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To: Mr. Whist who wrote (227477)	2/15/2002 2:41:06 PM
From: jlallen	Respond to of 769667

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To: Mr. Whist who wrote (227477)	2/15/2002 2:48:39 PM
From: jlallen	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

Rats desert sinking ship....... Thursday, Feb. 14, 2002 Bronx Dem Jumps to GOP Here's something you probably didn't know: "Since George W. Bush was elected president, at least 25 Democrat elected officials have switched to the GOP," United Press International reported today. The latest convert: New York state Sen. Pedro Espada Jr., a native of Puerto Rico who represents the South Bronx. Fed up with being regarded as the property of the Dems, whose decades of costly schemes have failed to improve his blighted district, Espada issued his own emancipation proclamation: "The citizens of my district have signaled that they no longer want to be taken for granted. They want to not only talk about diversity; they want to diversify. They are tired of being poor and powerless. "Hence, today I, Pedro Espada Jr., affirm and declare my and their political emancipation. Today, I officially enroll as a member of the Republican Party."

To: Mr. Whist who wrote (227477)	2/15/2002 3:02:36 PM
From: jlallen	Respond to of 769667

Campaign finance reform is a joke.... Forget the effectiveness of new campaign finance laws. We don’t even punish the violators of current ones. Columnist Michelle Malkin discovered -- in a development that I and the MRC analysts have not seen reported anywhere else -- that Maria Hsia, the woman who used Buddhist monks to funnel illegal foreign money to Al Gore’s campaign, received a very light sentence last week. The MRC’s Rich Noyes alerted me to Malkin’s February 13 column as posted on TownHall.com. An excerpt: Newsflash: The woman who helped launder Al Gore's Buddhist temple money has not served a single day in jail. And she probably never will. The hidden story of how funny money honey Maria Hsia escaped any meaningful punishment for corrupting our election system shows just how empty all of this week's sound and fury over campaign finance reform really is. In the spring of 2000, Hsia was convicted by a federal jury in Washington, D.C., of five felony counts related to more than $100,000 in illegal contributions to Democratic candidates. The stash included $65,000 in straw donations, which Hsia had funneled through clueless, non-English-speaking monks and nuns the day after Vice President Al Gore's 1996 visit to the Hsi Lai Buddhist Temple in Southern California. Hsia, a Taiwan-born immigration consultant, faced up to 25 years in prison for causing false statements about the pass-through contributions to be made in Federal Election Commission reports. That was two years ago. Where is Hsia now? Here's the rest of the story that the mainstream media has yet to report. On Feb. 6, U.S. District Court Judge Paul Friedman finally handed Hsia her sentence: a puny 90 days of home detention and three years of probation, along with a fine and assessment of $5,300. Judge Friedman's slap on the wrist is no surprise. A Clinton appointee, he was assigned to the Hsia case by Norma Holloway Johnson -- another Clinton appointee who serves as the chief judge of the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C. Johnson bypassed the court's usual computer-randomized assignment system and somehow miraculously ended up assigning fellow Clinton judicial appointees to oversee six criminal cases involving Democratic fund-raisers and Clinton crony Webster Hubbell. When he first got the Hsia case, Judge Friedman immediately dismissed all but one felony count against the Clinton-Gore rainmaker. A higher appeals court overruled him. Then, during trial, he disallowed crucial grand-jury testimony to be introduced. After the jury reached its guilty verdict, he dallied before entering a judgment of conviction (which usually follows a verdict immediately). And according to the BNA Money & Politics Report, a D.C.-based daily newsletter that first reported news of Hsia's reduced sentence, Friedman blocked prosecutors from securing tougher penalties.... END of Excerpt www.mediaresearch.org To read Malkin’s entire column, go to: townhall.com