OH...I..SEE!-'Contempt of Congress' for BallPlayers but NOT BlackWell !

[SpaceBuddy008]

House panel warns ballplayers, league to testify on steroids
By Rick Klein, Globe Staff | March 11, 2005

WASHINGTON -- The chairman of the congressional committee seeking to compel Major League Baseball players to testify about steroid use said yesterday that league officials and players subpoenaed by his committee would be held in contempt of Congress if they don't appear Thursday to testify.



Representative Tom Davis, chairman of the House Government Reform Committee, expressed confidence that federal courts will uphold the committee's power to subpoena witnesses, based on the panel's congressional authority to mount investigations on any subject and to oversee national drug policy.

''They know what the rules are," Davis, Republican of Virginia, said of the baseball officials and players. ''It's just ridiculous. . . . Nobody's above the law. You know, this is what Ken Lay said, that we have an internal investigation of our own that we're doing here at Enron, and we're going to find out what's wrong. We think it's more important than that."

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2005/03/11/house_panel_warns_ballplayers_league_to_testify_on_steroids/

Blackwell Refuses to Testify at House Committee Hearing
February 9, 2005, Office of Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones
Excerpt from the article:
Congresswoman Stephanie Tubbs Jones spoke before the House Administration Committee today during their hearing on the Implementation of the Help America Vote Act following the 2004 election. She expressed disappointment that the Secretary of State from her home state of Ohio, Ken Blackwell, chose not to testify today before the Committee.

"I would have thought that would have seen this hearing as an opportunity to further examine the problems that occurred during this past election and work to develop a plan of action for addressing them."
— Rep. Tubbs Jones

"Just as he created tremendous confusion among voters in Cuyahoga County and across the state of Ohio during this past election by issuing bizarre directives and playing partisan politics," stated Rep. Tubbs Jones, "his failure to testify before this committee today shows that he is not committed to improving our election system.

"I would have thought that he would have seen this hearing as an opportunity to further examine the problems that occurred during this past election and work to develop a plan of action for addressing them. The Secretaries of State from key battleground States such as Iowa, New Mexico and Indiana felt it important enough to attend this hearing today. Ken Blackwell owed it the people of Ohio and of this country to be at this hearing today. They deserve the truth!"


http://www.votecobb.org/newsclips/2005/feb/news2005-02-09.php
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CONGRESS WANTS THE bALLpLAYERS TO STEP UP TO THE PLATE, BUT SHOWS OUTRAGEOUS INCONSISTENCY ...WHEN bLACKwELL WAS ASKED TO STEP UP TO THE PLATE AND RESPOND TO TRASHING EQUAL RIGHTS AND THE CIVIL AND HUMAN RIGHT TO VOTE...investigation, he slinked away and congress moved on to other business.


we will never forget and this will not happen again, we have lost the ability to replace OUR government through the ballot box.

People,,,get ...ready...there's-a-Train-a-comin' !!

[underpants]

1. Now seriously which is more important?

That is amazing.

[BlueManDude]

2. 150,000 troops in Iraq and these clowns want to harrass ballplayers

whatever happened to small government?

[tridim]

3. They found out it's harder to steal taxpayer money

with small government. Plus it's just more fun to do the Big Brother thing. There's something about absolute power that's really enticing to these crooks.

[cornermouse]

4. The bottom line

Baseball - evil

Blackwell - one of us.

Solution - Go after baseball, forget Blackwell.

[dzika]

5. If only

Congress could care as much about fair elections as fair baseball games.

Can we appoint our president based on who wins the World Series?

[PrjctGrnlght]

6. It's called political

GRANDSTANDING!!!!! What a joke!

[KerryOn]

7. Speachless......

I think I'm going to take a break from all of this.

I'm sick of watching the news. Sick of CNN, sick of KO, sick of Air America, sick of the idiots running this country, and the idiots that support them.

A fella can only take so much. Enough is enough!
If I keep listening to everything, I fear that I may turn into one of the crazy guys that go on shooting rampages.

Iraq, Iran, North Korea, Iraq War, Afghanistan, Syria/Libya, the National dept, Social Security, the stock market, China/Taiwan, US$/euro/yen, outsourcing, gold prices, the economy, inflation, gas prices, corporate fraud, illegal immigration, Wall Mart, Home Depot, terrorism, anthrax, terror alert levels, exit polls, Doebold, Blackwell, abortion, same sex marriage, evangelicals, and now baseball and steroids. (Feel free to add what I've missed.)

Enough!!!! My brain is overloaded with Bush and Co's MESS!
Time for a pernement vacation to Canada!