Washington's Ten Most Corrupt Politicians in Washington for 2011 Named

[007]

I say about 99 percent are corrupt one way or another!

Well, nobody's perfect, but someone who is popularly voted in by the people to conduct the nation's business in favor of the people of his district should do just that, and many do.

I just don't understand why someone who was so corrupt he was put in jail for crimes committed in office is allowed to run for public office in another capacity, only to become cited for corruption again.

The laws are getting to be so skanky criminals run for office and stupid people vote for them. Alcee Hastings comes to mind. He's on the list, too, after years of lying, cheating, obfuscating, and who knows what all.

If you've been convicted of a felony, then you can't be elected to any public office. Evidently these LAWYERS and LAW MAKERS know how to avoid the felonies. What a shocker.

There is no more corrupt entity in America than our very own government. I think I'd rather deal with the Mafia or the Hells Angels before our government.

I hate 'em all, dem and repub alike, and I do believe I'm going to vote for Ron Paul, because this country needs a massive change from the status quo.

 

[JoeB131]

Well, nobody's perfect, but someone who is popularly voted in by the people to conduct the nation's business in favor of the people of his district should do just that, and many do.

I just don't understand why someone who was so corrupt he was put in jail for crimes committed in office is allowed to run for public office in another capacity, only to become cited for corruption again.

The laws are getting to be so skanky criminals run for office and stupid people vote for them. Alcee Hastings comes to mind. He's on the list, too, after years of lying, cheating, obfuscating, and who knows what all.

with Hastings, he represents a district where concern for law and order isn't very high to start with. So getting impeached for taking a bribe is almost a mark of honor.

Impeachment needs to have the sting of no political future whatever in order to have teeth. Can you see Nancy Pelosi doing this to one of her own?

I agree, it should. When Blago was impeached in IL, they made a point of disqualifying him from ever running for office again.

 

[Sallow]

They missed Darrell Issa.

A real live criminal.

If so, please bring the document of his wrongdoing forward and prove that it is a fact. That's what this process takes, Mr. Sallow. It's like followthrough on a good golf swing that makes it a hole in one or a miss.

Sure thing.

Issa dropped out of high school and enlisted for a three-year tour in the Army on his 17th birthday.[4][5] He served as an Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) technician, defusing bombs, after having been shown a movie about soldiers in that specialty during World War II. He would later claim his unit had provided security for President Richard Nixon, sweeping stadiums for bombs prior to games in the 1971 World Series, and that he had always received the highest approval ratings during his service.[6] A 1998 investigation by the San Francisco Examiner found that these claims were not true: Nixon did not attend any of that year's World Series games, and at one point Issa was transferred to a supply depot after receiving an unsatisfactory evaluation. According to Issa, the Examiner reporter had misunderstood an anecdote he had related.[4]

A fellow soldier, Jay Bergey, claimed that Issa stole his Dodge Charger in 1971 while they were serving together and that, the day after he confronted Issa, the car was found abandoned on a nearby expressway. Asked about this charge in 2011, Issa denied it and suggested it was possible that other soldiers stole the car or that Bergey, who he claims had a drinking problem, had abandoned it himself while intoxicated."[4]

After receiving a hardship discharge in 1972 following his father's heart attack, Issa earned his General Educational Development (GED) certificate and began taking classes at Siena Heights University, a small Catholic college in Adrian, Michigan. He continued his military service in the Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC)."[4]

Twice during that year he was arrested. In March, Issa and his brother William were charged with stealing a Maserati from a dealer's showroom in Cleveland. Issa says it was a matter of mistaken identity by the Cleveland Heights police; the case was later dismissed.[4]

Before that had happened, in December 1972, police in Adrian pulled Issa over for going the wrong way on a one-way street and, as he was retrieving his registration, saw in the car's glove compartment what turned out to be a .25-caliber Colt semi-automatic handgun inside an ammunition box, along with a military pouch containing 44 rounds, a tear gas gun and two rounds for that. Issa was charged with carrying a concealed weapon; ultimately he pleaded guilty to the lesser charge of possession of an unregistered firearm. He was sentenced to six months' probation and paid a small fine.[4][7] At the time Issa told police that Ohio law allowed such possession of a handgun with a justification; his was the need to protect the car and himself. Years later, he said that the car and gun were his brother's, which William Issa supported. He had been unaware of the gun's presence when inadvertently driving the car the wrong way down the alley and that, to the extent of his knowledge, there had been no ammunition present. The entire incident, he had believed, had been expunged.[4]
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Issa soon turned Steal Stopper around, to the point that it was supplying Ford with thousands of car alarms and negotiating a similar deal with Toyota. But early in the morning of September 7, 1982, the offices and factory of Quantum and Steal Stopper in the Cleveland suburb of Maple Heights, caught fire. The fire took three hours to put out; the buildings and almost all inventory within were destroyed.[4]

The Ohio state fire marshal never determined a cause for the blaze. The initial theory was that it was electrical, but the insurance company came to doubt the theory when a fire analysis report it commissioned outlined evidence that the fire could be arson. It had exhibited two distinct areas of origin, both with "suspicious burn patterns" but without any "accidental source of heating power."[4] Investigators believed that a stack of cardboard boxes, which had burned in a manner inconsistent with an accidental fire, may have had a flammable liquid spread on them. The black smoke and blue flames generated by the fire strongly suggested the use of a hydrocarbon-based accelerant, and the report said the same mix of four distinct hydrocarbons had been found in samples of burned material taken from different locations in the ruins.[4] Adkins, still employed by Steal Stopper, told the insurance investigators that prior to the blaze Issa had removed not only the company's Apple II personal computer but all hardware, software and manuals for it, as well as diskettes containing all the company's customer records and financial information. He said that silkscreens used by Steal Stopper in the production of its circuit boards had also been placed in a fireproof box. Insurance investigators determined that a short time before the fire, Issa had more than quadrupled Steal Stopper's fire insurance coverage; they were also concerned that they could not determine the source of his initial investment in the company.[4]
Darrell Issa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[konradv]

I say about 99 percent are corrupt one way or another!

I say the only way out is public financing of elections.

 

[Two Thumbs]

They missed Darrell Issa.

A real live criminal.

If so, please bring the document of his wrongdoing forward and prove that it is a fact. That's what this process takes, Mr. Sallow. It's like followthrough on a good golf swing that makes it a hole in one or a miss.

Sure thing.

Issa dropped out of high school and enlisted for a three-year tour in the Army on his 17th birthday.[4][5] He served as an Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) technician, defusing bombs, after having been shown a movie about soldiers in that specialty during World War II. He would later claim his unit had provided security for President Richard Nixon, sweeping stadiums for bombs prior to games in the 1971 World Series, and that he had always received the highest approval ratings during his service.[6] A 1998 investigation by the San Francisco Examiner found that these claims were not true: Nixon did not attend any of that year's World Series games, and at one point Issa was transferred to a supply depot after receiving an unsatisfactory evaluation. According to Issa, the Examiner reporter had misunderstood an anecdote he had related.[4]

A fellow soldier, Jay Bergey, claimed that Issa stole his Dodge Charger in 1971 while they were serving together and that, the day after he confronted Issa, the car was found abandoned on a nearby expressway. Asked about this charge in 2011, Issa denied it and suggested it was possible that other soldiers stole the car or that Bergey, who he claims had a drinking problem, had abandoned it himself while intoxicated."[4]

After receiving a hardship discharge in 1972 following his father's heart attack, Issa earned his General Educational Development (GED) certificate and began taking classes at Siena Heights University, a small Catholic college in Adrian, Michigan. He continued his military service in the Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC)."[4]

Twice during that year he was arrested. In March, Issa and his brother William were charged with stealing a Maserati from a dealer's showroom in Cleveland. Issa says it was a matter of mistaken identity by the Cleveland Heights police; the case was later dismissed.[4]

Before that had happened, in December 1972, police in Adrian pulled Issa over for going the wrong way on a one-way street and, as he was retrieving his registration, saw in the car's glove compartment what turned out to be a .25-caliber Colt semi-automatic handgun inside an ammunition box, along with a military pouch containing 44 rounds, a tear gas gun and two rounds for that. Issa was charged with carrying a concealed weapon; ultimately he pleaded guilty to the lesser charge of possession of an unregistered firearm. He was sentenced to six months' probation and paid a small fine.[4][7] At the time Issa told police that Ohio law allowed such possession of a handgun with a justification; his was the need to protect the car and himself. Years later, he said that the car and gun were his brother's, which William Issa supported. He had been unaware of the gun's presence when inadvertently driving the car the wrong way down the alley and that, to the extent of his knowledge, there had been no ammunition present. The entire incident, he had believed, had been expunged.[4]
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Issa soon turned Steal Stopper around, to the point that it was supplying Ford with thousands of car alarms and negotiating a similar deal with Toyota. But early in the morning of September 7, 1982, the offices and factory of Quantum and Steal Stopper in the Cleveland suburb of Maple Heights, caught fire. The fire took three hours to put out; the buildings and almost all inventory within were destroyed.[4]

The Ohio state fire marshal never determined a cause for the blaze. The initial theory was that it was electrical, but the insurance company came to doubt the theory when a fire analysis report it commissioned outlined evidence that the fire could be arson. It had exhibited two distinct areas of origin, both with "suspicious burn patterns" but without any "accidental source of heating power."[4] Investigators believed that a stack of cardboard boxes, which had burned in a manner inconsistent with an accidental fire, may have had a flammable liquid spread on them. The black smoke and blue flames generated by the fire strongly suggested the use of a hydrocarbon-based accelerant, and the report said the same mix of four distinct hydrocarbons had been found in samples of burned material taken from different locations in the ruins.[4] Adkins, still employed by Steal Stopper, told the insurance investigators that prior to the blaze Issa had removed not only the company's Apple II personal computer but all hardware, software and manuals for it, as well as diskettes containing all the company's customer records and financial information. He said that silkscreens used by Steal Stopper in the production of its circuit boards had also been placed in a fireproof box. Insurance investigators determined that a short time before the fire, Issa had more than quadrupled Steal Stopper's fire insurance coverage; they were also concerned that they could not determine the source of his initial investment in the company.[4]
Darrell Issa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

So you have nothing but assumptions at best.

Epic fail

Obama is in the top 5, read it and weep.

 

[editec]

they SYSTEM ITSELF is based on corruption so it ought not surprise us when corrupt people rise to the top.

A truly honest man doesn't have much chance of getting the masters to help him take charge.

I mean just look at how much money is going to be spend propagandizing for one or the other of the masters' choices for POTUS.

Basically we are now a banana republic, folks.

I prepose we change the name of the nation to BANANAMERICA

 

[Oldstyle]

Come on...how does Charlie Rangel not make the top ten? When your own party takes you to the woodshed for punishment you KNOW you've been bad.

 

[Harry Dresden]

They missed Darrell Issa.

A real live criminal.

and a fucking Asshole on top of that....

 

[konradv]

Come on...how does Charlie Rangel not make the top ten? When your own party takes you to the woodshed for punishment you KNOW you've been bad.

Hell, it's just a rightwing hit piece, anyway. How else do explain a 'Dishonorable Mention' going to Edwards? What did he do in Washington in 2011?!?!

 

[Oldstyle]

Come on...how does Charlie Rangel not make the top ten? When your own party takes you to the woodshed for punishment you KNOW you've been bad.

Hell, it's just a rightwing hit piece, anyway. How else do explain a 'Dishonorable Mention' going to Edwards? What did he do in Washington in 2011?!?!

A "rightwing hit piece" would have the top two places held by Republicans? Sorry, Konradv...but you've lost me with that charge.

 

[konradv]

Come on...how does Charlie Rangel not make the top ten? When your own party takes you to the woodshed for punishment you KNOW you've been bad.

Hell, it's just a rightwing hit piece, anyway. How else do explain a 'Dishonorable Mention' going to Edwards? What did he do in Washington in 2011?!?!

A "rightwing hit piece" would have the top two places held by Republicans? Sorry, Konradv...but you've lost me with that charge.

Yeah, that explains Edwards!!! Are you really that dense? The writers knew they couldn't absolve all Reps, so led off with two, but the very mention of some others makes it obvious it's not really about corruption.

 

[freedombecki]

They missed Darrell Issa.

A real live criminal.

If so, please bring the document of his wrongdoing forward and prove that it is a fact. That's what this process takes, Mr. Sallow. It's like followthrough on a good golf swing that makes it a hole in one or a miss.

Sure thing.

Issa dropped out of high school and enlisted for a three-year tour in the Army on his 17th birthday.[4][5] He served as an Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) technician, defusing bombs, after having been shown a movie about soldiers in that specialty during World War II. He would later claim his unit had provided security for President Richard Nixon, sweeping stadiums for bombs prior to games in the 1971 World Series, and that he had always received the highest approval ratings during his service.[6] A 1998 investigation by the San Francisco Examiner found that these claims were not true: Nixon did not attend any of that year's World Series games, and at one point Issa was transferred to a supply depot after receiving an unsatisfactory evaluation. According to Issa, the Examiner reporter had misunderstood an anecdote he had related.[4]

A fellow soldier, Jay Bergey, claimed that Issa stole his Dodge Charger in 1971 while they were serving together and that, the day after he confronted Issa, the car was found abandoned on a nearby expressway. Asked about this charge in 2011, Issa denied it and suggested it was possible that other soldiers stole the car or that Bergey, who he claims had a drinking problem, had abandoned it himself while intoxicated."[4]

After receiving a hardship discharge in 1972 following his father's heart attack, Issa earned his General Educational Development (GED) certificate and began taking classes at Siena Heights University, a small Catholic college in Adrian, Michigan. He continued his military service in the Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC)."[4]

Twice during that year he was arrested. In March, Issa and his brother William were charged with stealing a Maserati from a dealer's showroom in Cleveland. Issa says it was a matter of mistaken identity by the Cleveland Heights police; the case was later dismissed.[4]

Before that had happened, in December 1972, police in Adrian pulled Issa over for going the wrong way on a one-way street and, as he was retrieving his registration, saw in the car's glove compartment what turned out to be a .25-caliber Colt semi-automatic handgun inside an ammunition box, along with a military pouch containing 44 rounds, a tear gas gun and two rounds for that. Issa was charged with carrying a concealed weapon; ultimately he pleaded guilty to the lesser charge of possession of an unregistered firearm. He was sentenced to six months' probation and paid a small fine.[4][7] At the time Issa told police that Ohio law allowed such possession of a handgun with a justification; his was the need to protect the car and himself. Years later, he said that the car and gun were his brother's, which William Issa supported. He had been unaware of the gun's presence when inadvertently driving the car the wrong way down the alley and that, to the extent of his knowledge, there had been no ammunition present. The entire incident, he had believed, had been expunged.[4]
O<
Issa soon turned Steal Stopper around, to the point that it was supplying Ford with thousands of car alarms and negotiating a similar deal with Toyota. But early in the morning of September 7, 1982, the offices and factory of Quantum and Steal Stopper in the Cleveland suburb of Maple Heights, caught fire. The fire took three hours to put out; the buildings and almost all inventory within were destroyed.[4]

The Ohio state fire marshal never determined a cause for the blaze. The initial theory was that it was electrical, but the insurance company came to doubt the theory when a fire analysis report it commissioned outlined evidence that the fire could be arson. It had exhibited two distinct areas of origin, both with "suspicious burn patterns" but without any "accidental source of heating power."[4] Investigators believed that a stack of cardboard boxes, which had burned in a manner inconsistent with an accidental fire, may have had a flammable liquid spread on them. The black smoke and blue flames generated by the fire strongly suggested the use of a hydrocarbon-based accelerant, and the report said the same mix of four distinct hydrocarbons had been found in samples of burned material taken from different locations in the ruins.[4] Adkins, still employed by Steal Stopper, told the insurance investigators that prior to the blaze Issa had removed not only the company's Apple II personal computer but all hardware, software and manuals for it, as well as diskettes containing all the company's customer records and financial information. He said that silkscreens used by Steal Stopper in the production of its circuit boards had also been placed in a fireproof box. Insurance investigators determined that a short time before the fire, Issa had more than quadrupled Steal Stopper's fire insurance coverage; they were also concerned that they could not determine the source of his initial investment in the company.[4]
Darrell Issa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

So Rep. Issa is an item after hammering Attorney General Eric Holder over Fast and Furious and after hammering President Barack Obama's administration over its numerous faux pas.

All the Demmies can come up with are alleged and unproved sins of his youth since Daryl Issa helped unseat Democrat Governor Gray Davis and replacing him with the Gubernator. lol

Darrell Issa Emerges as Obama's Annoyer-In-Chief.

All that hot air and no convictions, since Rep. Issa was the wrong man.

Judicial Watch cited 5 Republicans on their list who should have known better and numerous Democrats who think themselves entitled. Sorry, Mr. Issa's job is to investigate, and since Greece was a world power, we no longer shoot the messenger, Mr. Sallow.