Guilty!

Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell

After a trial in Federal court, the ex-governor of Virginia, Bob McDonnell, was found guilty of some charges and now faces jail time for doing  stuff while he was governor of Virginia.  Most female voters in Virginia feel sorry for his wife. Women loved their governor.  Even after he was for a vagina probing law because he thought it would help him get nominated for Vice President on the GOP ticket.  But he looked like the kind of a guy a woman would be safe with. Nobody thought he wasn't man enough to protect his wife or that he would actually throw her under a bus. To me it isn't a question of his morality, or his worse ethics, or even his honesty.  To me it was and is just disgusting. He turned down a deal where he could have taken a plea that would have resulted in a few months of community service for  him and all charges against his wife would be dropped.  He turned it down. So much for his gallantry.  Now they both face possible jail time.  All the shenanigans he was found guilty of doing didn't amount to much more than a coupla hundred thousand dollars. Most governors can surreptitiously  pocket more than that from their campaign contributions.


Yes sir. Yes sir. Yes sir. Yes sir. Yes sir. Mr. Scott. 

However, if McDonnell was the governor of Florida, he would be considered a piker.  The Florida governor is estimated to be worth hundreds of millions of dollars and he was on his way to challenging Bernie Madoff's record for doing fraud stuff.  Where did all that stolen money come from?  M/M.  Mostly it came from your taxes  via fraud against Medicare and Medicaid by the company he  built,  'from scratch' to be a conglomerate of many more than 75 hospitals.  Everyone of them was fined for stealing from Medicare and Medicaid. A lot of officials of his hospitals went to jail.  The FBI investigation of the company uncovered all kinds of felonious stuff, including double booking, etc.(Now how could a CEO not know that?)  This caused the board of directors to throw Scott out. Without the investigation, no way they could get the  votes needed to bounce him.  HE was the CEO.   HE was the head honcho.  HE called the shots!!!  Like Ed Whitacre says, the CEO calls the shots and take full responsibility for them.  And the shots he called resulted in jail time for many officers of his companies, but not for him.  He got away with it. That  happens.

Used Car Salesman? Nope.

Here's another question, how is he going to replenish his coffers?  Will he wait till after his second term is over?  One thing I feel certain of, he is going to replace the money he spent to become governor.. And remember this; his training background is building companies who are adept in stealing large amounts of money from government programs meant to help elderly citizens and low income people.
Woe to Medicaid and Medicare.  Medical treatments are getting better (and more expensive) meaning seniors are living longer and will depend on more health care.  Republicans, like Paul Ryan and his ilk, are trying to cut their funding!!  And Governor Rick Scott, after his new term is over, is looming on the horizon.  Woe! Woe! Woe!