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Senator Ward Crutchfield & Others Arrested in "Tennessee Waltz"
Richard Simms

May 26,2005
Four members of the Tennessee Legislature were arrested this morning in Nashville on conspiracy and extortion charges... including Hamilton County Senator Ward Crutchield (D), Rep. Chris Newton (R) from Polk County, and Charles Love, Hamilton County School Board member.
The arrests came after the FBI set up a dummy company that allegedly paid the legislators and others in an effort to influence legislation. The operation was called "Tennessee Waltz."
Crutchfield's law partner, Bill Pope, said in a telephone interview from Crutchfield's office in Nashville that the Senator was arrested as he headed to the state Capitol this morning.
One government official said in a news conference today, "government is not for sale."
Depend on NewsChannel 9 for all the latest details on this developing story.

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Huh.

Hope they had a lot of those stings going on -- I don't think for a moment that it's confined to Tennessee.

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I was dancin' with my darlin' to the Tennessee Waltz
When an old friend I happened to see
I introduced her to my loved one
And while they were dancin'
My friend stole my sweetheart from me

How very appropriate . . .

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"Government is not for sale"

Somebody help me, I'm laughing too much!

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We do have the best government money can buy . . . or rather, wealthy Americans do . . .

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Senator Ward Crutchield (D), Rep. Chris Newton (R) from Polk County

Wow!

Two out of two polictical parties agree that money can buy you love!

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A side note to this is... Charles Love is declaring bankruptcy for debts amounting to $275,000....$49,000 of which is back taxes.

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Oh god . . . what if . . . i hate even to think it . . . he has to do his own laundry ? ! ? ! ?

http://instagiber.net/smiliesdotcom/cwm/3dlil/eek13.gif

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Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.

-- H L Mencken

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Setanta wrote:

Oh god . . . what if . . . i hate even to think it . . . he has to do his own laundry ? ! ? ! ?

Oh, the illegal immigrant house worker was doing that for spare change.

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Yeah, good point . . . now he may have to dock her wages for the health insurance he wasn't providing . . .

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Got bad news for Charles Love. Bankruptcy doesn't protect from back taxes or child support.

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I wish they had the balls to clean up NJ and the Daley State.

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Breaking: State legislators busted in FBI sting.

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