So the Bucks County Courier Times today tells us on its editorial page…Our congressman (Patrick Murphy) acted quickly to shed tainted money (received from Norman Hsu, who is currently awaiting trial on felony fraud charges after posting bail at $1 million) – but should have used better discretion to begin with.While the editorial makes the good point that campaign finance reform is needed to prevent scams such as those allegedly carried out by Hsu, I fail to understand how Patrick was expected to somehow foresee this, especially since Hsu had also donated to Hillary Clinton and Gov. Ed Rendell (who has said that he’ll keep his $40,000 Hsu donation unless Hsu is found guilty – Ed can afford to do that since he isn’t running for office any more).
And as far as Repug mouthpiece Ken Spain’s criticisms of Patrick (here), my comment is that, unless he can produce an itemized list of where Mike Fitzpatrick donated every dollar that he received from Jack Abramoff, he should shut his pie hole.
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