Andrew Romanoff admits the White House offered him three jobs to drop out of the Colorado primary
Earlier this evening I wrote this post about the report that someone in the Obama regime offered Andrew Romanoff a job in return for him dropping out of the Colorado primary race. Just a few short hours later comes the admission from Andrew Romanoff that he was actually offered three potential jobs to choose from if he agreed to drop out of the race.
Mr. Messina also suggested three positions that might be available to me were I not pursuing the Senate race. He added that he could not guarantee my appointment to any of these positions. At no time was I promised a job, nor did I request Mr. Messina’s assistance in obtaining one
The White House has admitted to offering Joe Sestak a position in the regime that would have legally required Sestak to drop out of the primary race against Arlen Specter, but the White House is fraudulently claiming that no federal law was violated because the position was unpaid. Even if the White House’s claim were true that the law wasn’t broken because the position offered to Joe Sestak was unpaid, that is not the case with the positions offered to Andrew Romanoff, the three positions that he was told would be available to him were all paid positions. So what will the spin be from the White House?
Barack Obama is going to use the fact that none of these job offers were guaranteed as his defense. But that does not hold water because if Andrew Romanoff agreed to drop his challenge to Michael Bennet based on the fact that he would be considered for one of these jobs Barack Obama would have achieved his goal. Therefor, in my opinion, the offer to be considered for a job is just as criminal as if Andrew Romanoff was guaranteed a job. If Romanoff had agreed to the terms– guaranteed or not– the outcome of the election would have been affected– and that is a federal crime.
There no longer can be any ignoring or denying what is going on here. First there was Joe Sestak claiming that the Obama regime tried to bribe him and now there is the admission by Andrew Romanoff that the Obama regime tried to bribe him as well. These accusations can no longer go uninvestigated!
Eric Holder, DO YOUR JOB!
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According to Heritage Foundation, the unpaid job isn’t the issue at all. The WH is missing it all together.
“The key distinction between what is legal and what is illegal under federal law is outlined in an opinion issued by the Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) at the U.S. Department of Justice in 1980. What is perfectly legal and what happens all the time in Washington is individuals being offered jobs because of their past political activity. Thus, when a new president is elected and takes the oath of office, he has several thousand patronage jobs to fill in the top ranks of the executive branch. Those jobs are filled based on a mix of professional competence and past political activity and support for the president or his party. That process does not violate federal law. Thus, if someone in the White House simply offered Sestak a job – like Secretary of the Navy – and did not tie the offer to anything related to the Senate race, then, that would arguably constitute business as usual.
However, what is illegal and not normal practice in Washington is to promise federal employment to an individual in exchange for future political activity. 18 U.S.C. § 600 prohibits public officials from using government-funded jobs or programs to advance their partisan political interests. The statute makes it unlawful for anyone to “directly or indirectly, promise[ ] any employment, position, compensation, contract, appointment, or other benefit” to any person as a “consideration, favor, or reward for any political activity or for the support of or opposition to any candidate or any political party…in connection with any primary election” (emphasis added). As the OLC opinion says, § 600 “punishes those who promise federal employment or benefits as an enticement to or reward for future political activity, but does not prohibit rewards for past political activity.” Future political activity would arguably include dropping out of a contested primary in order to benefit the White House-endorsed candidate (here, Senator Specter).”
Also, this is not the only law that the WH violated. Again, from the HF,
“Another federal statute, 18 U.S.C. § 595, prohibits any person employed in any administrative position by the United States “in connection with any activity which is financed…by the United States…us[ing] his official authority for the purpose of interfering with, or affecting, the nomination or the election of any candidate for the office of…Member of the Senate.” Any position offered to Sestak in the administration would be financed by the United States, so offering such a job in order to interfere with the election process for the Senate race in Pennsylvania would undoubtedly constitute a violation of this statute on its face.”
I think someone is in deep doo-doo!
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Good stuff Dominique, thanks! The White House is trying to play down the extent of what they did by using the unpain position defense, when that is not really what is at issue here. Do they think that people are really going to buy iut?
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I really can’t get too worked up about this. Look in the dictionary under “politics” and this is what they give as the example. This crap has being going on since the dawn of time and though it’s distasteful, and possibly illegal, I just can’t lose any sleep about it. Someone, somewhere is working up a long list of this practice in the Bush, Clinton, Bush, Reaga, etc admins and it will just be an embarrassment to the US political system. What really gets me upset here isn’t the legal issue but the hypocrisy of campaigning on “no more politics as usual” and then acting the consummate politician when in office. It’s to be expected I suppose but it just stinks.
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I understand where you are coming from, in my first post about the Sestak scandal I wrote that there was nothing unusual about this and that this type of thing happens all the time. But the fact is that this is a federal crime, and while it may happen all the time, that doesn’t make it right. We just don’t usually hearing politicians admit that they were involved in this type of quid pro quo.
Couple that with the fact that Barack Obama promised to end this same type os “washington insider” behavior and I think that it is a big deal.
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The White House’s bumbling cover up attempts have all but convicted themselves… the bit about Clinton making the offer and it having no pay (Sestak) makes no sense, and DOES NOT get Obama off the hook… it’s an impeachable offense to offer anyone ANY job to influence an election… which Team Obama HAS ADMITTED TO already in both cases!
It’s a sad state of affairs when “President Biden” sounds like an improvement!
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You are right, with the release of the memo the administration convicted themselves. The question is, will they be held accountable? And yes, it is scary when I think that I wish Biden would become president.
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