Should Michael Steele be fired as head of RNC over giving his sister funds for her defunct company during his 2006 campaign?
By John Amato Sunday Feb 08, 2009 1:00pmI think we need a blogger ethics panel. Maybe the Villagers will take a look at this.
Michael S. Steele, the newly elected chairman of the Republican National Committee, arranged for his 2006 Senate campaign to pay a defunct company run by his sister for services that were never performed, his finance chairman from that campaign has told federal prosecutors.
The U.S. attorney's office inadvertently sent the confidential document, a defense sentencing memorandum filed under seal, to The Washington Post after the newspaper requested the prosecution's sentencing memorandum.
In one of his allegations, Fabian points to a February 2007 payment by Steele's Senate campaign of more than $37,000 to Brown Sugar Unlimited, the company run by Steele's sister, Monica Turner. Campaign finance records list the expense as having been for "catering/web services." Turner filed papers to dissolve the company 11 months before the payment was received.
Steele answered the allegations on THIS WEEK:
In one of his allegations, Fabian points to a February 2007 payment by Steele's Senate campaign of more than $37,000 to Brown Sugar Unlimited, the company run by Steele's sister, Monica Turner. Campaign finance records list the expense as having been for "catering/web services." Turner filed papers to dissolve the company 11 months before the payment was received.
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Not without a fight. We'll see their hypocrisy in action over Steele. The same people who brayed over Daschle and Geithner will go on the warpath to cover their own asses.
"Fauxbama"
I love that. Librul people are so clever.
I swear the right's smarmy slams are just humorless and pathetic without a trace of nuance.
Keep it coming!
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but I sure don't think tax cheats should be rewarded with high government offices.
Good gravy, if that doesn't show bad judgement, I don't know what does!
What kind of VETTING process are they using to choose the head of the Republican National Committee, anyway?!
Doesn't seem like they've got their act together on this. I mean, it's not like they've got to vet and place dozens of new employees in an incoming presidential administration or anything. This is just one position!
GOP vetting might require either larceny or a promise of it, as a requirement for office.
and palin should be the nominee in 2012
we may indeed see the death of the repug party in our life times
amen
When he so perfectly represents the Repug's values, ethics, and principles.
He will fit right in!
Even if it's only for comic relief.
There'd be no one left...
keep it in the media for all it's worth. personally i can't listen to steele. such a robotic tool. f it was the dem. party all help would breakout on the "entertainment" shows.
that it was the US Attorney's Office who 'inadvertently' sent the confidential document to the WP.
Sometimes payback can be a b*tch.
Steele said that "work" was not a "job", so maybe he was referring to his own little unstable situation.....er.....his "job"......or.........er.....his "work".........whatever!!! Surely he didn't think they would leave him in that position for very long!!! Talk about delusional!!!!!
That's gotta be awkward.
Michael Steal.
He is qualified and meets all repug moral values. Now if he is against abortion but starves the baby and against gays but is one. He could be presidential material,
If that were so, there'd be no Republican office holders or party leaders left.
and, the company was dissolved 11 months beforehand? Was this "unlimited" company a touch, shall we say, phone sex-ish and Steele was trying to "clean up" the family portrait?
Inquiring minds and all that.
a matter of accounting and reconciliation! :-)
GOP = Corruption
"Michael S. Steele... arranged for his 2006 Senate campaign to pay a defunct company run by his sister for services that were never performed..."
We have it all wrong and Mikey is right. This is what they call work, or working the system - if you will, and apparently he did. So it (work) has a much, much better end result than say a "job".
He should probably be promoted to Rethuglicant Work Czar. I think he would perform quite well actually.
The repigs will allow him to keep his ill gotten gains because they all do it. He is the king of thieves and is expected to act like one.
He should be fired for this crime....but then again, let him stew for quite awhile until it is clear he should leave, and then appoint another crook in his place.
Not at all. He's probably the cleanest Republican they could fund. Aside from that, for as long as he's chair, he gives the repukes a permanent black eye.
I presume...
If (Brown Sugar) filed "Chapter 13, Title 11, United States Code" it will tell us something?
Amended: vs. her defunct company's other financial options...
for self-hatred.
Yes, Michael Steele is a crook-criminal-thug and a Republican to boot. Not all Republicans are criminals, but thugs love to be associated with the Republican Party. Steele fits in with the GOP thugs from right-wing hate radio to the criminals of Blackwater, USA, Inc.-to-Halliburton!
The Washington Post, in article written by Henri E. Cauvin, on February 7, 2009, reported that:
Mike Tyson was once married to Michael Steele's half-sister, pediatrician Monica Turner, M.D., who ultimately sued for divorce over claims he (Tyson) fathered a child by someone else.
Ultimately all of Tyson's future earnings and proceeds from the sale of his Connecticut mansion would end up going towards payment of a $9 million divorce settlement to Monica Turner.
Turner also had a lien on Tyson's Las Vegas estate, at the time of these divorce proceedings, which is next to Wayne Newton's residence.
Yes, the Republicans, Michael Steele, notwithstanding are a bunch of criminals and thugs. It is time the Democratic Party stop appeasing these GOP thugs!!!!
I do not look at the Democratic Party's and Obama outreach program with the GOP thugs as anything but weakness and cowardice by the Democrats. The Democrats will end up giving in more to GOP demands in water-downed bills.
The GOP is the party of criminality and irredeemable corruption. Ony the maladjusted in our society are attracted to it. If they fire this criminal, they just appoint another. At this point, the GOP exists only to prey upon and parasitize society. They have no honest or honorable politicians. The only thing we can be sure of is that whoever occupies that position will be a liar, a criminal a sociopath and a social parasite. One is as good as another, as they work their way into frnge oblivion.
the bookkeeping for this claim:
"Anderson, Steele's spokesman, said Turner "did a lot of media stuff" for the campaign. He later provided a copy of an invoice for nearly $15,000 for catering services for one event in October 2006 and for another in July 2007. The invoice was dated December 2006, a discrepancy Anderson said was a typographical error."
I say we should just not say a word on this one. He is perfect for Democrats. He has NO IDEA what he is talking about. That he continues to go out and say that government spending and even gov't contracts don't create jobs is priceless. He thinks that nobody recognizes that $600 billion dollars are spent per year just on defense contracts that employ millions of americans. It is priceless.
does it really matter? Is moraly bankrupt candidate A worse then moraly bankrupt candidate B?
You could shuffle all the Republicans around to different jobs, from the house to the senate and vise versa and none of their bullshit would change at all. The trouble is all their heads are replacable and the twisted message stays the same.
No he should not be fired, for a number of reasons.
First, he is black, and the fact that he is black proves that the GOP is not really a racist front machine for bigoted white southerners. (Please pay no attention to the RNC candidates leaving the whites only country club in a hurry) You with me so far? Good. Because they really have me convinced they have changed......yeeeeeup.
Secondly, the acts that he is accused of perpetrating are in fact common practice in modern Republican ideology. See Norm Coleman, Ted Stevens, Sarah Palin to understand how political office in the US was in fact meant to be a means of disbursing funds and assistance to people in need. The GOP isn't against helping Americans, they just like to do it directly, face to face, you know, real personal like. All he was doing was spreading the American Dream. Don't get all communist stimulus package on me now, because,
Lastly, just as the Force must always be balanced by the Dark Side, and what tastes great must be less filling, the Democratic party's intellectually sound, well spoken, and visionary leader must always be countered by an ass-clown who thinks he can convince people that there is a difference between work and a job.
NO.
This guy couldn't find his own ass with both hands. He's dumb as a stump, he has chronic foot-in-mouth disease, he's a megalomaniac AND he's a chronic liar.
He'll be a complete embarrassment to the re-Thuglic party and is going to make them look worse than they already look - a nearly Herculean task.
I say they keep him.
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Yes, but it won't happen. Why would Republicans start doing the right thing now?
Please leave Steele alone...this man is comic gold.
How about this... we'll fire Steele, when the Democruds fire Geithner and a bunch of Obama's cabinet.
And we'll do a better vetting when the Dems do.
Gotta love the liberal double standards.. It's okay for us to have a bunch of criminals in government but not the Repubs. Come on people, don't be a bunch of fricking hypocrites.
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