Siegelman Appears on Fox News About Scrushy
September 14th, 2009Former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman appears on Fox News today discussing HealthSouth founder Richard Scrushy…
The governor got in a couple of good points saying that Scrushy would be a free man today if he had agreed to testify against Siegelman.
“He could have thrown me under the bus any time he wanted to and walked out of that courtroom a free man. Richard Scrushy is in prison today for something he absolutely did not do.”
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September 15th, 2009 at 12:36 am
Cavuto typically wanted to spin the case into something it’s not: An attack on corporate rights to pollute the electoral process and an attack by the media on the weathly. Typical. Siegelman kept bringing it back to what it is – the political corruption of the Rove/Bush Dep’t of Justice.
September 15th, 2009 at 3:47 pm
Good for Don. His case was all about abuse of power, period. From where I stand, Don was a victim of deliberate political prosecution by a venal administration whose principal movers did not respect the Bill of Rights.
Federal campaign laws — intended, said the authors McCain and Feingold, to “clean up” politics — were the convenient means whereby the Bush-Gonzales Justice Department tried to end the career of a decent and honorable individual, Siegelman, who happened to be in the “other” political tribe.
There are, unfortunately, lots of laws like McCain-Feingold which sound good when explained in 30 second soundbites, but which open the door to all kinds of government-sponsored mischief, such as political prosecutions. Also unfortunately, the left has signed on to many such laws intoxicated with notion that all we have to do to clean up politics is make practically every purely political activity illegal.
As Don Siegelman’s case shows, the road to hell is in fact paved with good intentions.
The best approach to campaign finance reform would be to simply require that all candidates and committees report all contributions, by contributors’ names and amounts, in real time on universally accessible websites. No legal limits on who contributes how much, etc. That public disclosure, ongoing and daily on the web, would work much good.
Or, we can keep laws on the books that allow crooked prosecutors to ambush good elected office holders for 100% political purposes.
Seems like a no-brainer to me.
September 17th, 2009 at 6:22 pm
This is further proof of the declining moral standards that the wealthiest Americans are willing to use in order to cement their place at the top, at any expense or moral compromise.