They're Everywhere - #144-#156

#144 - ROBERT RINGO
FORMER COUNCILMAN OF LIVINGSTON PARISH, LOUISIANA
#145 - DAVE GAROFALO
EX-MAYOR OF HUNTINGTON BEACH, CALIFORNIA
#146 - PATRICK G. MALLOY
EX-MAYOR OF NEW HANOVER TOWNSHIP, NEW JERSEY
#147 - JAMES J. NASH
FORMER ADMINISTRATOR NEW HANOVER TOWNSHIP, NEW JERSEY
#148 - MITCH SKANDALAKIS
FORMER COUNTY COMMISSIONER, FULTON COUNTY GEORGIA
#149 - REP. BILL JANKLOW
EX-CONGRESSMAN FROM SOUTH DAKOTA
#150 - GARY RUSSELL THOMPSON
FORMER VIRGINIA GOP EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
#151 - EDMUND MATRICARDI, III
FORMER VIRGINIA GOP EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
#152 - JOHN BEAIRD,
FORMER CANDIDATE FOR TEXAS 149TH
#153 - VINCENT CIANCI
FORMER MAYOR OF PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND
#154 - RONNIE DAVIS
FORMER SAN FRANCISCO HOUSING DIRECTOR
#155 - F. JOSEPH LOEPER, JR.
FORMER PENNSYLVANIA SENATE MAJORITY LEADER
#156 - STATE SEN. WILLIAM SLOCUM
FORMER PENSYLVANIA STATE SENATOR

Well, these clowns weren't all caught in the SAME scandal, but I lumped 12 of them together here because I haven't been writing about them for a little while so I have to make up for lost time. Also, because this shows the length and breadth of their corruption, all the while claiming to be on the side of the angels.

And they are all over the country too...sort of like mold behind damp wallboard in cheap homes built by a crooked contractor. There are 12 names here and 9 states listed. It's not like it's just the hotbeds of political weirdness like Florida and New Jersey, either, although they are on here. No, you have places like Rhode Island and South Dakota for crying out loud.

Well, we're burning daylight. Let's get started.

We'll start with #144 Robert Ringo. Ringo got nailed for income tax evasion. It turns out he didn't report some income to the IRS. All of us have done that, right? Um, actually no. Ringo pled guilty to not reporting the $17,000 bribe he took for a favorable vote on an environmental permit for the parish landfill. Bet not all of us have done THAT.

Then there's #145, Dave Garofalo. This guy is actually funny in a grim way. God only knows how he got people to vote for him in the first place. In 2001, Garofalo was the mayor of Huntington Beach in California. The next year, he was a convicted felon. Garofalo got his ass convicted of 15 misdemeanors and a felony, all involving voting on matters in which he had a financial interest. Garofalo had to shell out more than $49,000 in fines, had to resign, had to perform 200 hours of community service (which usually means scrubbing out garbage trucks) and best of all, was barred FOREVER from seeking public office in California. Good fucking riddance. Let him torment his business partners instead, which he did three years later by running a restaurant into the ground BEFORE it even opened; just out of sheer spite.

#146 takes us again to Joisey, which I swear to almighty God has to be the center of political corruption in the United States. It's so bad that a judge had it up to here with corruption and threw the book right into the astounded face of GOP Cocksucker #34, (TERRANCE WELDON,) even though he had snitched on as many of his pals as possible.

This case, however is about Patrick G. Malloy, who admitted he steered an $11,500 sidewalk-repair contract to his brother and had then lied about it to a grand jury. But what the hell, everyone in entitled to a youthful indiscretion, right? I mean, how old is Malloy?

Seventy-four.

At the time of his conviction, he walked with a cane.

Over 17 years prior to 2004, it was discovered that Malloy had given *at least* 30 township contracts to his friends and relatives. Malloy got a $30,000 fine plus six months in the slammer followed by six months of house arrest.

#147 is James J. Nash. He lied along with Malloy about the same case and was convicted of witness tampering to boot. He got six months in jail.

#148 sends us to Jawjuh and Mitch Skandalakis. This is kind of satisfying because Skando is one of those little weasles who likes to play dirty but orders hookers out of his Las Vegas hotel room while there. Negative campaigning won him the Republican primary for Lt. Governor so he used the same tactic against his democratic opponent, Mark Taylor.

However, Taylor was ready for him and showed people Skando has a record of playing dirty. Turned out the voters were already familiar with Skando's way of doing things and didn't like the tactics of the hypocritcal little bastard at all. They crucified Skandalakis in the general election, electing Taylor in a landslide. Six years later, Skando lies to FBI agents investigating corruption in the county and gets his ass disbarred plus six months in the slammer.

#149 is former Rep Bill Janklow of South Dakota, who was convicted of second-degree manslaughter for running a stop sign and killing Randolph E. Scott of Hardwick, Minn. Scott was coming back from his father-in-law's 80th birthday party.

Janklow broke his hand, had partial paralysis in his left leg and had some bleeding in his brain that affected his memory, which, as bad as it sounds, beats Scott's condition of being dead all to hell. Janklow had a habit of bragging about his lead-footed driving, getting 13 citations in one year. He bridled when reporters questioned him about his record but seeing as how he was doing 70 mph in a 55 mph zone when he ran the stop sign and Scott collided with his cadillac, it seemed a rather logical thing to point out. Besides, Janklow had made a career out of belittling reporters and they REMEMBERED that. In fact, they were positively rubbing their palms together in glee at the prospect of the trial.

Janklow got 100 days in jail, a $5,000 fine and court costs. He could have gotten 10 years.

#150 & #151 These next two you just HAVE to group together because there is almost no way to avoid it. The first is GOP Cocksucker #151, Edmund Matricardi, III..

From the Fredericksburg Freelance-Star, July 3, 2003:
"Matricardi had been executive director of the Republican Party of Virginia for three years when, in March 2002, he was given the codes to two Democratic Party conference calls. Matricardi listened to and taped the two calls from his Richmond office, and encouraged Claudia Tucker, then the chief of staff to House Speaker Vance Wilkins, to listen in on the second call."

This is a no-no. In fact, his attorney tried Matricardi's rejected defense again in his sentencing statement, prompting a warning from the judge that this whining was going to 'tick him off.' Matricardi's mouthpiece immediately shut up on the excuse front.

Matricardi got three years probation, a $5,000 fine, 180 hours of community service and could never ever enter politics again. Best of all, he was stripped of his right to vote, meaning in the last election, he got to sit by helplessly and watch as the democrats took then Sen. Allen's seat away from him. LOL

But it gets even better. After Matricardi III quit his post, his successor, Gary Russell Thompson, GOP cocksucker #150, entered the picture. He confesses to the SAME FUCKING INCIDENT a month later. Are these guys arrogant or what?

We head over to Florida for GOP Cocksucker #152, John Beaird.

Beaird originally ran for a Texas congressional seat eight years ago but lost. Then he popped up in Florida and with Rudy Rudolph, cooked up a scheme to defraud lending institutions of $15 million.

Beaird confessed to wire fraud, stealing $11 million from investors who believed his line of bullshit. He was sentenced April 25, 2003, but I have no information on what he got. He WAS looking at five years and a $250,000 fine.

GOP Cocksucker #153, Vincent Cianci, used to be the mayor of Providence, Rhode Island, which is considered to be a democratic stronghold. The fact that Cianci was able to be mayor for more than 21 years in this environment despite being a GOP Cocksucker is a testiment to his gladhanding ways and to the ability of folks in Providence to forgive certain lapses in Cianci's judgement; like when he was convicted of hitting a man with an ashtray and a fireplace log after burning him with a cigarette. Cianci may have been convicted of that one, but hey, this dude was supposed to have been screwing Cianci's wife. The thinking went: he deserved it.

What they WEREN'T willing to forgive was when Cianci got fast and loose with THEIR money, specifically, the sting known as 'Operation Plunder Dome,' in which a top Cianci aide was videotaped accepting a bribe. Cianci was indicted on charges of extortion, bribery and mail fraud among others. He beat the rap on all of those, but not on a charge of conspiracy. That one netted him almost five years in the Slammer.

Cianci served his time but will not be eligible to serve again until 2014.

We have to head back to 'Cullyfornia' for GOP Cocksucker #154, Ronnie Davis. It just goes to show you that like weeds, GOP Cocksuckers can grow in any environment.

Davis was the head of the San Francisco Housing Authority. He got in trouble when he was found guilty of using public funds to pay lavish bonuses to some of his cronies. Then he got sentenced to more than two years in prison for participating in a scheme to sell phony diplomatic passports and later, while free on bail, delivering drugs to a longtime girlfriend.

The last two on our list are F. Joseph Loeper, Jr., and William Slocum, GOP Cocksuckers #155 and #156 respectively. Both from Pennsylvania, Loeper admitted he was a tax cheat and Slocum was one of those GOP Cocksuckers who think that they can simply do as they please and violate laws they don't agree with.

Loeper represented the Pennsylvanina 25th State Senate district and was the leader of the Senate republicans until it all came crashing down in 2000. That was when he confessed to falsifying records that showed he got $336,000 from a lobbying firm. He got 6 months in the slammer, his seat was taken away from him and he went to work for a lobbying firm representing the Pennsylvania Turnpike.

Slocum was even better. Although he had only a month of his life taken away from him, he was thrown out of the state legislature and disgraced the state GOP Cocksucker party, which was trying for a 'law-and-order' image.

Slocum pled guilty to criminally negligent conduct in that he allowed 3.5 gallons of sludge and sewage into a creek that fed the Allegheny River. He did this in order to avoid a trial on FELONY charges of knowingly disacharging untreated sewage or his plans to file false paperwork with the state Department of Environmental Protection.

As a result, he only got a month in the hoozegow, a $15,000 fine, seven months probation and five months house arrest. But we still got his seat.

S. Olson