Sunday, February 20, 2011

Cape Cod Checkers: "I don't know what to do with" a laptop computer

On 23 September 1952, Senator Richard M. Nixon said:

I am sure that you have read the charge and you've heard that I, Senator Nixon, took $18,000 from a group of my supporters.

Now, was that wrong? And let me say that it was wrong—I'm saying, incidentally, that it was wrong and not just illegal. Because it isn't a question of whether it was legal or illegal, that isn't enough. The question is, was it morally wrong?

I say that it was morally wrong if any of that $18,000 went to Senator Nixon for my personal use. I say that it was morally wrong if it was secretly given and secretly handled. And I say that it was morally wrong if any of the contributors got special favors for the contributions that they made.

And now to answer those questions let me say this:

Not one cent of the $18,000 or any other money of that type ever went to me for my personal use. Every penny of it was used to pay for political expenses that I did not think should be charged to the taxpayers of the United States.


Records show O'Leary, a Barnstable Democrat who also ran for Congress in the primary, spent $1,574 on a Macintosh laptop computer three months before he announced he would leave the Senate to run for Congress. O'Leary said he had not yet decided to run and wasn't even thinking about it when he made the purchase because there were rumors a Kennedy would seek the seat.

The old "I bought a Mac laptop but thought a Kennedy was running, so now the laptop is sitting there unused" excuse. Nixon wasted his time with a coat. He should have bought an Eniac.

O'Leary lost in the primary, is no longer in public office, but still has the laptop. "I don't know what to do with it," he said Wednesday.

He also didn't know what to do with the office he was occupying.

Two weeks after the Nov. 2 election, his term in the Senate nearly over, O'Leary hosted an event to thank his supporters. The $2,841 event was held at Willowbend Country Club in Mashpee.

"That was a goodbye event," he said. "I think it's appropriate, yes."

Yes. It was appropriate that the state say goodbye to you. Whether spending its money on it is highly unlikely.

State law allows candidates to spend the money donated to their campaigns "to enhance the political future of the candidate," said Jason Tait, a spokesman for the state Office of Campaign and Political Finance...

Senate President Therese Murray spent more than $3,000 on flowers for funerals, get-well wishes and a constituent's 80th birthday... Along with the money for flowers, Murray, a Plymouth Democrat, spent $1,550 on airfare to Russia, $843 to purchase Christmas gifts for dignitaries and more than $16,000 on events that included food — from a $61 "political luncheon" to a $3,000 "staff reception," records show...

Did she see Alaska from her front porch and want to see the exotic land beyond ?

James Cummings, Barnstable County's sheriff, dished out $106 at a Falmouth liquor store for "Christmas gifts."

Were any for Richard Hatch to clean his cell ?

And here's the pinnacle of erudite political thought. The old Massachusetts "if you were so smaht you'd be here."

O'Keefe said there's something critics can do if they disagree with the way he and other politicians spend their money.

"If they don't like the manner in which campaign funds are lawfully spent, then they should go to Legislature and try to effect a change in the law," he said.

You must need to go back to school. You can't possibly be spending money lawfully because your ancestors assassinated mine to get here. You destroyed three Legions in 9, and kept it up from there.

Who is lawful now, usurpers ? You can't even follow the simple document you were provided by Jefferson and Madison.

If the government wasn't in the iron grip of crooks who hire friends and relatives, intermarry, gerrymander districts and write campaign finance laws and ballot laws to present a ballot no different than a Soviet style ballot for their Globalist handlers, we could.

Well, that's about it. That's what we have and that's what we owe. It isn't very much but Pat and I have the satisfaction that every dime that we've got is honestly ours. I should say this that Pat doesn't have a mink coat. But she does have a respectable Republican cloth coat. And I always tell her that she'd look good in anything.

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