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[quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous] Yes, I know. You also said that the Republicans had nothing to gain by giving federal employees backpay, and that we should wait for their true motives to reveal themselves before we counted our chickens. And then we all got backpay. Machen has plenty of people to delegate portions of work of what must be one of his most important cases. The USAO also has access to DOJ's Federal Programs Branch, and those attorneys are not be messed with. They get done done. Machen had to suspect that Gray would run for reelection if not indicted by this time. He had to know what a disservice it would be to the public to allow it to go this far without an indictment. You can theorize or try to guess what people's ulterior motives may be until the sun goes down, comes up, and goes down again. I got my backpay, and Gray's not being indicted.[/quote] I'm not sure why you want to discuss an unrelated topic, but apparently you slept through the government shutdown and did not realize that the motives of the Republicans became very clear: to split small spending plans off from the main CR and use them as wedges against the Democrats. That's the same reason the House passed funding for DC. But, back to the topic of this thread, the USAO announced as recently as yesterday that their investigation continues. Do you believe that Jeff Thompson will not be indicted? He has not been indicted to date. Yet, the USAO must have a lot more on him than on Gray. So, saying that a lack of an indictment at this time means there will not be an indictment doesn't make a lot of sense. Also, remember what happened with Michael Brown. He ran for Council despite knowing he was likely to be charged with a felony. The USAO quietly persuaded him to withdraw and Brown was indicted after the election. We might not be at the "quite persuasion" stage of the Gray investigation yet. [/quote] Re: Your first point. You made up a motive after the fact. Anyone can do that. I was trying to show by example that you always want to read into things. I could hand you a cigar and you'd question my motives. But sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. Re: Investigations always remain open, at least until that statute of limitations has run, and sometimes afterwards. For the USAO to say that their investigation continues is no more important than they're saying they are going to eat lunch. Unlike you, I don't know if Jeff Thompson will be indicted. I have no crystal ball. I do know that Jeff Thompson is not running for Mayor. So there is not the same political pressure to shit or get off the pot. As for the Michael Brown analogy - - #fail. Brown was some piddly CM; Gray is the Mayor. And I don't think it would take much to trigger the "quiet persuasion" stage as to Gray. All it would take is one call, "Hello, Mr. Mayor, it's Ron Machen. How are you today. I'm fine, thanks. I just wanted to let you know that our investigation of you remains very, very active, and we're getting closer by the day to taking action. You may want to consider this in deciding whether to run for a second term. Have a good day." Do you think that if Gray received such a call, he would have run again? Do you doubt for one second that, before accepting the job of campaign manager, Chuck Thies was not smart enough to explore precisely this question? Do you think the Mayor would have told a direct lie to Chuck Thies and live long enough to apologize for it?[/quote]
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