10 Comments

• 1. Joe  |  March 3rd, 2008 at 10:37 pm

  Leo, you never cease to amaze that you can dig something up on Murtha.
  Congrats.

  You are the only person that knows about this “breaking news”.

  What a hack you are.

• 2. congressive  |  March 4th, 2008 at 12:36 am

  Murtha better watch his backside or he’s gonna get the full Siegelman treatment.

• 3. Leo Pusateri  |  March 4th, 2008 at 12:53 am

  Note that I have not mentioned that Murtha has had any involvement in what I have reported on.

  Please check your reading comprehension; but not at the door.

• 4. Mark Noonan  |  March 4th, 2008 at 1:11 am

  Congressive,

  You mean thoroughly investigated by competant attorneys, indicted before a grand jury and then convicted by a jury of his peers?

  We can only hope.

• 5. plainjane  |  March 4th, 2008 at 7:54 am

  Thanks Leo for reminding me; “Russell we applaud your service to the country, but Washington does not need any more Republican incompetence, it is already loaded. 1000 valid signatures, that is all you had to do to get on the ballot. You couldn’t even do that. And you wanted a seat at the decision making table. I think not!”

  By The Associated Press
  Wednesday, February 27, 2008 HARRISBURG — The road to re-election for veteran U.S. Rep. John Murtha just got a good bit smoother.
  A state judge on Tuesday ruled that the lone Republican (Russell) running in the primary for the western Pennsylvania seat did not collect enough signatures to make the ballot.

• 6. Leo Pusateri  |  March 4th, 2008 at 8:14 am

  Plainjane…

  Pretty hard to get signatures in a district where people are actually afraid to sign the petition for fear of retribution from your local congressman.

  But I see that is all fine and dandy with you.

• 7. arcman  |  March 4th, 2008 at 8:21 am

  While I applaud Murtha for his service, He is such a corrupt scumbag that it surprises me that anyone can actually support him. It’s really too bad that Diana Irey didn’t send him into retirement two years ago. While Leo might night try to connect the dots between this “blackmail” episode, there is little doubt in my mind that he is behind it.

• 8. Sunny  |  March 4th, 2008 at 12:44 pm

  . Leo Pusateri | March 4th, 2008 at 8:14 am

  Pretty hard to get signatures in a district where people are actually afraid to sign the petition for fear of retribution from your local congressman.

  You have got to be kidding - people are so afraid of John Murtha that they cannot support the candidate of their choice? You need to do more that just make a ridicluous statement that that - you need some facts to back that up. And from what I read, there didn’t appear to be a hint of blackmail. Your imagination has gotten away from you Leo.

• 9. plainjane  |  March 4th, 2008 at 2:10 pm

  While I applaud Murtha for his service, 7. arcman | March 4th, 2008 at 8:21 am

  Oh, arcman Cheney, Haliburton, big oil and the neocons all had a good thing going on in Iraq. In some ways they still do, but now they are being watched. There were pallet loads of U.S. tax payer money for big and small business while neocons layed the foundation for their new world order.

  But when a military man like Murtha started saying, “by any stretch of the imagination the U.S should have already achieved its goals but we are still sending billions each month,” the gig was up.

• 10. kritter  |  March 4th, 2008 at 4:39 pm

  marc- Prosecutors had decided not to prosecute Siegelman until Karl Rove intervened. The money he received was not for personal use but for one of his causes. For that he got 6 years in prison. I have no problem with execution of the law, but its obvious that Karl Rove’s intervention was the catalyst, not Siegelman’s misdeeds.

  The 8 US attorneys that were fired were all prosecuting public corruption cases involving prominent Democrats and Republicans. Some were fired for doing their jobs too well, some not well enough. The entire truth about the Justice Dept under Gonzales will probably never come out, due to destruction of emails and Gonzales’ own shifty testimony before Congress. But there’s a lot more there than there is with this incident.

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