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Current Events => Politics => Topic started by: DixieBelle on May 01, 2008, 12:54:09 PM
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Rep. Jim McDermott has paid more than $1 million to House Minority Leader John Boehner, ending a decade-long dispute over an illegally taped telephone call.
McDermott, a Seattle Democrat, paid $1,093,297 to the Ohio Republican's campaign committee earlier this month, spokesman for the two men said Monday.
The payment is in addition to $64,000 McDermott paid Boehner in January, as part of court-ordered punitive damages in the long-running case.
A federal judge ordered McDermott to compensate Boehner for attorney's fees after Boehner sued McDermott for leaking the contents of a cell phone call that was illegally recorded in 1996.
A federal court found last year that McDermott had no right to release the call, in which Republican leaders discussed an ethics case against then-House Speaker Newt Gingrich, R-Ga.
A Florida couple recorded the cell phone call on a radio scanner and gave the tape to McDermott, who at the time was a senior member of the House ethics committee. McDermott leaked the tape to two newspapers, which published articles on the case in January 1997.
The Supreme Court decided in December not to revisit the case.
Boehner's spokesman, Kevin Smith, said the $1.09 million payment includes $628,000 from McDermott's campaign account, and about $465,000 from McDermott's legal expense trust fund.
"Every last penny will be used to help elect Republicans," Smith said, calling it ironic that McDermott — an outspoken partisan — "is helping fund the defeat of his fellow Democrats. I wouldn't expect he'll receive a lot of thank you's come November."
McDermott, for his part, was unbowed.
"While the amount of damages assessed in this case is significant," he said, "I submit that defending the First Amendment is beyond measure and worth every penny."
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2008/04/28/national/w143918D14.DTL
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Has there ever been a repentant democrat? No. When a democrat is found guilty, it is because he was wronged.
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It was one of the things that helped get rid of Gringrich. The dems would have paid a billion for that, willingly.
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I remember that well. The moron couple who recorded it live just a few miles from me and their pics were in the local paper, grinning like they'd just landed a trophy bass. They were Dims, of course.
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does it amaze anyone that a low level Dim like McDermott has that kind of cash laying around?
i am frankly astounded he could pay the 64K without asking for help. but the real kicker is that the money is going to help get the GOP elected - and they'd better use it in their fight against Mcdermott and all the other lefties here in this state..
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I wonder if I'll hear about this on CNN?
Oh wait...
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I wonder if I'll hear about this on CNN?
Oh wait...
honestly, we barely hear about here and Seattle is roughly 20 miles away..
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I wonder if I'll hear about this on CNN?
Oh wait...
honestly, we barely hear about here and Seattle is roughly 20 miles away..
You have my sympathy.
I "USED" to consider Federal Way home, but I got smart and got the hell out of the socialist capital of the northwest.