of Congress and resulting federal contracts.

One from the Republican senate which has been forgotten by the media...or maybe never even mentioned.

Bill Frist - The Securities and Exchange Commission in investigating whether Frist, the former Senate Majority Leader engaged in insider trading, selling off holdings in HCA immediately before its value plummeted. Frist maintained that his holdings were in a blind trust, but the Senate frequently provided Frist with information on his holdings and Frist directed the sale of the stock. At the time of the sale, Frist’s brother was on HCA’s Board of Directors.

And of course, three from the Republican House are from Florida...where else?

Tom Feeney - The U.S. House said that Rep. Feeney violated House rules by accepting a trip to Scotland. Feeney was required to pay the cost of the trip to the Treasury. He was later questioned by the FBI in the investigation into lobbying activities of Jack Abramoff.

Mark Foley - Former Rep. Foley resigned in September 2006 after the FBI and House Ethics Committee opened investigations into allegations that he sent suggestive emails and instant messages to teenaged current and former House pages.

Katherine Harris - Former Rep. Harris accepted $32,000 in illegal contributions from MZM Inc.’s President Mitchell Wade. She then requested tens of millions in earmarks that would benefit Wade. Wade later pleaded guilty to making illegal campaign contributions, in addition to conspiracy, corruption and election fraud. Harris maintained that she did not know the contributions were illegal and lost her race for Senate in 2006.

Good job of research.

[tabasco]

1. Great link. Thanks! n/t

[madfloridian]

2. It pulls it together in case we forget.

:hi:

[Venus Dog]

3. Here's another one they can add to the list

James McLean of Dublin, Ohio (where Gilmor also had a home which was the source of much controversy since Dublin is not in the district that he serves and used his son's address during his campaign) was charged on Tues 9/4 (ahem - same day Gilmor found dead)for failing to report on his state-mandated ethics forms the gifts he received in 2004 from Keefe, Bruyette & Woods, a New York financial services firm.

McLean, a former chief investment officer of the Ohio Bureau of Workers' Compensation, this week became the 21st person charged in the scandal that has gripped the agency for more than two years.

Both McLean and Gilmor had deep ties to Noe "who is serving a 27-month federal prison sentence for illegally funneling money to President Bush's re-election campaign, was convicted separately last year on 29 state charges related to his management of the rare-coin fund. Mark Lay, the CEO of MDL Capital Management, is facing federal fraud and conspiracy charges related to the bureau's $216 million in losses."

Part of that money that was funneled to the bushistas came from the Ohio State Workmen's Compensation Fund.
http://toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070906/NEWS02/709060360/-1/NEWS

As far as I'm concerned, this is all part of the theft of the Ohio vote fraud of 2004.

I haven't done any research on this Mark Lay and wonder if he's any relation to Ken Lay?

[madfloridian]

5. You need to post that in the comments section at the link.

:hi:

[Venus Dog]

6. Thanks, will do

:hi:

[madfloridian]

7. LOL I was just reading some of the comments.

The Republicans commenters are furious that the DNC would attack them. They forget that the RNC features more Democrats on their website than they do Republicans.

[ellenfl]

4. kick for later. eom

[madfloridian]

8. Kicking also because it disappears so fast.

Lots of good research.

[bettyellen]

9. k+r

[Gold Metal Flake]

10. Too bad the "Google bomb" has been defused by Google.

Cuz this link would be great to tie to RNC or some other popular RNC-related search term.

[Kurovski]

11. K&R

BOOKMARKED! :D

[The Backlash Cometh]

12. Is this just the beginning? Hopefully?

[malaise]

13. Bookmarked

Great research.

[DeepModem Mom]

14. K&R!

[SoCalDem]

15. Don't forget Joe Scarborough

He decided to resign all of a sudden, and very soon after the dead aide turned up in his offices.

He was a "Golden Boy", marked for greatness in the republican party...and all of a sudden, he's done.

A divorce happened very soon after that too..

There was MORE to this story, but it just "went away"...and now he's got his own tv show.. OJ muct be very jealous of his fellow-floridian..

[madfloridian]

16. Ah, yes, the old Lori thing that just went away.

http://www.americanpolitics.com/20010808Klausutis.html

This is one of the best summaries I have seen.