Former Members of Congress are different from you and me.  They get to take vacations while awaiting trial on corruption charges.

Look toward North Carolina and squint because you don’t want to get too much of this in your eyes.

Robin Hayes, the current chairman of the North Carolina Republican Party and a former congressvarmint, was indicted earlier this month trying to help a wealthy political donor in a convoluted corruption scheme intended to influence a state regulator whose department has oversight of the donor’s company.

We’re talking $150,000 here.  And the local newspaper says this is going to be a tough trial for Hayes to come out exonerated.

But here’s the kicker.  Hayes wants his passport returned from authorities who took it before setting his bond so he can go on a long-planned July vacation with his family.  See the PDF here.

Because, you know, all that crime gets very tiresome.

Thanks to Alfredo over at the Dairy Queen for the heads up.