Watching on TV the Mike Nifong saga – malicious prosecution of innocent people, withholding of evidence, and there he sits… waiting to see if he will lose his license to practice law.  I think he should also have to sit there while being sued by all the maligned players, the parents of all these falsely accused players, and the State of North Carolina for the costs of pursuance of his try for fame.  I think the State of North Carolina should have to pay the costs of the players’ attorneys fees.  In fact, I don’t think Nifong should be left with one penny and his pension rescinded.  The players can say the same as Ray Donovan, Secretary of Labor under Ronald Reagan, after being cleared of a smear job by the Democrats, saying “Where do I go to get my reputation back?”.  See attached:

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Raymond James Donovan (born August 31, 1930) is former Secretary of Labor.

Donovan was born in Bayonne, New Jersey, and attended Notre Dame Seminary in New Orleans, Louisiana. He worked as a union laborer in summers and received a B.A. in philosophy. Donovan went on to work for the American Insurance Company and Schiavone Construction Company, becoming the Vice President in charge of labor relations, finance, bonding and real estate in 1959. In 1971, he became Executive Vice President of Schiavone Construction Company.

President Ronald Reagan appointed Donovan as U.S Secretary of Labor on February 4, 1981, and he served in this office until March 15, 1985. Under his secretaryship, he reduced the department’s staff and budget, granted regulatory relief to businesses through changes in Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA) enforcement practices, revised the Davis-Bacon rules, modified ERISA rules, created new industrial home work rules, and revised the federal compliance regulations.

In a highly publicized 1987 case, ^[1] Donovan was indicted for larceny and fraud in connection with a project to construct a new line for the New York City Subway. The Schiavone Constructino Company was obligated to subcontract part of the work to a minority-owned enterprise. The essence of the charge was that because the minority owned firm (Jo-Pel Contracting and Trucking Corp.) leased equipment from Schiavone, that it was not truly independent of Schiavone. On May 25, 1987, Donovan (and all of the other defendants) were acquitted, after which Donovan was famously quoted as asking, “Which office do I go to to get my reputation back?”

Reminds me of the hatchet job of Patrick Fitzgerald on Scooter Libby.  He knew that Richard Armitage of the State Department, someone very much against the Iraqi war and having an extreme dislike for Dick Chaney, saw his chance to embarrass the administration.  He worked very willingly with Fitzgerald to pursue Scooter Libby.  He kept his agreement with Fitzgerald secret for a great length of time while Fitzgerald went about his business of destroying Scooter Libby.  I imagine if he had been cleared as he should have been, he could also say “Where do I go to get my reputation back?”.

What ever happened to Nancy Pelosi’s transparency and the most ethical Congress ever?  Now she is backing up David Obey’s plans to ram the earmarks thru Congress without debate – in other words, when Congress, under the control of Republicans, pass laws that earmarks must be debated.  What irony!  The Republicans, with their culture of corruption, were more ethical than this Congress with all their higher standards.  I am very puzzled how the Democrats, with all their skullduggery and crooks, were able to paint the Republicans as being worse than they.  Masters of deception and propaganda are the only reasons I can come up with.

I guess, with this bill on immigration, the Republican numbers in Congress will find their numbers diminished after the next election.  1994 – a long lost dream never to return.  I don’t know how the Democrats have been able to fool the majority, but let’s face it, their Goebbels style of propaganda is at its peak.  In closing, I wish to say I once knew somebody named Fitzgerald who had some character, and it wasn’t F. Scott.

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