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Career Prole Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-18-05 04:39 PM
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Conn. Ex-Gov. Rowland Gets Year in Prison
NEW HAVEN, Conn. - Former Gov. John G. Rowland was sentenced to a year in prison and four months of house arrest Friday for selling his office in a corruption scandal that destroyed his career as one of the Republican Party's brightest and fastest-rising stars.

The judge imposed the sentence after Rowland pleaded for leniency and confessed he had lost his way morally and developed "a sense of entitlement and even arrogance."

"I let my pride get in my way," he told U.S. District Judge Peter C. Dorsey.

Rowland, 47, pleaded guilty in December to a corruption charge, admitting that he sold his influence for more than $100,000 in chartered trips to Las Vegas, vacations in Vermont and Florida, and improvements at his lakeside cottage. He resigned last summer amid a gathering drive to impeach him.

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&e=2&u=/ap/20050318/ap_on_re_us/rowland_sentencing&sid=84439559
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KamaAina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-18-05 04:42 PM
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1. House arrest? But, but, the ankle bracelet chafes!
It's cruel and unusual punishment, I tell you! </sarcasm>

Bye-bye, Gov. #3385916. See you next summer. (heavy metal door clangs shut and echoes down dank hallway)
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rkc3 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-18-05 04:45 PM
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2. He'll be out in three months for being rich and white.
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sellitman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-18-05 04:47 PM
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3. Sounds like someone I know.
snip<The judge imposed the sentence after Rowland pleaded for leniency and confessed he had lost his way morally and developed "a sense of entitlement and even arrogance." >

Gee....why does this sound like that squid in Washington? Must be a coincidence.

End Of Sarcasm
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Career Prole Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-18-05 05:32 PM
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6. "Bush appointed him to White House advisory committees..."
"...and affectionately called him "Johnny." :D
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Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-18-05 04:50 PM
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4. One year for selling his office, not bad!
They give pot smokers 5 years!
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Merlot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-18-05 05:46 PM
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8. Betraying the citizens trust isn't as bad
as smoking pot, that's for sure!

He should have to repay all the money he took as salary while in office as well as donate the money he took in payola to a charitable cause.
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Bonhomme Richard Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-18-05 04:58 PM
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5. Less time than the plea bargin........
The plea bargin called for 15 to 21 months.
It really sucks.
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Kathy in Cambridge Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-18-05 05:45 PM
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7. Only because he's a repuke-a dem would get 5 years
:eyes:
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Redstone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-18-05 06:00 PM
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9. And you can bet he'll be livin' the life
while he's in the slam. No breaking rocks for Johnny!

His pals will set him up with whatever he wants.

And hey, one of the "gifts" he got was Cuban cigars! Why didn't he get prosecuted for posession of an illegal substance?

Redstone
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TexasSissy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-18-05 06:16 PM
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10. Is he a Repub or Dem? nt
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Career Prole Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-18-05 06:25 PM
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13. Read the first line of that article again...
:D
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AngryWhiteLiberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-18-05 06:22 PM
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11. Rowland is a smug piece-of-shit Repuke...good riddance. Careful showering
No doubt Rowland will get placed in a country-club prison. Now, if CT can only vote out that DINO fucker Lieberman...

JB
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Dogmudgeon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-18-05 06:22 PM
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12. At least he's getting prison time
It's a rare occasion that an official that highly placed would get so much as a day in the hoosegow, let alone a Republican.

This trend needs to continue -- as long as politicians break laws. After all, we'll have to use our penitentiaries for something after the coming Die-Off.

--p!
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MikeG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-19-05 12:26 PM
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14. His lawyer used to work for the judge in the US Atty.'s Office.
This man should be doing 30 months.
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