Dear President Obama, Please pardon Don Siegelman NOW

[Laura PourMeADrink]

Appeal delayed again until sometime in future.....

Documentary Preview - superb summary of case and it's just astounding....

http://www.gofundme.com/DonSiegelmanFilm

Still following the Siegelman case?

Dana Siegelman
Birmingham, AL

Jan 2, 2015 — Though my father is still in prison, great developments have been made in toward his freedom. We have a mound of evidence now pointing to his innocence and are making a documentary about this wrongful prosecution.

Please join us and watch the preview film, here! http://www.gofundme.com/DonSiegelmanFilm

Get involved by joining our listserv or follow me on Twitter or Facebook. Your support is crucial!

Dana
www.FREE-DON.org
https://www.facebook.com/HonorDon
https://twitter.com/DonSiegelman

[randys1]

1. Agree

[Laura PourMeADrink]

6. kick

[wildbilln864]

2. also agree! & k & r! n/t

[Octafish]

3. Karl Rove and the Bush DoJ all should be in prison.

http://www.democracynow.org/2012/9/11/former_alabama_gov_don_siegelman_speaks

[Laura PourMeADrink]

4. 100% agree....thanks for the link ! Sad, sad pics

[rhett o rick]

5. The Bush Crime Family won't let him. Just sayin' nm

[Snarkoleptic]

7. Don Siegelman: America's Political Prisoner

#t=92

[Laura PourMeADrink]

9. Deleting my ignorant comment nt

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[Snarkoleptic]

13. Thom Hartmann is is the #1 progressive radio talk show host in the US and a DU'er since 2006.

His radio show is heard by 2.75 million people. Here's a link that streams his show weekdays from 11am-2pm CST-
http://chicagosprogressivetalk.com/

Here's his youtube channel-
https://www.youtube.com/user/thomhartmann/videos

[red dog 1]

34. Speaking of Thom Hartmann,

http://www.thomhartmann.com/bigpicture/don-siegelman-americas-political-prisoner


http://www.thomhartmann.com/users/bluedog-294/blog/2013/03/why-did-obama-administration-ask-longer-prison-sentence-gov-don-siege

[JDPriestly]

20. Actually, Thom Hartmann is if not my favorite, way up there on my list of favorites.

I hope you will watch his show more often. He has a lot of interesting guests. Thom Hartmann seems to be a really great guy. I don't know him personally. Never met him, but I really like him.

[truedelphi]

8. Such a sad sad thing -

That a man is in prison for doing whatever, and far, far less than many R's have done.

And his daughter is so faithfully fighting the Powers that Be in the hopes that someday they will be different?

We all know who the real criminals were from that time period - and it sure as heck wasn't Don Siegelman!

[Laura PourMeADrink]

11. This seems like so much of a no-brainer. Why Obama DOJ hasn't

stepped in is a mystery and O needs to pardon him ASAP

[truedelphi]

19. O's situation is simply that of being the

Pleasant soft and well spoken Corporate Spokesperson, who reassures us continually that all is A-okay.

You can't expect a hood ornament to affect the direction of a car. And you can't expect a glorified spokesperson to do anything about the course in direction that this nation is taking. If O had been deemed to have the curiousity and the courage to make the change in direction needed, he would have been eliminated the same way that Kucinich was.

[okaawhatever]

30. Siegelman must request a pardon. He has not done so. this is just more b.s. Obama bashing. Shame

on you. Maybe if you had read comments on any one of the other articles posted with a similar title/subject you would have known that.
In fact if you truly cared about this situation you'd know much more about it, including his new attorney team. You know, the one lead attorney whom Siegelman met when he came down to Alabama to interview Siegelman for a possible pardon.

People like you typically aren't interested in the facts, so I don't even know why I wasted this much time typing.

[PoliticAverse]

33. There is no constitutional requirement that someone must specifically request a presidential pardon.

Richard Nixon, for example, was pardoned by Gerald Ford without either a request or having been convicted of a crime.

Note that current Supreme Court case law implies that a person can actually refuse a presidential pardon.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

41. Wow...the tone of your post is 180 degrees opposite of the way Don

treated people. Which seems so ironic.

Nevertheless, are you implying that Siegelman does not want a pardon?

I have not read that - but, as you say, I am not interested in the facts.

And, since when is a plea for action considered bashing??

[OnyxCollie]

10. K&R for Don Siegelman.

[StevePaulson]

12. Don Siegelman = Political Prisoner

Don won his election for governor, then the republican election scumbags switched 3,000
votes so republican scumbag "won" then they told Don if he complained he would be sorry.

They had Rove's "girl" prosecute him for doing what thousands of politicians have
done.

Everything about this case is as sickening as pretty much everything the Bush
Crime Family touched.

That is why almost 50 former attorneys general asked for this miscarriage of
justice to be addressed.

Obama has done nothing to fix this either.

Can you imagine just going to jail for years for doing absolutely nothing wrong.

Welcome to the Republican run world.

[Doctor_J]

14. We need to get someone in the Koch family to ask

We peons don't get our requests granted.

[lucca18]

15. Free Don Siegelman now!

This just breaks my heart. The complete injustice of it all!
So many people have come to his defense and have written letters.....isn't anyone listening?!

[NBachers]

16. I just donated to the Siegelman documtary this morning- Thanks for spreading this on DU

http://www.gofundme.com/DonSiegelmanFilm

[WillyT]

17. Huge K & R !!! - Thank You !!!

[midnight]

18. I just saw this. I posted a duplicate that I will delete.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

23. No, don't - the more exposure the better. nt

[JDPriestly]

21. President Obama, the prosecutors are delaying the hearings in this case.

Please pardon Don Siegelman now. He deserves to be free.

President Obama, what are you afraid of? Or should I say who are you afraid of?

[Laura PourMeADrink]

24. Who/What IS he afraid of, in your opinion? Is there a possibility that

some actually want a new trial at some point to get all the dirt out? Or, would
he be afraid that if he pardoned him, then it would add fuel to the right's
criticism that he acts outside the law?

[DiverDave]

22. It boggles my mind he was even

indicted. And to let him rot is sickening.
Release him NOW.

[KG]

25. i'm sure the prez has perfectly good reasons for not waving his magic wand....

[samsingh]

26. kick

[heaven05]

27. +1000

[bvar22]

28. This is especially maddening because...

...one of the very first things the Obama Administration (newly appointed Eric Holder)
did was to get corrupt Republican Ted Stevens out of jail and his record expunged.

[rosesaylavee]

29. K&R

[PoliticAverse]

31. DOJ rules for pardons...

http://www.justice.gov/pardon/pardon_instructions.htm

Note that the President may ignore the above rules.

List of Presidential Pardons in history:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_pardoned_or_granted_clemency_by_the_President_of_the_United_States

[DeeDeeNY]

32. K&R

Sickening he is still in jail.

[d_b]

35. I don't know enough about this story

Is he really innocent? If so, wtf is he still doing in jail? I mean he's a former Governor...


Indeed, why doesn't the President pardon?

[MrMickeysMom]

36. Yes...

… I don't know, and

… indeed, why the fuck doesn't President Obama do that?

[trof]

39. Then do some damn research.

It was a political hatchet job.

[PoliticAverse]

37. List of people Obama has pardoned...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_pardoned_by_Barack_Obama

[trof]

38. I live in Alabama. I was born and raised here.

I follow state politics.

Siegelman was railroaded, period.
He was the only truly popular Alabama Democrat in the state at the time.
They (repugs) HAD to get rid of him.

And they did with the help of Carl Rove (court stacking) and Leura Carary (repug DOJ prosecutor) whose husband was head of the state repug party at the time.

Look it up folks.
It's all there.
Obama should pardon him.

He is ruined, financially and politically, anyway.
He will never run for public office again.
His life is in shambles.
Enough, already.

[red dog 1]

40. K&R...Thanks for posting, Laura