Republican Pennsylvania State Representative Jeff Habay from the Pittsburgh area gets a complaint from a constituent about his PAC. The Commonwealth Court is asked to investigate. What's a fine upstanding five-term Republican legislator to do?
Fake an anthrax mailing from the guy.
State Rep. Jeffrey E. Habay of Shaler was charged today for allegedly lying about a white powder he said he received in the mail from a contituent who was critical of him.
Allegheny County authorities charged Habay, 38, with facsimile weapons of mass destruction, falsely incriminating another and fictious reports for claiming in May that he received an envelope in his home that contained a suspicious white powder.
U.S. Postal Service investigators had said the powder was harmless.
In court documents, authorities claim Habay said the package came from George Radich, a constituent who along with four others asked Commonwealth Court to conduct an audit of Habay's political action committee, the Friends of Jeff Habay.
Update: Here's a more extensive
article from the Post-Gazette today.
He's also done a ton of other crazy shit. Young republicans at their best. A great pic on the flip side. Pictures are worth a thousand words - take a look at this mouthbreather:
Radich had insisted the powder was not there when he mailed the letter and said he did not try to hide his identity when mailing it. Postal officials said Radich paid for the mailing with a credit card, an unusual thing to do if someone had put the powder in the envelope.
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After the arraignment, Habay said he had no plans to resign and would do everything he could to fight the charges.
The State Ethics Commission ordered Habay, a five-term Republican legislator, to pay nearly $13,000 in restitution and referred the case to state prosecutors, who filed the felony charges.
Wow. These guys are supposed to make us safer? This is simply another example that Republicans will do anything to serve themselves. When will the public wake up from their sleep, and start putting all of these pieces together? Republicans are simply not good for America.