{"id":9761,"date":"2014-03-27T17:19:50","date_gmt":"2014-03-27T17:19:50","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2014-03-27T17:19:50","modified_gmt":"2014-03-27T17:19:50","slug":"culture_of_corruption_fbi_busts_democrats_nationwide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2014\/03\/27\/culture_of_corruption_fbi_busts_democrats_nationwide\/","title":{"rendered":"Culture of Corruption: FBI Busts Democrats Nationwide"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: I\u2019m not quite through with telling you who Leland Yee<\/a> is. He is big in California, and running for secretary of state. He\u2019s a state senator. He was practically Piers Morgan\u2019s go-to guy for attacking legal gun owners. You may not have seen it because nobody watched CNN or Piers Morgan, but Leland Yee was a frequent guest. <\/p>\n

When he would leave an appearance on Piers Morgan, he\u2019d go straight to Twitter. Here\u2019s a typical tweet from Leland Yee back on December 14th: “A year after Sandy Hook, let us recommit ourselves to working towards a safer society for all of us.” I wonder how long Yee might have been allegedly helping to run guns? I wonder if he was involved in Fast and Furious, for example.<\/p>\n

But here\u2019s a guy tweeting that we need to “recommit ourselves to working towards a safer society for all of us,” and this guy\u2019s out running M16s, $2 million worth. Now, as I mentioned, “Charlotte Mayor Patrick Cannon is facing public corruption charges after prosecutors said he solicited $48,000 in cash, airline tickets, a hotel room and the use of a luxury apartment as bribes from undercover FBI agents posing as developers.<\/p>\n

“Cannon is the latest mayor of a large city to face a scandal in recent years. Here is a look at some others: Former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin is awaiting sentencing after being found guilty in February of 20 counts of accepting bribes and other corruption charges…” This is the guy that couldn\u2019t get the school buses in action to get people moved out of New Orleans when Katrina was coming in. <\/line><\/p>\n

“Former Trenton, NJ, Mayor Tony Mack was convicted in February of taking money in exchange for getting approval in 2012 to develop a downtown parking garage that only existed in a federal sting. He is awaiting sentencing. He is one of a long list of New Jersey mayors to face corruption charges since 2000, including the leaders of Newark, Camden, Paterson, Perth Amboy, Hoboken, Passaic, Asbury Park, Orange and Hamilton.”<\/p>\n

These are all Democrats. <\/p>\n

The story does not say that, by the way. <\/p>\n

They\u2019re all Democrats. <\/p>\n

“Former San Diego Mayor Bob Filner,” you remember him, “resigned last August after a number of sexual harassment allegations. He pleaded guilty to false imprisonment and misdemeanor battery in October…” Now, these are all Democrats, and all of these stings and scandal investigations took place during the Obama administration, and they run the FBI. Something is going on here.<\/p>\n

You would never expect this to happen unless… No, I don\u2019t even want to speculate. I\u2019ll just take it for what it is at face value. “Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick is serving 28 years in prison after being convicted in October of extortion, bribery, conspiracy and other crimes.” Now, keep in mind as you hear all that, it\u2019s the Tea Party that poses the biggest threat to this country. <\/p>\n

Yeah. It\u2019s the Tea Party.<\/p>\n

“In October 2008, Kilpatrick spent 99 days in jail for his part in a sex-and-text scandal. Former Birmingham, AL, Mayor Larry Langford took $235,000 in cash, loans and gifts… He was convicted of 60 counts in October 2009 and is serving 15 years in prison.” Now, here\u2019s another story. This is a Washington Post version of the story: “FBI Conducts Raids, Targeting Elected Officials in Three States.”<\/line><\/p>\n

Again, they don\u2019t say Democrats here. <\/p>\n

“Federal law enforcement officials arrested two public officials in California and North Carolina and raided the office of a New York state senator in connection with separate corruption investigations on Wednesday. Hundreds of federal agents conducted searches of offices around the San Francisco Bay Area and arrested several people on Tuesday, including state Sen. Leland Yee (D) and a former head of a Hong Kong-based crime syndicate…<\/p>\n

“Charlotte Mayor Patrick Cannon… William Scarborough,” an assemblyman. Both Democrats. “Investigators raided the Gee King Tong Free Masons offices in Chinatown, which [Raymond “Shrimp Boy”] Chow runs.” He was one of the associates of California state senator (Democrat) Leland Yee. Now, folks, if this is strictly Democrats — which, so far, it is. We don\u2019t know if there are other investigations yet to be revealed.<\/p>\n

This mayor of Charlotte, by the way, has only been mayor for six months. It didn\u2019t take them long to size this guy up, for example. The FBI has been working on all of this for years — and not a peep, folks! In North Carolina, they\u2019ve been setting up former mayor Cannon since 2010. They spent over $480,000 to do it. It\u2019s hard to conclude otherwise. It\u2019s like the FBI has been working secretly behind the scenes since Obama was elected. <\/p>\n

If this sweep is strictly Democrats, which so far it is, what does that mean? What does that tell you? Does it tell you anything? (interruption) Well, that is a possibility. It is entirely possible that what\u2019s going on here is that the head honchos of the Democrat Party are basically behind an effort to take out all of their bad apples before the election; make \u2019em old news by the time the election comes around. <\/p>\n

The timing here is obviously curious, and it really is hard to believe the FBI would be working against the wishes of the Regime. Isn\u2019t it? That\u2019s really hard to calculate. So it could well be that the Democrats know they got some bad apples and they\u2019re gonna just clear the decks, just get rid of all of them early enough in the year so that when the election comes around and their opponents start talking about it, it\u2019s old news.<\/p>\n

“Nothing to see here!” <\/p>\n

It\u2019s still, however, big news. <\/line><\/p>\n

However, it\u2019s not all that big. I\u2019ve got one sound bite on it. I\u2019m talking it\u2019s big, big. But in the Drive-Bys, you\u2019re not seeing a whole lot of it, is my point. We did put together a montage. We can call this “the Culture of Corruption.” Prominent Democrat politicians have been arrested all across the fruited plain within the last week. This is a 44-second montage of various Drive-By reporters from all over the country…<\/p>\n

DAN ASHLEY: State Senator Leland Yee is in federal court right now facing a seven-count felony indictment of gun trafficking and political corruption. His stunning arrest happened this morning as the FBI raided multiple Bay Area locations.<\/p>\n

MAUREEN O\u2019BOYLE: Charlotte Mayor Patrick Cannon arrested, accused of bribery, theft and corruption.<\/p>\n

MIKE MONTECALVO: (b-roll noise) Federal and state law enforcement execute two search warrants targeting the home and office of Rhode Island House Speaker, Gordon Fox.<\/p>\n

ROMA TORRE: The FBI raids the home, office, and Albany hotel room of a state assemblyman from Queens. Investigators carried away boxes of William Scarborough\u2019s files. The assemblyman is accused of abusing his expense vouchers.<\/p>\n

CYNTHIA BRUNO: Former Illinois state representative Keith Farnham is being investigated for child pornography.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh, big time there! Keith Farnham is being investigated for child pornography, and the assemblyman\u2019s accused of “abusing his expense vouchers.” Would you like to see that? How do you abuse an expense voucher? I know what the infobabe means, but that\u2019s not what you say. You know, in our common culture, when you start saying that somebody abused their expense vouchers, the low-information crowd\u2019s gonna say, “Well, gee, can you show me how that\u2019s done? Is it cool?” <\/p>\n

Dingy Harry belongs in any discussion of a culture of corruption. And, in fact, years ago the LA Times did a huge expose on Dingy Harry\u2019s fraudulent, smarmy, sneaky land deals in Nevada and elsewhere. Yesterday in Washington on Capitol Hill, there was a Senate Democrat press conference, and Dingy Harry spoke. During the Q&A, an unidentified Drive-By reporter and Dingy Harry went at it.<\/p>\n