Gmbg RNC s Steele: Dems Thumbed Their Nose at America
Washington mdash; Democratic Rep. Jamaal Bowman pleaded guilty Thursday to a misdemeanor charge forfalsely pulling a fire alarm in a Capitol Hill office building before a last-minute vote to fund the government in September.Bowman will pay a $1,000 fine and serve three months of probation, af stanley water bottle ter which the false fire alarm charge is expected to be dismissed from his record under an agreement with prosecutors.  The $1,000 fine is the ma stanley cup ximum for the misdemeanor charge.  stanley cup He will also write an apology letter.                                         Congressman Bowman was treated like anyone else who violates the law in the District of Columbia,  a spokesperson for the Attorney General for the District of Columbia said in a statement on Wednesday.  Based on the evidence presented by Capitol Police, we charged the only crime that we have jurisdiction to prosecute. Bowman was ordered to appear in D.C. Superior Court on Thursday morning for his arraignment. He told reporters he would pay the fine and the charges could be dropped after three months if he abides by the conditions of his probation. He called the incident a  lapse in judgment.          I am responsible for activating a fire alarm, I will be paying the fine issued, and look forward to these charges being ultimately dropped,  Bowman said in a statement.U.S. Capitol Police said Wednesday that the investigation into the incident is complete and referred the matter to prosecutors. Our agents gathered all the evidence, package Fear Congress Conflicted On U.S.-Cuba Relations
By Bonnie Erbe, Thomas Jefferson Street blogThings aren t only changing at the White House. Harper s Magazine reports there s a whole new tone at the State Department:There are great hopes for Hillary at State. I met last week with a number of career State Department employees and was surprised when one said she was looking forward to the  Glinda Party  next week. I asked her: If Hillary was Glinda, the Good Witch of the South from the Wizard of Oz, did that make Condoleezza Rice the Wicked Witch of the West                                          You re on to it,  she said.Another person pointed out to me that after Rice s arrival in 2005 the tone of official State Department publications changed; they began to praise and glorify Rice.  No prior secretary,  said the  stanley canada 20-year veteran,  did anything like this.         Funny that Condoleezza Rice was as widely disliked by careerists at State as one might have guessed she was. Does the name  Imelda Marcos  ring a bell  Working for Rice as a career government worker must have been tantamount to serving the Philippine shoe queen.When Hillary Clinton delivered her opening speech to State employees as the incoming secretary, she said,  This is a team.  That must have been soothing to hear after years of divisive politicization at State.-- Read more by Bonnie Erbe.-- Read more from the Thomas Jefferson Street blog.            -- Read more about Hillary Cl stanley cup inton.By Bonnie Erbe                                                         stanley becher     

Gmbg RNC s Steele: Dems Thumbed Their Nose at America
Washington mdash; Democratic Rep. Jamaal Bowman pleaded guilty Thursday to a misdemeanor charge forfalsely pulling a fire alarm in a Capitol Hill office building before a last-minute vote to fund the government in September.Bowman will pay a $1,000 fine and serve three months of probation, af stanley water bottle ter which the false fire alarm charge is expected to be dismissed from his record under an agreement with prosecutors.  The $1,000 fine is the ma stanley cup ximum for the misdemeanor charge.  stanley cup He will also write an apology letter.                                         Congressman Bowman was treated like anyone else who violates the law in the District of Columbia,  a spokesperson for the Attorney General for the District of Columbia said in a statement on Wednesday.  Based on the evidence presented by Capitol Police, we charged the only crime that we have jurisdiction to prosecute. Bowman was ordered to appear in D.C. Superior Court on Thursday morning for his arraignment. He told reporters he would pay the fine and the charges could be dropped after three months if he abides by the conditions of his probation. He called the incident a  lapse in judgment.          I am responsible for activating a fire alarm, I will be paying the fine issued, and look forward to these charges being ultimately dropped,  Bowman said in a statement.U.S. Capitol Police said Wednesday that the investigation into the incident is complete and referred the matter to prosecutors. Our agents gathered all the evidence, package Fear Congress Conflicted On U.S.-Cuba Relations
By Bonnie Erbe, Thomas Jefferson Street blogThings aren t only changing at the White House. Harper s Magazine reports there s a whole new tone at the State Department:There are great hopes for Hillary at State. I met last week with a number of career State Department employees and was surprised when one said she was looking forward to the  Glinda Party  next week. I asked her: If Hillary was Glinda, the Good Witch of the South from the Wizard of Oz, did that make Condoleezza Rice the Wicked Witch of the West                                          You re on to it,  she said.Another person pointed out to me that after Rice s arrival in 2005 the tone of official State Department publications changed; they began to praise and glorify Rice.  No prior secretary,  said the  stanley canada 20-year veteran,  did anything like this.         Funny that Condoleezza Rice was as widely disliked by careerists at State as one might have guessed she was. Does the name  Imelda Marcos  ring a bell  Working for Rice as a career government worker must have been tantamount to serving the Philippine shoe queen.When Hillary Clinton delivered her opening speech to State employees as the incoming secretary, she said,  This is a team.  That must have been soothing to hear after years of divisive politicization at State.-- Read more by Bonnie Erbe.-- Read more from the Thomas Jefferson Street blog.            -- Read more about Hillary Cl stanley cup inton.By Bonnie Erbe                                                         stanley becher