Conservative "Values"
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Political Tiger
John McCain - Left his first wife after she had been severely injured in an
automobile accident for a rich former rodeo beauty queen 18 years his junior.
Investigated by the Senate Ethics Committee for attempting to influence federal
regulators inquiring into the Lincoln Savings and Loan, owned by McCain's friend
and campaign contributor Charles Keating. Between 1984 and 1986, McCain failed
to disclose over $15,000 worth of trips and gifts from junk bond king Charles
Keating on his financial disclosure forms, and only reimbursed Keating after the
scandal broke.
Cindy McCain - Stole drugs to feed her drug habit, including Percocet and
Vicodin, from her own nonprofit medical relief organization, American Voluntary
Medical Team. An AVMT employee, who had discovered her illegal drug use, tipped
off the Drug Enforcement Administration and a federal investigation ensued
resulting in McCain paying the costs of the government's investigation.
George HW Bush - Linda Tripp says had he an affair with a woman named Jennifer
Fitzgerald while president.
George W. Bush - Convicted of drunk driving. Lied to congress and US citizens
about Iraq's nuclear capability just to justify his pre-emptive war. Covered up
Saudi aid to 9-11 hijackers. Lied on a juror form about his arrest record, a
felony in Texas. Lawsuit filed by Christian book writer Margie Schoedinger
claimed Bush raped and harrassed her. She was found dead of a gunshot wound 9
months after filing the lawsuit.
Neil Bush - Fined for his "ethical disability" in Silverado savings and loan
investigation. Cost to tax payers: 1 billion dollars (still paying interest),
Cost to Bush: $0. The $50,000 fine was paid by a banking deregulation lobby.
Admitted that he had sex with prostitutes while on trips to Thailand and Hong
Kong.
Jeb Bush - Defaulted on a $4,56 million loan from Broward Federal Savings in
Sunrise, Florida. After federal regulators closed the S&L, the office building
that gave Jeb used that loan, the $4.56 million to finance was reappraised by
the regulators to $.5 million, which Bush and his partners paid, thereby leaving
the taxpayers with a $4 million LOSS.
Columba Bush - Smuggled $16,000 worth of clothes and jewelry into the US after a
trip from France.
George P. Bush - Broke into ex-girlfriend's house and drove circles in her front
yard with his car during a fit of rage.
John "Jebby" Bush - Caught by the police with his pants down in a parking lot,
having sex with a teen-age girl.
Noelle Bush - Arrested for prescription fraud. Ordered by a judge to attend a
rehabilitation program. During her time at the facility, Bush was found in
contempt of court twice - once after being accused of taking prescription pills
from a nurse's office and once after she was caught with cocaine.
Barbara and Jenna Bush - Arrested at an Austin restaurant, Jenna for trying to
use a fake ID and Barbara for being in possession of alcohol. Jenna had received
a citation in April 2001 for possessing alcohol. Her boyfriend was jailed in
March, 2001, and was released to the Secret Service.
Dick Cheney - Convicted at least twice for drunk driving. Received five draft
deferments from serving in Vietnam because he "had other priorities in the
sixties than military service."
Tom DeLay - Had to resign in disgrace as House majority leader after a Texas
grand jury indicted him on a conspiracy charge stemming from a long-running
campaign finance investigation. Admonished by House ethics committee three times
for unethical behavior.
I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby - Indicted on five charges related to the CIA leak
probe: one count of obstruction of justice, two counts of perjury and two counts
of making false statements. He was convicted of perjury and obstruction of
justice in a grand jury's investigation of the outing of CIA operative Valierie
Plame. The trial also implicated Karl Rove and Dick Cheney in a campaign to
discredit her husband, retired diplomat and Iraq war critic Joe Wilson.
Paul D. Wolfowitz - Served as U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense for George W Bush
and considered the architect of the Iraq War. Nominated by Bush for president of
the World Bank, where he became involved in a relationship with World Bank
Senior Communications Officer (and Acting Manager of External Affairs) for the
Middle East and North Africa Regional Office Shaha Ali Riz, despite the
organization's own ethics rules precluding simultaneous employment of couples if
one reports to the other even indirectly through a chain of supervision.
Wolfowitz promoted her to a job at the state department under Liz Cheney, the
daughter of the vice-president, resulting in a raise of over $60,000, as well as
guarantees of future increases, more than double the amount allowed under
employee guidelines, while keeping her on the World Bank payroll.
Larry Craig - Idaho's anti-gay Republican Senator was arrested and pled guilty
to soliciting gay sex in an airport restroom in June 2007.
Glenn Murphy Jr. - Chairman of the Clark County Republican Party and president
of the Young Republican National Federation accosted two men by attempting to
perform oral sex on them as they slept.
David Vitter - A "family-values far-right conservative" Senator from Lousiana,
had an affair with a prositute in 1999 and admitted to a "serious sin" after his
telephone number was disclosed by the so-called "D.C. Madam" in 2007. Lost a
lawsuit for assulting a woman at a town hall meeting. Had a pack with white
supremacist David Duke to suppress the black vote.
John Ensign - Admitted he had an extramarital affair with a staffer after the
threat of being blackmailed.
S.C. Governor Mark Sanford - Disappeared for a week without telling anyone,
including his wife and State Law Enforcement Division, which provides security
for him. Later Sanford's spokesman told the press that Sanford was hiking the
Appalachian Trail. After returning to duty, he admitted he had actually been in
Argentina with his mistress.
Republican Congressman Mark Foley abruptly resigned from Congress after
"sexually explicit" emails surfaced showing him flirting with a 16-year old boy.
Ted Haggard - Adviser to George W Bush on "spiritual matters" and fervent
homophobe who resigned his leadership of the National Association of
Evangelicals and stepped aside as pastor of his church after admitting to having
a three year affair with a male prostitute and using methamphetamine.
Bob Allen, Florida Republican representing District 32 of the State House of
Representatives, arrested 7/11/07 for solicitation for prostitution after he
solicited an undercover male officer inside a public restroom, offering to
perform oral sex for $20. Before his arrest, Representative Bob Allen sponsored
a failed bill that would have tightened the state's prohibition on public sex.
He also has been a supporter of amending the state constitution to ban same-sex
marriage and has opposed a bill to curb bullying of gay students. After his
arrest, he blamed his actions on a fear of African-Americans!
Coy Privette, the president of the Christian Action League, a North Carolina
ultraconservative Christian political organization based in Raleigh, arrested on
7/19/07 for soliciting prostitution after paying his hookers with checks and
then reporting then stolen. Privette also served as a Republican in the N.C.
Legislature from 1984 to 1992 and has been a member of the board of
commissioners in Cabarrus County since 1998.
Philip Giordano, Republican mayor of Waterbury, Conn., was convicted of paying a
crack-addicted prostitute to bring her daughter and niece to him for sexual
encounters in 2000 and 2001, when they were 8 and 10. He was sentenced to 37
years in prison for sexually abusing the two girls.
Matteo Fontana - Department of Education official under George W Bush, overseer
the student loan industry, was put on leave after disclosure that he owned at
least $100,000 worth of stock in a student loan company.
Julie MacDonald - Apointed by George W Bush to oversee the Fish and Wildlife
Service although she has no academic background in biology. She overrode
recommendations of agency scientists about how to protect endangered species and
improperly leaked internal information to private groups.
Philip Cooney - Former oil-industry lobbyist who became chief of staff for the
White House Council on Environmental Quality under George W Bush, acknowledged
to a House committee that he edited three government reports to eliminate or
downplay links between greenhouse gases and global warming. He left the
government in 2005 to work for Exxon.
J. Steven Griles - A former oil and gas lobbyist who became Deputy Interior
Secretary under George W Bush, convicted in the Abramoff influence-peddling
scandal, pleading guilty to obstructing justice by lying to a Senate committee
about his relationship with Abramoff. Abramoff repeatedly sought Griles'
intervention at Interior on behalf of Indian tribal clients.
Darleen Druyun - Air Force procurement officer under George W Bush served nine
months in prison in 2005 for violating conflict-of-interest rules after agreeing
to lease Boeing refueling tankers for $23 billion, despite Pentagon studies
showing the tankers were unnecessary. After making the deal, she quit the
government to join Boeing.
David H. Safavian - White House aide for George W Bush was convicted last year
of lying to government investigators about his ties to Jack Abramoff and faces
an 180-month prison sentence.
Claude Allen - George W Bush's domestic policy adviser, pleaded guilty to theft
in making phony returns at discount department stores. He was to two years of
supervised probation and fined $500.
"Jeff Gannon" - Pseudonym for James Guckert -- who worked for fake news agency
Talon News, with "daily passes" obtained from the Secret Service and FBI
allowing Guckert/Gannon access to White House press briefings and to parse
questions to President George W. Bush. Guckert/Gannon was later exposed as a gay
prostitute.
John Doolittle, Deputy Whip for the Republican party in the House, resigned from
the Committee on Appropriations in response to a raid by the FBI at his Northern
Virginia home investigating his involvment with Jack Abramoff. His wife worked
for Jack Abramoff and was paid via a company called Sierra Dominion Financial
Solutions, based at the couple's home and founded just after Congressman
Doolittle gained a seat on the Appropriations Committee. She is the only
employee.
Rep. Ken Calvert (R-CA), caught by police with a prostitute in a parked car in
California. Subsequently, Calvert repeatedly attempted to cover up the incident
for nearly a year, publicly denying that it ever occurred.
Republican Congressman Dan Crane had sex with a female minor working as a
congressional page.
Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist - Under investigation from the Justice
Department and the Securities and Exchange Commission about his sale of stock in
his family's hospital company one month before its price fell sharply. Accepted
over $23,000 from the tobacco industry, although he is a doctor. Adopted cats
from animal shelters so he could kill them.
So
forget "bi-partisanship." This is only a buzzword fed to the masses.
I paid attention to commercials. On the radio, on TV, and on the Internet, I
read, listened, and watched intently.