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Politics : Al Gore vs George Bush: the moderate's perspective -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TigerPaw who wrote (4132)	10/31/2000 2:46:03 PM
From: long-gone	Respond to of 10042

No such problems now with Rubin running the show at C? Saturday October 28 12:36 AM ET Chicago Treasurer Admits Corruption By MIKE ROBINSON, Associated Press Writer CHICAGO (AP) - Chicago's city treasurer agreed to step down and pleaded guilty Friday to federal corruption charges to avoid a retrial and more prison time. Miriam Santos pleaded guilty to mail fraud in her unsuccessful 1998 attorney general's race for forcing her office workers to do campaign work on city time. Santos, 44, faced a Nov. 13 retrial on mail fraud and attempted extortion charges, but the second charge was dropped under the plea deal. She was convicted of the charges last year and served four months of a 40-month sentence before a federal appeals court overturned the conviction. Santos then got her $118,500-a-year job back and more than $100,000 in back pay. ``This concludes my career as a public figure,'' Santos said after pleading guilty Friday. ``I am peaceful as I walk away.'' As part of the plea bargain, prosecutors agreed to a prison sentence of time served. She also must pay $20,000 in restitution to the city and a $1,000 fine to the federal government. Santos, who grew up poor in Gary, Ind., was an obscure attorney when Mayor Richard M. Daley backed her for city treasurer. She won the job in 1991, becoming the first Hispanic elected to citywide office. She soon got into a feud with him over city pension funds, but was popular enough to hold her office without his support. In 1998, Santos became the Democratic nominee for attorney general. But soon there were whispers that she was under investigation for campaign misconduct. Citibank, which invests millions of dollars in city funds, told the FBI (news - web sites) that Santos had threatened to cut off its business unless it gave money to the Democratic Party (news - web sites). One of her office workers, Patti Herrera, said Santos was forcing her and others to do campaign work on city time. At her trial, prosecutors played tapes in which Santos was heard telling an employee of another city contractor it was ``time to belly up'' and contribute money. At the trial, Santos blamed her rough tone on a thyroid problem. On Friday, a defiant Santos told reporters male politicians would not have gotten into trouble for what she did. ``I am probably the first woman who had to go to jail for PMSing,'' she said as the room exploded into laughter. But the atmosphere at City Hall was strained; Santos recently told reporters Daley wasn't speaking to her. In a statement Friday, Daley called Santos ``a good public servant who has worked hard to serve her constituents well.'' dailynews.yahoo.com

To: TigerPaw who wrote (4132)	10/31/2000 8:27:46 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Respond to of 10042

I have seen no adds that remotely resemble what you describe. I apologize Tigerpaw. I hadn't realized that you were visually impaired. Maybe I can find some soundbites of the offending ads, especially the ones by Ed Asner, where he claims that GW wants to cut senior's social security benefits. I assume the Gore website is no longer showing that press release that claimed that Bush was too dumb to be president because I can no longer find it. But there is no doubt that claiming that Bush was somehow responsible for James Bird's dragging death because Texas didn't have stricter hate crimes legislation is inciting racial hatred for Bush among blacks. How do think it would fly if Bush came out with an ad that discussed how the Clinton/Gore administration failed to enforce its own Federal hate crimes legislation against the killer of Kevin Shifflett, in N. Virginia? (see my previous post from frongpagemag.com). And now I'm watching O'Reilly and he's currently interviewing a guy who is currently tying Al Gore to Al Sharpton because Gore met with Sharpton privately during the campaign... Strong ad... and CERTAINLY MUCH MORE ACCURATE than the James Bird ad since Lieberman continues to defend people like Farahkhan and Sharpton... After all, Al Gore DID meet with Sharpton. Bush DID NOT know the killers of James Bird.