Why Is Roger Hedgecock On The Radio, and Not in Prison??

CO Liberal

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Mon May-17-04 11:46 AM
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Why Is Roger Hedgecock On The Radio, and Not in Prison??

He's filling in for Limbaugh today. When he was the mayor of San Diego, wasn't he in legal trouble????

Something about bribery, if I remember correctly???

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nothingshocksmeanymore

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Mon May-17-04 11:49 AM
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1. He successfully appealed

He's still scum.

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CO Liberal

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Mon May-17-04 12:06 PM
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2. I Found the Following Through Google

It's posted on San Diego Online (link below):

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Hedgecock became ensnared and, ultimately, strangled by a web of financial ties between him and Hoover and Dominelli. The district attorney�s office charged, among other things, that Tom Shepard�s political consulting firm, which had run Hedgecock�s campaign, had been kept afloat financially by undisclosed contributions from Hoover and Dominelli.

If your idea of a ripsnorting political fight is the clash last year over expanding the city�s football stadium, it might be hard to grasp the heat and intensity of two years� worth of public combat between an enraged and smooth-talking mayor and a relentless district attorney, Ed Miller, convinced he had discovered corruption at the heart of the city�s highest office.

To anyone who would listen, Hedgecock claimed he was the victim of a vendetta by Miller and the press. He sued The San Diego Union. He hired a San Diego lawyer specializing in drug cases for his first trial and then a Las Vegas lawyer who represented organized-crime figures for his second. When the second jury convicted him of conspiracy and perjury, he claimed a bailiff�s comments to jurors constituted tampering, although the trial judge disagreed.

As he imposed sentence, Judge William L. Todd Jr. said he had no doubt of Hedgecock�s guilt and that he had �violated the public trust in an onerous, onerous way... Your conduct ... is reprehensible in every sense of the word because you violated the public trust, completely, over and over again.� Facing automatic ouster under state law, Hedgecock had resigned at 3 p.m., December 5, 1985, just minutes before being sentenced.

�Some years ago a great American, at a moment of particularly bitter defeat, said, �It hurts too much to laugh, and I�m too old to cry,�� Hedgecock told reporters outside the courtroom. �That�s how I feel at this moment.�

An appeals court later found grounds for yet a third trial. But with both sides weary of the battle, a plea bargain was struck in 1990 that allowed Hedgecock to avoid jail, leaving his new career as a radio talk-show host uninterrupted.

To finish Hedgecock�s conviction-shortened second term, O�Connor beat Cleator in early 1986, becoming the city�s first woman mayor. She inherited a city government damaged by the long scandal.

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nothingshocksmeanymore

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Mon May-17-04 12:12 PM
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3. I soooo wish Maureen O'Connor would get back into the ring

she was a great mayor.

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heidiho

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Mon May-17-04 12:23 PM
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4. If life were fair, he and Rush would be sharing a cell

together in a maximum security prison.

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delete_bush

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Mon May-17-04 12:41 PM
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5. He's a narcissistic chickenhawk

From his own website...

"Since he joined KOGO, Hedgecock's movie star good looks and convincing speaking skills have made him a media favorite well beyond his Southern California base"

From a L.A. Times story...

"Some of the protesters were pretty high-profile guys and I didn�t want to get drafted." Hedgecock became eligible for the draft after graduation from UCSB, but was later classified 4-F because of his severe acne problems.

What is it with repukes and their use of dermatological problems on their ass and faces (I know, redundant) for avoiding their chance to go fight the commies?

Is combat nothing more than a photo-op for them where they feel they need to look pretty for the camera?

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tom_paine

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Mon May-17-04 12:45 PM
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6. "severe acne problems??!?

Typical gutless Bushevik (w)ussy.

So VERY typical, especially among the Imperial Leadership and Propaganda Section.

Which, ironically, is why he isn't in jail.

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frylock

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Mon May-17-04 01:19 PM
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8. this guys face looks like the surface of the moon..

yet he's calling out Michael Moore on his weight. :eyes:

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frylock

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Mon May-17-04 01:12 PM
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7. because he's a republican

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