Actually, you might get a more objective evaluation out of a randomly selected inmate from your local lock-up, since this particular criminal, impeached federal judge Alcee Hastings, is a partisan Democrat who has already declared that the Bush camp intends to steal the election.
Foreign Observers of US Vote Threaten 'Catastrophe,' Group Warns
By Marc Morano
CNSNews.com Senior Staff Writer
When the U.S. State Department invited a team of international election observers to watch this year's American presidential election, it invited "scandal, fraud and corruption to the American electoral process," a conservative watchdog group has charged. The American Policy Center (APC) is warning of a "catastrophe," in part because Florida Democratic Congressman Alcee Hastings, labeled a "disgraced federal judge" by the APC, will play a prominent role in the election observing. Hastings was elected July 9 as president of the division at the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) that will be charged with the task.
Hastings became Florida's first African American U.S. District Court judge in 1979, nominated by then President Jimmy Carter. But nine years later, Hastings was impeached by the U.S. House for taking bribes from the federal bench and for perjury. The U.S. Senate subsequently convicted Hastings on the charges and removed him from office. "He is one of only a handful of judges ever to be impeached in the history of the U.S.," APC said in a press release. Hastings exacted his revenge by winning his own seat in the U.S. House, in 1992. He still represents Florida's corrupt predominantly black 23rd district.
Tom DeWeese, president of the American Policy Center, was already opposed to the international body observing this year's U.S. election. Hastings' involvement in the matter, DeWeese, said, means "the outrage just got more outrageous. Not only has the State Department invited a team of unaccountable, foreign bureaucrats to meddle in our free elections, but these meddlers are headed by one of the most corrupt individuals in the U.S. Congress. While they're at it, why doesn't the State Department invite O.J. Simpson to head up the FBI crime lab?" |