What have we here? Another Republican corruption scandal?
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. -- One week before Election Day, the mayor of Chicopee was arrested Tuesday, charged with extorting $10,000 in campaign contributions.
NewsCenter 5's Jim Boyd reported that neither Chicopee Mayor Richard Goyette nor his lawyer had any comment as they left federal court in Springfield, Mass. But U.S. Attorney Michael Sullivan had plenty to say after Goyette's arraignment about how the 36-year-old city leader leaned heavily on two local businessmen for cash contributions.
"Citizens expect their elected public officials to represent the best interests of all their constituents without expecting cash contributions to do their jobs," Sullivan said. "Goyette sought an illegal campaign contribution with the owners of one of the towing companies that had a towing contract with the city of Chicopee in order to continue that contract for the coming years."
Sullivan said that Goyette also allegedly agreed to help a business owner who was having difficulty working with the Chicopee Office of Community Development.
From top to bottom, the Republican Party has become a vile cesspool of corruption. The Republican Party has become a cancer on our nation. Do we cut it out and allow the country to heal, or do we accept our fate, refuse treatment and wither into fascism?
I love my country too much to remain silent. I love my country too much to be complacent.
There comes a time when we will take no more and should take no more, when we should ask what is good for the whole and not what is good for the individual, when we get past the divisions manufactured by the right and stand together to demand competence above artificial partisanship.
Corruption is not a partisan issue. We should all stand against it. From Karl Rove to Tom DeLay to Richard Goyette, it's time for a change.
-The Oklahoma Hippy
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