Sound Politics: A tale of two debts(I): Introduction

November 03, 2006

A tale of two debts(I): Introduction

Articles on yesterday's Dotzauer divorce file hearing from reporters who were in the courtroom: The AP's Gene Johnson and The Herald's Scott North.

There are two curious Maria Cantwell/Ron Dotzauer debt transactions that the divorce records might help explain. The1999(?) loan that Dotzauer reportedly still owes Cantwell, and an account payable that Cantwell's 2000 Senate campaign owed campaign manager Dotzauer. Unfortunately, files won't be opened until after the election, but available facts raise questions whether the transactions might have been structured to help Dotzauer evade paying court-ordered obligations to his ex-wife. Either way, there seems to be a fair amount of back-scratching between a U.S. Senator and a lobbyist with business before the Senator. Voters deserve to know what's going on.

I have a post below about each transaction: The 1999(?) loan and the campaign account payable.

Posted by Stefan Sharkansky at November 03, 2006 12:33 PM | Email This

Comments

1. Stefan,

The WSJ this week reported on many republican and democrat members of congress who used campaign funds for inappropriate things.

Will you go on record, here and now, saying you call upon a full disclosure from every single republican and democrat who did this?

And you'll hold each republican and democrat to the same standard in terms of suggested proper action for them (e.g. resign)?

Until you do, your actions are nothing more than a series of ad hominem attacks...the ugliest of politics...personal muckraking in the personal lives of our elected politicians. Just like the incredible outrage you had when Cheney's homosexual daughter was brought into the election debates.

Posted by: Ed Trimble on November 3, 2006 01:14 PM

2. No Ed -- the difference is that Cantwell is our Senator -- I really don't give a rat's petute about any of the others -- the way she ran her first mud-slinging campaign with attack ads and half-truths (against an honorable man) while not reporting banking side-deals and then relying on a land-slide of suspicious "special ballots" was bad enough -- but to stand accused of ruining a marriage with the high probably of IRS and finance violations is beyond intollerable and could make her a cripple open to "blackmail" for the next six years...she needs to come clean -- Washington State deserves better representation...

Posted by: Lew on November 3, 2006 01:39 PM

3. The good news for all of you is that after Tuesday you'll have Maria to kick around as your Senator for six more years.

Posted by: Steven on November 3, 2006 01:43 PM

4. Personally, I prefer to see Stefan expending his time and energy on this non-issue that nobody cares about, especially inasmuch as Cantwell has the race locked up and all this is irrelevant.

Irrelevant, after all, is what Stefan does best.

Posted by: ivan on November 3, 2006 01:46 PM

5. Stefan
Noticed Jim Caley's name as one of the accountants for Cantwell, didn't he own shares in Ron's business? Is it possible that Cantwell's
account owns part of a lobbist firm?

Posted by: DW on November 3, 2006 02:46 PM

6. Say Fishbait;

Which of the 2 stories Sheriff hairdo told about the Bus driver is true. The one to the minions? or the one to the news.
Either way he is a liar, on par with Richard Pope.

Let's go dig up his domestic violence papers, and get those up here.

Come on you're a real journalist.......NOT.

Posted by: danw on November 3, 2006 03:14 PM

7. Ivan;

Stephan is the Don Quioxte of crooked causes, and tilts at any windmill he can.

Come on Guppy what about a little voter fraud by Coultergeist? Let's get that Felony on her to keep her from voting.

Or are some Felons, like the ones who voted for Rossi okay...... Hypocrite/loser.

So you are part of the 22% of the Jews that don't get it. I am ashamed, that you are a MOT.

Posted by: danw on November 3, 2006 03:19 PM

8. What does my being Jewish have to do with anything on this thread? Beat it, bigot.

Posted by: Stefan Sharkansky on November 3, 2006 03:21 PM

9. Way to go danw - it takes a lot to make iban look (comparatively) smart, but you managed it with panache (well, as much panache as someone with shiite on their lips can).

Thanks pal!

Posted by: alphabet soup on November 3, 2006 03:26 PM

10. Just because I happen to be Jewish as well.
and you are just part of the 22% who are not using your critical think skills. So I am just a bit sad that the stuff you spew and the depths you will sink are a reflection on us all.

Posted by: danw on November 3, 2006 03:32 PM

11. ooops....."Thinking"

Posted by: danw on November 3, 2006 03:33 PM

12. "Irrelevant, after all, is what Stefan does best."

And yet, you're still here, eh, Ivan? Why is that?

Posted by: Hinton on November 3, 2006 04:58 PM

13. "And yet, you're still here, eh, Ivan? Why is that?"

That's because no one else will talk to him (even for cash money)...

Posted by: alphabet soup on November 3, 2006 08:13 PM

14. Actually, Ivan is still here because....well, HIS picture is worth a 1,000 lbs!...errrr, I mean words!
http://www.34dems.org/Photos2006/Aug06-Weiss-Hannigan.jpg
ivan is the fattest of the 2 fat guys!!

Posted by: aaaaaaargh on November 3, 2006 08:30 PM

15. ivan weiss is nothing more than a FAT, UGLY AMERIKKKAN. He is a Union Thug who lives and eats quite well off of extorted Union Dues.
http://www.34dems.org/Photos2006/Aug06-Weiss-Hannigan.jpg
ivan has absolutely no life....obviously.
He is paid by the Union to sit in front of his computer and post garbage and eat Twinkees.

Posted by: dude on November 3, 2006 08:33 PM

16. Hinton @ 12:

I'm here to bring out the best from the ever-dwindling little Sound Politics cult. And I do it every time.

Posted by: ivan on November 3, 2006 10:00 PM