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In reply to the discussion: Jesse Jackson Jr. charged with campaign fraud [View all]alp227
(31,960 posts)1. He should've at least withdrawn from the election like Robert Toricelli did.
As Toricelli was under federal investigation in 2002, Toricelli's withdrawal from the 2002 election is why Democrat Frank Lautenberg won over the Republican challenger in the election, despite a New Jersey Republican Party lawsuit that failed to remove Lautenberg's name on technical grounds. If Jackson did the right thing and chose to retire after his term or resign once he realized he'd be indefinitely out of work, the people of his district would have somebody representing them right now. Sadly, the people of Illinois's 2nd congressional district are currently suffering from taxation without representation.
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President Obama should commute his sentence like Bush did to Scooter Libby
graham4anything
Feb 2013
#2
As said, that is what President Obama should do. Didn't absolve the guilt, just the sentence.
graham4anything
Feb 2013
#24
Air conditioning was only around a few decades now. I remember when it wasn't widely used.
graham4anything
Feb 2013
#30
The discussion is about prisons though which in some parts of the country can
cstanleytech
Feb 2013
#31
I have been in Florida for weeks in August with no airconditioning as recent as 1980
graham4anything
Feb 2013
#32
Just because you didnt die doesnt mean others didnt, in fact there were a number of deaths
cstanleytech
Feb 2013
#34
+100. Only the dangerous need to be locked away, we can find better solutions for everyone else.
Exultant Democracy
Feb 2013
#39
White collar criminals should have to work minimum wage jobs for 20 years. nt
EastKYLiberal
Feb 2013
#41
Why would Obama do that? Besides, he can't do that w/o repercussions for another 4 years. nt
Honeycombe8
Feb 2013
#37
A president can. However, its just me and if he doesn't, he doesn't. I am not an absolutist.
graham4anything
Feb 2013
#38
Which is why Scooter Libby's sentence is appropriate. Libby did far, far, far worse.
graham4anything
Feb 2013
#47
Bush did not want to let him off legally for his crimes as he was guilty.
graham4anything
Feb 2013
#33
I'm inclined to think he was flying high on bipolar disorder when he went shopping.
Comrade Grumpy
Feb 2013
#42