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The aftermath of the McDonnell affair
What do you know? Bob McDonnell got away with it.
The clothes. The trips. The watch. The car. The loans. The wedding reception. The golf outings. The golf equipment. The golf food.
McDonnell and his wife Maureen, along with the kids, entered the governor's mansion in 2010 on wings of gubernatorial entitlement,fake ladies rolex submariner, the grand expectation that new friends would provide new, pleasurable, enjoyable things. Because that's what happens when you get to be the governor of Virginia.
This week, the feds announced an end to attempts to prosecute McDonnell or his wife.
As a practical matter, no Virginia governor in modern history has suffered for material want free house, free food, free entertainment, free transportation, free about everything.
"I don't believe the old Mansion ever looked more beautiful than this evening with the lovely decorations for the inaugural reception," wrote Eta Donna Mann, after taking up residence in Virginia's venerable executive residence. "As I walked up and down the spacious hall robed in a gold charmeuse cloth, with an over dress of black Chantilly lace,rolex submariner 2014 fake, spangled with jet, a family heirloom, I am afraid I was proud as a peacock, not perhaps becoming in Virginia's Queen."
So wrote Virginia's First Lady, in 1910, the wife of newly ensconced Gov. William Hodges Mann.
But at least the thought hung in the back of Mrs. Mann's head that pride was a danger.
No such governing mechanism kicked in with the McDonnells. To the contrary. The McDonnells collected their due.
The arrangement might have gone largely unnoticed much was also unreported if it hadn't come from a man whose entrepreneurial interests and his interest in the McDonnells converged.
Is there any doubt about that part? Richmond businessman and all utility salesman Jonnie R. Williams Sr., had a product, a concocted dietary supplement, that he wanted to boost. He befriended the McDonnells in the furtherance of his sales.
And the McDonnells clearly needed things. Their shared enthusiasm for the high life had rendered them nearly insolvent. Williams became their financial life line.
"McDonnell . was convicted of accepting $175,000 worth of benefits including an engraved Rolex watch,rolex submariner womens replica, part of a wedding reception for his daughter and his wife's inaugural ball gown" from Williams, as Eric B. News and World Report, put it in May. "In return, McDonnell instructed state officials to meet with Williams, pressured the state university to study the efficacy of his product (a dietary supplement), allowed a 'product launch' at the governor's mansion and personally touted the product."
The prosecutors understood the arrangement. The jury understood. (Did it ever.) And the appellate court understood.
So what's left from this protracted affair,replica vintage rolex submariner, aside from that?
It's a question even the man at the center wants answered: "What was your own role, governor, in allowing the situation even to happen?" McDonnell asked of himself this week, after hearing that federal prosecutors had finally cut off the chase. "Even if you believe in your heart you're not guilty and you didn't violate any laws?"
As for the rest of us, we have in our hearts a few other thoughts, about the abject absurdity of a judicial system that produces such an outcome and the destroyed standards of public behavior left in its wake.
What do you know? Bob McDonnell got away with it.
The clothes. The trips. The watch. The car. The loans. The wedding reception. The golf outings. The golf equipment. The golf food.
McDonnell and his wife Maureen, along with the kids, entered the governor's mansion in 2010 on wings of gubernatorial entitlement,fake ladies rolex submariner, the grand expectation that new friends would provide new, pleasurable, enjoyable things. Because that's what happens when you get to be the governor of Virginia.
This week, the feds announced an end to attempts to prosecute McDonnell or his wife.
As a practical matter, no Virginia governor in modern history has suffered for material want free house, free food, free entertainment, free transportation, free about everything.
"I don't believe the old Mansion ever looked more beautiful than this evening with the lovely decorations for the inaugural reception," wrote Eta Donna Mann, after taking up residence in Virginia's venerable executive residence. "As I walked up and down the spacious hall robed in a gold charmeuse cloth, with an over dress of black Chantilly lace,rolex submariner 2014 fake, spangled with jet, a family heirloom, I am afraid I was proud as a peacock, not perhaps becoming in Virginia's Queen."
So wrote Virginia's First Lady, in 1910, the wife of newly ensconced Gov. William Hodges Mann.
But at least the thought hung in the back of Mrs. Mann's head that pride was a danger.
No such governing mechanism kicked in with the McDonnells. To the contrary. The McDonnells collected their due.
The arrangement might have gone largely unnoticed much was also unreported if it hadn't come from a man whose entrepreneurial interests and his interest in the McDonnells converged.
Is there any doubt about that part? Richmond businessman and all utility salesman Jonnie R. Williams Sr., had a product, a concocted dietary supplement, that he wanted to boost. He befriended the McDonnells in the furtherance of his sales.
And the McDonnells clearly needed things. Their shared enthusiasm for the high life had rendered them nearly insolvent. Williams became their financial life line.
"McDonnell . was convicted of accepting $175,000 worth of benefits including an engraved Rolex watch,rolex submariner womens replica, part of a wedding reception for his daughter and his wife's inaugural ball gown" from Williams, as Eric B. News and World Report, put it in May. "In return, McDonnell instructed state officials to meet with Williams, pressured the state university to study the efficacy of his product (a dietary supplement), allowed a 'product launch' at the governor's mansion and personally touted the product."
The prosecutors understood the arrangement. The jury understood. (Did it ever.) And the appellate court understood.
So what's left from this protracted affair,replica vintage rolex submariner, aside from that?
It's a question even the man at the center wants answered: "What was your own role, governor, in allowing the situation even to happen?" McDonnell asked of himself this week, after hearing that federal prosecutors had finally cut off the chase. "Even if you believe in your heart you're not guilty and you didn't violate any laws?"
As for the rest of us, we have in our hearts a few other thoughts, about the abject absurdity of a judicial system that produces such an outcome and the destroyed standards of public behavior left in its wake.
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