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September 24, 2010

Manchin Facing Worsening Scandal?
— Ace

This is a read between the lines sort of deal. The scandal concerns a road connecting Manchin's hometown with a highway-- so far, just typical pork for the hometown.

But...

Larry Puccio, ManchinÂ’s former chief of staff and current chair of the Democratic Party in West Virginia, also runs a real estate business in Fairmont. Sources believe Puccio could be part of the probe.
The governor says he cannot comment on the investigation and says he doesnÂ’t know if Puccio is a target.
Â“ItÂ’s a process,Â” Manchin says, referring to the investigation. Â“ThatÂ’s all I can tell you; itÂ’s a process.Â”

Money gets made in these situations, doesn't it? Some land suddenly gets more valuable? I've seen it in Westerns so I know it's true.

Posted by: Ace at 03:00 PM | Comments (46)
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1 Tipping points...

Posted by: ParisParamus at September 24, 2010 03:02 PM (A0BM0)

2 It's odd that the longer you're in Congress the richer you get.

Posted by: Not at the table Carlos at September 24, 2010 03:03 PM (xtAfO)

3 @2 , Insider trading is cool as well .

Posted by: Ball D. Cat at September 24, 2010 03:04 PM (XDeui)

4 70% job approval before the Klan Senator died. At this rate, I question whether he's got a shot at reelection.

Ah, the magic of Obama.

Posted by: Methos at September 24, 2010 03:05 PM (S0c2d)

5
It's odd that the longer you're in Congress the richer you get, in lessons learned about conservative misfeasance and malfeasance.

Posted by: Nancy Pelosi, First Bitch at September 24, 2010 03:06 PM (v1gw3)

6 doom demonrats doom

Posted by: newrouter at September 24, 2010 03:06 PM (3V3F5)

7 That highway got a name yet?

Posted by: Sen. Robt. Byrd, Deceased and Residing in the Sen. Robt. Byrd Wing of Hell at September 24, 2010 03:07 PM (QKKT0)

_{I've seen it in Westerns so I know it's true.}

I've seen it in Newark!

Posted by: garrett at September 24, 2010 03:07 PM (oW8Mx)

9 Sometimes sock puppets are hard to kill .

Posted by: Bill D. Cat at September 24, 2010 03:07 PM (XDeui)

Money gets made in these situations, doesn't it?

Ya' fuckin' A it does.

Posted by: Mayor Daley at September 24, 2010 03:07 PM (fRyep)

11 #4 Ah, the magic of Obama.

Obama is King Midas in reverse - everything He touches turns to garbage.

Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at September 24, 2010 03:07 PM (c0A3e)

12 Something about choo-choo. Mongo just pawn in great game of life.

Posted by: Rock Ridge at September 24, 2010 03:07 PM (jH9zI)

13 Good, becausee they are starting to come after Raese. Nothing serious, but you could say he was big pimpin in the FLA. Marble drive ways, yeesh.

Posted by: swamp_yankee at September 24, 2010 03:08 PM (e1+91)

14 Rizzo, Puccio, what's with all these crazy corrupt Germans?

Posted by: Not at the table Carlos at September 24, 2010 03:08 PM (xtAfO)

15 Clearly, Manchin needs to start a rumor that he was screwing cocktail waitresses two at a time, a la Fredo.

Posted by: pep at September 24, 2010 03:08 PM (0K3p3)

16 You gonna indict me, or just whistle Dixie?

Posted by: Clint Manchin at September 24, 2010 03:10 PM (zgZzy)

17 Holy underwear! Sheriff murdered! Innocent women and children blown to bits! We have to protect our phoney baloney jobs here, gentlemen! We must do something about this immediately! Immediately! Immediately! Harrumph! Harrumph! Harrumph!

Posted by: Senate Ethics Committee at September 24, 2010 03:10 PM (QKKT0)

18 @pep, #15:

As opposed to two Senators and one waitress at a time, a la Dodd and Kennedy, you mean?

Posted by: Keith Arnold at September 24, 2010 03:11 PM (Jdtsu)

19 Money gets made in these situations, doesn't it? Some land suddenly gets more valuable?

Connected people's land gets more valuable. The plebes get their land condemned and take it in the victim hole.

Posted by: Guy Fawkes at September 24, 2010 03:11 PM (L8kaT)

20
O/T

Lindsay Lohan reportedly tosses her first salad in detention, and the cell block is in lock down because of her culinary skills.

Posted by: Fish at September 24, 2010 03:11 PM (v1gw3)

But, but...John Boehner had an alleged affair.....maybe.

Posted by: NYT at September 24, 2010 03:13 PM (fRyep)

Harrumph! Harrumph! Harrumph!

Give the governor a harrumph!

Posted by: Hedley Lamar at September 24, 2010 03:13 PM (zgZzy)

23
The gov'mint's case against me is flatter than Rachel Corrie, Miss Pancake of 2009.

Posted by: Manchin's Robert Fibbs at September 24, 2010 03:14 PM (v1gw3)

24 LOL, the DNC is striking back at Raes for offering $25 to the most published letters to editor in support of his campaign in each count. Why that seems unethical. Making millions by influencing where a highway goes -come on everybody does that.

Posted by: PaleRider at September 24, 2010 03:15 PM (dkExz)

25 We'll work up a Number 6 on 'em

Posted by: Taggart at September 24, 2010 03:15 PM (PVrSM)

26 As opposed to two Senators and one waitress at a time, a la Dodd and Kennedy, you mean?

Yeeps. If you can do it with either of those pasty, pillowbutts in the same room then you have more testosterone than Secretariat. Wait, is that good or bad?

Posted by: pep at September 24, 2010 03:16 PM (0K3p3)

I've seen it in Newark!

Posted by: garrett at September 24, 2010 07:07 PM

Musta been Western Newark....

Posted by: MrScribbler at September 24, 2010 03:16 PM (Ulu3i)

28 The discouraging thing is, West Virginians will think this sort of thing is OK: they cheered 50 years of it from Bobby "The Grand Kleagle" Byrd, and are no doubt yawning irritably at the reports about the Manchin operation. Face it, the only way West Virginia could a decent standard of living was for their representatives to loot other states for money for pork. After just 2 years of Obamunism, however, this well may be drying up, as Obama directs the whole country toward Appalachia-in-the-Thirties poverty.

Posted by: Minnie Rodent at September 24, 2010 03:16 PM (PZLW0)

"They said you was hung."

"And they was right!"

Whoops, should be the Boehner thread.

Posted by: Rock Ridge at September 24, 2010 03:18 PM (jH9zI)

The discouraging thing is, West Virginians will think this sort of thing is OK

Don't be so sure. There's a big difference between screwing "them" to benefit "us" and screwing everybody to benefit yourself.

Posted by: AmishDude at September 24, 2010 03:18 PM (3wPsb)

31 Blazing saddles? Rock Ridge? Rock Ridge?

Posted by: AE at September 24, 2010 03:20 PM (kSfPT)

32 Whatever happened to good old-fashioned graft?

Posted by: Soona at September 24, 2010 03:21 PM (fRyep)

33 Jesus, Larry. Way to bring honor to the family name.

Posted by: Marty Puccio at September 24, 2010 03:24 PM (xy9wk)

@24: "The gov'mint's case against me is flatter than Rachel Corrie, Miss Pancake of 2009."

Looks like ol' Rachel might have gotten drilled before she got squashed.

http://tinyurl.com/3xxojtm

Posted by: Marty Puccio at September 24, 2010 03:27 PM (xy9wk)

35 pep: you're going to want a double brain-bleach on the rocks if you've never heard this story:

http://tinyurl.com/yhzsmjh

Posted by: Keith Arnold at September 24, 2010 03:29 PM (Jdtsu)

36 Going to be a really tough buckboard ride.

Posted by: tarpon at September 24, 2010 03:32 PM (g0QB8)

37 'Scuse me while I whip out every Blazing Saddles quote in 3 - 2 - 1 ...

Posted by: Count de Monet at September 24, 2010 03:36 PM (2g2ex)

38 Someone got some land by a road?

Posted by: rdbrewer at September 24, 2010 03:37 PM (1nsEG)

Meh-

West Virginia is an illigitimate, unconstitutional State anyway.

Lookit up.

I say the WV Senators not be seated and western Virginia be represented by their proper delegation to the Senate.

If it makes anyone feel better I am for having the Representative Districts population reflect the original number from the founding. That's a lot of representatives, but they'll be more responsive to their constituency.

(how's that for pot stirrin')

Posted by: Minuteman at September 24, 2010 03:49 PM (8zAcw)

Hellllloooow! Is anybody HERE... here.... _^here?

Posted by: Soona at September 24, 2010 03:50 PM (fRyep)

41 I'm still at work, everyone else has gone home.

Posted by: Bosk at September 24, 2010 04:14 PM (pUO5u)

42 Manchin? The same Joe Manchin who's daughter was given an MBA by West Virginia University after completing only about half the required credits for the degree? That Manchin? The one who sat back and played the Sergeant Schultz "I know nothink" routine when the corrupt assholes who ran WVU at the time lost their cushy administrative jobs? Could it be the same Manchin? In a scandal? What a surprise.

Posted by: Reiver at September 24, 2010 05:22 PM (PYtr3)

43 Wait a fucking minute. Are you implying that democrats would try to enrich themselves at the public's expense.

Racist!

Posted by: Kemp at September 24, 2010 05:32 PM (AQxTm)

44 I believe Hastert was involved in similar shenanigans involving an airport as he was retiring from the House. (Of course he was leaving public life, not running for higher office.)

Posted by: Hav Blue at September 24, 2010 10:32 PM (mV+es)

45 Some land suddenly gets more valuable? I've seen it in Westerns so I know it's true.

Someone should ask Alice Walton how it works, she has recent experience with that.

Posted by: John Galt at September 25, 2010 08:01 AM (NLWij)

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