WaPo: Former Delegate Hamilton Indicted
By Shaun Kenney | Wednesday, January 5th, 2011 | PolicyThis can’t be good.
Hamilton has been charged with one count of bribery involving a federal program and one count of extortion.
The powerful former member of the House Appropriations Committee served from 1988 until last year. He was defeated for reelection in 2009 by Del. Robin Abbott (D) after news of the federal investigation became public.
According to the indictment, Hamilton and ODU officials agreed he would receive a job as director of the ODU Center for Teacher Quality and Educational Leadership if he obtained state funding to launch the center. Three others applied for the job. None were interviewed, according to federal authorities. Hamilton was hired though he never applied for the job.
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Shaun Kenney is the Chairman of the Fluvanna County Board of Supervisors, former Communications Director for the Republican Party of Virginia, and an active blogger since 2002. Shaun lives in Thomas Jefferson's backyard with his wife, six children, and a modest attempt at a farm in Kents Store, Virginia.
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“This can’t be good.”
Actually I think this is good for Virginia “if” a crime has been committed. I think we should root out all this type activity no matter what party or persons are involved. If he did what they claim, he should go to jail or prison and pay back the money he stole from the taxpayers.
Two words – “Term Limits”
This is probably “nto good” for him. I always thought the federal investigation here was going to be a problem for him. There was on particular e-mail that there just didn’t seem to be an innocent explanation for.
“not good” Miss the edit function.
I certainly agree with William; if he has committed a crime, he needs to be convicted. Same can be said for Michael Townes.
However, isn’t it ironic that both these cases, one involving thousands of dollars, the next millions, get our full attention because of newspaper headlines, yet the “stewards” in the House of Delegates who are responsible for the gross deterioration of our transportation system, now estimated to exceed $8,000,000,000 dollars, get reelected, receive credits for their pensions, yet have presided over the greatest “theft” of value in the history of the Commonwealth.
Since when is inaction to preserve the assets of the people’s assets a rewardable activity?
MB: Eh, following a poltical policy that you disagree with is considerably different from committing a crime.
Now, if you’d said they all deserve to be put on trial for failing to meet their fiduciary obligations to VRS, I might have been down with that.
Well of course, I make no accusation that they have committed a crime. However, it is ironic that they have been rewarded for failure to conserve state assets to the tune of some $8,000,000,000, and we, the citizens have simply continued to re-elect them and reward them for their failure.
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