{"id":4342,"date":"2010-09-15T16:47:53","date_gmt":"2010-09-15T20:47:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/?p=4342"},"modified":"2010-09-15T17:37:07","modified_gmt":"2010-09-15T21:37:07","slug":"meet-my-congressman-nathan-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2010\/09\/15\/meet-my-congressman-nathan-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"meet my congressman, Nathan Deal…"},"content":{"rendered":"
Throughout the last decade, I’ve received countless requests to write my Congressman concerning this or that issue. And even more often, I’ve wanted to write my Congressman myself about things that are happening. But I haven’t written him very often. I thought I’d introduce him to everyone so you would know we haven’t corresponded very much. For one thing, he’s voted the Party Line 93% of the time [100% on things that mattered]. And he’s not in my party. Well, actually not anymore. He was elected as a Democrat, but then walked across the aisle and joined the Republicans shortly after being elected. After 18 years in Congress, he resigned in midstream to run for Governor of Georgia. Well, maybe. He quit the Congress just days before being brought up on ethics charges. They were serious charges, so Congress released the report anyway. <\/div>\n
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Nathan Deal Ethics Report Finds Ex-Georgia Congressman Guilty Of Wrongdoing<\/a>
Huffington Post<\/strong>
03-29-10 <\/div>\n

The Office of Congressional Ethics released a report Monday alleging that recently-retired Rep. Nathan Deal (R-Ga.) was guilty of violating House rule<\/strong>s<\/a> by improperly using his office to push policy that would benefit his family’s auto salvage company. "It is undisputed that as a ‘public servant,’ Representative Deal took active steps to preserve a purely state program, one that had generated financial benefit for Representative Deal and his business partner. Further, while taking these steps, Representative Deal used resources of the House of Representatives," the OCE report found. <\/p>\n

On top of these dealings for the benefit of Deal’s business, the report found that "the $75,000 reported as earned income on the tax return exceeded the limit on outside earned income and prohibition on receiving any income while serving as a corporate officer."<\/p>\n

In January, the OCE voted to send claims of Deal’s ethics violations, which originally surfaced last year in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution<\/a><\/strong>, to the House ethics committee for additional inspection and a ruling. On Friday, the OCE panel also voted unanimously to release their report (.pdf link)<\/a><\/strong>. Deal, who retired on March 21 after extending his Congressional tenure<\/a><\/strong> in order to vote "no" on the health care bill, is in the midst of a gubernatorial primary campaign to replace Georgia’s Republican Gov. Sonny Purdue. <\/p>\n

Though Deal’s departure from Congress has placed him out of the reach<\/a><\/strong> of the disciplinary arm of the House ethics committee, the release of this report could seriously hurt his campaign for Governor.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
So he won the Republican Primary backed by that legend of Georgia corruption who quit the Congress over his own ethics violations, Newt Gingrich. Now there’s another glitch. <\/div>\n
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Deal: Bankruptcy not an option, will ‘live up to our obligations’<\/a>
Atlanta Journal Constitution<\/strong>
by Aaron Gould Sheinin
September 15, 2010<\/div>\n

Republican gubernatorial hopeful Nathan Deal said Wednesday that “I’m not about to file bankruptcy” despite a looming $2.3 million business loan coming due in February. Deal, speaking to reporters at his Buckhead campaign headquarters, said “I’m going to make sure our obligations are met.”<\/p>\n

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported Wednesday that Deal<\/a><\/strong> and his wife invested about $2 million in a retail venture by their daughter and son-in-law, a business that ultimately failed in the troubled economy. Deal lost his entire stake when the business failed, after he guaranteed a series of bank loans to the business as its debt doubled and then quadrupled. An analysis of Deal’s assets by the AJC found that he might not be able to repay the loan. His home in Gainesville is for sale. Other property he owns in the area was listed as collateral for the loans.<\/p>\n

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But Deal said Wednesday he’ll meet his commitments. Asked how he’ll come up with the money due in February, Deal said, “we will cross those bridges when we come to them.” “We have the property that is the collateral for the loan. It is up for sale and on the market. My house has never been collateral for this loan at all,” Deal said.<\/p>\n

Asked whether he intends to repay all that is owed, Deal again said, “our intention is to live up to our obligations”…<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Even my kind friend ShrinkRap<\/font><\/strong><\/a> feels appropriate glee over Deal’s plight. I actually feel anticipatory embarrassment over the possibility that the State of Georgia [which elected Lester Maddox Governor in the past] might elect this idealogue in spite of a striking absence of basic morality and his obvious incompetence. So now you know why I rarely wrote my Congressman… <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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