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Despite Charges, Renzi Will Stay On
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ShareFebruary 25, 2008 6:31 PM
Thirty-five counts won't keep Rick Renzi down.
The Arizona congressman will not step down in the face of a federal indictment handed down last Friday, he announced in a press release late Monday evening. Prosecutors charged him with money laundering, extortion, fraud and conspiracy stemming from deals involving government land.
"I will not resign and take on the cloak of guilt because I am innocent," the statement read. "My legal team. . .will handle these legal issues while I continue to serve my constituents."
Renzi is one of two congressmen serving while under indictment. Federal prosecutors indicted Rep. William Jefferson, D-La., last June, and he’s still around. He may even try to get re-elected, even as he fights accusations he took half a million dollars in bribes.
The move likely won't be embraced by his party's leadership. House Republican Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio said last Friday that Renzi should “seriously consider” whether he could still do his job in the wake of the indictment. "I expect to meet with Rep. Renzi at the earliest possible opportunity," Boehner said.
A spokesman for Boehner declined to comment publicly on Renzi's statement Monday evening. "We’re going to schedule a face-to-face meeting."
February 25, 2008 | Permalink | User Comments (8)
Will this GOP "culture of corruption" ever end? John Gotti and Al Capone are giving the GOP crooks a thumbs up from Hell!
Posted by: AJ | Feb 25, 2008 7:38:58 PM
hang in there, congressman. the mcCain campaign needs your moral guidance.
Posted by: benjoya | Feb 25, 2008 9:56:10 PM
Rep. Renzi, PLEASE hang in there. You are a constant reminder to voters of the quality representation the GOP provides. This will be very important come the November elections.
Love,
the DNC
Posted by: Helena Montana | Feb 26, 2008 5:01:32 AM
And the GOP wonder why honest people are leaving the party. What a crock of crooks.
Posted by: Clint | Feb 26, 2008 8:19:36 AM
Another Republican thug just like his lying president SLUG BUSH...
Posted by: Joe MUrphy | Feb 26, 2008 2:20:29 PM
It's too easy isn't it? The crooks and the dirt bags that steal from all of America work for the crookeder and the dirtier on the next couple of levels up. The guys that are supposed to protect us from the overt thieves, prosecute and jail them, work for the same upper levels of filth. Sweet deal huh. And to insure compliance by the ordinary smuck on the street, they get the hierarchy of the competing religious groups to put the right spin to the lies they spew, and claim enlightenment by and for an invisible, unapproachable, non responsible tax exempt supreme being. Instead of the political hemorrhoids debating, why can't the American, and the rest of the world's people have the god speakers settle, once and for ever, economic, foreign, and military policy for our planet. In other words let the god's duke it out, save human lives, stop lies and corruption, and end debate on who or what is...???
Posted by: Richard | Feb 26, 2008 4:24:06 PM
Cunningham, Ney, DeLay, Renzi, Doolittle, ad infinitum: RepuThug Crooks all!
Posted by: Francis Hagan | Feb 26, 2008 7:08:49 PM
Bush and Cheney are the two biggest THUG's and war mongers the world has ever known..
Posted by: Joe MUrphy | Feb 26, 2008 10:22:40 PM
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