It's A New Week -- Call Your Congressman

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from Rachel in his DC office:
"what happened in New Mexico is an isolated event.  Jim Saxton has never and would never make such a call to a US Attorney."


activist for hire.

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by: Jay Lassiter @ Tue Mar 13, 2007 at 08:38:48 AM CDT

Chris Christie (0.00 / 0)

is still employed as a U.S. Attorney. He must be part of the Bush cabal starting fake investigations at Ku Klux Karl's behest to damage Democrats during the campaign season. There's a legal term to describe this: Malicious Prosecution. It's time for Democrats who've been victimized by these creeps to file suit, and always include a John Doe on the summons and complaint.

Restore democracy and the Constitution for which it stands.

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by: The Wizard @ Tue Mar 13, 2007 at 09:06:05 AM CDT

hee hee (0.00 / 0)

That's great.

Of course, it's not just that he has a job, but that he also was the NJ Campaign Attorney for Bush, raised $100,000 for Bush, is a former Republican Freeholder (Morris), is angling to run for Governor in 2009, and issued subpoenas at times that were good to blunt Democratic successes and support Republican messages.

If it were just that he has a job, I would not have written this. 

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by: huntsu @ Tue Mar 13, 2007 at 10:02:02 AM CDT

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You're wasting your time. (4.00 / 1)

No one's gonna admit to calling Christie, even if they did.  The only reason any of this has all come out in the open is that the fired USAs are speaking out.

Better to contact Menendez' and Lautenberg's offices and ask that Christie be subpoenaed by Schumer's Senate committee investigating the firings, and that the administration officials dragged before the committee be specifically asked about NJ.

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by: Rufus T Firefly @ Tue Mar 13, 2007 at 09:07:26 AM CDT

Your point is well taken (4.00 / 1)

However, it is still important to have these guys on the record.

So, when Schumer, et.al. get to the USA's who have not been fired, there will be public statements by the NJ Repug delegation to compare with other testimony.

If each one is being truthful, fine.  If not, well....

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by: SmartyJones @ Tue Mar 13, 2007 at 09:57:17 AM CDT

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Domenici and Wilson Denied It, Too (0.00 / 0)

Pete Domenici and Heather Wilson both refused to answer the question of whether they had called their US Attorney, which is how they were found out.

Asking questions doesn't hurt, and it gets people on the record.  Once they are on the record, you have more info to work with.

If, after they say they never made a call, their cell phone number winds up on a call log from Christie's office then we have something.  It may not happen, but unless we get them on the record it will never happen.

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by: huntsu @ Tue Mar 13, 2007 at 10:04:35 AM CDT

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I don't know about Heather (0.00 / 0)

but Pete is, as they say in the business, lawyered up.

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by: SmartyJones @ Tue Mar 13, 2007 at 10:42:43 AM CDT

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IMHO (0.00 / 0)

Tom Keane, Jr. should be on the list to be called.

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by: SmartyJones @ Tue Mar 13, 2007 at 10:01:57 AM CDT

Make the Call! (0.00 / 0)

Go for it.

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by: huntsu @ Tue Mar 13, 2007 at 10:05:35 AM CDT

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I think (0.00 / 0)

the call should come from one of his constituents, which I am not.

Besides, my job is to tell people what to do, not do it myself.

/snark.

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by: SmartyJones @ Tue Mar 13, 2007 at 10:45:42 AM CDT

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Lobiondo Contacted (0.00 / 0)

Frank Lobiondo was contacted by e-mail, but there has been no answer.  Nothing should be suspected because of this, however, since Representative's offices are notoriously slow in responding to written communication.

Phone calls are better.

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by: huntsu @ Tue Mar 13, 2007 at 10:29:38 AM CDT

Someone in the U.S. Attorney's office (0.00 / 0)

leaked word of the Menendez subpoena to the press.  That's a clear violation of grand jury secrecy and a crime to boot.  I'm ordinarily a big supporter of a free press, but where the press is being used as a conduit for selective leaking for political advantage (a la Scooter Libby), the law says that a reporter's sources are fair game.  That would be a good place for Schumer to start.

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by: Rufus T Firefly @ Tue Mar 13, 2007 at 11:30:22 AM CDT

Yo Rufus (0.00 / 0)

Please clarify and supply links, if you can.

Thanks.

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by: SmartyJones @ Tue Mar 13, 2007 at 11:51:07 AM CDT

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Links to what? (0.00 / 0)

Issuance of the subpoenas was widely reported in the press before the election, and provided the basis for Kean's claim that Menendez was "under criminal investigation."  Since Christie's office refused to comment, news of the subpoena must have been leaked to the press by someone. 

This "investigation" appears to have been dropped since the election.  Coincidence?  Maybe.  But it sure looks a lot more suspicious in view of the circumstances surrounding the fired USAs. 

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by: Rufus T Firefly @ Tue Mar 13, 2007 at 12:48:12 PM CDT

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OK (0.00 / 0)

I thought you were saying something new.  In fact, I misunderstood the whole point of your comment.

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by: SmartyJones @ Tue Mar 13, 2007 at 13:16:59 PM CDT

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