Activist Robert Davis to plead guilty to federal crimes

[Hypestyles]

Dammit! The naked chicanery that masks itself in pious, culturally-sensitive community activism is absolutely shameful!

“But Davis wants to keep his job as a union staff representative even though the federal conversion charge prohibits someone convicted of embezzlement from working for a union. He wants U.S. District Judge Arthur Tarnow to rule he can keep the union job.”


No. The union had better cut ties-- or allow the judge to cut them-- unless they want this to get in their way come election time, and basically every election from now on. AFSCME execs have to know that the GOP folks will run hard with this, and heck, why not?

That such stupidity is allowed to fester in any number of people continues to baffle me. So many folks are prone to say "don't hate the player, hate the game."
I don't relate to the "game." So many people are apparently invested in the ideology of being a "hustler", being street-slick.. being able to take a con angle and make it work in your favor-- or your buddy's favor, or a relative's favor, or to punish a rival. Too many people are assimilated to the notion that that everything is fair, and nothing is unethical or illegal unless you get caught, even as a means to a "well-meaning" end.

... So many folks get more of an emotional rush out of knowing [[or assuming) that they've put one over on somebody, more than they get out of just doing an honest day's work..
... I'm curious how this will play out on black talk radio.. But somebody needs to say, look, it isn't good enough anymore to just say "white folks get to get away with doing XYZ, why not us?"; [[and what happened to the parental cliche of "if your friends jumped off a cliff..."?)-- meanwhile, the money being stolen/lost/diverted ostensibly would be going to the same urban, African American demographic that the likes of a Davis [[Kilpatrick, et al) is supposedly working on behalf of. Don't talk to me about the crookedness of a Snyder, etc., while your own hands are fiddling around in the public pot for your "P.A.C.", "consultancy" and "non-profit".

The Tea Party is bad enough-- the strip-club revolutionaries are another worry altogether.

[Zacha341]

The Tea Party is bad enough-- the strip-club revolutionaries are another worry altogether.

Yeah we tend to have our antenna up for what the tea party folks will do. It's our fellow dems that skate too long as in this case!