The Follies of #3

Followers already. Damn. Now I have to keep up adding new GOP cocksuckers and writing this commentary before each one.

Since the first thing GOP Cocksuckers care about is money and they have no conscience, it's practically a given that crooks who don't care where the money comes from appear on the list. In this case, that would be:

GOP Cocksucker #3 RICK RENZI
FORMER CONGRESSMAN FOR THE ARIZONA 1ST

[Whoops. I got him mixed up with GOP Cocksuckers that are Ricks. Namely, #110 (RICK VAN VLEET) and #290 (RICK SMITH). I have to write about this clown from scratch.]

Hokay, Renzi was a three-term congressman for the Arizona 1st. Until he announced in 2007 that he was retiring from Congress, he had made CREW's (Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington) list of the 20 Most Corrupt Politicians in Congress every damn time. You can look at his latest entry right here: http://www.crewsmostcorrupt.org/files/Renzi%20Final.pdf

It would be unfair to prejudge the man, but I don't think it would be too far off the mark to point out he was so crooked that if he was a rifle, you could use him to shoot around corners. Conspiracy, wire fraud, money laundering, extortion, insurance fraud, there were more counts on Renzi than on a fucking adding machine.

Renzi had always been watched by CREW with a suspicious eye, mainly for shit like taking $30,000 from GOP Cocksucker #54's (TOM DeLAY) ARMPAC and then not giving it back or donating it to charity after DeLay was indicted, but it was his actions involving a land swap in 2006 that got the feds actually looking at him. Basically, Renzi used his position on the House Natural Resources Committee to benefit his former business partner, James Sandlin and himself. It seems Sandlin owed him $800,000 on a promissory note and Renzi used his position to make sure he got that money. (He funneled one $200,000 payment through a wine company, for instance. Renzi said that was to settle a previous land deal, but that was shown to be total bullshit because Renzi did not claim it on his financial disclosure form. Even worse--for HIM anyway--the 200 large had nothing to do with the wine business. "So why is he paying you this money?" you might ask. "He think you have a purdy mouth?" No, to you and I, this looks very much like what's called 'money laundering.')

The investigation into Renzi got some weird treatment from the Drunken Frat Boy administration in 2007. An official from the Department of Justice said to a bunch of reporters that yes, there was a preliminary investigation into Renzi but that he was very concerned about the accuracy of media reports into the investigation. It was extremely unusual for the Justice Department, said the Arizona Republic, to "publicly acknowledge concerns about the accuracy of media reports." The attorney investigating Renzi, Paul Charlton, originally was on a list of people that GOP Cocksucker Kyle Sampson, (NO NUMBER YET) guttersnipe-to-be-feared in the Justice Department, wanted to keep. When Charlton's role in investigating Renzi emerged, he suddenly became one of the infamous fired U.S. attorneys.

In the spring of 2007, the GOP was urging Renzi to retire, saying that his ethical baggage was just too heavy to carry and they might lose the Arizona 1st. That pissed Renzi off because not only did he scream at fellow republican congressman Dan Kirk of Illinois how dare the Republican party run polls in his district (rumors swirled he had tried to strangle Kirk, but these were denied) but the very next day he announced that he was NOT going to quit. Four months later, he had second thoughts. Democrats were rubbing their palms together in unseemly glee at the very thought of being his opponent in the 2008 elections; even REPUBLICANS were lining up to take him on in the primary. He decided to quit.

The last I heard about Renzi was in October of last year. His attorney had made a motion--again--to get the case against him dropped on the grounds that attorney-client privilege had been breached, which sounds like one of those 'technicalities' GOP Cocksuckers scream about.

Currently, Renzi's seat is now held by a Democrat, Ann Kirkpatrick. Kirkpatrick beat the living shit out of her opponent by more than 16 percentage points. Thanks loads, Ricky.


S. Olson