Stockman to the Slammer
Steve Stockman, disgraced former congressvarmint from the Houston metro area, was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison yesterday for stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars of charitable contributions. He used the money for personal expenses and campaign money. Stockman rode into DC on the coattails of Newt Gingrich; and you might recall that he was pretty quickly named Congressman Clueless by Texas Monthly the next year, 1996. Worthless and crooked, Stockman is finally getting his after all these years.
Hope he warms up a bunk for tRump.
1Malarkey you beat me to it
2Good. It’s nice to know that some of the critters are actually caught and wind up in prison.
3Finally.
4Ole Steve Stockman. What a waste of protein.
5I remember Stockman’s constant attacks on PBO and him accusing PBO of committing ”numerous crimes” while in office. I also remember his constant showboating. He was a real attention hog. All of the time, he was the real criminal and con man who was masquerading as a “true Christian conservative.”
6Does he have to pay back the money he stole? The article doesn’t mention that.
7$1 million fine. That about covers it.
8Sounds like a typical Republican Kristian* Conservative to me. When will he join Trump’s cabinet?
*Christians follow Christ’s teachings. Kristians use Christianity to cover up gheir corruption.
9ONLY 10 years?!!! Seems to me that, given the multiple charges, and convictions on said charges, that the POS should have gotten a much longer sentence.
On a side note, why is it that when public officials are convicted of a crime they usually get a modest sentence? It has been my conviction (no pun intended) that someone in public office who is convicted of a crime related to that office should get a longer sentence than some private citizen convicted of the same or similar crime. My reasoning is that the public official, in addition to committing the crime for which they were convicted also committed the “crime” of betraying the public trust. Since the public’s trust in the integrity of our government at all levels is what holds this Democracy together, the deliberate fraying of that trust for private gain should be punished, and punished severely.
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