Former Oregon ‘First Lady’ Cylvia Hayes fights to keep her emails out of the...
Protip: when your attempt to block the courts from letting news organizations see your public-service-related emails makes people on the other side of the political spectrum immediately rub their hands...
View ArticleNotorious Democratic Big Data shop Catalist accused of violating election law.
Regretfully, I need to add an important caveat to this quote: [It is alleged that – ML] [a]n influential demographic analysis firm founded and run by Democratic operatives with close ties to Hillary...
View ArticleI hope that Gov. Bruce Rauner (R, Illinois) knows what a blood oath is…
…because, according to George Will, he just took one*. [Illinois governor Bruce] Rauner [R] hopes to ban, as some states do, public employees unions from making political contributions, whereby they...
View ArticleThink Progress inadvertently sums why the Clinton Foundation is problematical.
Obviously, they were trying to debunk. The problem is that… well, it’s that the Clinton Foundation is a pretty suspect shop. There’s no way around it. Also: I harp on Buzzfeed a lot, but it was pretty...
View ArticleDid NY Assemblyman Sheldon Silver (D) give up NY Senator Dean Skelos (R)?
…Mayyyyybe: Dean G. Skelos, the leader of the New York State Senate, and his son are expected to be arrested on federal corruption charges next week, according to people with knowledge of the matter....
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Google News is wrong: Gov. Jay Inslee (D, Washington) was not arrested on...
Dagnabbit, don’t tease me like this, Google News. Yeah, it turns out that that they truncated the quote there: A Washington State Patrol trooper who worked as a bodyguard for Gov. Jay Inslee was...
View ArticleRep. Chaka Fattah (D, PA-02) indicted for all SORTS of political corruption,...
NAME! THAT! PARTY!!!!! Oh, dear. REP. CHAKA FATTAH INDICTED IN RACKETEERING CASE …[Five people were] charged today in a 29-count indictment with participating in a racketeering conspiracy and other...
View ArticlePennsylvania AG Kathleen Kane (D) claims that a conspiracy is behind her...
Alternate title: Kathleen crazies a Kane. That was a fascinating press conference that embattled Democratic Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane had there, yesterday. You see, everybody who...
View ArticleRep. Mike Honda (D, CA-17) squirms under allegations he mixed campaign...
When you do politics, you should always read local newspaper reports whenever possible. They often tell you things that you won’t hear from the national news organizations. Case in point: Mike Honda...
View ArticleNew Hampshire Governor Maggie “I took illegal PAC contributions!” Hassan (D)...
Possibly you may remember the Northern Pass story from last year: in a nutshell, Maggie Hassan’s campaign took forty-five thousand in illegally same-day campaign contributions from three Big Labor...
View ArticleKathleen Kane keeps on with keeping Pennsylvania-SEN safe for Pat Toomey.
Here’s a question for the ages: So if there’s one question that’s come up again and again in the tangled legal surrounding Attorney General Kathleen Kane, it’s this one: Exactly how much lawyering can...
View ArticleMy RedState post on Sheldon Silver corruption conviction is up.
Found here. Short version: the man was as guilty of sin, and deserved it. But we have to start pulling up these weeds earlier.
View ArticleHookers and bribes over at the Treasury Department!
(Via @davidhauptmann) Ah, marvel at our squeaky-clean, Marvelous New Day, ever-so-ethical executive branch: Treasury Department officials have been cited for soliciting prostitutes, breaking...
View ArticleNew York corrupt politicians are PIKERS. Pikers!
John Podheretz* is infuriated about the recent state-level corruption scandals in New York, and I don’t blame him one bit: In rich countries and poor countries, dictatorships and democracies,...
View ArticleSen Bob Menendez (D, NJ) caught up in yet ANOTHER sex-related set of...
Oh, dear. Sen. Robert Menendez wooed a married newspaper publisher, taking the attractive brunette on a romantic getaway to the Caribbean, a tipster alleges. The New Jersey Dem and Cecilia Reynolds...
View ArticleAmerican public: IRS guilty as sin, but protected by @barackobama.
A fish rots from the head down. If I was a Democratic operative, I’d be worrying like the blazes about these numbers: A new Rasmussen Reports poll found 53 percent of likely U.S. voters believe the IRS...
View ArticleFeds say DC Mayor Vincent Gray (D) knew of illegal campaign contributions.
Well, well, well. A major Democratic donor pleaded guilty on Monday to funneling millions of dollars in illegal campaign donations to federal and local politicians, including an unnamed 2008...
View ArticlePennsylvania AG Kathleen Kane (D) threatens to sue newspaper for committing…...
I was going to do a background paragraph on the story, but the first line of this article makes it redundant: “State Attorney General Kathleen Kane has hired one of the most feared litigators in the...
View ArticleQuote of the Day, SIT DOWN And SHUT UP, Washington Post edition.
You don’t get to complain. IT’S HARD to think of a more tone-deaf political move lately than Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe’s unveiling of his Common Good Virginia PAC, which peddles dinners and sit...
View ArticlePossible voter fraud involving Covered California. DEFINITE incompetence in...
For the record, even if this story is true I still do not think that this represents a concerted effort: A local couple called 10News concerned after they received an envelope from the state’s...
View ArticleSenator Mary Landrieu (D, Louisiana) flew high on the hog – with YOUR tax money.
I’d love to know what an independent investigation found. Because if Democratic Senator Mary Landrieu’s internal investigation found this… Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu on Friday released the findings...
View ArticleSen. Kay Hagan (D, NC) shows us how to pocket $115K of taxpayer money! YOUR...
This is almost impressive. JDC Manufacturing, a company co-owned by Democratic U.S. Sen. Kay Hagan’s husband Charles “Chip” Hagan, lowered the total cost of a 2010 stimulus-funded energy project… Yeah,...
View ArticleHow Bruce Rauner (R, GOV-ELECT, Illinois) can instantly become a Republican...
I certainly hope that that gets his attention. Or that of his staff. Either will do. Anyway… once upon a time, in the far-off year of 2004, there was a Republican candidate for Illinois Senator called...
View Article:shaking head: Real shame about Bob McDonnell.
But the man shouldn’t have broken the damn law. Former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell was sentenced Tuesday to two years in federal prison for taking bribes to promote a dietary supplement. The punishment...
View ArticleMassachusetts state legislature starts up process for the 2019 Democratic...
I do not see how this could possibly end badly: “House leaders are preparing a set of new internal rules for floor debate Thursday that would abolish term limits for the speakership, unfettering House...
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