Today Was A Banner Day For Political Corruption

The situation with the Democratic mayor in Charlotte, Pat Cannon, is so laughable that they even have a top 10 quotes list from the affidavit.

Top 10 quotes from FBI's affidavit on Charlotte mayor
http://www.wral.com/top-10-quotes-from-fbi-s-affidavit-on-charlotte-mayor/13514588/

"Cannon concluded by stating that he looked good 'in an orange necktie, but not an orange jumpsuit.'"

Of course, North Carolina, is a state where the major local papers were keeping a daily count on their front page of the number of Democratic politicians indicted by the Feds.
 
Charlotte is going down the tubes. I'm going to flee with the rest of the white folks. Curious thing is, they are building a bunch of apartments in downtown (uptown in local lingo), yet there are more homeless homies sleeping on benches and badgering people for money every day. The badgering is getting more and more insistent as well.

Maybe they think they can achieve some sort of gentrification, but it doesn't look like it to me. Just two years ago I was looking at condos to buy - that would have been a huge mistake.
 
ABC, CNN, MSNBC, PBS All Skip Political ID for 'Shocking' Corruption By Democrat Mayor

ABC, CNN, MSNBC and PBS on Wednesday and Thursday all covered the "shocking" corruption involving the Democratic mayor of Charlotte, North Carolina. Yet, while talking about the tens of thousands of dollars in bribes he sought, none of these networks identified Patrick Cannon's political party. Only a Fox News host referred to him as a Democrat.

On ABC's Good Morning America, Amy Robach asserted, "Well, the mayor of Charlotte, North Carolina has resigned after being arrested during an FBI sting." On CNN's New Day, Christine Romans informed that undercover FBI agents "got the mayor to take almost $50,000 in bribes in exchange for favorable treatment by the city." In contrast, Fox News's Jamie Colby revealed, "There's another Democrat in trouble over accusations of corruption."

On MSNBC, Kristen Welker had some specific details, but not when it came to Cannon's political party: "One hundred and fourteen. That's the number of days Charlotte Mayor Patrick Cannon served before resigning on Wednesday." PBS's NewsHour avoided identifying the politician's affiliation, too.

On Wednesday's Nightly News, Brian Williams similarly skipped a party label.

When then-South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford admitted to traveling to Argentina for an extra-marital affair, the networks jumped on the fact that he was a Republican.

Transcripts of some of the news briefs on Mayor Cannon are below:

GMA

3/27/14

7:11

ABC GRAPHIC: "Shocking" Corruption: Mayor Arrested in Bribery Sting

AMY ROBACH: Well, the mayor of Charlotte, North Carolina has resigned after being arrested during an FBI sting. Mayor Patrick Cannon accused of accepting more than $48,000 in bribes and then soliciting another million in bribes.

New Day

3/27/14

6:38

CHRISTINE ROMANS: Charlotte, North Carolina is minus a mayor this morning. Patrick Cannon resigned shortly after he was arrested on theft and bribery charges. The FBI says undercover agents posing as real estate developers got the mayor to take almost $50,000 in bribes in exchange for favorable treatment by the city. Cannon could face up to 50 years in prison if he's convicted.

Daily Rundown

3/27/14

9:26

KRISTEN WELKER: One hundred and fourteen. That's the number of days Charlotte Mayor Patrick Cannon served before resigning on Wednesday. Now, Cannon stepped down after he was arrested on federal corruption charges that he alleged accepted thousands of dollars from undercover agents. If convicted, he could face up to 50 years in prison. The FBI began investigating Cannon last August when he was a member of the city council.

America's Newsroom

3/27/14

10:09

JAMIE COLBY: And there's another Democrat in trouble over accusations of corruption. It's Charlotte Mayor Patrick Cannon who resigned yesterday after the FBI nabbed him in a sting and slapped him with public corruption and bribery charges. Cannon's accused of accepting some $48,000 in bribes from undercover agents who posed as real estate developers wanting to do business in Charlotte.

Read more: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/scott-...id-shocking-corruption-democrat#ixzz2xH8uknAA
 
Not taking these pol's side, but these targeted sting investigations trouble me. The rules on what is legal and what is not are not always clear. There is an awful lot of room for politics to dictate whom is targeted and whom is left alone. Does anyone doubt most of the pols in Illinois or NJ could not be caught in similar stings? Or Louisiana or Nevada? Or Florida?

In fairness, if a democrat U. S. Attorney goes after another democrat, it relieves some of my concern. Since most "career" prosecutors are liberla democrats however, it poses a real dilemma for republicans. Take the notorious case of the late republican Sen. from Alaska, Ted Stevens. He was prosecuted under the Bush administration, but the prosecution was so ethically compromised that Eric Holder pulled the plug on it. Of course, by that time Stevens had lost his seat to a democrat and the dems used that advantage to push through obamacare. If Bush or his AG had tried to stop the prosecution, I'm sure there would have been a firestorm of criticism and possibly an impeachment effort.

It's one of the few admirable chapters in Holder's dismal term as AG, but give him credit.
 
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