Rep. Dave Reichert
US House of Representatives
1223 Longworth Building
Washington, DC 20515
Dear Rep. Reichert,
I understand that you have submitted three candidates to the White House as a replacement for John McKay as U.S. attorney for Western Washington, and while I understand that at least two of the candidates have adequate legal credentials, I fear that in conducting your search you may have overlooked the most important qualification: loyalty.
It wasn’t McKay’s legal expertise or prosecutorial skills or even his investigative shortcomings that cost him his job (hell, it’s not like it took him 18 years to catch a serial killer who was a prime suspect from day one,) it was his lack of loyalty that got him fired. What President Bush and your fellow Republicans need most in this office is not a top-notch legal mind, but a faithful and loyal companion.
And who could be more faithful and loyal than Major, who is not only looking for a new home, but could use a high-paying government job as well? Here is his CV:
Hi, I am Major. Well yes I do know I am gorgeous but please… try not to gush. I am indeed a big friendly golden boy but be aware I do have just a touch of a stubborn attitude (perhaps there is some chow in me?) and I just might believe that I am as smart as you are. I do have a great sense of humor and will prefer that in my human as well. Other dogs are great but I am really more of a people dog. If you are looking for a loving, devoted, intelligent companion I am your man. Take me home and lets make mischief together.
Yeah, sure, Major might believe that he’s smarter than you, but then who doesn’t? And you yourself can attest to how being a “big friendly golden boy” can take you far in politics.
So please, add Major to your list of candidates for U.S. attorney. Major desperately needs a new home, and Attorney General Gonzales desperately needs a loving, devoted companion, who enjoys making mischief. It’s a perfect match.
Respectfully yours,
Goldy
UPDATE:
When in the above letter I quipped that “at least two” of the candidates were qualified, I was of course implying that Rick White was not. Well, HA regular Richard Pope has more on that in the comment thread, pointing out that White was suspended from practicing law in 2003, and is currently not eligible to practice law in Washington state.
But he is a loyal Republican, and really, that’s all that matters.
x-post to Kos, or HuffPo, Goldy!
Wow, amazing, simply amazing. Nice work Goldy!
Is that Major as in THE Rod Majors!?!? Gay Porn Star and LIAR to the right wing noise machine?
Yeahhhhh, you republicans like that, don’tcha?
Crystal-“meth”-odist Rev. Haggard
Mark ‘fondeling boys” Folely
Mayor Jim “Gay.com” West
Mark The Red dick sucker.
Just Cum in my Hair JCH
Sean “Put a” Handity in my ass
Rush “Viagra for a fishing trip with little boys” Limpdick
Ann-dy Coultergiest, transexual
Scotter “put a 10 year old girl in a cage to be raped by a bear and convicted felon” Libby
Bill “teenage girls hooked on crack and being forced to suck a drug dealers cock” O’Reilly
Duke “cryin’ like a bitch cuz I got caught stealing” Cunt-ingham
Jack “peddling America to the hightest bidder” Abramoff
Porter “God I hope they don’t proscute me for being with hookers provided by Duke” Goss
Hariet “I’m not qualifed to be a justice on the SCOTUS” Miers
Bob “Say Nay to ethics” Ney
Mike “you’re doin’ a heckuva job Brownie” Brown-noser.
Dick “I’m moving Halliburton Dubai to avoid US Taxes and laws” Cheney
Alberto “Torture is OK” Gonzales
Dino “crybaby loser” Rossi
Tom “waiting for conviction” DeLay
Bill “I have a blind trust my brother didn’t tip me off” Frist
Don “Fuck the troops in battle or wounded at Walter Reed” Von Rumsfeld
George “I’m the decider and I always decide wrong” Bush
Barbara “Donating to Hurricane Katrina relief but it can only to my son’s company so I can write it off my taxes and he doesn’t have to report it as income” Bush
Yeah, that’s the “moral majority” ain’t it? Put those folks on a pedastool
The real question is could Major have found the identity of the Green River Killer in under
one five tenfifteen years? Hmmm?Repubs could have sent the same message when Clinton fired all the US attorneys upon becoming president.
Geez…it’s a political posting pure and simple as the constitution allows
5 Did Clinton attempt to slip all the replacements in without Senate approval?
Did members of the Clinton administration and Democrats in Congress pressure a large number of US attorneys to prosecute their opponents?
Is this degree of manipulation of the Justice Department for purely political purposes even remotely likely to be what the framers of the Constitution would have thought reasonable?
Maybe it’s time to fix this, to prevent further abuses of this sort by either party.
It’s also becoming more and more apparent that the reason Patrick Fizgerald still has his job was that he was doing exactly what the White House wanted–prosecuting Libby as the sacrificial lamb to keep the spotlight off of Rove and Cheney.
I am very disappointed that Dave Reichert didn’t put me on the list of three candidates to be appointed to the U.S. Attorney position. (Okay, I am being a little facetious, so please don’t throw the rotten tomatoes at me!)
To be honest, I didn’t apply for the position. And I don’t think I would be among the top three qualified people that could possibly be found among all the Republican lawyers admitted to the Bar in western Washington.
But at least I meet the legal qualifications for the position. I am admitted to the Washington State Bar and eligible to practice law in the State of Washington. I have never been disciplined or suspended from the practice of law.
That is a lot more than I can say about Richard Alan White, WSBA # 13683, who is one of the three candidates recommended by Dave Reichert and Norm Maleng to be U.S. Attorney. Rick White is current an “Inactive” member of the WSBA, which means that he is ineligible to practice law in the State of Washington, and therefore unable to perform the legal duties of U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Washington:
http://pro.wsba.org/PublicView....._ID=757955
Prior to taking “Inactive” status, Rick White was actually SUSPENDED from the practice of law. Back on April 19, 2005, Goldy posted a thread about how Rick White might possibly become the GOP candidate against Maria Cantwell for the 2006 Senate race. I did some quick research (man, I was poster # 1 on that thread!) and discovered (from the WSBA website) that Rick White was currently SUSPENDED from the practice of law on that date, April 19, 2005:
http://www.horsesass.org/?p=592#comment-24538
To be SUSPENDED from the practice of law requires an order signed by the Washington Supreme Court. I am going to call the Clerk’s Office of the Washington Supreme Court and the records section of the Washington State Bar Association to see if I can get a copy of Rick White’s SUSPENSION order. If the WSBA membership database was correct about the SUSPENSION back on 04/19/2005, a PDF copy of Rick White’s SUSPENSION order would certainly be a nice thing to be able to link to on a blog website or newspaper website.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17627463/
Looks like the righties are in trouble AGAIN for lying through their cowardly inbred asses.
And for all you morons who simply repeat what Limpdick Limbaugh tells you to, here’s a note. President Clinton fired all the US Attorneys and there was no doubt it was legal. Likewise, Baby Bush could do the same thing. What’s NOT legal, is to go up in front of Congress and lie about the reason. What also is not legal is to use the US Attorney’s office to prosecute on a political rather than criminal basis.
Not that any of you inbred righties actually care about real justice, but there is a difference.
Pope
I have to agree with you concerning Rick White–he has no business being considered for the US Attorney position. He hasn’t practiced law in years, and even when he did, he practiced bankruptcy law. Such history hadly qualifies him for such a prestigious position. His only apparent qualification is that he’s a good and loyal Republican. Sad.
I just spoke with the Clerk’s Office of the Supreme Court of Washington. Richard Alan White, WSBA # 13683, was suspended from the practice of law by order of the Supreme Court of Washington on August 12, 2003. The case number in the Supreme Court of Washington is 2000312. When I search this case number on the Washington State Courts records website, the Event Description says “Disciplinary Action”:
http://dw.courts.wa.gov/index......2003-08-12
I hope the above link works! This “Disciplinary Action” case apparently involved several attorneys, since there are different cases for orders reinstated many of these attorneys to the practice of law (or at least un-suspending them, as the case may be).
The Clerk’s Office also informs me that Mr. White’s suspension was terminated by Supreme Court order on August 15, 2006, after slightly over three years of being suspended. However, Mr. White was not readmitted to the practice of law (i.e. “Active” status), but rather placed on “Inactive” status, which means that he cannot practice law at the present time, but is eligible to apply to the Supreme Court to be reinstated to the practice of law in the future.
Hey Goldy,
Why aren’t you jumping up and down screaming Police brutality on this story?
http://www.komotv.com/news/6495391.html
It would seem to fit with your other tirades against the Police.
Hey Daddy Love,
In case you missed it:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,258763,00.html
Cheers!
gbs got a day off at burger king. what a lossssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssser.hey why dont you show your daughter your post better still have her take them to school for show and tell im sure she would really be proud of her loser dad and you could have her take your bad conduct discharge from the navy while your at it.
YO
Thank you again for providing such compelling proof of the connection between illiteracy and Republicanism.
Proud leftist @ 15:
I could not have made a better observation myself. In fact, with your permission, I’m going to use that one.
YO:
While you’re living proof that abortion must be kept legal and widely available, you have shown improvement.
I noticed your name is in Caps, but you’ve managed to either find the Caps Lock key, or you’ve mastered the ability to use the shift key in conjuntion with the appropirate keys.
Bravo, YO, bravo.
See, if you keep trying even someone like you can make improvements. Just keep in mind “I think I can, I think I can, I think I can, I know can, I know can, I know can, I know can.”
Goooooooood booooy. OK, story time. Who’s ready for My Pet Goat?
How can our Republicon retard friends expect to defend these sleazebags, when they don’t even understand what they are talking about?
If any of you un-American dirt bags listen to Rush regularly, please have some insurgent in Iraq cut your head off. It would have to be so full of sh*t you would be a health risk to your neighbors.
I just don’t see how the average Republicon can have time to snort meth and blow male prostitutes, with all the time they spend bending, and breaking laws, handing out no bid contracts to their supporters, and lying to the press….
All your party leaders belong in prison, or on the end of a rope (after being found guilty of treason).
God it must suck being a con these days.
Ok, “Union Fireman”
Whether Goldy comments on it or not, I will.
For reasons that I cannot fathom, rather than just shut off the bait car, the police waited until after the thief threatened the life of two motorcycle officers, requiring a third officer to fire at the bait car.
If I was one of those three officers, I would be having a long, unpleasant “talk” to the fellow on that shut off switch.
And while the three officers at the scene appear to have done everything right, overall, the Belleview Police Department comes off looking like the Keystone Kops.
I used to think people had to be real smart to get into law school, graduate from law school, pass the bar exam, and become a lawyer. However, after more than 35 years as a lawyer, over half of which I spent as a (minor) judge, I’ve come to believe that any dog can do it. Well, most dogs. And that’s not saying much, because I have little respect for the intelligence of dogs. In fact, they’re downright stupid — I’m living proof of that! Here I am, a rabbit living in a public park full of dogs, and those fool dogs run themselves into the ground trying to catch me. The Parks Department fascists got me on their first try, although I guarantee THAT won’t happen again!!! Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me! But dogs are such fools they can’t figure out a simple thing like putting a fake female bunny inside a drop-door cage! Which makes them perfect candidates for U.S. Attorney appointments under this administration. What this preznit needs is loyalty, not lawyers who think for themselves, or think at all for that matter. That’s how Gonzales got his job, and it’ll work for Poochie too.
@13 Why don’t you forward that Faux story about how the country doesn’t need Social Security anymore to your DEMOCRATIC congressman and see how it plays.
GBS @ 16
Be my guest. Regarding your post at 17, I’m wondering if YO is not still abortable. Intellectually, I would put him in the same category as a second trimester fetus. So, maybe it’s not too late for his mother to take a little trip down to the local Planned Parenthood.
From what I recall of Rick White, he’s probably nowhere crooked enough to be acceptable to the current administration.
I’m wondering if the real scandal is with the U.S. Attorneys who weren’t fired.
@5 Yes, it’s a presidential appointment and U.S. Attorneys serve at pleasure, but they also require Senate confirmation; and, in office, they’re supposed to discharge their duties impartially and according to the law.
This isn’t about the president’s prerogative to replace appointees. It’s about a systematic effort to misuse federal prosecutors to smear Democrats with false charges of election fraud, and to cover up Republican vote-fraud crimes.
Bush and Rove want loyalists in these positions so they’ll carry out orders to conduct witch hunts (see, e.g., 2004 Washington governor’s race) and keep their hands off Republican vote-suppression activities, even when they constitute federal crimes (see, e.g., the nationally coordinated RNC effort to challenge the voter registrations of black soldiers deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan).
The fact U.S. Attorneys are presidential appointments doesn’t give Bush a prerogative to use them to obstruct justice or commit crimes.
Once again, T. Trainwinder demonstrates he’s nothing but a mindless apologist for a corrupt Republican administration.
The comment #3 about Rod Majors is absolutely classic! I wish Rod “cpl sanchez” Majors was getting more publicity now…
Of the 3 candidates submitted by Reichert, betcha the White House chooses “none of the above.”
Followed by an announcement by the new Interim U.S. Attorney that he’s “reopening the investigation” into “voting fraud” in the 2004 governor’s election.
I’ll say this — you probably couldn’t find a better candidate than Jeff Sullivan for the job. The guy is a career prosecutor and actually spent time in the trenches as the elected in Yakima county for many years. He’s tried a lot of cases and is well respected around the state. While I’m sure he’s a Republican, and therefore I probably disagree with him on a lot of things politically, he’s exactly the type of qualified candidate that should get the job.
Which is exactly what’s so odd: given the way this administration operates, how the hell did he even get to be a candidate? Vaska seems to be a decent guy too, and White isn’t even that bad. What the heck is going on here?
Bax @ 30
You want someone who was suspended from the practice of law for three years, and still isn’t legally able to practice law, to be the next U.S. Attorney? Managing a staff of dozens of people and deciding whether to prosecute major federal crimes and representing the federal government in major civil litigation?
Hell, I ran for the state’s lowest court last fall and people crucified me over my alleged shortcomings. And I have never been disciplined by the state Bar Association or suspended from the practice of law by the state Supreme Court.
Richard — I should have been more clear. White should not be appointed as a US Attorney because of his shortcomings. But from what I’ve seen of him, he’s not a particularly bad guy. He’s a moderate of the type that the GOP doesn’t tolerate anymore. Politically, he’s not bad.
For this position, he’s completely the wrong guy. Sullivan strikes me as the ideal candidate. Vaska is good too, but #2 to Sullivan. White has no business getting this particular job.
By the way, Richard, it looks like it’s at least possible that Rick White got suspended for not paying his bar dues. Until you get more info from the WSBA, the link you provided seems to say that. When somebody goes to inactive status, it means they hang on to their license but don’t fulfill their annual CLE requirements and basically quit practicing law. It gives them the option of starting over again someday without having to retake the bar, which they would do if they resigned. Perhaps White decided he didn’t want to practice law anymore, and just didn’t go about it the right way. It seems possible that he just quit paying his bar dues, got suspended for it, then changed his status to inactive so he wouldn’t have to do CLEs or pay his dues.
This, of course, is merely a possible explanation. It certainly doesn’t make him qualified to be a US Attorney, because he’s not.
I heard the girls in the legislature are thinking of levying a special tax on single mothers to pay for this.
http://archives.seattletimes.n.....ealth+care
Is that true?
Bax @ 33
You are correct. But there is a big difference between going into inactive status, and being suspended by the Supreme Court for failure to comply with the requirements to be licensed as an attorney.
Going into inactive status means the attorney is basically saving some money by paying lower bar association dues. You don’t have to make up the dues savings during your inactive status, but you do have to make up the annual CLE requirements that you missed during the meantime.
Being suspended for failure or refusal to pay dues is a form of administrative sanction, negative public record, and shows a lack of personal responsibility on the part of the attorney. To get reinstated — even to inactive status — the attorney has to pay DOUBLE the amount of delinquent dues that were missed during the period of suspension. To become active, the attorney must make up the annual CLE requirements that were missed during the meantime.
By the way, I agree 100% with your analysis regarding Jeff Sullivan and Mike Vaska. Presumably, the committee really expects Sullivan to get the job, and they added the other two people to the list to make things look good. But why fill the list of also-rans out with Rick White? Just doesn’t make sense.
Followed by an announcement by the new Interim U.S. Attorney that he’s “reopening the investigation” into “voting fraud” in the 2004 governor’s election
Its about time.
Goldy’s Golden has got my vote.
Good old Dan.
And what will you do if the new US Attorney also looks at the evidence and says “Sorry, but there is absolutely nothing I can hang an investigation on in this case. There’s just no fraud here to investigate!” (Which is, by the way, what every Judge, official and prosecutor looking into the case has said.)
Guess you’ll want to keep changing prosecutors until you find one that is willing to fake evidence and prosecute based solely on orders from Luke Esser or the BIAW.
You folks should probably consider looking up the word “fraud” in a dictionary.
“You keep using that word. I do not think it means, what you think it means.” – Inigo Montoya
“reopening the investigation” into “voting fraud”
THE CASE WILL RELY ON THE VOLUMINOUS RESEARCH CONDUCTED BY (UN)SP’S STEFAN SHARANKSKY WHO PREDICTED THE REPUBLICANS WOULD WIN THE ELECTION CONTEST CASE IN CHELAN COUNTY.
OBVIOUSLY THAT WAS STOLEN AS WELL SO THERE’LL BE A SPECIAL INVESTIGATION THERE TOO.
COME TO THINK OF IT, THERE WAS SOME FUNNY BUSINESS ABOUT DAVID IRONS JR AND I-912 LOSING. HAD TO BE. I MEAN IF RIGHT-WINGERS SAY IT SHOULD WIN, IT SHOULD WIN. IF IT LOSES IT’S FRAUD. SO THAT SHOULD BE INVESTIGATED TOO.
ALSO WE CAN’T FORGET MCGAVICK LOSING BY THAT BIG MARGIN. IT HAD TO BE KING COUNTY’S FAULT. HAD TO BE FRAUD. INVESTIGATE THAT TOO.
ROTFLMAO!!!
The circumstances being what they are, I’m surprised Dale Foreman’s name hasn’t come up.
@33 Considering how much trouble and expense a person goes through to become a lawyer, it’s inconceivable that someone would lose their ticket by not paying the dues or getting their CLE credits; but, yes, it does happen.
A more credible theory is that White might have gotten into disciplinary trouble while going through a period of personal crisis. Otherwise good lawyers have been known to stumble while in the throes of a divorce or addiction.
34 What I don’t understand is why the Legislature doesn’t confiscate whatever money your dead crack-whore ex-wife didn’t get! You can’t be trusted with money.
@36 “Dan Rather says: Its about time.”
Thanks for giving me the opportunity to pick apart your wingnut bullshit — again. I know you don’t read newspapers or any other literate material, Dan, so let me give you the executive summary:
McKay personally head a thorough investigation to which 4 assistant U.S. attorneys also were assigned, and found absolutely no grounds to prosecute anyone. Following this decision, the BIAW’s Tom McCabe provided McKay’s office with what McCabe called “forged” absentee ballot signatures, which McKay forwarded to the FBI for investigation, and the FBI concluded the signatures were “not forgeries.”
Let’s also review the civil suit: After spending $2 million on the best corporate attorneys in Washington state, and with help from the RNC’s national election-expert lawyers, the GOP got a decision from their handpicked Republican judge in their handpicked Republican County that THEIR candidate received 4 fraudulent votes, Gregoire received 0 fraudulent votes.
Now … what part of B U L L S H I T can’t you spell?
McKay Calls For Special Prosecutor; Says Crimes May Have Been Committed
“By The Associated Press
“The former U.S. attorney in Seattle, John McKay, says his firing and the firing of seven other federal prosecutors should be investigated by the Justice Department’s inspector general. …
“McKay told The Associated Press in an interview today that if the inspector general doesn’t investigate then the case may go to a special prosecutor.
“McKay says if politics entered into the decision to fire the prosecutors it was highly improper or a violation of the law. …”
Quoted under Fair Use; for complete story and/or copyright info see http://tinyurl.com/yu87oz
Waa Waa Waa
Slick Willie fires 93 Attorneys and it OK.
Bush cans 8 and now it’s all wrong?
You’re a bunch of hypocites.
Stooopid @9 posts: “What also is not legal is to use the US Attorney’s office to prosecute on a political rather than criminal basis.”
Yeah, like the Dems NEVER do this.