Ex-Rep. Cunningham lashes out in letter

[Shakespeare]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061007/ap_on_re_us/congres...

SAN DIEGO - Disgraced former congressman Randy "Duke" Cunningham lashed out at the reporter who uncovered the corruption scandal that sent him to prison, telling him in a letter that his "constant cruelty" had nearly destroyed Cunningham's life.

The former Navy "Top Gun" pilot also blasted defense contractor Mitchell Wade, who helped implicate him to authorities.

"Wade is the absolute devil," Cunningham wrote in the four-page, handwritten letter, excerpts of which were published Saturday on the San Diego Union-Tribune's Web site

[Greeby]

1. I dunno, because of him you're in jail Randy

Which leads me to think he's a bloody saint

[KingFlorez]

2. Don't do the crime

I'm surprised he didn't have any Nancy Pelosi and Howard Dean references in the letter. No one forced you to do the crime, Duke. You destroyed your own life.

[proud2BlibKansan]

22. And the Clenis

He is probably saving that for his next letter.

[Fridays Child]

3. He brought all of his shame and pain upon himself yet now he whines...

...like a baby. Republicans are always striving for new lows and Randy Cunningham proves it.

[Octafish]

4. Duke, whaddya got on Poppy?

You both are old school insiders, working where the big money plays...

A Vision of Peace in the Middle East

by Congressman Randy "Duke" Cunningham

http://www.saudi-us-relations.org/newsletter2004/saudi-...

[struggle4progress]

5. And from Randy's house website:

.. Congressman Cunningham .. has also been recognized .. by several law enforcement organizations for his tough-on-crime position ..

http://cunningham.house.gov/Biography /

Ain't this a soup-rise? I kinda spected him to call fer the public hangin of corrupt officials ...

[Ignacio Upton]

13. Why is his website still up?

This isn't attached to Wayback of anything like that. I'm wondering why it hasn't been taken down yet.

[patrick t. cakes]

6. these peoples egos

and self worth never cease to amaze
the guys in fucking jail and hes still
grabbing for some kind of attention, whining, crying
as if anyone but maybe his mother gives a rats
as about him. wow.

hey "duke", say hi to mark and rot.

[Eugene]

7. It's everybody's fault except his.

Sorry Duke. You took the bribes and sold your office.

You did the crime. Now do the time.

[pnorman]

8. Here's his concluding words:

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"I hurt more than anyone could imagine and without my faith your constant cruelty would destroy me," Cunningham wrote.

The Republican, who held seats on powerful House intelligence and appropriations committees, admitted last November that he accepted $2.4 million in bribes from defense contractors in exchange for government contracts and other favors.

Among other things, Wade said he gave Cunningham expensive rugs, furniture and jewelry, as well as cash, in exchange for support for his company's efforts to win defense contracts.

"I should have said no to the gifts. For that, I am truly sorry," Cunningham wrote.

Cunningham was sentenced in March to more than eight years in federal prison and is being housed at a low-security correctional center in North Carolina.

"Each time you print it hurts my family and now I have lost them along with everything I have worked for during my 64 years of life," Cunningham wrote. "I am human not an animal to keep whipping."


By now, it's no longer surprising to see those once arrogant blusterers, turn into whining "victims".

pnorman

[boilinmad]

24. My faith.........

........Thats so beautiful.......All is forgiven........NOT!!!!

[lumpy]

33. Yes, beautifu indeedl. Those greedy Republican

criminals claim to have faith. It appears their faith is in the Buck.

[Joanne98]

39. The thugs can dish it out but they can never take it.

[LaCrosseDem]

41. some have said that all but one of his "kills" were faked.

Just sayin'--- some have said.

[rwenos]

9. What a Gutless Piece of Crap

An adult, male or female, realizes when they've broken the law, then been caught, that they have to face reality. It sucks, and it's hard -- but it's adult.

This Cunningham is not an adult. This is a self-centered child.

Any parent knows exactly what I mean. What arrogance! What a sniveling little boy!

[EST]

11. I think you nailed it precisely.

The sort of creep who is attracted to the publiclown philosophy is very simply someone who, for whatever reason-or no reason at all-, has never matured into normal adult thinking. Simple answers tend to be too simplistic to offer any real insight into a problem, but, in this case, it fits with virtually every republicriminal action or arguement, from boorish booosh right on down the line.

Listening to cspan's WJ for a few sessions really pulls it together. These crooks are juvenile dilinquents, even at sixty four years of chronological age.

All Fauxsnooze "personalities"
All winger judicial nominees
Pat Buchannon-he's JD and nuts
NoMoJoe Mentum-JD with a thin, easily shattered, veneer of social gennteel-ity
Cheney-can't ever admit truth or culpability and thinks it is the most normal thing in the world that his victim, whose face he blasted away, should apologize to him
Hitler
Felix Allen-whose reaction, in the face of his reported anti-semitic ejaculations, I would love to see when he finds out that not only is his mother jewish, but his father is half Haitian
Every poster on creep republic
Ahnold Schwartzenegger-actually quite liberal minded but is so JD he thinks he's a republiclown-and tries to prove it!
Tem Delay(R-gimmefive)
The beat goes on..and on...and on............

[EST]

10. Oh my, Mr. C, how republican of you.

I'm obese and it's all McDonald's fault, because they forced me to eat all those *+!!^& big macs and fries.

It's the woman's fault I'm a rapist because she made herself so attractive to tempt me.

It's Saddam's fault I had to kill upwards of a quarter million people, because he sucked me in with all that beautiful oil.

It is just possible that "Duke" could plead diminished capacity-his brain has to be twisted in order to wrap itself around such torturous logic.

I am continually amazed that publiclowns don't laugh themselves to death at the impossible irony contained in their own thought processes. And these murderous fools don't even see the joke. They are flippin' crazy and can't recognize their insanity and inanity nor the same condition in their fellow rubber room pretenders.

[Dem2theMax]

12. Randy "Duke" Cunningham

Randy "Duke" Cunningham - member of the 'Republican Party of NO responsibility.'



I swear, the repuke party is full of loons.

[Diane R]

14. Sounds like a story for Keith Olbermann n/t

[Solly Mack]

15. "I should have said no to the gifts" Uh, no..those were bribes

He can't even admit he took bribes. Busted, convicted and in jail...still calling the bribes "gifts"

He'll die thinking about how "wronged" he was...

Pathetic

[magellan]

16. Render him to Gitmo

That'll give Cunningham new perspective on what "constant cruelty" really is.

[nolabels]

17. The S.O.B. should have been put away many more years than that.

An eight year sentence is a freaking joke. He and his republican party has done far more to damage the country than any of these people they are pasting up as the enemy.

On edit, if he would have been a poor black man they would have thrown away the key.
The two tier criminal justice system is worthless

[kurth]

18. "I am human not an animal"

Tell that to the thousands of people who have been murdered by the GOP in Iraq.

[badgerpup]

36. Or those working in the sweatshops in the Marianas... n/t

[Toots]

19. How many lives did your war mongering and defense fraud destroy

Suck it up big boy. You get absolutely no pity what-so-ever.

[0007]

20. Your lucky your alive Mr. Cunningham

Most third world counties would have had you in front of a firing squad months ago.

Paul Crouch interviewed
Congressman Randy Cunningham

"When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice..." Proverbs 29:2 KJV

[Binka]

23. Wow Isn't It AMAZING How Simply & Tasteful People Of God Live

Paul Crouch is positively channeling Jesus!

[OnyxCollie]

32. I've been thinking about that recently.

Mother Teresa really deserves to be canonized.

[stevebreeze]

21. Maybe Duke is jealous of all the press Foley is getting?

The so called liberal media didn't give Duke near the coverage this current scandal is getting.

[sinkingfeeling]

25. Randy's just proving he's still a devoted Christian Republican. Blame

everybody and everything except yourself for your troubles.

[Hepburn]

26. GMAFB!

It's the REPORTER'S fault for destroying his life???? Because the REPORTER uncovered the corruption the arrogant bastard Cunningham was involved in????

I don't know whether to laugh or puke, so I will do both!

[depakid]

27. Republicans always cry the loudest

Never fails.

It's always somebody else's fault.

[progressoid]

28. Awww, boo hoo.

Here are some more:

[Akoto]

29. I'd say your crimes have destroyed your life, Duke, not Wade.

Biggest problem with the GOP: They refuse to take personal responsibility for anything.

[K8-EEE]

30. Aw, Poor Baby!! Oh brother....n/t

X

[Zorra]

31. GOP: Gang Of Psychopaths.

They take no responsibility for their actions. Rather than feel remorse for their crimes and perversions, they blame the people that catch them at their respective anti-social behavior(s).

To a republican, their crime is not in their rapes, murders, or thefts.

In their minds, their only crime is in getting caught.

They are all corrupt.

[leQ]

38. close: Gang Of Pedophiles

[coda]

34. A history of sleaze.

" Duke Cunningham is a hero. He is an honorable man of high integrity."

- Tom DeLay, press briefing, June 14, 2005



Cunningham recently told the Washington Post that Democrats blunting Republican legislation "ought to be lined up and shot. I’m talking about the liberal leadership."



May 11, 1995

A House debate over water pollution erupts in furor when Cunningham declares that lawmakers backing an amendment he opposes are the same people who support "homos in the military." Later, he tells Rep. Pat Schroeder, D-Colo., "Sit down, you socialist!"

[Gregorian]

35. Yet these same people have no problem with torture,

eliminating habeas corpus, and jailing people for offenses far less damaging than what he did. Not to mention three strikes and you're in jail for life just for several silly offenses.

GET REAL!

WAKE THE FUCK UP!

[cascadiance]

37. I like the way that the Tribune tries to take credit for the story...

Without much credit directly given to the reporter who seemed more singularily responsible for getting this Pulitzer winning piece out. Still hear an ad on KLSD periodically where the Union Tribune tries to claim to be a good "watchdog" for us getting the info to us when they were the ones that had endorsed Cunningham earlier and Bilbray more recently. I think more credit is due to the reporter than the parent newspaper for this story getting out.

Also Dukestir... Wade will be going to the big house soon too! And he might get a "better deal" by finking on you. Why aren't you cooperating and helping bringing down some of the other criminals out there that are rumored to still be being under investigation ( Katherine Harris?, Duncan Hunter?, Brent Wilkes?, etc. ). Perhaps you'd still be getting a better deal if you were more willing to do that!

Speaking of Brent Wilkes, I think he's going broke too now. Check out these stories...

http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2006/10/05/news/sandieg...

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/education/20060929-9...

Sounds like Wilkes is getting ready for some heavy legal fees, etc. We've not heard the end of this yet, and other people are going to be made to pay too Duke. Not just you!

I just hope that someone can find out what they have on Duncan Hunter now. I've heard rumors that he has a pending indictment coming, but they are currently looking to delay making it until after the November election and have a special election instead of forcing the Republicans to deal with him having to resign beforehand (ala Foley). With the likes of Mikel Haas running special elections around here, we really really don't want that put off to a special election!

[NOLADEM]

40. Die in prison, scumbag....you committed treason.

You sold your office (and your constituent's rights) for bribes, and you were bad at it.

You directed resources to stupid programs with poor companies, money which could have gone to better body armor, more Humvee protection, more linguists, etc, etc.

Die in prison.

And scream louder. A corrupt, jailed, yet incorrigible GOP member is good for us in November.

Thanks.

[hatrack]

42. Whiny cocksucker, isn't he?

Just STFU and enjoy your "rehabilitation", asshole.

[geniph]

43. Well, try not breaking the LAW next time, dumbass!

it's not the reporter who's "destroying" your life, you whiner, it's your own criminal conduct!

The Party of Personal Responsibility(tm) strikes again!