As expected, Democrat Terry McAuliffe has really sleazed up Virginia politics. In order to stop a Democrat legislator from resigning and giving the Republicans a majority in the Virginia State Senate — which would be a speed bump on the Democrats’ plans to implement Obamacare, raise taxes, and enact new gun control and anti-coal policies — the McAuliffe regime apparently offered to give the legislator’s daughter a job, perhaps even an appointment to the Federal bench. Now, it has come to light that Virginia Democrat Senator Mark Warner — who was easily winning his re-election campaign against anodyne establishment Republican Ed Gillespie — was also involved in attempts to bribe the legislator to stay.
The son of a former Virginia state senator has told federal investigators that U.S. Sen. Mark R. Warner discussed the possibility of several jobs, including a federal judgeship, for the senator’s daughter in an effort to dissuade him from quitting the evenly divided state Senate.
On June 6, three days before the state senator’s resignation became official, Warner called Puckett’s son, Joseph, and discussed an appointment to the federal bench as well as a potential corporate position for Martha Puckett Ketron, according to Joseph Puckett’s attorney, Charles E. “Chuck” James Jr. of Williams Mullen.
In the past, Democrats have shown a high tolerance for political sleaze within their own ranks, so this probably won’t tarnish Mark Warner’s prospects too much. It does point out, however, that for all the left’s keening about “white privilege” and “male privilege” the real privilege in our culture comes from being politically connected. Ordinary people do not have the access to easy, well-paid jobs that the friends and relations of the political class do.
It must be hard these days for guys like you, men who are followed by the sounds of banjos everywhere they go, yet are not talented enough to play them.
White privilege is evolution, that’s why Asians who evolved under similar conditions have it also, & are equally bad at short distance runs.
oh dear….Evan apparently couldn’t persuade anyone to stick something into his chocolate starfish over the weekend, and he’s just so mad he could just spit!
The entertaining thing is that Evan is accusing others of a persecution complex, given that Evan’s only “job” is working for an organization that has to find persecution against gays everywhere to justify its existence.
Which is funny, because you never see Evan claiming that Obama-supported regimes like Iran executing gays constitutes “persecution”, or demanding that Louis Farrakhan’s empire of churches and restaurants be forced to stop discriminating against gays. It’s almost as if Evan is nothing more than a puppet and shill who will excuse anything a Democrat does.