Cal FPPC Investigates 59th Candidates

As reported in the Hesperia Resorter in early June, the Cal Fair Political Practices Commission is auditing the campaign finances of all 59th A.D. candidates who ran in the primary and general elections last year. They made quick work of everyone's books except of those of Anthony Adams. Seems like Republicans just can't help juggling the money and then trying to hide it. There're problems determining who was on his payroll, what they did, what exactly they got paid and where all the advertising money came from. Tsk! Tsk!

Congressional Dems and some of their Repub brothers and sisters are rearing up and demanding Bushie turn over subpoenaed documents re his wiretapping and re the US Attorneys firings. I've been waiting 32 years for the outcome of this fight. Back in the era of "Tricky Dicky" both the Special Prosecutor's office and the Senate's Watergate Committee issued subpoenas to the executive branch. The Prosecutor's office brought its criminal charges against those Nixon aides involved in the coverup first and issued subpoenas for documents (the tapes) it needed in court. It had to fight tooth and nail against Nixon and his "executive priviledge" to get those tapes, finally ending up in the Supreme Court. Nixon lost that round but the court restricted its decision only to those members of the executive branch facing criminal charges. In the meantime, House members, finally fed up with Nixon and under a lot of pressure from the public, got around to impeachment hearings and issued three articles of impeachment. Nixon resigned rather than go through the Senate impeachment trial and the Senate Watergate Committee disappeared into the ether. So, for 32 years I've wondered what would've happened had the Senate committee gotten the chance to drag Tricky to the Supreme Court. Now I'm going to find out. Hope the ending's the same! We all went out and celebrated long, hard and very happily.