Gov. McDonnell must answer questions about scandal

[FSogol]

From the Washington Post Editorial Board

Mr. McDonnell’s head-spinning hypocrisy has stained his reputation and shredded the bonds of trust that any governor must maintain with the public if he wishes to be effective and credible. It’s time for him to stop dodging hard questions and hiding behind legal niceties; it’s time for Mr. McDonnell to level with Virginians about what has become the state’s most toxic scandal in years.

Whole piece here:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/gov-mcdonnell-must-answer-questions-about-scandal/2013/07/10/9976ed92-e992-11e2-aa9f-c03a72e2d342_story.html

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1. Bob McDonnell's Growing Scandal Could Spill Over to Ken Cuccinelli

Bob McDonnell's Growing Scandal Could Spill Over to Ken Cuccinelli
http://www.nationaljournal.com/politics/bob-mcdonnell-s-growing-scandal-could-spill-over-to-ken-cuccinelli-20130711

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2. Cuccinelli is connected to the scandal, but so far the media is keeping him out.

Both of those scumbags should resign in disgrace.

[spooky3]

3. Has anyone seen reporting about what exactly would happen if he DID resign?

I haven't.

Would the Lieutenant Governor then serve as Governor for the remainder of the term? Or something else?

The succession may explain why at least some Dems. may be happy not to press McDonnell to step down. As long as he stays in office and reporters keep finding more wrongdoing, that helps Dems.' election chances this fall.

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4. Yes, Bolling becomes Governor if McDonnell steps down.

Bolling, of course, was pushed aside by the GOP in favor of Cuccinelli.

[spooky3]

5. thanks

[mahatmakanejeeves]

6. Ruth Marcus: Bob McDonnell is unfit for office

Bob McDonnell is unfit for office
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/ruth-marcus-bob-mcdonnell-is-unfit-for-office/2013/07/11/c962e8d2-ea53-11e2-8f22-de4bd2a2bd39_story.html

By Ruth Marcus, Published: July 11

There are two swift routes to political downfall. One is sex. The other is money. The first is humiliating but survivable. The second tends to be terminal, even criminal. ... Today’s topic is the second, in the form of Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell (R) and the now mountainous evidence that — whether he technically complied with Virginia’s Swiss cheese disclosure laws or not in accepting thousands of dollars in gifts from a wealthy businessman — he has no business continuing in office.
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Now comes reporting that raises the story to a new level of outrage: Williams last year gave $70,000 — supposedly a loan — to a corporation owned by McDonnell and his sister; plus $50,000 to Maureen McDonnell in 2011, and $10,000 as a wedding present this year to another McDonnell daughter.

As astonishing is the governor’s technocratic defense: that he is complying with the letter of Virginia disclosure rules, which do not require reporting of gifts to family members. “To, after the fact, impose some new requirements on an official,” McDonnell told a Norfolk radio show, “obviously wouldn’t be fair.”

But gifts and entanglements like these are simply wrong, a violation of the governor’s duty to citizens, whatever the rules. That McDonnell doesn’t get this basic point makes him unfit for office. Obviously.

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7. +1000 n/t

[damyank913]

8. These theocrats kill me...

...now "Brother Ken" is toning down all of his religious rhetoric while he runs for gov. This hypocrisy gags me...