My governor is a scumbag, although not as big a scumbag as his attorney general kooky-inelli, who is running for governor.

/Virginian

WTF Indeed: Another 2016 frontrunner down. Rick Santorum still in the lead.

you're assuming the GOP rank and file give a shiat about campaign finance corruption.

WTF Indeed: The Evil That Lies In The Hearts Of Men: you're assuming the GOP rank and file give a shiat about campaign finance corruption.

And you're assuming that people don't care about politicians taking bribes and kickbacks.

We're talking about a group of people who can go on all day about family values and then turn around and nominate a dude who abandoned his governorship post to go bang his mistress in Argentina. They're more than capable of ignoring affronts to their states beliefs when it suits them.

Mixolydian Master: Sounds like his finances need to have a mandatory, intrusive probing

His lawyers have ways of shutting it down.

Marcus Aurelius: He got a refund from his caterer?

Now THAT sounds fishy.

This. I call shenanigans.

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WTF Indeed: The Evil That Lies In The Hearts Of Men: We're talking about a group of people who can go on all day about family values and then turn around and nominate a dude who abandoned his governorship post to go bang his mistress in Argentina. They're more than capable of ignoring affronts to their states beliefs when it suits them.

No, you're talking about a group of people in South Carolina who live in a R+10 district choosing between their former Congressman and several other candidates in a Republican primary. I'm talking about a possible Presidential candidate who will have to go to 49 other states where he isn't beloved and answer questions as to why he was taking kickbacks and bribes.  It's almost like context is an important part of this particular matter.

Fair enough, we can't extrapolate one district of republicans to the whole of the US. However I note that in the last round of presidential primaries a man who is on his third marriage after cheating on his previous two wives did very well with the 'family values' crowd who make up a lot of the GOP and the eventual winner was a man who had a very long and complicated financial history that the GOP base tried very very hard to avoid looking into at all

I am getting pretty sick of people using the 'married' loophole to get around or out of things.

An Aussie mining magnate claimed he only earnt $15k last year (from the family trust) whilst under investigation bu authorities (his wife dolled out his allowance, from the family trust.)

I say we ban marriage, just get rid of it - I do not care if you are farking someone and/or creating children, you are each responsible for your own crap.

Jim_Callahan: The difference is that Texas' business-incentives fund is above-board. It's not "open about it" in the sense of being shameless, it's open about it in the sense that the authorization of the funds and their use to incentivize businesses to relocate have been explicitly approved by vote of congress.

But don't you DARE ask for an audit of the fund!

Reminds me of Chris Christie's actions regarding privitization of halfway houses in New Jersey. No government oversight. No accountability.

Walker: My governor is a scumbag, although not as big a scumbag as his attorney general kooky-inelli, who is running for governor.

/Virginian

The name of the company owned by the guy that cut the $15,000 check seems awfully familiar.   Isn't this the same company that makes up Kenny the Kook's entire stock portfolio and only reported tangible asset?

I am just going to leave this classic here:

Murdering, Lying, Thieving, Rat F*** Pieces of Sub-Amphibian Sh**....


...mendacious, death-loving, frothing, lamprey-mouthed, inhuman, abominable, atrocious, verminous, rapacious, sadistic, bullying, invasive, grasping, psychopathic, twisted, warped, animalistic, belly-crawling, mouth-breathing, illiterate, innumerate, know-nothing, imbecilic, sheep-raping, horror movie extras masturbating into wads of money while fantasizing about war collateral damage...(inhale)...puppy-torturing, vacuous, mindless, nihilistic, evil, diseased, soulless, morally bankrupt, greedy, insecure, envious, kleptomaniac charnel-house mascots stewing in universal hatred for all life...(inhale)...toxic, ugly, bestial, humorless, loveless, compassionless, demonic human-shaped ruins forever slouching toward Bethlehem in search of some fresh nightmare to wreak on the defenseless via other people's money and heroism...(inhale)...Satanic monkey-shiat-throwing, cowardly, chickenhawkish, parasitic, baby's-candy-stealing, wife-beating, minority-purging, syphilitic Confederate poltergeists with erectile dysfunction...

...perverse, prurient, crocodile-eyed, necrophiliac mass-producers of human misery and gleeful destroyers of truth, justice, and the American way...sepulchre-hearted human deserts walking the Earth only to look for more victims...silly, stupid, ignorant bastards proud of every good thing they've never done, every person they've never been considerate toward, every fact they've never learned and will never acknowledge, and every virtue they will never possess or even attempt to comprehend...preternaturally drunken, bleary-eyed, zombie-like, empty vessels who wander aimlessly until given instruction by their masters...unthinking, unquestioning, unfeeling diabolus ex machina mockeries of the human condition, perpetually acting out a burlesque of the basest and least interesting psychological dysfunctions...
...face-chewing, self-devouring, medieval barbarian museum dioramas and depraved Nazi homunculi preserved in formaldehyde to frighten children...sick, ominous, loathsome,  Nosferatu-impersonating Gollum-acolytes feasting on the flesh of our society while complaining about its taste...tax-evading, sommelier-abusing, election-buying, yacht-aficionado hemmorhoids flying flags of convenience and berating their six-year-old Chinese employees for requesting bathroom breaks...
Republicans, you vile, repulsive, scum.  You're not leading this country.  You're not contributing to this country.  You're not even part of this country.  You are the maggot-ridden rot that arises in this country's damaged flesh; you are the vultures constantly picking at us to see if we're weak enough yet to become your next meal; you create problems where none would otherwise exist, just to further weaken America and quicken your own insatiable appetites; you are garbage, and you are traitors.  And you are not welcome in this country anymore.

tallen702: Walker: My governor is a scumbag, although not as big a scumbag as his attorney general kooky-inelli, who is running for governor.

/Virginian

You don't know scumbags then. Try Martin OweMalley across the river from you. As a former Virginian, I'd take McDonnell over O'Malley any day of the week. At least you're running a budget surplus down there, aren't trampling all over constitutional rights, and have a balance between NoVA and the rest of the state on the federal level.....

Yeah, um, how many Marylanders have been threatened with trans-vaginal rape for an unnecessary medical procedure?

Marcus Aurelius: He got a refund from his caterer?

Now THAT sounds fishy.

looks like a good old-fashioned kickback:
The catering company was owned by Todd Schneider, who had trained with Martha Stewart and was hired by the McDonnells to serve as the chief chef of the Executive Mansion in 2010.
Schneider left his job in 2011 amid a Virginia State Police investigation into alleged improprieties in kitchen operations. He was recently charged with four counts of embezzlement. Through an attorney, he declined to comment.
The catering documents indicate that the company offered the McDonnells a significant discount for the event. They were charged $30 a head for food that would generally cost $50 per guest. Discounts were also provided for equipment rentals and staffing costs. The documents also indicate that alcohol was to be supplied by the client.

well, given all that i'm willing to GUARANTEE McDonnell won;t be re-elected as governor.

/Va's 1-term limit for governors is the most asinine thing about often incredibly asinine state.

Albert911emt: WTF Indeed: Another 2016 frontrunner down. Rick Santorum still in the lead.

If Santorum ends up the republican nominee, then the dems will coast to the WH.

And begun, the GOP wars will.

MFK: Just remember citizens. Laws are for the rest of us, not our betters.

I laughed my ass off - he's not just a liar, but he's a stupid liar, at that. "No one would ever look at the paperwork for my daughter's wedding, nor would they actually examine a canceled check, so I can blithely lie about this clear violation of Virginia law to, well, everyone!"

I understand that politicians are crooked. I'm willing to accept a reasonable amount of graft. What I'm unwilling to accept is someone in the office too stupid to reasonably cover his or her tracks in doing so - someone dumb enough to fail this easily on something this simple, is someone dumb enough to make really bad legislative decisions in the name of his constituency. Virginia voters should find that offensive.