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Rick Sheehy had been seen as the front-runner in the state's 2014 gubernatorial race. Now, it looks like his hopes for the governor's mansion are dashed, and his political career might be over.
The Sheehy saga is the latest in a long line of stories that involve breath-taking hypocrisy and arrogance among "family values" conservatives. It also might serve as a wake-up call for the Riley wing of the Alabama Republican Party, which is about to see several of its prominent members unmasked for extramarital escapades.
That process already has started with our reports about Rob Riley, the son of former Governor Bob Riley, having an affair with lobbyist Liberty Duke. Rob Riley heads the Riley Jackson law firm in the Birmingham suburb of Homewood, but he is best known as a campaign manager, fund-raiser and adviser for his father's campaigns, dating to the mid 1990s.
Rob Riley's affair with Liberty Duke produced sordid complications that dwarf anything being reported so far in the Rick Sheehy scandal--and we will be providing those details in a series of upcoming posts. But Rob Riley is not the only Alabama GOPer to prove that he does not take marital vows seriously.
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Why do so many Republicans seem to think they can get away with moral bankruptcy? Why do they think that regular citizens won't eventually see through them?
We don't have the answers to those questions, but the Rick Sheehy story is a classic in a burgeoning genre of Republican sleaze. How did a rising star in Nebraska's GOP circles step in doo-doo? This is from a report in the Omaha World-Herald:
Lt. Gov. Rick Sheehy was a road warrior in his job, driving thousands of miles across the state to deliver speeches and cut ribbons.
But a monthlong investigation by The World-Herald uncovered a secret life during that travel, involving 2,300 phone calls to four women, other than his wife, during the past four years.
Sheehy, who served eight years in his post, resigned abruptly Saturday after the newspaper contacted him Friday about the calls, made on a state-issued cell phone.
The newspaper filed a public-records request for information about Sheehy's use of a state-issued cell phone. What did the records reveal?
The investigation showed that many of the calls to the four women involved long conversations in the middle of the night. . . .
The four women Sheehy called regularly include two former elected officials widely known in their communities. One of the women, a Bellevue doctor and former City Council member there, said she had a four-year affair with the lieutenant governor. Another woman, a former school board president and Chamber of Commerce official in Holdrege, did not respond to numerous requests for an interview.
The two other women — one living in Texas, the other in Colorado — told the newspaper that their late-night calls were not sexual in nature.
The Lincoln Journal Star provides more details on how the Sheehy scandal came to light:
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A request also was made for email correspondence between Sheehy and (Dr. Theresa) Hatcher and Sheehy and Michele Ehresman, a former director of the Holdrege Area Chamber of Commerce.
The records show, for example, Sheehy made or received 73 calls to and from a Holdrege area cellphone, some late in the evening, on 10 days in January 2012.
The thought that cell-phone records might surface must never have occurred to Rick Sheehy. In Alabama, Rob Riley must have figured that word of his dalliance with Liberty Duke never would get around. And now we learn that one of Rob Riley's cohorts in the family political machine must have held similar delusions.
Some Republicans--whether they are in the Midwest, the South, or elsewhere--never learn.
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The Republican is an endangered species. This animal wanted to have whatever could be had, to take Americans and enslave the poor, middle and of course, any lower upper classes *too *for the intention of *one *world *government.
Can't discount the "liberal democrats," Diane Feinstein for a perfect example. Her daughter is a toxic shame stain on the family name in California.
What are We a People lost in the capsule of globalism to do!
We can't vote for a leader, there is only Rove's Bat Cave - oh that's a memory alright - he did not get to steal the last election for Mitt the Moronic Mormon Twit.
Maybe there is CHANGE we can HOPE about, but doubtful.
Nazis called the "'bleeding' liberals" "useful idiots to spread the propaganda."
I'd say the Americans, and the human people -- almost all [exception are the JOURNALISTS with the spark of higher intelligence LEGAL SCHNAUZER] --
suffer from PTSD Exceptionalism disease BOUGHT VIA "media."
Good grief, the Republicans actually believed they were immune from the SPY-TOTALITARIAN transparency of C21.
Cannot wait for the drones to fly right up where the sun does not shine in the Rockefeller, Kissinger, Bush, Cheney, Rove and all the two faced Republican CABAL.
Then the drones are put on auto-pilot to fly up the A$$es of all the so-called "Liberal Dems."
How would one go about trying to get Bob Rileys phone records while he was governor of Alabama?
Imannual Kant once observed that somettimes there is something in the misfortune of others that does not always displease us. I am sure that there are a good number of people in Nebraska who are not displeased with the Lt. Gov. misfortune. I am certainly not dissplease by the stories swirling aroun Rob Riley and Luther Strange.
I'm wondering why you chose this fool to write about this morning? Why not Senator Menendez? This perv seems more worth discussing!
Thank you Roger for your articles exposing these people for the hypocrites they are. The main stream media do all they can to protect Riley and his political family so you will never hear the truth from them. Thanks again.
David:
I don't have the answer to your question at the moment, but I'm working on it. The Nebraska case broke because the Omaha newspaper made a request under the state's open-records law. I think Alabama has such a law, but I'm not sure how it compares to the one in Nebraska. Any citizen should be able to make such a request; it should not be limited to professional journalism organizations. But again, I'm not certain about the laws in various states. Trying to educate myself.
Anon at 9:20--
Who is Sen. Menendez and what has he or she done? Please tell.
Gotta give this guy in Nebraska credit for one thing. Among his four apparent mistresses, one was a physician. Classy.
I'm like David. I want to know what is on Bob Riley's phone--and I want to know it right now.
Who was with Bob Riley on his Alaska motorcycle-fake-wreck ride? Who was the woman that visited him everyday in the Alaskan hospital as reported in their newspaper? It wasn't Howlin Patsy; she did not even go to Alaska to comfort him during his hospitalization! Can't wait to see who is revealed next. I have my suspicions! Re Menendez and regardless of his sketchy activity in the Dominican, his behavior mimics that of Bob Riley and others in Alabama politics. Once caught not reporting expenses (or PAC contributions or payments from ASU)they simply claim it is an oversight and they rectify the problem years later by filing appropriate paper work. That is a bunch of crap. If Mendendez can be held responsible, certainly the crooks in Alabama should be.
I can't wait to learn more about the "sordid complications" in the Rob Riley/ Liberty Duke affair. I'm already making a list of educated guesses in my mind.
It's interesting that the wife of the Nebraska politico divorced him sometime last year. I wonder if Leslie McLeod Riley, from fashionable Lineville, Alabama, knows what Rob has been up to when he's outside the family nest in Homewood.
Ah, it looks like we are talking about U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez, of Florida. It appears he has a taste for underage prostitutes in the Dominican Republican.
Here is the latest from the Miami Herald:
http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/02/04/3216337/trail-of-sen-bob-menendez-investigation.html
Molli:
Excellent points. Isn't it interesting that Rob Riley gets caught red-handed laundering gambling money to Citizens for a Better Alabama and then claims he didn't know it was from gambling sources? He gets away with it, even though he has about a 15-year history of connections to money laundering, via his ties with Triad Management, one of Ollie North's old companies.
A correction: Sen. Menendez is from New Jersey, not Florida, and he is a Democrat. Here is a Daily Caller piece when the story first broke:
http://dailycaller.com/2012/11/01/women-sen-bob-menendez-paid-us-for-sex-in-the-dominican-republic/
Got to give the Nebraska newspapers props for practicing some real journalism. We don't have much of that here in Alabama.
Looks like the sex trade and human trafficking are big problems in Dominican:
http://miamiherald.typepad.com/nakedpolitics/2013/02/bob-menendez-imbroglio-casts-light-on-dominican-republic-sex-industry.html
Here is a tie between the Menendez and Riley stories. Menendez' major donor, an eye doctor, is being investigated for Medicare fraud. Riley's company, Performance Group LLC, faces whistleblower allegations of Medicare fraud:
http://miamiherald.typepad.com/nakedpolitics/2013/02/south-florida-donor-pal-of-sen-menendez-was-national-treasure-in-the-dr-before-fbi-raid.html
The doctor was flying Menendez down to the Dominican and aiding this pervert in his rendezvous with these underage girls. Menendez has since reimbursed the doc for those expenses. I think the doc also aided in making sure the girls had thorough exams and were "clean" for the Senator's visits. It appears that he favored the younger girls. How young? Menendez is the butt crust of society! So is pimp doc!
butt crust. Never heard this before, but gotta say it works.
Jeff Connaughton graduated from the U of Alabama. He is an attorney and mad as hell.
Contact him for an interview LS, it would be WONDERFUL for a journalist such as your stature to interview the attorney who was in the butt crust Wall Street society AND has an insiders' [no doubt about] Alabama knowledge!
http://www.law.ua.edu/pubs/lrarticles/Volume%2049/Number1/connaughton.pdf
http://scholarship.law.duke.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=4102&context=lcp
THE CONSENSUS IN SUPPORT OF CIVIL JUSTICE REFORM
A. Laying the Foundation for Reform - The Harris Survey and the Brookings Conferences on Civil Justice
Two major projects preceded the introduction of the CJRA on January 25, 1990.
First, Louis Harris and Associates, Inc., conducted an in-depth survey of 250 plaintiff attorneys, 250 defense attorneys, 100 public interest attorneys 7 who actively litigate cases in federal courts, 300 corporate general counsel of companies selected from the 5,000 largest American corporations (based on annual sales revenue), and 147 federal trial court judges.
Second, at Senator Biden's request, the Brookings Institution convened a series of conferences with a task force of national experts in civil litigation. Both the Harris survey and the Brookings task force were integral to identifying reform proposals and developing consensus.
The Harris survey examined, for the first time ever, the attitudes and opinions of litigators and federal trial judges on the nature and extent of the problems of litigation costs and delays. While many had speculated about the
impact of discovery on high costs and the potential of reforms to address this and other problems, never before had the opinions and attitudes of the users of the civil justice system been scientifically and expertly probed. The survey provided concrete evidence of the nature of the problem and a firm basis to believe that the users could unite behind a series of comprehensive, effective reforms.
A substantial majority of the litigators and federal trial judges concluded that the high cost of litigation unreasonably impedes the ordinary citizen's access to the courts.'
SHOULD BE A GREAT INTERVIEW, LS, now that Jeff Connaughton can rely upon his hand in the "reforms!"
Coyote:
Thanks for the suggestion. I need to learn more about Mr. Connaughton.
YES Roger LS, hire Jeff for your own HOME that belongs to Mrs. Schnauzer and you.
"... This is tricky stuff. You need an expert who understands this article and has some ideas of his/her own. AND you need a lawyer who wants more than to simply justify his/her fee. You want a lawyer, obsessed with winning, and who won’t let go until the other side gives in. Remember these cases rarely if ever go to trial. Once the pretender lender takes you as a credible threat they cannot afford to posture any longer lest they end up in trial where it comes out they never owned or purchased the loan, the investor’s agents were prepaid by insurance, CDS and federal bailouts. Millions of foreclosures preceded you in which title was corrupted by the submission of a credit bid by a stranger (non-creditor to the transaction. The tide is turning — be part of the solution!
http://livinglies.wordpress.com/2013/02/04/hamp-pra-program-explained/
LS, Just when can we expect the big "reveal" on AG Luther Strange?
Anon at 1:04--
Don't have an ETA, but working on the story. Need to get details nailed down, and hope that will be finished soon.
The Administrative Office of the Courts (AOC) is the staff agency of the Judicial Council, the policy-making body for the state court system.
http://www.courts.ca.gov/policyadmin-aoc.htm
DATE: February 7, 2013
TIME: 10:00 AM
ROOM: Dirksen 226
OFFICIAL BUSINESS MEETING NOTICE & SUMMARY:
NOTICE OF COMMITTEE EXECUTIVE BUSINESS MEETING
An Executive Business Meeting has been scheduled by the Committee on the Judiciary for Thursday, February 7, 2013 at 10:00 a.m., in Room 226 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building.
By order of the Chairman.
AGENDA
Robert E. Bacharach, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Tenth Circuit
William J. Kayatta, Jr., to be United States Circuit Judge for the First Circuit
Richard Gary Taranto, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Federal Circuit
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Can't allow crusts to get away with anymore butt stuff!
Here's our "huckleberry"
Chief Justice Tani Gorre Cantil-Sakauye was sworn into office as Chief Justice of California on January 3, 2011.
She is the first Asian-Filipina American and the second woman to serve as the state’s Chief Justice.
After former Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger nominated her as Chief Justice on July 22, 2010, the California State Bar Judicial Nominees Evaluation Commission rated her as exceptionally well qualified for the position.
At a public hearing on August 25, 2010, she was unanimously confirmed by the Commission on Judicial Appointments, and in a general election on November 2, 2010, an overwhelming majority of voters elected her to that position.
Chief Justice Cantil-Sakauye chairs the Judicial Council of California, the administrative policymaking body of state courts, and the Commission on Judicial Appointments.
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"... Obama’s conclusion from the Nuremberg trials is that one can still achieve the deprivation of rights of citizens by making it more seamless, more gradual, using more fraud, forgery, falsification of records AND
the most corrupt individuals as officials and judges.
As many know Linda Jordan was sanctioned $13,000 for challenging Obama’s identity document fraud and his placement on the state of Washington’s ballot. Linda reached out to many attorneys seeking advice on what she could do about the unjust fees levied against her. Only one was brave enough to step up to the plate and take on her case. His name is Richard B. Sanders from the Goodstein Law Group in Tacoma, Washington. Mr. Sanders was a justice on the Washington Supreme Court from 1995 to 2011.
Statement from the Honorable Richard B. Sanders:
For the first time in 17 years, 15 of those sitting on the Washington Supreme Court, I have agreed to represent a private citizen. And I am pleased to lend Linda Jordan a helping hand.
In good faith Ms. Jordan commenced an action to question President Obama’s name on the ballot. She did the best she could with limited resources and no legal training. The government’s response was immediate and in some respects heavy handed. Having obtained a summary dismissal of her case, and then her appeal, the attorney general went further to demand the Secretary of State be reimbursed, claiming attorney fees amounting to almost $13,000.
However what the attorney general did not tell the court is that the Secretary never actually paid this amount, nor was he billed this amount, nor probably anything close to it. The number is made up, pure fiction. The AG did not disclose the actual amount to the court probably because the objective is to get a punitive judgment for as much as he can without regard to actual expenditures which were much less.
My motion to modify and reduce the court clerk’s award of almost $13,000 will attempt to direct the court’s attention to the truth of the matter: that once again the government is hiding the ball to oppress a patriotic private citizen of modest means because she exercised her right to access the courts. This is not compensatory but punitive. It is not justice but oppression.
Moreover $13,000 is truly an outlandish sum to obtain dismissal of an appeal the AG claimed was entirely lacking in merit. No wonder people mistrust the government, lawyers and the court system. It’s time to fight.
Richard B. Sanders
Lawyer - end -
Linda Jordan provided the following statement on February 3rd, 2013:
“I am humbled, grateful and hopeful to have Richard Sanders representing me. The Courts do, after all, play a role in the effort to reveal the truth and serve justice.” – Linda Jordan -
Here’s a pertinent quote taken from one of Mr. Sanders many legal writings/speeches titled, “The King of America“:
“An independent judiciary is essential to preserve the Rule of Law. The judiciary cannot serve as handmaidens to powerful interests and, at the same time, protect the rights of individual citizens who are threatened precisely because they are economically weak or politically unpopular.
To stand by the Rule of Law judges must be impartial. They must not presume the government is always right. They must not defer to the government. They must not restrain themselves from defending the legal rights of the individual. There is no virtue in such restraint. It is dereliction of judicial duty..” – Honorable Richard B. Sanders -
Developing: Ret. Supreme Court Judge Fights $13,000 Sanction Against Obama Challenger
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The story about U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez brole on the Daily Caller, a conservative prebuplican leaning website. Their source was an unidentified person who claims to have access to 67+ page FBI file then mainly consists of emails between an FBKIagent and a unnamed person who, among other things claims to have talked to 2 Dominican prostitutes. The chains of evidence would not even make it as a scipt on Law & Order.
they think they won't be caught. they think they are smarter than the rest of us.
they have a profound sense of entitlement.
when you rate most of these people against the list of characteristics of a psychopath or sociopath, you get some interesting results.
would these "cheaters" been cheating if they weren't politicians? Most likely. In their minds its all about them. Their families are just window dressing for them.
David, ever think its an FBI agent who leaked it?
Anon@ 7:16 PM
That's all they can do(leak). The FBI certainly can't involve themselves in these investigations(they're only for pr purposes):
http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/investigate
If you want more evidence to prove my point just look at this guys face. He's definitely lost:
http://hamptonroads.com/node/189481
@ Jeff, I agree.
I've spent a lot of time traveling pre and post 9/11. Oddly I noticed a disheartening pattern while in TSA lines that those of Middle Eastern and South Asian decent were never pulled aside and searched. It was always those who obviously were not a threat including children. I dare never inquire nor was it necessary. The mission seemed clear. It's also quite clear why agents are moved around a lot. If I had to guess I would say that's a good reason for them to leak info. I would imagine it's frustrating to say the least.
Roger, I just happend upon that site "LS Exposed". I just wanted to say what a douchbag I think Ted Rollins is! I would like to see that scumbag become someone's bitch in the big house. Only thing that annoys me of that thought is that he would enjoy it. With that said, cruel and unusual punishment would be the only thing that would work and would be well worth my tax dollars!
I'm pretty sure Ted Rollins' stepson, the one he abused, is responsible for that site. Sort of like the Stockholm Syndrome, I guess. Ted Rollins might be funding it, for all I know, although it couldn't cost much. I would call it amateurish, but it would have to improve to reach that level.
You ought to try leaving a comment and see if they even notice it. You also might try asking them to give one example of any inaccuracies in my reporting. They won't be able to name one.
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