I swear the lawsuit is as original to me as the hair on my head. |
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) has been caught using purloined passages in several of his speeches. Now the aspiring presidential candidate stands accused of filing a lawsuit stolen from its author.
Since December, the libertarian lawmaker, a tea party favorite, had been working with former Reagan administration lawyer Bruce Fein to draft a class-action suit seeking to have the National Security Agency’s surveillance of telephone data declared unconstitutional; the two men appeared together as early as last June to denounce the NSA’s activities.
But when Paul filed his suit at the U.S. District Court in Washington on Wednesday morning, Fein’s name had been replaced with that of Ken Cuccinelli, the failed Republican gubernatorial candidate in Virginia who until last month had been the state’s attorney general. Cuccinelli has never argued a case in that courthouse, and he isn’t even a member of the D.C. bar (he also filed a motion Wednesday seeking an exception to allow him to argue this case in D.C.). But he is, like Paul, a tea party darling.
Fein, who has not been paid in full for his legal work by Paul’s political action committee, was furious that he had been omitted from the filing he wrote. “I am aghast and shocked by Ken Cuccinelli’s behavior and his absolute knowledge that this entire complaint was the work product, intellectual property and legal genius of Bruce Fein,” Mattie Fein, his ex-wife and spokeswoman, told me Wednesday. “Ken Cuccinelli stole the suit,” she said, adding that Paul, who “already has one plagiarism issue, now has a lawyer who just takes another lawyer’s work product.”
Yeah nothing undermines a suit against stealing people's data without their knowledge like having the lawsuit itself be stolen from the author without his knowledge.
I know that Rand Paul is making a play for the disenfranchised young voters that supposedly feel disappointed in Obama, but if he wants to demonstrate his integrity by comparison, he might want to actually develop some first.
Before this he was trying to appeal to female voters by using her husband's sexual dalliance to attack Hillary Clinton.
Next he will probably make a play for the Hispanic vote by demanding that they learn to speak English.
Fein now says that this was all a mistake. TRANSLATION: "Due to the fuss, I've been paid now!"
ReplyDeleteGod, he looks ridiculous, especially when you click the blow-up of the picture. I'm 60 in six weeks, and that's not my problem too, but if Nature had rescinded that particular gift from me, I wonder if I'd take it like a man or glue something so obviously phony on my noggin'. Geez.
ReplyDeleteHe of the less than confidence inspiring intellect strikes again.......sad when you're a joke but unaware of it........
ReplyDeleteJust imagine his career as a medical student! I would never trust my eyes to this guy.
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Scary stuff! According to the law of probabilities, somewhere there's "The worst doctor on the face of the earth" And some poor schmuck has an appointment to see him first thing in the morning (G Carlin, attributed)
DeleteRand Paul is as loony as his old man. That photo alone demonstrates the old adage: the shit doesn't fall far from the bat.
ReplyDeleteWhat a dork. I hope he tries to run with Stoopid palin. Hillary will filet them and serve them to her cat!
DeleteHis mother was careless with the silver spoon, it cut off oxygen to his brain.
ReplyDeleteDo you mind if I steal that little tidbit? LOLove it!
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ReplyDeleteYesterday I came across a link on one of Malia's articles regarding Palin. It is an old article and one I had never seen. Amazing in that so much info was out on her in 2008 and so few paid attention.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/09/04/585946/-Ranking-the-Palingates-per-damage-to-McCain#
Pat Padrnos
'as the hair on his head!' He has no hair - he wears a toupee'! Idiot!
ReplyDeleteSo... He and Skank have more in common than I thought!
DeleteAnd here I thought Lois and James Cowan were the biggest plagiarists, stealing quotes and putting in different contexts?
ReplyDeleteIt's pretty difficult to feel sorry for Fein. You lie down with dogs, you get fleas. Perhaps Rand will lend him the email list that this class action lawsuit is actually meant to generate so that Fein can tell each and every one of those suckers the truth. But probably not.
ReplyDeleteAnd THIS from the guys who want to put an end to "spurious lawsuits".
Don't worry - he is forgiven. After, he is a ReThug, isn't he!
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ReplyDeleteSarah Palin was in my mom's yoga class tonight
Doesn't yoga go against her religion?
ReplyDeleteI didn't think it was possible, but this dude has even LESS a chance of being president than his crazy-ass dad.
ReplyDeleteRand Paul didn’t plagiarize his NSA lawsuit
ReplyDeletehttp://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/rand-paul-didnt-plagiarize-his-nsa-lawsuit
My favoirte part is that his complaint is forced to acknowledge that this is all "done udner the auspices of the Patriot Act" and that it "began no later than May 2006."
ReplyDeleteYes, 30+ months before the "dictator" even took office. Oops. Hope the wingnuts don't read that part.
Nothing more stupid than stealing someone else's intellectual property. One of these days, he's going to steal words from the wrong person and they'll get wee wee'ed up and start a squirmish!!
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