Fair is fair. When Democrats cheat they deserve to be called out on it too.

Courtesy of The Hill:  

The chief of staff to freshman Rep. Joe Garcia (D-Fla.) resigned on Friday after he was implicated in a plot to submit hundreds of fraudulent absentee ballots during the congressman’s primary election last year. 

Jeffrey Garcia, who's not related to the congressman, left at Rep. Garcia’s request after he took responsibility for the scheme, The Miami Herald reported. The resignation came hours after law enforcement officials raided the homes of former Garcia campaign employees as part of an investigation into the matter. 

“I’m shocked and disappointed about this,” Rep. Garcia, who said he was unaware of the scheme, told the Herald. “This is something that hit me from left field. Until today, I had no earthly idea this was going on.” 

This, of course, is not exactly good news Rep. Garcia personally, and he Democratic party in general, but what makes it even worse is this next part of the article.

Jeffrey Garcia declined to comment to the paper, which reported that he also worked for the campaign of Rep. Patrick Murphy (D-Fla.), who defeated Rep. Allen West (R-Fla.) in 2012.

As you all know Allen West was a huge star to the Teabaggers, and even the hint that he did not lose he reelection bid fairly will be all that it takes to have the Right Wing call foul and insist on an investigation into wrong doing. (Especially since there WERE some irregularities.)There may well be NOTHING nefarious about Rep. Murphy's campaign, or any real reason to distrust the outcome of that election, but none of that matters in the GOP echo chamber, and in there this thing will get blown WAY out of proportion.

You know the thing about politics is that no one side can corner the market on unethical behaviors.

Even though recently it seems that the Republican party has been all unethical behavior all the time, the truth is that the history of American politics us chock full of examples of similar types of duplicity coming from the Democrats as well.

As good citizens it should be incumbent upon all of us to call out corruption or unethical behaviors whenever we see them, regardless of whether or not it puts our party, or favorite politicians, in a bad light or not.

And no that does NOT mean I will buy into every bullshit story dreamed up by Fox News about our President or the Democrats either. Only reputable journalists deserve our attention.

Joe Miller records released! Contain admission that he lied! Update!

From the ADN:

"I lied about accessing all of the computers. I then admitted about accessing the computers, but lied about what I was doing. Finally, I admitted what I did," Miller wrote in a March 17, 2008, e-mail to Fairbanks North Star Borough Attorney Rene Broker.

Miller's admission said he went on three of his co-workers' computers to participate in a political poll and then cleared the caches. "I now understand that clearing the cache also cleared out passwords and ID's for various websites that people were using and was very hurtful (as was the simple fact that I was on their computers)," he wrote.

"As I told you on Wednesday, I acknowledge that my access to others' computers was wrong, participating in the poll was wrong, lying was wrong, and there is absolutely no excuse for any of it," he wrote.

Okay so he lied, then he told the truth, then he lied, then he told the truth, and then was made to apologize for what he did in the first place?  Is this a Senate candidate or a five year old child?

You know usually Senators start off fairly ethic and then are corrupted by the power and influence of lobbyist money they find there.  But Joe Miller comes pre-corrupted and we already KNOW how unethical and untrustworthy he will be.

Somehow I don't see that as a good thing.

Update: Now I would like somebody to ask Miller about his military career and the circumstances surrounding his disharge. And while they are at it perhaps they can ask him about this memo that was found on the Fairbanks Newsminer website as well:

BTW this is the website for Magellan Health Services.  They specialize in PTSD. Now isn't THAT interesting?

Update 2: Alaska Dispatch has what looks like ALL of the personnel documents here.  It is late and I don't have time to go through them all right now, but what I have read so far offers a very interesting look into Miller's personality.  Take a look and let me know what you think.