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Culture of Corruption: Obama U.S. Attorney nominee clams up

By Michelle Malkin • October 28, 2009 10:23 AM

What is this woman hiding?

Two weeks ago, I pointed you to the festering corruption scandal involving President Obama’s US Attorney nominee in Colorado, Stephanie Villafuerte.

Villafuerte is entangled in the railroading of Denver ICE agent Cory Voorhis — whom federal prosecutors tried to punish after he blew the whistle on sweetheart deals for criminal illegal aliens during the 2006 gubernatorial campaign. A jury acquitted Voorhis of all federal charges. He’s trying to get his job back. At least one of his supervisors has admitted lying.

Villafuerte served on Democrat gubernatorial candidate Bill Ritter’s campaign team while on leave from the Denver D.A.’s office and from all local news accounts was deeply involved in the witchhunt against agent Voorhis.

But she refuses to answer any questions about her role in the case.

And now she is poised to take over as US Attorney.

Transparency? Ethics? Accountability? Anyone?

From the Denver Post, unresolved contradictions and double standards:

President Barack Obama’s nominee as Colorado’s next U.S. attorney told the FBI two years ago that she never spoke to anyone in the Denver District Attorney’s Office about an illegal immigrant who became a controversial figure in the 2006 gubernatorial race.

FBI interview summaries describe Stephanie Villafuerte as saying she had “no conversations” with anyone at the DA’s office about the illegal immigrant, Carlos Estrada-Medina.

But the FBI apparently never asked Villafuerte, the former chief deputy DA who was then working for Bill Ritter’s campaign, why she left a phone message for DA spokeswoman Lynn Kimbrough that Kimbrough noted was about Estrada-Medina. The FBI also apparently never asked her about the nature of a series of phone calls she exchanged over the next two days with Kimbrough and First Assistant DA Chuck Lepley. Those calls came both before and after an order by Lepley to a subordinate to run a criminal history check of Estrada-Medina in a restricted federal database.

It can be a crime to access the National Crime Information Center computer for a non-law-enforcement purpose.

In 2006 and 2007, the FBI was investigating who ran a check on Estrada-Medina’s name through the database after Bob Beauprez’s gubernatorial campaign ran a television ad confirming that Estrada-Medina, a suspected heroin dealer and illegal immigrant, had once received a plea deal under the name Walter Ramo while Ritter was Denver’s district attorney.

Eventually, a federal immigration agent named Cory Voorhis was charged with running an NCIC check on Estrada-Medina and providing the result to the Beauprez campaign. He was later acquitted at trial.

But the 10-year veteran, who maintained he accessed the NCIC with his supervisor’s permission because Voorhis was upset over plea deals made by Ritter’s office with deportable immigrants, lost his job and is now fighting through an administrative proceeding to get it back.

Law enforcement authorities were aware that the Denver DA’s office and a Texas investigator had also run Estrada-Medina’s name through the NCIC. No one in those offices was charged with a crime.

Team Obama’s rotten Justice Department is going with the full evasion strategy.

The Colorado GOP wants answers — and so should you:

Colorado GOP chairman Dick Wadhams on Monday asked the Senate Judiciary Committee in Washington to demand answers from Colorado U.S. attorney nominee Stephanie Villafuerte about whether she may have acted inappropriately during the 2006 gubernatorial campaign.

“Colorado deserves better than a U.S. attorney who apparently might have used her former employer, the Denver district attorney’s office, for blatant partisan political purposes to help Gov. Ritter in violation of the law,” Wadhams wrote in a letter to committee chairman Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., and ranking Republican Jeff Sessions of Alabama.

Villafuerte, currently Bill Ritter’s deputy chief of staff, has declined to answer questions from The Denver Post about what types of conversations she had with representatives from the Denver DA’s office in the days before and after a restricted federal database was accessed and whether that information was obtained to help Ritter’s campaign. FBI interview records do not indicate that she ever was asked about the access by the investigating agent.

Villafuerte, then a chief deputy Denver district attorney, had taken a leave of absence to work on Ritter’s campaign. Ritter is the former Denver DA.

The Post reported Friday that statements by Villafuerte and other DA representatives — as described by an agent in recently obtained FBI interview summaries — do not always comport with available records, and the summaries portray the witnesses offering conflicting explanations on some key points.

Villafuerte has declined to speak about the issue over the past two years, and last week, Ritter spokesman Evan Dreyer said the U.S. Department of Justice has asked her not to talk to the media until after the nomination process is over.

And whaddya know? Voorhis has now been conveniently gagged by an administrative order.

The Denver Post editorial board wants answers from the Senate Judiciary Committee — and so should you:

Over the past two years, Villafuerte has declined requests from The Post to describe her contact with former colleagues at the Denver District Attorney’s office around the time the database was accessed.

But the Senate Judiciary Committee needs to ask her about it. The public deserves to know more details about the incident before Villafuerte gets any closer to becoming the state’s top federal prosecutor.

Post reporter Karen E. Crummy obtained FBI records about the incident, which took place when Villafuerte was working for Bill Ritter’s gubernatorial campaign. The controversy began when Republican gubernatorial candidate Bob Beauprez ran an ad that said Ritter, the former Denver district attorney and the Democratic candidate for governor, had given an illegal immigrant a lenient plea bargain. That immigrant went on, the ad said, to commit a sex crime in California.

The Ritter camp contended that in order to link the criminal, Carlos Estrada-Medina, to crimes in both Colorado and California, a restricted federal criminal database would have to have been accessed. Ritter’s campaign was incensed, and called for the Colorado Bureau of Investigation to investigate.

Eventually, Cory Voorhis, a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent, was charged with improperly accessing the database. He was found not guilty at trial, but lost his job anyway.

Meanwhile, we had other questions that quickly arose. How did Ritter’s campaign know the dots could only be connected by accessing the National Crime Information Center (NCIC) database? And what to make of a series of phone calls that Villafuerte, then working for Ritter’s campaign, made to the Denver district attorney’s office around the time the DA’s office accessed Estrada-Medina’s records?

What precisely was the nature of Villafuerte’s interaction with the DA’s office when the NCIC was accessed? Did Villafuerte ask her former co-workers in the DA’s office to access it to confirm the Estrada- Medina information?

Villafuerte, according to FBI interview summaries, said she had “no conversations” with anyone about Estrada-Medina. But Lynn Kimbrough, a DA spokeswoman who got a phone message from Villafuerte at the time in question, noted the message pertained to Estrada-Medina.

Why was Villafuerte calling Kimbrough about Estrada-Medina? And what was the content of the phone conversations or messages that Villafuerte had with or left for Kimbrough and First Assistant DA Chuck Lepley during the following days?

Call the Senate Judiciary Committee:

United States Senate
Committee on the Judiciary
224 Dirksen Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510

Majority Office
Phone:202-224-7703
Fax:202-224-9516 Minority Office
Phone:202-224-5225
Fax:202-224-9102

Minority Office
Phone:202-224-5225
Fax:202-224-9102

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More coverage at Main Justice.

Cory Voorhis’s legal defense fund page is here, with links to many pre-gag order interviews.

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#1

On October 28th, 2009 at 10:26 am, bansharia said:

who does her hair Blago?
#2

On October 28th, 2009 at 10:29 am, et said:

Culture of Corruption Volume II is writing itself.
#3

On October 28th, 2009 at 10:38 am, Tennessee Dave said:

Transparency? Ethics? Accountability?

Going with yesterday’s Jeopardy thread – What are principles that are lacking in the Democrat Party?
“Alex, I’ll take Other Meaningless Terms for $1000.”
#4

On October 28th, 2009 at 10:39 am, bansharia said:

I cant wait for MM’s next book am sick of hearing about this last one.
#5

On October 28th, 2009 at 10:49 am, ArizonaNeanderthal said:

EVERYBODY Obama appoints to anything seems to be corrupt, communist or both. The man wants to be known by the company he keeps–and that is how I know him, that and his “transformative change”. He has appointed the Wise Latina Lady of the Broad Butt, Judge Denny Chin, Judge Andre M. Davis-all have a hate and contempt for anything I love. His own wife is a scam artist and his top advisers are about as cynical as men can be.

But perhaps that is a good thing: this boldness in corruption and communism is too big to be stealthy-PERHAPS millions more will see the dangers and threats these Obaminations are. As Obama and the Fellow Travelers take our country apart in huge chunks instead of piecemeal the pain will become too great to tolerate. Hopefully.

But fearfully I doubt Axelrod, Emanuel, Reid, Pelosi and the ManChild will let anything so unimportant as an election thwart their power grab. These are true believers.

But Mr. Bush destroyed Ramos and Compean to satisfy some sick agenda. This is not new. Stephanie Villafuerte is but one more whore is a sea of whores. Welcome to Babylon on the Potomac Ms. Villafuerte. Remember Transparency, Ethics, Accountability, are your motto. We wait with baited breath.
#6

On October 28th, 2009 at 10:55 am, DBNinKY said:

Denver Post:

Despite requests from The Denver Post over two years, Villafuerte has refused to say why she asked Kimbrough about Estrada-Medina, or to describe the nature of the phone conversations she had with Kimbrough and Lepley over the two days that followed.

She also declined to answer questions this week about whether she provided the FBI with a complete accounting of any contacts she had with the DA’s office about Estrada-Medina. A message and detailed e-mail left by The Post for Villafuerte were returned instead by Evan Dreyer, spokesman for Ritter. He said Villa fuerte, now Ritter’s deputy chief of staff, would not comment until possibly after she is confirmed by the U.S. Senate as Colorado’s top federal law enforcement official.

“When it’s over, she may be more able to talk,” Dreyer said.

It can be a crime to make false statements to the FBI in the course of an investigation.

This has to be a joke the Obama ad is playing on the media – did the administration really think that because they refuse to vet US Attorney and cabinet nominees, no one in the media or blogosphere would do it?
#7

On October 28th, 2009 at 10:58 am, jangar said:

Team Obama’s rotten Justice Department is going with the full evasion strategy.

The WH response will be:

Obama doesn’t know anything about it.

Business as usual. Besides, we’ll be sexist and racist for bringing it up in the first place. See Sotomayor.
#8

On October 28th, 2009 at 11:00 am, b-cat said:

But Mr. Bush destroyed Ramos and Compean to satisfy some sick agenda. This is not new. Stephanie Villafuerte is but one more whore is a sea of whores. Welcome to Babylon on the Potomac Ms. Villafuerte.

Oooo, nice. Really. Excellent piece of writing, AN.
#9

On October 28th, 2009 at 11:05 am, zyzzyg said:

Yep, questions should be asked, and answered. That being said, what of the following questions?

How did the Republican gubenatorial candidate Bob Beauprez learn of Carlos Estrada-Medina (aka, Walter Ramo)? Did someone run an NCIC check on behalf of Bob Beauprez? Was it Voorhis? He admitted he ran the check. It was Beauprez campaign that first raised the issue of Estrada-Medina in an ad, correct?

At issue is, whether someone was looking for this answer on behalf of Ritter, and was it Villafuerte? The FBI did conduct an investigation.

Was the initial NCIC check done for the benefit of Beauprez?

Yep, Estarda-Medina received a plea deal. Was that normal for the circumstances? Did someone in Ritter’s DA office drop the ball on this particular prosecution by not examining Estrada-Medina’s immigration status? Is that the point Beauprez was making? The plea deal was done when Ritter was DA. Who appointed him?

Yep, questions should be asked, and answered. And, Voorhis who was acquitted should get his job back. Though he should have been suspended with pay, or reassigned to a desk job, until the matter had been resolved. Isn’t that normal under the circumstances?
#10

On October 28th, 2009 at 11:16 am, RedDog said:

Graveytraining bureaucrats, always above and beyond the law. She’ll get a pass. After all, she didn’t kill anyone.
Geez…
#11

On October 28th, 2009 at 11:19 am, jangar said:

2 thumbs up for this nomination…she’ll fit right in with all the other miscreants at the Big O bash.
#12

On October 28th, 2009 at 11:21 am, jsmiddleton4 said:

If just ONE main stream liberal media outlet would ask any question about this kind of appointment the whole thing would come tumbling down.

Gotta wonder how long the msm will stay on board when their ratings and income continue to drop like lead balloons.
#13

On October 28th, 2009 at 11:45 am, prendad said:

Finally, someone has proven the concept of perpetual motion: The Obama Political Sleaze Machine! It runs on and on and on. Nothing seems to be able to stop it.
#14

On October 28th, 2009 at 11:53 am, ArizonaNeanderthal said:

On October 28th, 2009 at 11:00 am, b-cat said:

But Mr. Bush destroyed Ramos and Compean to satisfy some sick agenda. This is not new. Stephanie Villafuerte is but one more whore is a sea of whores. Welcome to Babylon on the Potomac Ms. Villafuerte.

Oooo, nice. Really. Excellent piece of writing, AN.

I think I appreciate that.
#15

On October 28th, 2009 at 11:56 am, b-cat said:

I think I appreciate that.

It was a compliment, AN.
#16

On October 28th, 2009 at 11:58 am, Ron said:

So,is there any way this WH could be any more pandering and corrupt? Hard to see how. But to twist a popular saying, I guess the victors are spoiled.
#17

On October 28th, 2009 at 12:07 pm, cheapseat said:

i wonder how much this bimbette paid obama for the job. look at her donation records and that of her firm. follow the money.
#18

On October 28th, 2009 at 12:11 pm, Divapalooza said:

She looks like the gal that contributes on the Today Show. Is that the same gal?
#19

On October 28th, 2009 at 12:32 pm, radio relay said:

Still waiting for the Denver TV News “investigative” reporters to look into this …. They were so quick to pointout the city employess and Airport Cops taking long coffee breaks … as well as being all over the original Cory Voorhis story …

Funny thing, they have no interest in this one, though.

Paula Woodward, Tony Kovaleski, John Ferrugia, anybody ???

…. and crickets chirp
#20

On October 28th, 2009 at 12:35 pm, cicerokid said:

Finally! A liberal scuzzbag with eye-appeal!
#21

On October 28th, 2009 at 12:43 pm, FirstSkirt said:

This story has floated in and out of

The Denver Post

here. The Post is so left-leaning, they failed to report any of the important details because they are solidly in Gov Ritter’s camp. They endorsed Villafuerte in a Sunday Perspective editorial page and none of this was mentioned. She is a die-hard, tough Dem and she’ll fit in nicely with the donks in DC.
#22

On October 28th, 2009 at 12:43 pm, Rogue Cheddar said:

But the FBI apparently never asked Villafuerte, the former chief deputy DA who was then working for Bill Ritter’s campaign, why she left a phone message for DA spokeswoman Lynn Kimbrough that Kimbrough noted was about Estrada-Medina. The FBI also apparently never asked her about the nature of a series of phone calls she exchanged over the next two days with Kimbrough and First Assistant DA Chuck Lepley.

Would this be the same FBI that investigated the OKC bombing and TWA flight 800?
Not exactly Mulder and Scully!
#23

On October 28th, 2009 at 12:50 pm, Rogue Cheddar said:

On October 28th, 2009 at 12:35 pm, cicerokid said:
Finally! A liberal scuzzbag with eye-appeal!

Careful, she could be a Two-Face!

Two-face – describes a girl who looks good in one lighting condition, and ugly in another. Also used: “hotsy totsy, hotsy notsy.”
#24

On October 28th, 2009 at 12:54 pm, spaceycakes said:

this is the blinkard, philistine, pig-ignorance I’ve come to expect from that non-creative garbage…
#25

On October 28th, 2009 at 1:05 pm, Rogue Cheddar said:

On October 28th, 2009 at 12:54 pm, spaceycakes said:
this is the blinkard, philistine, pig-ignorance I’ve come to expect from that non-creative garbage…

Who me?
#26

On October 28th, 2009 at 1:10 pm, ArizonaNeanderthal said:

On October 28th, 2009 at 12:35 pm, cicerokid said:

Finally! A liberal scuzzbag with eye-appeal!

Would that be like the Winchester 1 in 10,000? Rather rare you might say

Careful people-it is almost Halloween and Helen Thomas might get you! I can not remember; is it silver bullets or a wooden stake for Helen Thomas?
#27

On October 28th, 2009 at 1:20 pm, cicerokid said:

If Helen Thomas bites me, please use both the bullets and the stake.
#28

On October 28th, 2009 at 1:23 pm, Rogue Cheddar said:

On October 28th, 2009 at 1:20 pm, cicerokid said:
If Helen Thomas bites me, please use both the bullets and the stake.

In the head, double tap! For surely you will have turned into a zombie.
#29

On October 28th, 2009 at 1:24 pm, spaceycakes said:

o noes, Rogue. Never you.

This Zero Administration…
#30

On October 28th, 2009 at 1:30 pm, Rogue Cheddar said:

On October 28th, 2009 at 1:24 pm, spaceycakes said:
o noes, Rogue. Never you.

This Zero Administration…

(whew!
#31

On October 28th, 2009 at 2:06 pm, graysonret said:

What do you expect from a corrupt government? Of course, more corrupt people will come in. Birds of a feather….
#32

On October 28th, 2009 at 3:30 pm, rocketman said:

***
It’s OK–she is just another “Wise Latina” who will do a very good job when the STALINIST SHOW TRIALS start soon. COMRADE OBAMA (PBUH) is “stacking the deck” in preparation to change the U.S.A. into the new United Socialist States of Amerikka.
***
Enjoy the Gulags, Peons! A Gusto!
***
John Bibb
***
#33

On October 28th, 2009 at 3:41 pm, beachmom said:

She should fit right in with the Chicago thuggery.

On a serious note:
This is disgusting. It’s disgusting that the media are such sold out lap dogs, staring into Obama’s eyes that they don’t care that our justice system is being turned into a thugocracy.
#34

On October 28th, 2009 at 10:39 pm, vickisoup said:

FBI interview summaries describe Stephanie Villafuerte as saying she had “no conversations” with anyone at the DA’s office about the illegal immigrant, Carlos Estrada-Medina.

Sound a little like, “I did not have sex with that woman, Miss Lewinsky, not one time”? We know how that turned out.
#35

On October 29th, 2009 at 11:16 am, Dimsdale said:

The cleaner they claim to be, the dirtier they turn out being.
#36

On October 29th, 2009 at 12:19 pm, PhredE said:

One particularly interesting and coincidental aspect of this, is that the ranking Repub member, Jeff Sessions, is also a former US Attorney.
I know I can count on him to do the right thing. Hopefully, he can convince many of the lesser Senators to do the same…

If you reside in the one of states with representation on the Judiciary Committee, it’s even more important to call your senator and let ‘em know how you feel.

Senate Judiciary Committee Members:

Jeff Sessions
Ranking Member, R-Alabama
Biography

Orrin G. Hatch
R-Utah
Biography

Chuck Grassley
R-Iowa
Biography

Jon Kyl
R-Arizona
Biography

Lindsey Graham
R-South Carolina
Biography

John Cornyn
R-Texas
Biography

Tom Coburn
R-Oklahoma
Biography

Patrick J. Leahy
Chairman, D-Vermont
Biography

Herb Kohl
D-Wisconsin
Biography

Dianne Feinstein
D-California
Biography

Russ D. Feingold
D-Wisconsin
Biography

Chuck Schumer
D-New York
Biography

Dick J. Durbin
D-Illinois
Biography

Benjamin L. Cardin
D-Maryland
Biography

Sheldon Whitehouse
D-Rhode Island
Biography

Amy Klobuchar
D-Minnesota
Biography

Ted Kaufman
D-Delaware
Biography

Arlen Specter
D-Pennsylvania
Biography

Al Franken
D-Minnesota
Biography
#37

On October 29th, 2009 at 12:37 pm, right_on said:

Finally! A liberal scuzzbag with eye-appeal!

Do you remember the old saying;
“Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes all the way to the bone.“

Like everything else offered up by liberals; a package of cr*p, with window dressing. Par for the course.
#38

On October 29th, 2009 at 1:11 pm, rambler said:

Getting chosen by BHO may be the kiss of death. As he rewards all these low life radicals and brings them into the public eye, the better it is to investigate them. None of these people are squeaky clean. Bring on the corruption, all of it. It’s time to get out that mop and sweep these Constitution hating radicals out of this country.
#39

On October 29th, 2009 at 1:41 pm, AlohaGuy said:

Like everything else offered up by liberals; a package of cr*p, with window dressing. Par for the course.

To be fair to the left – most of the time the window dressing is sadly lacking…
#40

On October 29th, 2009 at 1:44 pm, thetoysurgeon said:

When this abomination is over I want to personally pull the lanyard on these traitors and watch em swing.
#41

On October 29th, 2009 at 3:01 pm, Member-VRWC said:

Obama’s record for tapping sleazebags to fill government positions remains perfect.

If you’re known by the company you keep, it’s simple … Obama is a sleazebag.
#42

On October 29th, 2009 at 3:38 pm, emjem24 said:

It’s all about patronage and how to break the law to suit the Dems. The Dems don’t believe in fair play and the law when they can take shortcuts and cheat the system.

All this chick knows how to do is participate in quid pro quo. If she performs the orders of her master Bill Ritter well enough she’ll be rewarded with a job that shouldn’t be hers.

This isn’t a “meritocracy” it’s a “thugocracy.

As someone who now lives in Colorado, I’m tired of the guilt racket that these dems perpetrate on the rest of us when OPM eventually runs out and they need more of our money to keep the likes of the Pioneer Museum in Colorado Springs open. The Arts, like a lot of Dem pet projects, don’t know how to manage money because they never took a freakin’ finance course.

Bill Ritter is a disgrace along with this chick. I don’t know what Coloradoans were thinking when they elected Ritter but they are as uninformed in their fence-sitting independence as the people they elect.
#43

On October 29th, 2009 at 3:41 pm, FilmLadd said:

On October 28th, 2009 at 10:26 am, bansharia said:

who does her hair Blago?

Hey, back off, she may be protecting some endangered species up in there like Peter’s beard in Family Guy.
#44

On October 29th, 2009 at 4:11 pm, Savage24 said:

I said this before and will say it again. Only the corrupt were allowed to apply for position in the Obama administration, all others need not apply. Looking back even Carter looks good compared to this bunch.
#45

On October 29th, 2009 at 4:52 pm, swede said:

Stephony Villafart.

Sophmoric, yes. Couldn’t resist.
#46

On October 29th, 2009 at 6:37 pm, OneMonkeysUncle said:

On October 28th, 2009 at 3:30 pm, rocketman said:
***
It’s OK–she is just another “Wise Latina” who will do a very good job when the STALINIST SHOW TRIALS start soon. COMRADE OBAMA (PBUH) is “stacking the deck” in preparation to change the U.S.A. into the new United Socialist States of Amerikka.

Time to step away from the crackpipe there before you permanently fry your brain. “Stalinist Show Trials”? “Socialist States of Amerikka”? It’s one thing to not like the guy or his policies, but no sane person could truly believe Obama is the equalivalent of Stalin, for God’s sake. That’s just retarded.
#47

On October 29th, 2009 at 8:03 pm, Laree said:

Chris Christie Republican Candidate for Governor of New Jerseys, tells Imus “I’m Going To Be A Big Fat Winner”
#48

On October 29th, 2009 at 10:10 pm, prendad said:

Grayson needs to go suck some Heinz Ketchup bottles with Kerry. They make a good pair.
#49

On October 30th, 2009 at 12:30 am, graysonret said:

What I see is a rookie president, at a loss in figuring out anything, manipulated by very power-hungry people in the background. He’s no Hitler or Stalin. He’d be the first to “fall” in a socialist takeover. However, he could be held in place, as a figurehead, as long as he is useful. He’s an appeaser. That is a fatal flaw of anyone seeking ultimate power. Such people do not choose questionable people at first; looking to be the “good guy” to the public, above suspicion, and strong in the eyes of the world. Instead this guy is used by the world to promote their own agenda (ex: peace prize) and has been picking losing battles in the economy…because that is what the congressional elites (seeking their own fortunes in power) have told him to do. With no experience to draw on, he accepts what he is “advised” to do. On his own, he picks people who are an embarrassment. You can really see how weak this man is, in national office. The Afghanistan problem is a good example. He puts the decision off, using elections as an excuse; save face while he has his thumb in his mouth. He tries to follow the “tried and true” way of all would-be controllers by creating a crisis and manipulating the public to support his “fixes”, removing liberty in the process. Instead he ends up “begging” while people, like Pelosi, become the real power brokers. They let him pick his czars. No matter, as long as the important issues are manipulated.
#50

On October 30th, 2009 at 8:15 am, Wade said:

Transparency? Ethics? Accountability? Anyone?

Crickets…
#51

On October 30th, 2009 at 8:40 am, ArizonaNeanderthal said:

I just might have to re think my views of He Who Has Won One and “the most competent administration in history”: Sting has announced that He Who Has Won One “”might be a divine answer to the world’s problems. “In many ways, he’s sent from God,” he joked in an interview, “because the world’s a mess.”"

With both Shame-Shaun, whatever, Penn and Sting endorsing He Who Has Won One who are we mere Fly Overs to disagree? Stephanie Villafuerte’s corruption has been washed clean by Husein’s mere presence. mmm mmm mmm
#52

On October 31st, 2009 at 12:59 am, happy2behere said:

This case is fascinating in that Villafuerte is not accused of doing anything worng, yet. She simply is not anwering questions from the Denver Post. But there are several serious questions raised by details in the Voorhis case that a grand jury really ought to examine. I hope the public pressure brings around the scrutiny this woman deserves. After all, once she is the US Attorney for Colorado, she has the power to make other people’s lives miserable, just like they did to Voorhis.