muni agent arrested for fighting teenager

SANFRANCISCONEWSNOVEMBER15,2009
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DRUG CHARGES DROPPED FOR GIANTS STARTING PITCHER
SAN FRANCISCO—The starting
pitcher for the San Francisco
Giants, Tim Lincecum, was arrested for possession of the illgal subsubstance marijuana on October
30, in Washington State. Since
then, prosecutors have reached a
deal with Lincecum’s lawyer to
drop drug charges.
The 25-year-old pitcher was
speeding at 74 mph in a 60 mph
zone in Hazel Dell, Wash. when
he was pulled over by a
Washington State Patrol trooper.
As Lincecum rolled down his window, the officer smelled marijuana.
Lincecum complied with the
officer’s request to hand over the
marijuana and his pipe, which he
stashed in his center console.
Lincecum was in possession of
about 3.3 grams, which is a small
amount compared to the 40-gram
maximum one can have before it
By Bridget Kwok
becomes a more severe penalty.
The star pitcher still faces a
$122 fine for the speeding citation
and a $250 fine for possessing a
marijuana pipe—after his lawyer
reached a deal with the prosecutor.
It is not uncommon for prosecutors to drop drug charges for firsttime offenders.
MUNI AGENT ARRESTED FOR FIGHTING TEENAGER
SAN FRANCISCO—On November
5, a 59-year-old San Francisco
Municipal Railway agent was arrested after physically fighting a 17year-old girl, with whom the agent
reportedly engaged in a dispute over
the cost of a railway ticket.
The incident occurred during the
afternoon, when the girl and her sister asked Muni agent Kenneth
Valentine for a youth ticket, which
costs $0.75. An adult ticket costs $2.
The teen reportedly had nothing to
verify her actual age, and may have
appeared to be older, according to
police.
The agent allegedly punched the
girl during the altercation. Valentine
was arrested on suspicion of felony
and misdemeanor assault. Both he
and the girl were hospitalized for
By Bridget Kwok
minor injuries.
Brian Buckelew, of the San
Francisco District Attorney's Office,
told The San Francisco News that it
is unclear who started the fight; however, witnesses are being sought for
questioning, and a possible video
recording may reveal more information.
"It is unclear whether a video actually exists or not," Buckelew reports
to The San Francisco News, "but if
there is one, it is in possession of
BART, and they are looking to
recover it to reveal more evidence."
Buckelew told The San Francisco
News that the girl's sister is 22 years
of age; however, her identity does
not appear to be releasable at the
moment.
"As of now, the Muni agent
[Valentine] is out on bail, so he has
no future court dates," Buckelew
informs The San Francisco News.
"I'm not sure if the girl has been
released from the hospital or how
she is doing, but I'm sure her injuries
are not serious."
No further information regarding
the case is available at the moment.
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BIG RIG DRIVER PLUNGES 200 FEET OFF OF BAY BRIDGE
SANFRANCISCONEWSNOVEMBER15,2009
SAN FRANCISCO—On November
9, the driver of a big rig plunged 200
feet to his death after speeding on the
S-Curve of the westbound San
Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge,
according to authorities.
The truck was carrying a load of
pears and traveling at a rate of
approximately 50 mph, which is 10
mph over the speed limit. The
motorist reportedly struck the 36inch high guardrail as he lost control
of his vehicle, going over and landing on Yerba Island 200 feet from the
span.
The man has been identified as a
Hayward resident who had been
employed at a trucking company in
San Ramon; however, his name is
not being released. It is believed that
it was the driver's reckless speeding
rather than the S-curve that caused
his death.
Lanes were shut down after the
crash at about 3:30 a.m., temporarily
disrupting the morning commute.
The S-curve is being used as a detour
until crews have completed construction on the bridge that will be
resistant
to
earthquakes.
Transportation
agents
have
improved traction on the new addi-
By Rosana Clarkson
it is recommended that motorists
slow to rates of 35 mph on the curve.
POLICE SEEK SUSPECTS IN CONNECTION TO BEATING DEATH VICTIM
SAN FRANCISCO—On November
6, a 39-year-old man was discovered
beaten to death in San Francisco's
Excelsior District.
The San
Francisco Medical Examiner has
identified the victim as Alfonso
Rodriguez of San Mateo.
The beating occurred during the
By Rosana Clarkson
evening near Munich and Cordova
streets, where officers responded to
reports of a physical assault.
Arriving police discovered the victim sitting in the driver's seat of a
vehicle, suffering from critical
injuries. Rodriguez was taken to a
hospital, where he died at approxi-
mately 10:45 p.m.
After locating the victim, investigators immediately traversed the
neighborhood and asked questions
of possible tipsters. No weapons
appeared to have been used in the
assault, and no suspects were identified; however, the beating appears to
have no gang involvement, according to police.
Anyone with information regarding this assault is urged to contact
the
San
Francisco
Police
Department at 415-575-4444.
Callers may remain anonymous.
WOMAN ARRESTED IN CONNECTION TO MAN'S DEATH IN HOTEL
SAN FRANCISCO—On November 9,
a 34-year-old woman was arrested in
connection to the death of a man at 106
6th Street, as reported by the San
Francisco District Attorney's Office.
The suspect, identified as Kira
Roeche, is believed to be involved in
the killing of 42-year-old Cameron
Miller, who died in his room at the
Henry Hotel.
Brian Buckelew, a spokesman for the
San Francisco District Attorney's
Office, told The San Francisco News
that it is currently believed that Roeche
used two objects to attack Miller.
"He [Miller] died from blunt force
trauma to the head," Buckelew
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By Rosana Clarkson
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"She [Roeche] used a vodka bottle and
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When asked by The San Francisco
News what relation, if any, Roeche had
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When asked by The San Francisco
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prime suspect in the incident, however
he confirmed that she was determined
to be involved in Miller's death.
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ANNOUNCEMENTS............................101
SINGLE EVENTS................................102
BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY..................203
FOR SALE.........................................304
COLLECTIBLES..................................305
AUTOMOTIVE.....................................306
LEGAL...............................................402
SERVICES..........................................407
MUSIC...............................................408
FREELANCE WRITER..........................409
HAULERS..........................................410
SECURITY..........................................411
HOME IMPROVEMENT........................412
HEALTH.............................................413
SPIRITUAL.........................................414
LIFE COACH......................................415
COMPUTER SERVICES.......................417
HUNTING..........................................418
PETS.................................................516
EMPLOYMENT...................................619
REAL ESTATE....................................720
OPEN HOUSE....................................722
COMMERCIAL RENTALS.....................723
HOMES FOR SALE.............................724
RESIDENTIAL RENTALS......................725
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KATE LINDER ALWAYS PARTIES FOR A GOOD CAUSE
SANFRANCISCONEWSNOVEMBER15,2009
HOLLYWOOD—Keeping up with
Kate Linder is my workout regimen.
Some people go to gyms and hire personal trainers, but all I need to do is
follow behind her, while being in awe
of all the places she manages to go to
and how respected and welcomed the
“Y&R” star is. When Kate is not
working on “The Young and the
Restless,” or flying the friendly skies
as a flight attendant for a major airline, which she’s done for decades,
she can be seen at various soup
kitchens and shelters downtown in
Los Angeles helping the homeless and
the needy. “I feel as though I need to
give back,” Linder, the beautiful
actress told Canyon News recently.
Though finding her at two events
last week, it was fun to see she’s still
looking great and enjoying life.
Linder joined Nancy Cartwright, the
iconic voice of Bart Simpson, when
Cartwright hosted her Fourth Annual
Monte Carlo Night. Cartwright is a
board member of PALS [Police
Activities League Supporters], and
she opened up her beautiful home for
the fundraiser for the fourth year in a
row. The funds she’s already raised
helped build a new youth center, the
Councilman Greig Smith LAPD
Devonshire PALS Youth Center. All
the profits from this year’s event went
to funding materials and programs for
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By Tommy Garrett
the center, which provides after
school activities and motivational
opportunities for potentially ‘at risk’
youth.
If that wasn’t enough. Soon after
Cartwright’s event, Linder was seen at
the Total Woman Gym and Day Spa’s
44th Anniversary party in Woodland
Hills, where many celebrities packed
the red carpet and posed for photographers. Linder tells Canyon News,
“Tommy, I love seeing you at these
events, I appreciate you keeping up
with my career and everything I do for
charity.” Thom Bierdz, Linder’s
“Y&R” costar tells Canyon News,
“Kate is one of the warmest people
I’ve ever met. She’s always out there
making a difference in this town and
helping as many people as she can. I
can’t figure out where she gets so
much energy. I’m in awe of her.”
Linder was seen with Camryn
Manheim and 2006 World Series of
Poker winner Jamie Gold Ms.
Cartwright's PALS event. While
catching up with Giselle Samson from
“America’s Next Top Model” and
actress McKenzie Westmore from
NBC’s “Passions” at the Woodland
Hills event celebrating the 44th
Anniversary of Total Woman Gym
and Day Spa’s event.
Kate Linder can be seen weekdays
as Esther Valentine on “The Young
and the Restless” on CBS.
CELEBRITIES AND LAWSUITS!
HOLLYWOOD—Most
reporters
have written, and subsequently regretted, things they have written in the
past. Reporters sometimes forget that
when you write something, you’re not
just writing to one person you’re
potentially writing to thousands or
more people. What you write is read,
sometimes not only by the subject, but
also by people close to the party, who
will in some way or another let them
know or pass the word around. The
journalist sometimes forgets to be
sensitive, and the result is a pure and
complete lack of judgment.
Defaming someone in the public
realm is dangerous; however, it is
even more detrimental to a journalist.
Certainly no journalist wants to be
known or remembered for a lapse in
judgment. Just last month, as the Jan
Moir saga continued (regarding the
comments made in her newspaper column which managed to circulate controversy worldwide), it is evident that
what is written could definitely create
chaos. The columnist, who writes for
the Daily Mail, became probably the
first journalist to receive a whopping
By Rose Quintiliano
21,000 complaints to the Press
Complaints Commission. The comments the journalist wrote regarding
the death of Stephen Gately caused a
wave of outrage. While the journalist,
has written an apologetic column after
the controversy, only time will tell if
she will have a following.
While reporting the news accurately
and ground-truth fact finding go
hand-in-hand, sometimes the truth is
exaggerated and the celebrity wins, as
with the case of Portuguese soccer
superstar Cristiano Ronaldo, who has
reportedly accepted substantial libel
damages on November 9, over a false
allegation reported by the Daily
Mirror in Britain regarding last July’s
visit to a Hollywood nightclub. The
former Manchester United star also
received an apology from the High
Court in London. The newspaper
reported that the winger had “gone on
a drink-fueled bender” in Los Angeles
while he recovered from an ankle
operation. Cristiano does not drink
alcohol. He had traveled to Los
Angeles, to attend a sports ceremony.
In a statement issued through his
solicitor, he said: I am delighted with
this outcome. “I take training and
recovery from injury very seriously
and would never have ‘gone on a bender’ and danced in a nightclub without my crutches as the Mirror falsely
claimed.” It also reported that the star
also splashed out thousands of dollars
on champagne and vodka for friends
and models, having drunk four glasses of red wine earlier in the evening
over a meal.
The international famous Real
Madrid and Portugal soccer player
was awarded FIFA World Player of
the Year for 2008, and is in the running for a second successive year after
being named on a 23-man short list
for this year’s award. The Portuguese
winger, 24, who joined Real Madrid
this summer from Manchester United
for a world transfer fee, heads a familiar cast of soccer’s biggest names
ahead of the annual gala in Zurich,
Switzerland, on December 21.
A few weeks ago, it was Kate
Winslet’s turn to be awarded $40,000
from Britain’s Daily Mail for suggesting that the actress routinely needled
for her fleshier frame earlier in her
career lied when she told reporters
earlier this year that she wasn’t working out during awards season, People
reports. Kate Winslet obviously reads
the papers; she also won damages in
2007 against a British magazine that
claimed she visited a diet doctor.
Another beauty settled too. Former
Miss California, beauty queen Carrie
Prejean quickly settled her religious
discrimination lawsuit against her former pageant bosses, when a lawyer
for the Miss California USA organization discovered an incriminating sex
tape, TMZ.com reports. The
Associated Press reported that Prejean
and pageant organizers came to a confidential settlement about their feuding lawsuits. Prejean filed suit first,
claiming libel, slander and religious
discrimination, while the organization
counter-sued saying Prejean refused
to make appearances required of the
state winner.
Rose’s Scoop: It will be interesting
to see Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin
co-host the Oscars at the 82nd
Academy Awards ceremony in March.
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SAN FRANCISCO—“Under the
Dome” is one amazing novel by
Stephen King, who breaks all the
rules of a typical novel. Firstly, the
cover is brilliant. King’s book covers have never appealed to me half
as much as his novels and eerie
story-telling style has done. This
cover is incredible, it’s almost in 3D version. In a bold effort to
achieve the arresting image for this
jacket, art director Rex Bonomelli
had to seek out graphic artists and
designers who could do a convincing job of creating a realistic portrayal of the town of Chester's Mill,
the setting of the novel. Bonomelli
found the perfect team of digital
artists, based in South America and
New York, whose cutting edge work
had previously been devoted to
advertisement campaigns.
The second thing that was daunting for me was the fact the novel
was so long. Over one thousand
pages, it took me a little longer than
I thought. It was thoroughly worth it
however. Author King’s return to
supernatural horror is at the very
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least, compelling. Small-town
Chester’s Mill, Maine is the place
where the story is told, the town is
inhabited by an invisible force field,
the people inside are not protected
from being forced to fight for their
survival. You do get the feeling
King must be a global warming
believer, because as the situation in
the town starts to deteriorate it’s
because of the ecological effects of
a “J.R. Ewing” type man in Big Jim
Rennie, who is a drug lord and
politician who enjoys isolating the
citizens he rules over.
The person who tries to save the
town is of course a newspaper editor Julia Shumway and an Iraq veteran Dale “Barbie” Barbara, but
also some teens on skateboard and
others band together to save their
world from the dictator who rules it.
Fans and previous readers won’t
miss the typical eerie fiction King is
known for in his stories, like many
of his books and movies, the action
is nonstop and exciting.
This book is one that takes a week
to savor and enjoy, but if you are a
SANFRANCISCONEWSNOVEMBER15,2009
By Tommy Garrett
SCI FI fan or a Stephen King admirer, this book will never let you
down. When I finished it, I thought
to myself, what a great idea for a
movie. I’m certain that idea is not
original or lost on Stephen King.
FAMOUS STRANGERS
HOLLYWOOD—Being gifted with
an infallible knack for being oblivious to the identity of renowned acting folk with whom I’ve kibitzed, or
even acted with, has often me feel
like a bonehead in this city where
celebrity-adjacent is prime real
estate. It may be a tribute to their
acting chops that they catapulted me
to a place so beyond the mortal
realm that it was unimaginable to be
standing right next to them, or
maybe their plastic surgeon is to
blame. Who can say?
Here are a few tales of missed star
sightings, soon to appear in my
memoirs, “Grady Schlepped Here."
Take One: When I was a lad in a
small farming town in Northern
California,
the
Hollywood
Cavalcade came to town. My
father’s corner drug store was chosen to film a scene in “Killer
Klowns from Outer Space.” In
Killer Klowns I learned what it is to
be an extra. My head doubled for
that of one of the leads in the back of
a squad car, driven by the police
chief. When I got in the back seat,
handcuffs cutting into my wrists, I
glimpsed the actor playing the chief.
It sure looked like the actor who
By Grady Miller
played Dean Wormer in “Animal
House.” You know the guy, steely
blue eyes and sandpaper-coarse
complexion. Although no more
space divided us than separates a
priest from his confessor, I didn’t
dare speak to him. First, I immediately dismissed that an actor of his
stature would be in beautiful downtown Watsonville, driving a police
car at 10 p.m. in a movie about
clowns from a spaceship. Secondly,
I couldn’t remember his name for
the life of me.
To make peace with my curiosity,
I deluded myself that I was a method
extra: the arrested passenger would
be terrified and would not speak to
the police chief. Finally, after the
last take, the actor’s name came to
me. The air from my lungs vibrated
my vocal cords, and I found myself
saying, “Excuse me. Aren’t you
John Vernon?”
From under the police cap, those
icy blues flashed and pinned me to
the wall.
“John Vernon?” he said. “Hell, I’m
Richard Burton.”
Take Two: One phone call can
change everything. One moment
you’re twiddling your thumbs, won-
dering what you’re doing here, and
the next you’re a man with a mission.
The phone rang and I was instantly cast as Kafka’s father in a short
film being made by an old friend. I
gathered my wife and baby daughter
and we were off. For the dream-like
fantasy, “Kafka in Love,” the director’s home in Silver Lake was converted to the Kafka household in
Prague. After my arrival, in floated a
raven-haired actress. We chatted
after being dressed in our period
costumes—in my case a padded
satin bathrobe, hers a waist-fitted
lacy white dress to play Franza
Kafka’s girlfriend, Felice.
“I’ve done some television in
Australia,” she told me, “And now
I’m over here, trying my luck.”
It was a story like so many. This
was the story of many of us who
come to Hollywood to make it, same
story, different country. She was
beautiful and cool, quiet and serious,
but it took more than cool beauty to
succeed. To me, she seemed tentative. And tentative doesn’t cut the
mustard.
We did the scene—a sort of
Walpurgisnacht in Mr. and Mrs.
Kafka’s bedroom—and the actress
rushed off. It seemed like she had
another audition.
The day afterward, I was bowled
over to learn that that same actress
had appeared in a movie I adore,
“Heavenly Creatures.” This movie,
made by Peter Jackson before “Lord
of the Rings,” contains an exquisite
murder, every bit as shocking and
visceral as the shower scene in
“Psycho.” In it, the actress, Melanie
Lynskey held her own alongside
Kate Winslet. In the Silver Lake
production I even got to kiss
Melanie on the cheek and had no
tingle of recognition from her previous role. Just as well, perhaps. I
would have effused about the murder in “Heavenly Creatures,” and
been inhibited when it came to playing our scene.
Melanie is now reaping success in
“Weeds” and a string of movies,
playing alongside the likes of Matt
Damon and being directed by Clint
Eastwood. Not bad for a girl from
New Plymouth, New Zealand. I saw
her in Malibu the other day, driving
a Bentley and towing a swimming
pool. . .
(Next week: an infamous stranger.)
Point of View
HONOR OUR HEROES, BUT FACE OUR ENEMIES
SANFRANCISCONEWSNOVEMBER15,2009
WASHINGTON D.C.—Our brave
heroes often know that when they
leave our nation’s borders they will
face dangers and possible death at the
hands of our enemies. It was very sad
on Thursday, November 5, at Fort
Hood, Texas when a gunman, which I
believe should be called a terrorist,
shot and killed 13 and wounded 42
others in a horrific attack on our military and our nation.
For years I have spoken about the
mentally ill amongst us being ticking
time bombs. They wreak havoc on
many others while playing the game
of telling their psychiatrists, they are
not a danger to themselves or others.
Then their physicians have to release
them out on to the rest of us in society. Sooner or later the American people will find the strength and common
sense to demand our politicians take
the proper legislative action to keep
us safe from those who are either
mentally incapable of being sensible
or rapists and sex predators, and ultimately terrorists both domestic and
foreign.
With U.S. congressional and military investigations going on now to
figure out where and who made the
irrational decision not to remove the
psychopath from the military that
made history by being a mass murderer. Why decisions were not made to
By Tommy Garrett
put the safety of the innocent soldiers
before that of a man who was spewing typical Islamic hatred toward his
own country and his own men and
women in arms is beyond me.
Hopefully we learn from this tragedy
and won’t face too many more in the
future, though I have great fears
because in this country we go from
being rude and racist when it’s unwarranted to overly politically correct,
which is where we are now. No happy
medium known as basic common
sense. Immediately Muslim leaders in
America went on the offensive and
claimed this is not representative of
Islam and even the man’s family
claimed shock and horror, but does
any of this make sense? We need to
learn from this, that we should take
people at their word. When they say
we are infidels and their very holy
book the Koran teaches that any non
Muslim is a nonbeliever and an infidel. We had better take their own
words at face value and not the
excusers who cram the news networks with rhetoric claiming they are
not teaching this in mosques around
the nation and the world, when we
know different.
I decided not to focus totally on the
terrorist, who our military and our
politicians refuse to call that, and
decided to honor those 13 heroes
including the great American,
Kimberly Munley who even after
being shot three times took down the
coward who was shooting innocent
and many unarmed soldiers at Fort
Hood. Kimberly is improving and our
love and prayers go out to her and her
family. She is what our nation stands
for. Truth, equality, love of country
and bravery. She is what she is being
called, a tough cop who is a real
American hero. For anyone who
doubts women belong in the military
or can do a job any man can do, just
keep Ms. Munley in your mind. She
previously had stopped burglars in
her home.
Let us remember those we lost due
to the terrorist attack at Fort Hood,
Texas. They include, Chief Warrant
Officer Michael Grant Cahill (Ret.),
Cameron, Texas; Maj. Libardo
Eduardo Caraveo, Woodbridge, Va.;
Army Staff Sgt. Justin DeCrow,
Plymouth, Ind.; Capt. John Gaffaney,
San Diego, Calif.; Spc. Frederick
Greene, Mountain City, Tenn.; Spc.
Jason Dean Hunt, Tipton, Okla.; Sgt.
Amy Krueger, Kiel, Wis.; Pfc. Aaron
Thomas Nemelka, West Jordan, Utah;
Pfc. Michael Pearson, Bolingbrook,
Ill.; Capt. Russell Seager, Racine,
Wis.; Pvt. Francheska Velez,
Chicago, Ill.; Lt. Col. Juanita L.
Warman, Havre De Grace, Md. and
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Spc. Kham Xiong, St. Paul, Minn.
Out of respect for patient’s privacy,
it would not have been proper in my
opinion to name the list of injured and
those fighting for their lives. We love
and pray for you as well, you are not
forgotten.
There is a fine line between fear
mongering and preaching hatred
against a religion. I do not believe in
either. I do believe in our constitution
which gives us the right to worship in
any faith we may choose, if any at all.
However, Americans are facing a
threat from Islamist extremists and
we should decide how we are going to
face this problem head on without
worrying about offending the religion
of others. The time for pretending
Islam is not speaking about violence
and creating terrorists is over. Now
we need to have an adult conversation
about how we are going to protect
ourselves from those who seek to
destroy our nation and the lives of so
many innocent Americans.
Please remember serviceman PFC
Bowe R. Bergdahl, who was kidnapped by the Taliban and is being
held while on tour in Afghanistan
recently. PFC Bergdahl was serving
with an Alaska-based infantry regiment. Pray for all of our military men
and women in harm’s way on a daily
basis while on the frontlines of the
NANCY COUNTS ON CORRUPTION
WASHINGTON
D.C.—Nancy
D’Alesandro Pelosi, Speaker of the
House of Representatives, has regularly
accused the Republicans in the House of
displaying "a culture of corruption." Yet
the critical vote to get the House version
of the health bill out of the House,
demonstrates that Speaker Pelosi not only
likes corruption, she counts on it.
Remember her middle name because it
figures in the proof.
On November 7, at 11:15 p.m. House
bill 3962 passed by a vote of 220-215.
Votes in favor of that bill included the following: Norm Dicks (D-Wash), Jane
Harman (D-Cal), Marcy Kaptur (DOhio), Alan Mollohan (D-WVa), Jim
Moran (D-Va), Charles Rangel (D-NY),
Laura Richardson (D-Cal) and Peter
Visclosky (D-Ind). If just three had voted
against the bill, or had not been in the
House to vote for it, the bill would almost
certainly have failed.
Why that curious comment about not
being in the House? A staffer for the
House Ethics Committee put an internal
document on a home computer with file
sharing capacities. As a result, the com-
By John Armor
plete list of Members of Congress under
ethics investigations escaped into the
press. These yes votes on the health bill
were provided by Members who might
have been expelled, had their possible
ethics violations had been promptly and
adequately examined, decided and acted
upon.
Now, who has the power with a wave of
her hand, to speed up or slow down the
ethics investigation of any Member of the
House? Why, that would be the ultimate
power, Speaker, Nancy Pelosi. She’s been
scrambling all this week to engineer the
last few votes for passage.
Who would you expect to be the most
reliable vote for the House bill, regardless
of its contents, and regardless of whether
the Member has read the bill? Logically,
that reliable vote would come from a
Representative who’s grateful to still be
in the House, because the Speaker has so
far saved him/her from an ethics violation.
Is the drive to success, regardless of
ethics, logic, or even criminal violations,
a new style for Nancy Pelosi? I grew up
in Baltimore, and for a brief time lived
next door to Nancy D’Alesandro. She
was the daughter of Tommy D’Alesandro,
Jr., then the corrupt Mayor of Baltimore.
To be sure, Tommy, Jr., never got
charged with any crimes. But it was no
secret that his political machine was a
cash and carry operation whose sole criterion was victory at the polls and then victory on every vote on every issue. When
Tommy, III, came along and became
Mayor, he was charged with political corruption, along with a close ally, City
Councilman Mimi DiPietro. Just before
their trial was to begin, the essential witness against them disappeared.
The elected State’s Attorney then went
into court and dismissed the charges for
"lack of evidence." The missing witness
then promptly surfaced in a Las Vegas
casino, one which may have had mob
connections. Actually, the charges against
the Councilman weren’t finally dismissed
until 1971, when I brought it up in a news
story. No one ever said that the
D’Alesandro Machine left any of its supporters "twisting in the wind." Loyalty
was absolute, but like the drive for victory it was free of such minor concerns as
ethics or legality.
Having used such tactics once, one
should expect that Speaker Nancy
D’Alesandro Pelosi will continue use
such tactics on close votes in the House,
as long has she has enough grateful
Democrats to work on. Oh, and expect the
ethics charges for a corporate-paid trip to
the Carribean by five Members of the
Congressional Black Caucus to be dismissed shortly.
It seems that the person assigned to
investigate that particular charge is Ethics
Committee Member, G.K. Butterfield,
(D-NC) who has two advantages. First, he
is a fellow member of the Congressional
Black Caucus. And, it happens that he
went on the same corporate junket the
previous year. Could Speaker Pelosi possibly have suggested to the Committee
Chairmen that he pick Rep. Butterfield
for this investigation?
The bottom line is clear: Speaker Nancy
D’Alesandro Pelosi counts on corruption
to get the votes she wants. She will likely
continue to do that as long as she has the
opportunity.