1.) Pardon me, Mr. President, please pardon me –
Some Democratic politicos come to political conventions to network,
others come to raise their political profile, but few come to beg for a
pardon from the sitting president. Well, there’s at least one of the
latter this year. TheDC’s Alex Pappas reports:
2.) Clinton’s man is a Romney fan –Bill Clinton may be slated to give a speech boosting President Obama Wednesday night at the Democratic National Convention, but the word on the streets of Chappaqua is Clinton’s “closest politics adviser” plans to vote for the other guy. TheDC’s Jamie Weinstein (ME!) reports:
“Former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman, headed to federal prison next week to serve a 69-month sentence on federal corruption charges, told The Daily Caller that he’s at the Democratic National Convention to lay the groundwork for what he hopes will be a future pardon from President Barack Obama. ‘I am going to try to get a commutation of sentence and eventually a pardon,’ Siegelman told TheDC in a Monday interview inside the convention center … In 2006, Siegelman was convicted on federal corruption charges that stemmed from the allegation that he gave former HealthSouth CEO Richard Scrushy a seat on a hospital regulatory board in exchange for $500,000 in donations for a pro-lottery campaign he was organizing. Siegelman says he wasn’t intentionally committing a crime at the time.”
2.) Clinton’s man is a Romney fan –Bill Clinton may be slated to give a speech boosting President Obama Wednesday night at the Democratic National Convention, but the word on the streets of Chappaqua is Clinton’s “closest politics adviser” plans to vote for the other guy. TheDC’s Jamie Weinstein (ME!) reports:
“Douglas Band, former President Bill Clinton’s top aide, plans to vote for Mitt Romney in November, according to a report in The New Yorker. In an extensive article on the complicated and often unpleasant relationship between Bill Clinton and President Obama, the New Yorker’s Ryan Lizza reports that Band intends to cast his ballot for the former Massachusetts governor this fall. ‘According to two people with direct knowledge, Douglas Band has said that he will vote for Romney,’ Lizza writes.”
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