Prominent blogger Josh Marshall has turned his attentions back to Rep. Virgil Goode, now that Randy “Duke” Cunningham has admitted to taking $2.4M in bribes from MZM and resigned. Writes Marshall: Now, let me make one thing emphatically clear. Goode got what is for a backbench congressman a ton of money from MZM (and its …
Monthly Archives: November 2005
Brandon Meyer hosts this week’s Virginia Blog Carnival.
“Mark Warner is presidential material.” -Rep. Tom Davis
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/politics/whispers/articles/051128/28whisplead.htm
Sally has started the Crutchfield Hacky Sack Club.
Duke resigns.
Randy “Duke” Cunningham is a congressman no more — he just resigned.
More on Cunningham/MZM guilty plea.
Now that Rep. Randy “Duke” Cunningham has bawled in front of the cameras, what I imagine is the whole of the information has come out in this case of bribery on the part of MZM, Inc. It turns out that the military contractor gave him a stunning $2,400,000 in order to influence his votes on …
AP: Rep. Randy “Duke” Cunningham to plead guilty to tax evasion in MZM bribery case.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051128/ap_on_go_co/congressman_s_house_2
Evidence of the Flying Spaghetti Monster discovered in bacteria. Verily, we have been touched by his noodly appendage.
I think it was a little soon to read this.
Why Virgil Goode switched parties.
It’s been long enough since Rep. Virgil Goode switched from the Democratic Party to the Republican Party, by way of being an independent for a period of mere months, that people have started to forget why he made the switch. Just today a fellow Virginia blogger accused the Roanoke Times of getting the story wrong …