Former, not current Davidson County prosecutor, making the offer regarding someone running for a Superior Court judge seat. Yes, the offer was texted (texted? dang stupid.) to the spouse of the person running who was an elected official, but the elected official spouse was not being asked to perform any action herself.
Are they applicable to Federal offices? Well minimally there are state laws. In addition to the two above here’s Utah’s
And Alabama’s specifying that it applies to candidates as well as elected oficials. (See c.2.)
Pretty sure we could find more.
I do not know if there is or is not an explicit Federal version of those laws or if the state laws apply to Federal races within their borders (which would include of course the Presidency). Maybe there is no explicit Federal law and the applicability of the states’ laws to Federal elections has not been tested yet.
But we can state, minimally, that being paid to bow out of an election, and paying in order to get someone to bow out of an election, are considered bribery, a felony, in many states.
Say what??? Since when have you crossed over to the dark side and become a Republican!?
I thought things like style and class were anathema to people of your ideology. You know, like Derleth said: “classist”, and all that crap. Heaven forbid anybody should have anything like class, manners or style these days. They harken back to…wait for it…the 50s! And even worse, they’re the product of privilege and a means of keeping the lower classes in their place. Or something.
I mean, isn’t that why everybody dresses like shit and blasts vulgar music these days? You’d better recant immediately or they’re going to take away your lib card and assail your worthiness as a human being. The forces of political correctness have been known to turn on other liberals for far less egregious offenses than this.
But I digress…
Anyway, The Donald has never gone in for social niceties or had any desire to participate in the world of socialites. This was one of the main areas of conflict between him and Ivana, who very much desired to live the life of the socialite.
No mention of a contract. Now I don’t see how this would apply to Trump before the convention but once he’s the nominee I guess you could stretch it to fit. I never really intended to apply it though, I was mostly just disagreeing with "all bribes are to government officials ".
Perhaps hoping to bolster his foreign policy credentials, Donald Trump will soon be traveling to Scotland. No plans to meet with U.K. P.M. David Cameron with whom Trump says he’s “not going to have a very good relationship”. His trip is to the Trump Turnberry Resort, to celebrate the re-opening of the Ailsa golf course.
You are really struggling, here.
You think that comparing an advertisement for rich people’s clothing against a paparazzi snapshot of a couple who are out shopping makes some serious case for how “classy” a period is? (And if you think that the ad demonstrates how people really looked in the “conservative” era, you would seem to have deliberately warped your memory to recall something that never really occurred. Clothing styles have relaxed over the years, (although I no longer see women in housecoats with their hair up in curlers at the grocery store the way I did in the '50s and '60s), but that relaxation has not harmed anyone.) Your desire for a Borg-like conformity is not “classy,” it is simply silly.
I really have to thank you for proving my point in the bluntest possible fashion.
You’re taking an aspirational image and juxtaposing it with a real one. You’re saying, implicitly, that your “classy” lifestyle was a dream and that “vulgarity” is reality, that the latter is attainable and the former is not. That’s actually farther than I went; I merely said that the “classy”/“vulgar” line represented an economic class divide, originally and unconsciously if not in denotational modern usage.
In short, I said that the line was partially drawn by the difference between being rich and being poor. You imply that the line is drawn between fantasy and reality.
Most people present their simulacra at bit more subtly than that. You, OTOH, take Baudrillard and shove glossy magazines down his throat.
It doesn’t help that his Trashy Liberals illustration is two of the most beautiful people walking the planet. Wouldn’t it be a nightmare if everyone looked like Joe Mangianello and Sofia Vergara?
