McCain's Indicted AZ Campaign Co-Chair Accused Of Defrauding Pro-Life Groups
By Logan Murphy Friday Mar 07, 2008 8:34am
Via ABC News:
Rep. Rick Renzi, R-Ariz., allegedly defrauded dozens of pro-life organizations for hundreds of thousands of dollars to fund his first congressional bid, according to an analysis of the recent indictment against him, a state insurance claim and an interview with an insurance lawyer involved in the case.
When federal prosecutors indicted Renzi, 49, on 35 felony counts two weeks ago, many reports focused on alleged crimes stemming from a complicated series of land swaps the congressman facilitated.
Organizations such as Arizona Right-to-Life, the Hope Crisis Pregnancy Center and the Wickenburg Pregnancy Resource Center paid insurance premiums to Renzi's insurance firm, Renzi & Company, but received notices their insurance coverage was going to be cancelled for nonpayment, according to a 2003 complaint filed with the State of Arizona. The complaint was first reported by the Phoenix New Times. Read on...
It's not clear if Renzi has stepped down from his position in John McCain's campaign, but if the Senator hasn't asked him to go away by now, this news should seal the deal. St. McSame is having enough difficulty holding on to the hard right wing of the party as it is, and for word to spread that someone this close to his campaign is suspected of ripping off their bread and butter groups, it will NOT sit well with the elders.
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I personally think everytime anyone mentions Renzi we should post the video of him canoodling with Katherine Harris. Speaks wonders.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPmVcmrim5k
Defrauded the fundies?
Maybe he's not all bad.
Or maybe he is.
McCaine is already having trouble keeping his cool. A few more "bad news" days ought to bring out the Old John McInsane apoplexy and intemperate mouth. If the press keep plugging we might be treated to a Bomb, Bomb McCain meltdown. Sweet.
If I was a right winger, I think I would be starting to get a little skeptical anytime someone asked for money. Between this and NRCC type shenanigans Bushie ethics seem to have totally taken over. Diogenes is going to have no luck among that crowd.
Typical Republican MO. What's in it for me? A nest of liars and thieves.
Pro-life groups, you mean anti-choice groups right?
SteveinSC @ 3:
Unfortunately, this won't get much play in the national media.
Anyone else notice that the corporate / repiglican media has reported this story, yes, but in that reporting this co-campaign chairman for McCain is never identified that way ... simply as a 'congressman from arizona' ... yet another effort by the corporate/ repiglican media to shield and help their corporate boy McCain so that he can be installed as the next CORPORATE PRESIDENT ......... in order for our government and social system to be FOR THE FEW AND BY THE FEW ..
Defrauding pro-life groups? Give the man a medal and a full pardon!
Not really ...
Doesn't matter what broken deckchairs your throw overboard, McCain, you're still captain of the GOPtanic. Get the wetsuit ready.
When are people going to wake up and realize Capitalism is nothing but a con game run by the corrupt?
Joementum @ 7:
Agreed - they're happily sitting in his lap and willing to roll on their backs so he can rub their tummies.
L.A. Confidential @ 11:
Capitalism=corporatism=fascism adopted by nazism and exported to the U,S.A.
I for one would be shocked, shocked, if any repuke with national connections at that level wasn't a "crook & a liar."
By the way, I really love the name of your on-line magazine JA.
Ron @ 13:
Exactly. True Enterprise and Prosperity versus "Them".
Well it's not like he did it to anyone that matters.
Kidding.
Kind of.
But it does make clear the kind of person mcstain likes to keep company with.
shrub lite? Hardly. More like a shrubstitute. A clone. Only this one is programmed for more.
More corruption, lies, deceit, lawlessness, torture and war.
Kiss what rights you have left goodbye if this m*therf*cker wins.
These guys aren't capitalists, they are oil monopolists in capitalist clothing...
Just because they claim the label does not mean the ascribe to it's code.
And it is no longer a monopoly of a given industry, that industry has been able to stomp out potential competition on a massive scale.
Proof? Industrial hemp... anyone want to tell us why DuPont sent it's top lawyers to fight Canada's legalization of hemp, which has not value as a drug? They are using the ongoing "evil drug" myth to perpetuate one of the longest standing and most transparent "trusts" in our history. Even some of our most venerated farm state Senators have joined in this patent deception.
I can not imagine they have actually been duped, they are too smar that, so they must actually be considered complicit in the fraud.
They are monopolists, plain and simple. We have never known if capitalism might work, we have never seen it for real.
As a self-proclaimed "social capitalist" I believe Jefferson's yeoman farmer was the model we can look to for an example of what might represent true capitalism. But the factory farms have taken even that noble idea out of the economic loop.
Capitalists? I think not. We have never seen it at work, the greedy robber barrons of our own era have never walked the walk that they always talk.
He's wearing his flag pin, though. Obviously he's patriotic...because he accesorizes.
Considering the nature of Renzi's victms, I think Mccain's newest campaign slogan should be "There's one born every minute..."
JEP @ 19:
That was Bush and Cheneys.
Thats precious. Don't these folks ever learn ? After Bush used them like cheap whores and wiped himself on the drapes. Guess some will always vote against their best interests.
OT: Bush did as promised, just vetoing the Bill that would have outlawed/prohibited
the use of waterboarding as a means of torture. Are others, like me, anxiously awaiting
for McCain to give us his position and statement on bush's veto? That is, McCain has
on numerous occasion indicated that he is strongly opposed to waterboarding as a
method of torture and one would hope/believe that bush's action will result in McCain
expressing some disbelief/outrage regarding the veto. Or, will McCain, again and as
usual, waffle on this too???
Time and scenery has changed and now rather then the Sound of Music we have The Dixie Chicks sing and sound as beautiful as Julie Andrews did in a comparable FASCIST landscape.
klyde @ 6:
Your mother made a choice as well. Think about it.
Doggiebobo @ 22:
Or, said another way, can McCain do the tap dance, two step, as well as
bush did while waiting for McCain to arrive at W/H for congratulation ceromony??
bluegal @ 1:
Man, get a room. She def has a wide on for him.
He may be a crook, he is a republican, but that is one fine looking crooked Republican, Tootie says YUM, YUM.
Sailor Art Thomas, Jr. @ 9:
Exactely, but You all have to wonder if there aren't a lot of folks talking about this when the collection plate comes around.
RePUG insurance agents. Count your fingers going out
More proof of just how powerful the devil can be.....yada yada yada....
Contrary to logic, this type of "falling" just reinforces the true believers. As in, if it can happen to Pastor Haggard, that shows us we are all vulnerable.
What BS.
This goes to show that if there weren't any poor people to steal from, trusting people to exploit, or honest people to grind down into silence, guys like him will just turn their energies on one another.
It's in their blood.
seevee @ 26:
OMG! That's hysterical. Even funnier is that about halfway through, everything the guy in front of them says starts to sound like a double-entendre describing what's going behind his back.
"If you're doing business with a religious son of a bitch, get it in writing. His word isn't worth shit, not with the good Lord telling him how to fuck you on the deal."
William S. Burroughs
Renzi is a religious prick who screwed over other religious pricks as well as his constituency. As a person who lives in Renzi's District 1, I'm happy to see the swine twist.
Give the poor guy a break. He has like 8 or 9 kids. He was just looking out for his family, as any good red blooded American would do.
if the evangelicals can be suckered in, so can the pro-lifers.
nohobear @ 33:
My mistake. He has TWELVE kids to feed and clothe! He had to steal from the pro-life coffers. The survival of his FAMILY™ (Republican trademark) was at stake.
As a side note, Richard and his lovely wife Roberta, have named all their children names starting with R. Isn't that precious!
This from Wikipedia
Early life, education, and family
Renzi was born to an Italian-American family[9] in Fort Monmouth, New Jersey. He attended high school in Annandale, Virginia before moving to Sierra Vista, Arizona in 1975, where his father, now-retired U.S. Army Major General Eugene Renzi, served at Fort Huachuca. Renzi graduated from Buena High School and then attended Northern Arizona University, receiving a B.S. in criminal justice in 1980. Renzi played football for NAU and was a starting offensive lineman.
Renzi's father was the executive vice president of Mantech International, a company providing information technology services to a number of intelligence and defense-related federal government agencies.
Renzi and his wife Roberta are the parents of 12 children, the most of any member of Congress. Additionally, all of his children have first names that begin with the letter R. [1]
In honor of his accomplishment, we should call him
Robber Rick.
or to salute his pro-creative abilities
Rubberless Rick
"He has 12 children."
Yes, and now he will be forced to eat a few of them. Tsk.
klyde @ 6:
C&L has a history of letting the right wing frame the debate. It's a great deal for the right wing, we let them define themselves positively as pro-life simply because they do not believe a woman should have a choice as to what constitutes a life, and at the same time they can support the death penalty, the deaths of our troops in Iraq, and the deaths of untold thousands of Iraqis.
They both are crooks. How could you be a republiCON and not be a crook? Impossible! Right to life, yea, right, they love the fetus and hate the child. Let's hope John McBush keeps Renzi as his co-chair so their is an honor between thieves.
Geez, another lying, thieving rethug! Whoda thunk it??? Is he a gay pedophile too?? Bwaahaahaa
bluegal @ 1:
Wonderful!! Must viewing for the entire country!!
I noted this week that the SF Chronicle ran the story of his indictment, written by AP, and not one mention, not one, was made of his connection to McCain's campaign.. Strange isn't it? Doubt that would have happened had it been either Dem candidate. Of course, no one expects a conservative-run newspaper like th Chron to bother with news that people could use, just press releases that require no work by journalists.... assuming there are any left at the Chron.
Rick Renzi is a typical Repugnican politico. What a grand old party!
It's hard to teach old Republican dogs new tricks.
It's something in their genetic makeup, or upbringing, this lying, cheating and stealing.
Which makes all the Bush criminals throwing their support behind McCain that more alarming. You just know that Rove will get the Republicans at Diebold to try to "fix" another presidential election. And without voting machines having paper trails, who would know?
Why the Democrats, since January 2007, have not been pushing legislation (over and over again if necessary) in Congress to make paper trails mandatory, is anyones guess.
And the process would be so easy. Attach printers to all the voting terminals, print out multiple copies, two for the voter and one for the possible "recount" election officials. Then, the voter can immediately check a "hard copy" to make certain that their vote was correctly recorded by the voting machine. Plus, they can keep a copy for their own records, while sending the second copy to their party headquarters in case any questions arise, in cases where "partisan" election official might try to "game" the count. And some printers nowadays imprint an invisible dot pattern on any copies produced (for tracking copies to specific printers), so there'd be less chance of fraud.
After over seven years of the worst and most vile administration in American history, we now know the value of accountability, especially where uber partisan politicians are concerned.
Considering the nature of Renzi’s victms, I think Mccain’s newest campaign slogan should be “There’s one born every minute…”
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The entire Republican Party should be accused accused of defrauding pro-life groups.
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