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Hasn’t gotten much attention, but the political scandal in San Diego is huge. Joe Gandelman has a good round-up of news following Mayor Dick Murphy’s resignation last week. Two city councilmen face trial this week on corruption charges that stemmed from an FBI investigation into a local strip club. The city is grappling with a [...]

They are still finding uncounted ballots in Washington state from last fall’s gubernatorial election. (Hat tip: Gerry at Daly Thoughts)
Related: According to the King County Journal, Dino Rossi is ruling out a run for U.S. Senate against inumbent Democrat Maria Cantwell in 2006. He was considered the GOP’s best hope. (Hat tip: Doverspa at Red [...]

The Washington Times reports:
Stephanie Tubbs Jones, an Ohio Democrat who sits on the House ethics committee, took a 2001 trip to Puerto Rico that was paid for by a registered lobbyist firm — an apparent violation of the chamber’s ethics rules — according to documents that she filed with the House clerk.
A spokeswoman for Mrs. [...]

The Bush administration will not let Education Department investigators interview current and former White House officials about the hiring of commentator Armstrong Williams, Rep. George Miller asserts.
Legally, the White House is on solid ground, according to Alan Morrison, a former U.S. attorney and a law professor at Stanford University. “The inspector general has no right [...]

One of the ballots not counted in last fall’s election in Washington State belonged to Lt. Bryan Suits, a National Guardsman who recently returned from Iraq. Sound Politics has the story. When Suits isn’t serving his country in Iraq he is a conservative radio talk show host on KVI-AM in Seattle. (Hat tip: Brian Eirik [...]

Lots of developments in Washington State regarding last fall’s contested gubernatorial election:
- Former U.S. Sen. Slade Gorton joined the call for a criminal investigation.
- King County election officials admitted that a key document accounting for absentee ballots is bogus. Blogger Stefan Sharkansky first raised questions about the document a month ago.
- Six members of the [...]

They’re still finding ballots from the 2004 election in King County, Wash. Blogger Stefan Sharkansky broke the story yesterday:
It just hit the fan that King County Elections recently discovered several dozen uncounted ballots at an elections office, presumably the MBOS absentee ballot facility.
Senior election officials have known about this for several days and have kept [...]

A television reporter in Florida whose work appears on CNN and local Florida stations has earned hundreds of thousands of dollars from state government agencies he covered, the Sarasota Herald Tribune reports:
Mike Vasilinda, a 30-year veteran of the Tallahassee press corps, does public relations work and provides film editing services to more than a dozen [...]

Jack Kemp has been getting quite a bit of attention lately for his relationship with Samir Vincent, a secret agent of Saddam Hussein who was recently convicted in the United Nations oil-for-food scandal.
Now, in the DC Examiner, Thor Halvorssen raises troubling questions about another Jack Kemp associate: Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez:
Jack Kemp, the businessman, was [...]

Disgraced ex-Republican congressman/convicted felon Bill Janklow, who bizarrely took out an unsolicited ad sucking up to Tom Daschle.
Go away, already. Both of you.
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Flashback: Step down, Bill

From the Seattle Times:
The Washington Democratic Party may face thousands of dollars in fines for failing to file timely reports for the 2004 election. In addition to those fines, the party could be required to repay a $100,000 fine that was suspended in 2003 as long as the Democrats didn’t have any serious campaign-finance infractions [...]

California’s Democratic Secretary of State, Kevin Shelley, finally resigned yesterday amid a stinking heap of a scandal involving cronyism, corruption, campaign finance abuse, and voter fraud.
In a typical non-apology apology, Shelley argued that he had done nothing wrong “in the eyes of the law,” but admitted it could be months or even years before federal, [...]

The lowlife Republican who was convicted on felony charges of lying about serving with the Army Special Forces in Korea is back in the news–this time for defrauding investors in an Internet startup. How did he try to weasel out of this scandal?
Testifying in the BidBay lawsuit, Cooley denied any involvement in fraud, testifying that [...]

I’ve never liked N.Y. Governor George Pataki (see here and here, for example). Here’s one more reason not to like him. The N.Y. Post reports today on its front page that Pataki had the state GOP secretly fund a personal maid for his wife at the family mansion:
The servant — whose shocking existence on [...]

Voter fraud fiascos in Wisconsin and East St. Louis are now on top bloggers’ radar screen.
Now, it’s time to turn the spotlight on the stink in Sacramento. California-based watchdogs have been hot on the littered trail of embattled Democratic Secretary of State Kevin Shelley. In a nutshell:
Besides allegations that he used millions of dollars in [...]

…over Democratic voter fraud just keeps getting more and more toxic. The go-to guy is Jim Hoft at GatewayPundit, who will give you the lowdown on:
The Swamp Dog
Cash, Crack, Dead People, Forgeries- ESL Voter Fraud
And the voter who said she lived at The Casino Queen
Phew. You’ll feel like taking a shower after you get through [...]

The Milwakuee Journal Sentinel’s Spivak and Bice report that felony charges may come down tomorrow in the Democratic tire-slashing case. Captain Ed raises pointed questions about what the Kerry campaign knew about the incidents and why the Democratic D.A.’s office seems to be minimizing the charges.
Meanwhile, in East St. Louis, dirty laundry is getting aired [...]

FEMA is now apparently creating bogus maps to justify wasting $30 million in disaster assistance paid to Miami-Dade County residents who were nowhere near Hurricane Frances:
The Federal Emergency Management Agency misrepresented weather data it used this week to justify $30 million in disaster assistance paid to Miami-Dade County residents, according to the government scientists who [...]

The Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel has been doing a fantastic job watchdogging hurricane-related fraud in Miami-Dade County, Fl. A summary of “Cashing in on disaster:”
Hurricane Frances hit South Florida Labor Day weekend, 100 miles north of Miami-Dade County, but Sun-Sentinel reporters found that the federal government approved $28,000,000 in storm claims there for new [...]

Catching up on my blogroll reading, there’s a disturbing report from Julie at Drink This about her personal experience with voter fraud at the polls in Los Angeles. She’s looking for advice on how to deal with an apparent thief who used her name to register as a Democrat. The story is here.
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Connecticut governor John Rowland finally announces his resignation. He was an embarrassment to the nominal party of personal responsibility. Shame on Republican leaders for not being more vocal in condemning this lying dirtbag.
A reader responds:
You are right, it took him too long to do it and he is an embarrassment to the party. But [...]