Oh, those dumbocrats have really picked a doozie of a candidate.
From NWI Times
INDIANAPOLIS | When Democrat Linda Pence announced her candidacy for state attorney general last week, she said she would need to undertake an extensive review before committing to continuing the civil racketeering case against former East Chicago Mayor Robert Pastrick.
Pence, an Indianapolis attorney, didn’t mention that she already is familiar with the other side of the corruption case. Federal court records show Pence represented Rieth-Riley, a paving company that paid $625,000 to settle claims it helped city officials conspire to divert more than $24 million in public money to a 1999 sidewalks-for-votes scheme.
“What I was trying to convey (last week) is, in this particular civil case, I’m not the attorney general yet,” Pence, a former U.S. Justice Department attorney, said Thursday.
She obviously saw enough to represent the bad guys.
The civil Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act lawsuit Republican Attorney General Steve Carter filed four years ago labels the city of East Chicago a corrupt enterprise and seeks to recoup the millions spent on the pre-election paving scheme.
“Frankly, that case is one of the highest priorities in the entire office,” Greg Zoeller, the GOP candidate for attorney general, said Thursday.
It’s obvious that Zoeller is the right person for the AG slot. How can you represent a corrupt entity one day, and then go after their co-conspirators the next?
“When I’m attorney general, I would review that file extensively,” Pence said last week. “I am against public corruption.
Pardon me? She’s against, yet represented and negotiated a deal for of one the conspirators?
Can you say conflict of interest?
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A real servant of the law, that one.
No way, now how would I vote for a big time lawyer who makes such oh-so-fine distinctions that representing the defense side of a case wouldn’t taint her representation of what she hopes will be her new clients - us, that taxpaying citizens of Indiana.
That and the fact that she was a big time contract lawyer who now says she will work to lessen the use of contract lawyers.
Greg Zoeller = real deal.
Linda Pence = do as I say, not as I do.
This is funny. The Democrats really know how to pick them.