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Fresh off the Steve Stockman campaign headquarters story, now we’ve got Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA) who either transported circa 1971 Led Zeppelin forward in time to live with him or really knows how to trash a rental property. Rohrabacher’s now at the center of a suit and counter-suit over said trashing.
“When you’re governor, they close the Lincoln Tunnel for you. And you get to drive right through. No traffic. It’s the best. I love going to New York now. I used to hate it…. that’s the most fun thing on the fun side about being governor.” Watch.
Top NJ Dem with intimate knowledge of the on-going ‘Christie-Bridgegate’ investigation explains why she’s convinced political payback was behind the caper.
TPM is pleased to announce that we will be awarding our Seventh Annual Golden Dukes on Friday, Dec. 27, in recognition of the year’s best purveyors of public corruption, outlandish behavior and The Crazy.
The awards are named in honor of former Rep. Randy “Duke” Cunningham, who epitomizes the iconic modern scandal. Each year we single out those practitioners of scandal who through their own unmatched bumbling, shameless behavior, criminality or mere derp have set new standards for public corruption, betrayal of the public trust and general ridiculousness. This year’s award is sponsored by Media Matters, which also gives out its own annual award, Misinformer of the Year, given for the biggest errors by a media figure/institution in 2013.
As a special muck-tastic addition this year, there will be an actual Golden Duke statuette sculpted and cast as tribute to the big winner.
And now for the esteemed judges and proud nominees …
There’s a massively important story unfolding right now in Turkey. Here’s the latest development and some background on it – the canning of Istanbul’s top police official. But that’s only one small part of a very large and quite opaque picture. There’s a massive and far-flung corruption investigation that has already targeted numerous officials either in or close to Prime Minister Erdogan’s government.
New Mexico Supreme Court rules that same sex marriage is legal in the state.
