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Monday, October 16, 2006

Democratic Corruption Scandal in TN

Yet another corruption scandal for Democrats (collective yawn from the MSM).

Imagine the following scenario: during the height of election season, a high-placed Republican donor is discovered to have looted millions of dollars from the retirement funds of individuals and companies he manages, and then contributes more than $70,000 to his state GOP party. When the fraud is discovered, the state party not only refuses to give the money back to the victims, but characterizes calls from Democrats to return the ill-gotten gains as “a cheap Democratic ploy” – even as top GOP elected officials in the state demand that their party return the money.

Barry Stokes, who did far more damage than Jack Abramoff ever did, since he actually stole millions from state pension funds in Tennessee. Unfortunately, no one really cares about Democratic scandals. Oh yes, and the Democratic Party in TN refuses to return the embezzled funds. Of course, if this news gets covered at all, the Democrats can kiss their desired Senate seat goodbye (along with their Senate hopes).

Read about the corruption at Front Page Mag.