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Thursday, July 23, 2009
Activist says Fumo sentence "sucks" and begins collecting vacuums

 

Irked by the 55-month sentence given last week to former Sen. Vincent J. Fumo, a Harrisburg activist has begun a campaign to collect vacuum cleaners.


Yes, some explanation is in order.


Among the myriad of corruption charges leveled at Fumo was that he had the non-profit he controlled buy him 19 Oreck vacuums.


So, in the mind of Gene Stilp, who Ralph Nader once described as the nation’s “number-one political prop artist,” it all presented the perfect opportunity for jest.


This morning, with the Capitol as a backdrop, he lined up 30-some-odd vacuums – from wet-dry vacs to canisters models – and took to the podium where a sign read:


“Judge Buckwalter: Your Fumo Verdict Sucks”


Judge Ronald L. Buckwalter gave Fumo four years and seven months in prison in a sentence many, including Stilp,founder of Taxpayers and Ratepayers United, believe is extraordinaly lenient.


Stilp is urging federal prosecutors to appeal the sentence and hopes to collect as many vacuums as he can in the next two weeks before delivering them to Buckwalter’s chambers in Philadelphia.
 

 

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Posted by Mario Cattabiani @ 11:48 AM  Permalink | 1 comment
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Posted 12:43 PM, 07/23/2009
John Law
The number for the President's Comment Line is 1-202-456-1111. Drop a dime on "Vince the Prince"...ask for more charges to be brought. Send him to the worst Federal hell hole possible. I bet that would make alot of "CHUMPTED" U.S. Attorneys happy :-) We can not let the corruption stand and call ourselves AMERICANs. Make a call...see if President Obama lives up to his hype. Then when Mr. OPM is looking at alot more years in the Federal Penn...he'll roll over on Rendell and all the other "Elected Thieves and Betrayors". The U.S. Attorney General should treat this like one big "RICO" case. 12 days for each of the 137 Federal Convictions...8 days for each of the 45 Federal Convictions! Ladies and Gentilmen...THE MOON, HOLDS IT'S NOISE WHEN IT PASSES OVER "KILLADELPHIA", BECAUSE IT STINKS TO HIGH HEAVEN OF CORRUPTION! Call the President's Comments Line...He's got to Stop this Corruption! The U.S. Federal Justice System just proved it can’t FOR THE SECOND TIME IN ONE WEEK! Question Mr. Holder...which is stronger...The U.S. Federal Justice System or Corrupted and Content Philadelphia? We shall see. Time for you Sir, to send a little message of his own.
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