Larry Langford, Mayor of Birmingham, AL has been convicted on federal charges of accepting bribes, automatically removing him from office. Mr. Langford was charged with numerous counts of accepting cash and luxury items worth about $236,000 while serving as president of the Jefferson County Commission.
Voters in Ohio town boot cross dressing mayor
East Cleveland, OH voters tossed Mayor Eric Brewer out of office last Tuesday, only six days after a local TV station broadcast revealing photos of the mayor in women's lingerie. Brewer lost, attracting only 36 percent of the vote. He blamed the photo scandal. At a press conference after his loss, Brewer refused to confirm or deny the photos were of him.
Raleigh North Carolina Television station WRAL is reporting that former Senator John Edwards is set to admit that he is the father of his former mistress's 18-month old baby girl.
Edwards, a two-time Democratic presidential candidate, confessed last August to having an affair with Rielle Hunter, who served as a videographer on Edwards' 2008 campaign. He has denied fathering her daughter, saying his relationship with Hunter ended before the child was conceived.
Sarah Palin, the 2008 Republican nominee for vice president, says she will not run for re-election and will step down later this month as governor of the state of Alaska.Palin's announcement has fueled speculation about her political future.Governor Palin says she will resign on July 26, and that she will try to "affect positive change" from outside government. "I have never believed that I nor anyone else needs a title to do this, to make a difference, to help people. So I choose for my state, and for my family, more freedom to progress, all the way around. So that Alaska may progress, I will not seek re-election as governor," she said.
U.S. District Court Judge James Zagel has scheduled a start date of June 3, 2010, for former Gov. Rod Blagojevich's federal corruption trial.
Mr. Blagojevich was absent from the courtroom when Judge Zagel set the date.
The trial's start date was scheduled at prosecutors' request. Judge Zagel had previously established a window that ran from April 1 to July 1, 2010 for the start of the trial.
"He puts out this image as a good Christian male and model citizen, saying that he is a very God-fearing man, and he does something like this."
Republicans are reeling in the wake of another sex scandal, this one involving South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford. He had been discussed as a possible presidential contender in 2012, but his admission of an extramarital affair with a woman in Argentina has put his political future in doubt and is the latest blow for a party trying to find its political footing after last year's election losses. Politics can seem like a spectator sport at times, and this week South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford was the featured attraction.After days of speculation about his whereabouts, Sanford returned from a secret trip to Argentina and held a tearful news conference in which he admitted having an extramarital affair. "And as a consequence I hurt her, I hurt you all, I hurt my wife, I hurt my boys," Sanford said.Sanford previously served as a congressman from South Carolina and was twice elected governor as a conservative Republican.
Leakers in New York’s publishing community say former John Edwards’s aide Andrew Young has been shopping a “tell all” book proposal. The proposal is alleged to have tales of a steamy sex tape starring Edwards and his mistress, Rielle Hunter. Young also apparently admits that he is not the father of Hunter’s infant daughter. No surprise here – Young allegedly claims Edwards is the father.
A real bombshell is that Hunter and Edwards allegedly discussed musical selections for their wedding in the event Elizabeth Edwards passed away.
"So the bottom line is this: I have been unfaithful to my wife" - Gov. Mark Sanford
Republican South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford has admitted to having an affair with a woman he visited during a secret trip to Argentina. The revelation casts doubt on Sanford's hopes of running for president in 2012.Governor Mark Sanford made the announcement in the state capital, Columbia,Wednesday after returning from an unannounced trip early this week to Argentina. State officials said they did not know where Sanford was for several days, and said his top aides claimed he was hiking the nearby Appalachian trail. After returning, Sanford said he actually went to Argentina to visit the woman he had started seeing romantically about a year ago."So the bottom line is this: I have been unfaithful to my wife," said Sanford. "I developed a relationship with what started as a dear friend from Argentina."
Transcript of Republican Congressman Roy Blunt's Monkey Joke
"You know, you can't control everything there is in life that you'd like to control. Supposedly, at the turn of the 19th Century, the end of the 19th Century - the beginning of the 20th Century, there was a group of British occupiers in a very lush, very quiet, very peaceful, very uneventful part of India. And this group of British soldiers who were occupying that part of India decided they'd carve a golf course put of the jungle of India. And there was really not that much else to do.
So for over a year, this was the biggest event, getting this golf course created. And they got the golf course done and almost from the day the first ball was hit on this golf course something happened they didn't anticipate. Monkeys would come running out of the jungle [faint audience laughter] and they'd grab the golf balls. And if it was in the fairway they might throw it in the rough. And [if] it was in the rough they might throw it... they might throw it back at you! And I could go into great and long detail about how many things they did to try and eliminate the 'monkey problem.' But they never got it done, so finally this golf course and this golf course only, they passed a rule and the rule was - you have to play the ball where the monkey throws it. [audience laughter swells] And that is the rule in Washington all the time. You know... [clapping from audience]
One day after former La. Congressman William Jefferson was convicted on numerous counts of corruption, a federal jury has ruled he must forfeit roughly $470,000 in bribery receipts.
It's Official, Maria Belen Chapur is Republican Governor Mark Sanford's Hottie
"You have a particular grace and calm that I adore. You have a level of sophistication that is so fitting with your beauty. I could digress and say that you have the ability to give magnificently gentle kisses, or that I love your tan lines or that I love the curves of your hips, the erotic beauty of you holding yourself (or two magnificent parts of yourself) in the faded glow of night’s light" — South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford, writing in an email to his lover.
"Send you all my love and goodnight kisses. Sweet dreams from down south. I’ll dream with you."
This is Maria Belen Chapur, reporting from World Trade Center site, NYC, 2001
Republican Senator John Ensign confesses (heterosexual) affair
Nevada Sen. John Ensign said his affair with a campaign staffer was "the worst thing I have ever done." He said his family was very close with the woman and her husband.
It's time to revisit John Edwards' statement about his mistress and the baby
We know what he said last year but the truth is leaking out in publishing circles. We've reprinted the statement in its entirety.
Statement of Senator John Edwards
August 8, 2008 Chapel Hill, North Carolina
In 2006, I made a serious error in judgment and conducted myself in a way that was disloyal to my family and to my core beliefs. I recognized my mistake and I told my wife that I had a liaison with another woman, and I asked for her forgiveness. Although I was honest in every painful detail with my family, I did not tell the public. When a supermarket tabloid told a version of the story, I used the fact that the story contained many falsities to deny it. But being 99% honest is no longer enough. I was and am ashamed of my conduct and choices, and I had hoped that it would never become public. With my family, I took responsibility for my actions in 2006 and today I take full responsibility publicly. But that misconduct took place for a short period in 2006. It ended then. I am and have been willing to take any test necessary to establish the fact that I am not the father of any baby, and I am truly hopeful that a test will be done so this fact can be definitively established. I only know that the apparent father has said publicly that he is the father of the baby. I also have not been engaged in any activity of any description that requested, agreed to or supported payments of any kind to the woman or to the apparent father of the baby.It is inadequate to say to the people who believed in me that I am sorry, as it is inadequate to say to the people who love me that I am sorry. In the course of several campaigns, I started to believe that I was special and became increasingly egocentric and narcissistic. If you want to beat me up – feel free. You cannot beat me up more than I have already beaten up myself. I have been stripped bare and will now work with everything I have to help my family and others who need my help. I have given a complete interview on this matter and having done so, will have nothing more to say.
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