Guest blogged by Winter Patriot
According to ABC News and AP: Bob Ney Won’t Seek Re-Election
AP writer Joe Danborn has some other details, including:
However, he faced a tough challenge in November from Democrat Zack Space, who had made the Justice Department’s investigation into Ney a focus of his campaign.
The Pittsburgh Tribune Review has more, including some quotes from an exclusive interview with Ney: Ney drops out of fall race
Who went on that trip to Scotland? Let’s see …
There’s Tom Delay … oops! He’s not in Congress anymore, is he?
Then there’s Bob Ney … and oops! Soon he won’t be in Congress anymore either.
Soon, the only one of the three who will still be in Congress is Tom Feeney. And we have to wonder how long that will last…
Nothing wrong! Nope! There’s nothing wrong with any of this!!
Psst! Hey buddy — you wanna buy a Congressional Gold Medal?
Nothing wrong! Nope! Nothing wrong here!
Trust me: Nobody’s doing anything wrong! Just keep walking, just keep walking…
Abramoff is serving a 70-month prison sentence after pleading guilty in January to federal fraud and corruption charges related to the 2000 purchase of the SunCruz Casinos gambling fleet.
Ney is widely acknowledged as being “Representative No. 1” in court documents that detail spending by Abramoff, including a golfing trip to Scotland, a trip to the Super Bowl and campaign contributions.
Ney, who called Abramoff “dishonest and duplicitous,” said he was misled by the lobbyist and his business partners.
What? Abramoff “dishonest and duplicitous”? Is there no honor among these thieves? Color me shocked!!
“I have some options in the nongovernment sector,” he said.
I’m sure he does. Bob Ney’s credentials — including his selecton by CREW as one of top 13 Most Corrupt Members of Congress — will serve him well in the private sector.
Regular BRAD BLOG readers will remember that we have been covering this story for a long time now. For more background on today’s news, start here.
Yes. Wondering why the fallout from the Abramoff thing is so slow? They are removing the offenders before they’re brought down by the law. Mitigating damages. This means we have to work even harder to undo the ugly head trips making their voters keep voting against themselves.
And, these are not all southern bumpkins. Washington State has billboards up by fundamentalists and bumpkins against the Democratic Party. There are plenty of nitwits in California who vote to have their taxes lowered by $300 just to find that it lost them their jobs and left them with no safety net. It’s a country-wide problem.
The corruption is just a relatively-small part of the problem. They are enabling far more corrupt men. Our government, and military, down into the ranks, need to be cleaned out badly. There are seriously dangerous people in key positions, doing the bidding of even more seriously dangerous people. So. Let them take down the obvious impediments to keeping power, we have to show the greater problem anyway, and this COULD work in our favor.
If you have time to listen to this Mike Malloy Show, I highly recommend that you do so. It could make all the difference.
I’ve been a big anti-fan of Bob Ney ever since I learned it was the House Administrative Committee, of which he is chair, that was sitting on the Rush Holt bill that would have outlawed the touchscreen voting machines.
The Senate version of the bill, the Clinton-Boxer bill, has been similarly stalled since the fall of 2003, and why these two haven’t been screaming bloody murder about it since the spring of 2004 I can’t fathom. Are they secretly working for Diebold or something?
Hmm. Could this be a sign that Ney is losing confidence in Ken Blackwell’s ability to deliver the vote? Does he know something we should know???
Well isn’t that special?
Hmmmm..why do I get the feeling that there’s even more about to hit the fan, and Ney’s just trying to duck a little early?
No one quits unless he’s in HUGE trouble! Who does the GOP have lined up to replace him?
Next will be a Feeney story. These 2 guys are like 2 peas in a pod…next thing you know, Feeney will drop out.
ney out to pasture . . . . . or to the politica glue factory ? ? ?
I’m sure everyone here knows about the Ney/HAVA connection, but for those who may not — well Brad’s been on it for a long time.
The Soon-to-be-Indicted Rep. Bob Ney of Ohio’s Connection To Electoral Fraud
He better hope the judge lets the jurors smoke.
http://news.lp.findlaw.com/ap/o...591150d55.html
Has anybody seen my good friend Bob.
I just looked around, and he’s gone.
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It’ll be interesting to see if he shows up at the paper trial hearings promised for September pleading for that 900 million dollars again! I wonder if that request had anything to do with Diebold’s stock climbing recently.
Will we see you in September Bob?
That was supposed to say paper trail, but some kind of a paper trial actually sounds better!
“Another one bites the dust” — Queen