TENNESSEE SENATOR DIDN’T DISCLOSE INCOME, ASSETS FROM HEDGE FUNDS, REAL ESTATE INVESTMENTS
Remember Bob Corker? He’s the liberal “Republican” Senator from Tennessee who saved U.S. president Barack Obama‘s bacon on the administration’s hated nuclear deal with Iran.
By deceptively redefining this agreement, Corker turned a guaranteed defeat into a guaranteed win for Obama. Then he had the audacity to say he “tried so hard” to defeat the deal.
Sheesh …
While we don’t especially care about Iran’s nuclear capabilities, Corker’s duplicity was vintage Washington, D.C. two-stepping … in which “Republicans” say one thing then do another.
The latest on Corker? According to a new report from The Wall Street Journal, the third-ranking member of the Senate’s banking committee “failed to properly disclose millions of dollars in income from real estate, hedge funds and other investments since entering the Senate in 2007.”
It’s all good, though, because Corker has apparently “corrected this oversight” – which is to say he filed amendments to his prior reports after getting busted.
Seriously … he filed the amended returns three days ago …
Corker defeated then-U.S. Rep. Harold Ford Jr. in 2006 and won reelection to the Senate convincingly in 2012.
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I’m surprised he did not get caught with another man’s wife. That is normally the Republican Sin. At least, in South Carolina. Being from Tennessee, they may see money as a bigger attraction and leaving other families and children intact, unlike our SC Republicans.
We would have fewer of these problems if the law allowed elected officials to use campaign contributions to buy sex toys. – former S.C. Senator Robert Ford (D).
….. and allowed to use them on each other?
Well you still got McCarthy bangin Elmers – who by the way – is pretty hard on the eyes.
“While we don’t especially care about Iran’s nuclear capabilities, Corker’s duplicity was vintage Washington, D.C. two-stepping … in which ‘Republicans’ say one thing then do another.”
Mmmkay. That’s not too weird; no interest in the nuclear capabilities of one of the only nations on this planet which openly and fervently calls for the destruction of the United States. It’s okay to be interested in more than one thing, ya know.
It seems it is left up to the good people of Tennessee to help administer political justice in this case. Won’t happen, he will remain in the Senate, “wheeling and dealing,” getting richer while supposedly conducting the people’s business of this country.
Does not matter which club you are in, Democrat or Republican, the party affiliation is not the distinguishing factor for corruption. The Clinton’s are multimillionaires as a result of manipulating the system and abandoning what faint bit of morals that ever existed in them. This also happens to many Republicans as this article points out one.
The only answer is not replacing one politician with another of the opposite party, it is to find sufficiently honest people, and from the looks of Washington, that might be impossible. The cream just does not rise to the top in politics, it seems.
A pal of mine tried to “correct the oversight” in the filings over the years….the only problem was the Feds’ corkers rammed and twisted every orifice that God gave that poor fella. It sure makes for great laughs now but by God the fella went through hell. Mr.Corker can use some of that tickle this Christmas season. I am imagining 12 days of physical examination for Corker, courtesy the Feds. Of course guys like Corker do it only because they can get away with it, until citizens wake up and do something about it.
These national republicans are pigs, say a lifelong local republican.
Sadly, it is the same with the Dems.
Are you saying that Corker got a Mea Culpa from the IRS for supporting Obama?
Anthropologists confirmed Monday on Corker that there is one thing HONEST Americans know
Which is that Corker—Drunk RINO Boehner—Paul Ryan—AND Joe Wilson…slept too close to the buffalo !!!
Are you the “Lone Ranger” because you’re the only one that “up votes” your posts?
troublebaby said…why yes–there’s no maybe–I’m in ACORN and voted for Obama six times
And I just hope if the feds know I sold my SNAP for marijuana–I’ll get no jail for my crimes !!!
lol, people can sell their SNAP for marijuana? How do you know that?
troublebaby was interested in ill-gotten gain but the valor of patriots’ of course meant nothing to him
And when the feds find out he lied to get that Section 8–chances YOU will pay his rent?….slim !!!
I get section 8 now? lol
You really are as kooky as can be.
HaHa. Good catch. Somebody needs to take his shovel away…either that or throw him a ladder.
Tehran Bob – the Ayatollah of Tennessee. The Nuclear Senator. Go To Bob!!!
Corker is your typical crony capitalist. I’d love to know where those extra millions came from.
I want to know how and where he hid the money!