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[ If Obama had any fucking clue about economics... ]

[h=1]Exclusive -- Ryan to Obama: Get 'Revenue Through Economic Growth,' Not Taxes[/h] House Budget Committee chair Rep. Paul Ryan has rejected President Barack Obama's proposal to raise taxes as part of his proposal to reach $1.6 trillion in additional tax revenues, backing Speaker John Boehner's position that any new revenues must be achieved without higher tax rates.
 
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[ The lie of the day from the asshole liar in Chief ]
[h=1]Obama: I Gave 'Orders' to Ensure Safety of Americans in Benghazi[/h]
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by Ben Shapiro 14 Nov 2012, 12:45 PM PDT 296 post a comment
[h=2]Today, during his first press conference in five months, President Obama finally answered questions on Benghazi and the murder of four Americans there. Or rather, he pretended to answer. Instead of actual information, he provided bloviation and overheated rhetoric about just how offended he was. Not as offended as, perhaps, the dead Americans were when the US did nothing to protect them. But pretty offended.[/h]

The key moment, however, was Obama’s admission that he was aware of the attacks taking place in Benghazi. After stating that now that the election was over, he’d be happy to give information, he let it slip that he knew what was going on September 11:


I can tell you that immediately upon finding out that our folks were in danger, that my orders to my National Security team were do whatever we need to do to make sure they’re safe. And that’s the same order that I would give anytime that I see Americans are in danger, whether they’re civilian or military, because that’s our number one priority.


This is more information than Obama has revealed before. We know nothing about Obama’s whereabouts the evening of September 11; we know nothing about the orders he gave. If he did in fact give orders to his national security team, why did we not know anything about them? Why didn’t we hear anything about them? Is there any evidence of such orders?


These are all questions that must be answered by the White House, particularly if President Obama wants to play the wronged politician of honor.
 
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[ Funny how the asshole in chief wouldn't admit it for weeks, and even then he was still lying about it... ]

[h=1]CNN: Petraeus to Testify He Knew Benghazi Was Terror Almost Immediately[/h] Pentagon correspondent Barbara Starr reported that a high-placed source informed her that former CIA Chief David Petraeus will use his upcoming testimony to amend his previous testimony. According to this source, Petraeus will tell the closed door congressional hearing that he knew "almost immediately" that the September 11 anniversary attack on our Libyan consulate was a terrorist attack committed by the al-Qaeda-linked militia Ansar Al Sharia.
 
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[ Speaking of scumbag fraudulent Democrats from the Bronx (is there any other kind?), you'd think I was talking
about DuhhhhhhFinch. Seriously, isn't the Bronx the cesspool of NYC? ]

Bronx Councilman Is Convicted of Fraud and Loses Seat

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City Councilman Larry B. Seabrook, center, with his wife, Maria Diaz, and one of his lawyers, Anthony Ricco, outside federal court in Manhattan on Thursday.


By BENJAMIN WEISER

Published: July 26, 2012


City Councilman Larry B. Seabrook, a mainstay of Bronx politics for nearly three decades, was convicted on Thursday of orchestrating a broad corruption scheme to funnel hundreds of thousands of dollars in city money to his relatives, friends and a girlfriend through a network of nonprofit organizations that he controlled.






A federal jury in Manhattan, which deliberated over the course of three days, convicted Mr. Seabrook on 9 of the 12 counts he faced, including wire and mail fraud. He faces maximum sentences of 20 years on each of the nine counts.
The conviction of Mr. Seabrook, 61, a Democrat, automatically vacates his Council seat; a special election to fill the remainder of his term will be held on Nov. 6, a city official said.
His undoing was his use of Council discretionary funds, or earmarks, to finance the nonprofit groups that purportedly ran job training and diversity programs.
Instead, Mr. Seabrook used the money to enrich those closest to him: Prosecutors said that Mr. Seabrook installed his girlfriend, Gloria Jones-Grant, as executive director of the nonprofit groups even though he knew she was “incompetent,” and that through those positions and consulting, she received more than $300,000 in city money.
The trial, which lasted just over a month, was the government’s second effort to convict Mr. Seabrook, a veteran Democratic politician. In a trial last year, a jury considered the same charges for more than a week before it reported on Dec. 9 that it was deadlocked, and a judge declared a mistrial.
In a statement, Preet Bharara, the United States attorney in Manhattan, said that Mr. Seabrook had “abused the power of his office to influence public contracts and to fund his own corrupt friends and family plan.”
“Today’s conviction,” Mr. Bharara added, “ensures that the councilman will pay for betraying the public trust.” Judge Deborah A. Batts of Federal District Court will sentence Mr. Seabrook on Jan. 8.
After the verdict, Mr. Seabrook, accompanied by his wife, lawyers and other supporters, spoke briefly outside the courthouse.
“My reaction is that I continue to have faith in God, faith in the system, faith in my attorneys,” he said, adding that he would “now prepare myself for whatever is next.”
Mr. Seabrook’s lawyers said they would consider all of his legal options.
“I’ve known Councilman Seabrook since the beginning,” one lawyer, Anthony L. Ricco, said, “and it was very sad to sit in the courtroom and experience what I knew to be the end of his political career.”
Mr. Seabrook, who served in both houses of the State Legislature, had been on the City Council since 2002, representing communities including Baychester, Co-op City and Williamsbridge.
The case, announced in 2010, stemmed from an inquiry by the city’s Department of Investigation, which referred its findings to Mr. Bharara’s office.
Calling Mr. Seabrook “a master of diversion and misdirection,” Rose Gill Hearn, the investigation commissioner, said that his conviction would end his “power to channel the flow of taxpayer funds to himself, his family and his cronies.”
Mr. Seabrook’s use of earmarks illustrated the lack of transparency and oversight in how such funds have been used in the past. The Council allocates about $50 million toward earmarks annually, a Council spokesman, Jamie McShane, said.
“We have enacted specific reforms to address the abuses highlighted by this case in an effort to prevent abuses like this from ever happening again,” Mr. McShane added.
Jurors left the courthouse without commenting. In closing arguments this week, the defense and the government clashed over whether Mr. Seabrook had been aware of fraud in the nonprofit groups.
Another of his defense lawyers, Edward D. Wilford, said in a closing argument on Monday that his client had put “good ideas” in place to benefit the people of the Bronx. “Unfortunately, the people that he hired to run those programs had a different agenda; their agenda was to steal, rob and pillage,” Mr. Wilford said.
But in a rebuttal summation Tuesday, a prosecutor, Randall W. Jackson, said the evidence showed Mr. Seabrook had clearly been involved in the fraud, which occurred from 2002 to 2009, the indictment says.
Mr. Jackson cited, for example, testimony by Mr. Seabrook’s girlfriend, Ms. Jones-Grant, that she had given Mr. Seabrook money to help with his legal defense.
“Of course Mr. Seabrook accepted the money,” Mr. Jackson told the jury, “because they were partners throughout this thing.”
In all, a government trial exhibit shows, the nonprofit groups made payments of more than $600,000 to Mr. Seabrook’s relatives and friends, including two of his sisters, a brother, two nephews, a granddaughter and Ms. Jones-Grant.
“Most of us spend money on our family members — that’s one of our big expenses,” the prosecutor, Mr. Jackson, said. “But Mr. Seabrook was outsourcing that expense to the city.”
In one scheme, Mr. Seabrook arranged for the nonprofit groups to rent office space through another company he controlled, which then billed the city at a higher price. The inflated rent scheme defrauded the city of about $100,000, prosecutors said.
At Mr. Seabrook’s district office on Boston Road in the Bronx, employees declined to comment on the conviction, and shut the door before any questions could be asked.
Mr. Seabrook was acquitted of three counts related to an alleged kickback scheme in which prosecutors said he had taken nearly $50,000 in payments from a Bronx businessman whom he had helped to win a contract to install boilers in the new Yankee Stadium in 2006.
The trial was not a duplicate of the earlier case, but throughout the retrial, the prosecutors, Mr. Jackson, Karl Metzner and Steve C. Lee, focused on the same central themes: that Mr. Seabrook had betrayed the people of the northeast Bronx who needed training and jobs, by “sending their money to his girlfriend and his family members,” as Mr. Metzner told the jury Monday.
“The people who have spent their lives on the outside looking in,” Mr. Metzner said, “they ended up being sold out by the man who could have helped them.”
 
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[ Yes another sleazy fucking corrupt Democrat politician from NYC, nothing new here... move along. ]

[h=1]Ex-Legislator From Queens Pleads Guilty in Bribe Case[/h] [h=6]By DAVID W. CHEN[/h] [h=6]Published: November 14, 2012[/h] Just a week after his daughter was elected to Congress, Jimmy K. Meng, a former state legislator from Queens, admitted in court on Wednesday that he had solicited $80,000 from a friend facing criminal charges and falsely claimed that he could use that money to bribe prosecutors.

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[h=6]Tim Roske/Associated Press[/h] Jimmy K. Meng, a Democrat who served in the State Assembly in 2005 and 2006, becomes the latest in a long line of elected officials to run afoul of the law.

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Mr. Meng, 68, of Bayside, pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud during a hearing before Judge Allyne R. Ross of Federal District Court in Brooklyn. Sentencing is set for March 12, and Mr. Meng’s lawyer, Todd D. Greenberg, said that he hoped the judge would spare Mr. Meng any jail time because this was the “first time in his 70 years that he had a lapse in judgment.”
Prosecutors said they would recommend that Mr. Meng serve 12 to 18 months.
“Meng dangled the promise of justice for sale, but his claims of special access to prosecutors were nothing more than lies, designed to satisfy his greed,” Loretta E. Lynch, the United States attorney for the Eastern District of New York, said in a statement.
Mr. Meng, a Democrat who served in the State Assembly in 2005 and 2006, becomes the latest in a long line of elected officials to run afoul of the law. In the last six years, some 28 state-level elected officials or former officials have been caught up in scandals or criminal investigations, according to the New York Public Interest Research Group.
Mr. Meng, a prodigious political fund-raiser, was the first Asian-American to serve in the Assembly, and was regarded as one of the most potent power brokers in New York City’s fast-growing Asian-American community.
But Mr. Meng was arrested in July, shortly after his daughter, Grace Meng, won a fiercely fought Congressional primary to become the Democratic nominee to represent a predominantly Democratic section of Queens. His case was an unwelcome distraction for Ms. Meng’s campaign, but she nonetheless defeated her Republican opponent, City Councilman Daniel J. Halloran III, with 68 percent of the vote, in the election last week.
Ms. Meng, who is the first Asian-American to be elected to Congress from New York, did not join her mother and two siblings in court on Wednesday for the 45-minute hearing. She spent the day in Washington, attending an orientation for newly elected members of Congress. In a statement, she said that she was “deeply saddened,” but that her father had “taken full responsibility for his actions, and I support his decision.”
According to the plea agreement, Mr. Meng told a friend, Eric Hu, who was facing tax charges in Manhattan, that Mr. Meng could bribe assistant district attorneys working on the case, and obtain a more lenient sentence for Mr. Hu. If Mr. Hu got less than a two-year sentence, Mr. Meng said, according to recordings made by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the price would be $80,000. If he got more than two years, then Mr. Meng would keep only “a $2,000 errand fee.”
In July, according to the plea agreement, Mr. Hu met Mr. Meng at Mr. Meng’s lumber business in Flushing, Queens, opened his car trunk and presented Mr. Meng with a fruit basket that had $80,000 in cash inside. But Mr. Hu was cooperating with law enforcement in exchange for a lighter sentence. Mr. Meng was arrested. There is no evidence that Mr. Meng contacted any prosecutors.
In the courtroom, Mr. Meng was barely audible at times and occasionally turned to a Mandarin interpreter seated next to him to help explain the legal terminology. But when asked whether he had read the plea agreement, Mr. Meng, who had said during the hearing that he had a hearing problem and had relied on sleeping pills for 40 years, said in English: “Everything — two times,” before later stating, “I plead guilty.”
 
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[h=1]Democratic Party Official in Queens Faces Corruption Charges[/h] By WILLIAM K. RASHBAUM
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Updated, 9 p.m. | A Queens district leader and two-time candidate for the City Council surrendered to federal authorities on Wednesday to face corruption charges, including mail-fraud conspiracy and obstruction of justice, stemming from what prosecutors said were campaign-finance improprieties.
The district leader, Albert J. Baldeo, a Democrat, was accused of using phantom donors to funnel illegal campaign contributions to his unsuccessful 2010 campaign for the Council as part of a fraudulent effort to increase the amount of matching funds he would have been eligible for from city, federal prosecutors said. But irregularities were uncovered in an audit by the New York City Campaign Finance Board, which passed the information along to the authorities, and no matching funds were ultimately provided to the campaign.
Mr. Baldeo was charged with conspiracy to commit mail fraud, attempted mail fraud, conspiracy to commit obstruction of justice and obstruction of justice.
Mr. Baldeo, whose district includes Richmond Hill and Ozone Park, surrendered at the headquarters of the Federal Bureau of Investigation at Federal Plaza shortly after 9 a.m. He appeared before a federal magistrate judge later on Wednesday.
The charges were announced by the United States attorney in Manhattan, Preet Bharara, and Mary Galligan, the acting assistant director of the F.B.I., who heads the bureau’s New York office, in a statement Mr. Bharara issued.
Ms. Galligan said in the statement that Mr. Baldeo’s fraud, according to the government, was fabricating contributions to his campaign to receive $6 in matching funds for every $1 he reportedly raised.
“These were nothing more than funds drawn from his own bank account, disguised as donations from others,” Ms. Galligan said. “When F.B.I. agents began to uncover his deceitful scheme, Mr. Baldeo told straw donors to lie to our agents and in some cases threatened and intimidated others in a vain attempt to derail the F.B.I.’s investigation.”
Mr. Bharara said that Mr. Baldeo “was so focused on securing a position with the New York City Council that he was willing to break the law to increase his chances — including engaging in a scheme to circumvent campaign finance laws by funneling his own money through straw donors.”
Mr. Baldeo, a lawyer, could not be reached for comment.
 
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[h=1]As Americans face a fiscal cliff, the Obamas make do with 54 Christmas trees348 Comments
[/h] By ANDREW MALCOLMPosted 09:02 AM ET




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Amazing how a reelection can reshape an incumbent's thinking about many things. Now safely ensconced in the White House for 49 more months, the Obamas have decorated the place with 54 Christmas trees this year.
Even allowing for the usual Washington excesses with taxpayer money, that's a whole grove of Christmas trees.
"We have 54 trees in the White House," an excited Michelle Obama proudly told visitors the other day. "54! That’s a lot of trees."
In fact, the Obamas' 54 trees this year are almost 50% more Christmas trees than last year. That was during the campaign before Obama whispered a reminder to the Russians that he had to be careful until Nov. 6, when a victory would give him more "flexibility."
Now, how much carbon do you suppose those 54 trees could be sequestering had they not been chopped by this green president?


 
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[ Amazing how the libtards are handling the finances in their liberal mecca of California. I wonder how many more cities will go bankrupt in the coming
year? ]

[h=1]Paradise Lost: Despite Tax Increase, California State Revenues in Freefall[/h] California State Controller John Chiang has announced that total state revenue for the month of November 2012 fell $806.8 million, or 10.8%, below budget. Despite reassurances from academics and progressive media, the passage of the tax hike known as Proposition 30 may have spurred the state's millionaires to flee, causing this shortfall.
 
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[ Another failed Obama stimulus, 1/4 $Billion of our money down the drain. Sold to a Chinese competitor. Way to go ass-clown ]

[h=1]Meltdown of Subsidized Battery Maker Zaps Obama Detroit Visit[/h] By Chris Stirewalt
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“The work you’re doing will help power the American economy for years to come.”
-- President Obama in a Sept. 13, 2010 phone call to battery maker A123 Systems, congratulating the firm on using the bulk of a $249 million government grant to open new facilities in Michigan.
President Obama travels to Detroit today to talk about the need for increased taxes on top earners to finance federal spending, and is using an announcement of a $100 million investment from German auto giant Daimler to illustrate that his economic prescription is working.
Obama is not likely to discuss another big business story of the day – the sale of the assets of battery maker A123 to a Chinese competitor. A123 spent at least $132 million of its $249 million stimulus package grant to build two Detroit-area factories, including one in Livonia, right next door to Redford Township, where Obama is speaking today.
Obama is out talking about growth while Republicans are debating how much to raise taxes and how much to cut entitlements. Merry Christmas.​
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Assuming a bankruptcy judge and the Obama Treasury Department approve of the sale of A123’s assets to Wanxiang Group, the Chinese battery maker would immediately become the dominant force in the industry.
So for $256.6 million, the Chinese firm would get all that the stimulus package purchased plus the company’s existing operations in Massachusetts and Missouri and have the chance to pare down the company to profitability without the overhead of A123’s debt.
A very good deal to be sure, but not one that American firms were willing to take on. As the president has often said, China and its economic central planners are betting very big on the battery business – for cars, for the electric grid, etc. And with A123, they get to take advantage of not only their own government subsidies, but those provided by American taxpayers.
An additional irony: Whatever share of the original $249 million stimulus grant that the Treasury borrowed from China will still have to be paid back. The boys in Beijing must be having a happy Monday. Obama gave A123 lots of subsidy money to expand to compete with subsidized Chinese firms and the subsidized Chinese firms win anyway.




 
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[ Look what's going on in the liberal mecca of California. You can't make this shit up. ]


[h=1]California state revenue misses projection by almost $1 billion[/h]← return to Inside Politics
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By David Eldridge - The Washington Times

December 8, 2012, 06:03PM​


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California Controllor John Chiang had troubling news for Gov. Jerry Brown and other leaders on Friday, announcing that tax revenues for the month of November in the state were almost $1 billion below projections.
"November's disappointing revenues stand in stark contrast to recent news that California is leading the nation in job growth, has significantly improved its cash liquidity to pay bills, and even long-distressed home values are starting to inch upward," Mr. Chiang said in a statement. "This serves as a sobering reminder that, while the economy is expanding, it is doing so at a slow and uneven pace that will require the state to exercise care and discipline in how its fiscal affairs are managed in the coming year."
According to the report, revenues in the month of November were $842.5 million (19 percent) under projections.
Mr. Chiang and other officials blamed part of the shortfall on Facebook, the California-based social media giant that has failed to live up to some market expectations since the company went public in October.
Mr. Chiang, the state's top financial official, like Mr. Brown, is a Democrat.
Mr. Brown and other Democrats led the successful push for Proposition 30, the voter-approved sales and income tax increases approved on Nov. 6.
Those tax increases, scheduled to take effect in April, were supposed to alleviate the cash-strapped state's budget woes, but conservatives say the impending higher income tax rates are already driving millionaires and small businesses to relocate out of the state.


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An Administration That Will Live In Infamy

There was a time when people assumed that if America’s future was under attack, it must come from a foreign source–like, say, Japan at Pearl Harbor. Those days are long gone. Now, our decline is no one’s fault but our own. We elect leaders who are ignorant of America’s history and contemptuous of its values. The currency in which this ignorance and contempt is expressed is government spending. I am not sure I can fully explain the logic, but those who are filled with hatred for the first 200 years of American history want–for some reason–America’s government to accumulate ever more power and to spend unprecedented amounts of money. Does that make sense? Seemingly not, but it is the world in which we live: the entity that is most bent on destroying the private economy of the United States of America, until recently the envy of the world, is our own government.
As usual, Michael Ramirez foresees the future and rebels against it:

I have spent some time thinking about this, and it is hard to find a precedent: when, in human history, has the government of any nation consciously set out to weaken that country? Sure, it has been done by accident from time to time, but on purpose? If you can think of any precedent for the Obama administration, please let it be known in the comments.


http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2012/12/an-administration-that-will-live-in-infamy.php
 
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[ More dirty filthy corrupt piece of shit Democrats ]

[h=1]Trenton mayor and 2 co-defendants indicted on new federal charges[/h] By Khara Lewin, CNN
updated 1:15 PM EST, Fri December 7, 2012

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Trenton Mayor Tony Mack was indicted by a federal grand jury on seven new counts.

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  • The three were initially charged in September, after a federal investigation
  • The indictment Thursday added seven more counts
  • Prosecutors say the charges stem from an alleged scheme involving the sale of city land


(CNN) -- The mayor of New Jersey's capital city and two other defendants who have been embroiled in corruption allegations since September were indicted by a federal grand jury Thursday on seven new counts, according to court documents.
The charges against Trenton Mayor Tony Mack, 46, his brother, Ralphiel Mack, 40 and business associate Joseph A. "JoJo" Giorgianni, 63, stem from an alleged kickback scheme to sell city-owned land to investors for significantly less than the assessed value.
 
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[ Another corrupt piece of shit Democrat sent to prison where he belongs ]

[h=1]Another ‘leader’ is sent to prison[/h]
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Pennsylvania trivia time: What do the following names have in [COLOR=#737373 !important][FONT=inherit !important][COLOR=#737373 !important][FONT=inherit !important]common[/FONT][/FONT][/COLOR][/COLOR]? Vince Fumo, Bill DeWeese, John Perzel, Mike Veon, Jane Orie and Robert Mellow. We’ll give you a clue: They were all powerful leaders in the Legislature at one time or another. Give up?
The correct answer is that they underwent a change of address after their Harrisburg [COLOR=#737373 !important][FONT=inherit !important][COLOR=#737373 !important][FONT=inherit !important]careers[/FONT][/FONT][/COLOR][/COLOR] -- to be precise, they went to prison on charges related to public corruption.
Pennsylvania is sometimes said to be the most expensive Legislature in the nation. But it also has a claim to being one of the most corrupt, as suggested by the habit of its members to fall afoul of the criminal justice system. The latest big fish is Robert Mellow, former Democratic floor leader in the state Senate.

Last week in Scranton, U.S. District Court Judge Joel Slomsky sentenced Mellow, who pleaded guilty in May, to 16 months in prison for public corruption, which included using Senate staff for political [COLOR=#737373 !important][FONT=inherit !important][COLOR=#737373 !important][FONT=inherit !important]fund[/FONT][/FONT][/COLOR][/COLOR]-raising and campaigning. He must pay nearly $80,000 in restitution to the state and a $40,000 fine.
 
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[ Another alcoholic piece of shit Democrat politician, caught for multiple DUIs, resisting arrest. Put him behind bars were he belongs ]




Former candidate for SC House District 63, Austin Smith, 21, was arrested by Florence police for DUI, Leaving the Scene of an Accident and Resisting Arrest Thanksgiving weekend.
He ran as a Democrat and lost the election in November to Republican Incumbent Representative Kris Crawford.
This is Smith's third arrest involving alcohol since July.
A man heard a crash at the intersection of Cheraw Drive and Cherokee Road on the morning of November 23, according to an incident report.
He walked outside and saw a 2005 Toyota had crashed into a telephone pole.
The witness saw Smith in the car and says Smith said, "I will pay you anything if you move my car. I can't get a DUI. I'm Austin Smith," according to the incident report.
The witness told Smith he was going to call police, and the report says Smith used derogatory language and indicated he was going to report the car as being stolen.
Just as officers got to the scene, they say Smith called 911 to report the vehicle as being stolen.
Police questioned Smith and say he denied driving the car and told them it was stolen from his driveway.
Smith had a strong odor of alcohol coming from his breath and his eyes were bloodshot, according to officers who gave him a field sobriety test.
After the test he was placed under arrest for DUI.
The incident report says Smith refused to walk with officers to the patrol car and fell to the ground. Officers say they had to physically pick him up and place him in the car.
When Smith got to the detention center, the report says he tried to strike his head on the floor and run into walls. Florence County deputies had to restrain him to protect him from hurting himself, according to the police report.
He will appear in court on the charges on December 18.
Smith tells NewsChannel 15 he's getting help.
" I, like, like millions of Americans suffer from substance abuse problems and you know I'm committed to doing everything that I can to get treatment," said Smith. "And I just want to thank everyone who has reached out to me the last few days. And it really means a lot."
A portion of the dash cam video taken by police at the scene is attached to this story and was obtained through the Freedom of Information Act.
 
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[ yet another Democrat tax cheat. hey what's the big deal, when the President's own cabinet members can get away with it? ]

[h=1]Upstate lawmaker admits not paying taxes[/h] [h=2]Harold Mitchell sentenced to 3 years probation[/h] UPDATED 8:39 PM EST Nov 26, 2012











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SPARTANBURG, S.C. — An Upstate lawmaker admits he failed to file state tax returns and is sentenced.
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Spartanburg County District 31 Rep. Harold Mitchell, Jr. (D), pleaded guilty to two charges of failing to file state tax returns.,
Mitchell was sentenced to one year for each count, suspended to three years’ probation and the payment of $5,989.30 for all taxes owed. Mitchell was also ordered to pay the costs of prosecution, which will be determined at a later date.
The Attorney General's said Mitchell failed to file income tax returns in 2007 for $2,001 and in 2008 for $1,758.
Mitchell was suspended from the SC House of Representatives in January.
Mitchell is the founder and executive director of Regenesis. The non-profit organization's mission started with efforts to revive the once-contaminated Arkwright community and expanded to provide health care services for low-income residents of the area.




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