#GOP candidate: "Ethics reform begins with me"
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Mercedes dealer
By Raw Story
Tuesday, December 15th, 2009 -- 9:29 am
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deleica holt GOP candidate accused of stealing from comedians, hotel,
movie theater, Mercedes dealerThe 48-year-old Delecia Holt sounded like a
refreshing change in a race to replace a disgraced Republican congressman
who plead guilty to accepting bribes in 2006.
"Ethics reform begins with me," she told a Republican luncheon that year.
"I am the only candidate that has pledged not to accept a salary for the
first year of service while in Congress."
Turns out Holt has an ethics scandal of her own -- or, really, quite a
few.
Holt, who has run for Congress as a Republican three times since 2005
(and garnered fewer than a thousand votes), stands accused of passing bad
checks on myriad occasions. She's been in jail since being arrested last
October, unable to post her $56,000 bail. She's also allegedly gone
through four court-appointed public defenders since her arrest, according
to the Orange County Register, which detailed the charges Monday.
Just how many bad checks?
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According to the charges prepared by the District Attorney, Holt wrote
bogus checks to a hotel, four comedians, a phone company, a movie theater
and a Mercedes Benz dealer.
Some of the highlights from the Register:
July 2005: Holt is accused of going to a Mercedes Benz dealership in
Orange County and writing a bad check for just under $13,000 as a down
payment for a $32,000 car. She is accused of leaving the dealer lot in
the car and never making any legitimate payments for the vehicle. Holt's
account, from which the $13,000 down payment check was written, had
insufficient funds and the dealership never received any monthly
payments...
July-September 2007: Holt is accused of defrauding the Comfort Suites
in Lake Forest out of $5,000. She is accused of living at the Comfort
Suites and writing three separate checks with insufficient funds over the
course of three months. She is accused of fleeing the hotel after failing
to make any legitimate payments for her bill...
October 2007: Holt is accused of hosting a comedy night fundraiser at
a Dana Point hotel under the pretense of raising money for Habitat for
Humanity. The failed event did not raise any money. Holt is accused of
writing a check for $15,000 to the hotel from a personal account to cover
the cost of the event. She is accused of writing a check to the four
comedians totaling $2,000. She is accused of intentionally writing the
checks knowing her account had insufficient funds. The checks were
declined when the victims attempted to deposit them. She is accused of
failing to pay the photographer and videographer.
Holt is also accused of opening multiple Sprint phone lines and not
paying her bills, which totaled $5,400, and of writing a bad check for
$3,000 to Regal Cinemas for an ad she ran before movies to promote her
realty business -- and committing welfare fraud in the amount of $900.
liberal
wrote:
Sounds like B1ackwater's dream candidate.
lab~rat >:-)
<de...@dead.com> puked:
>GOP candidate accused of stealing from comedians, hotel, movie theater,
>Mercedes dealer
>
>http://tinyurl.com/y9zjn66
>
>By Raw Story
>Tuesday, December 15th, 2009 -- 9:29 am
>Share on Facebook Stumble This!
>
>deleica holt GOP candidate accused of stealing from comedians, hotel,
>movie theater, Mercedes dealerThe 48-year-old Delecia Holt sounded like a
>refreshing change in a race to replace a disgraced Republican congressman
>who plead guilty to accepting bribes in 2006.
I'm sure that at the end of the day it will all play out that she's
innocent and all of this is just a racist left wing witch hunt.
--
lab~rat >:-)
Do you want polite or do you want sincere?
lab~rat >:-)
<de...@dead.com> puked:
>GOP candidate accused of stealing from comedians, hotel, movie theater,
>Mercedes dealer
>
>http://tinyurl.com/y9zjn66
>
>By Raw Story
>Tuesday, December 15th, 2009 -- 9:29 am
>Share on Facebook Stumble This!
>
>deleica holt GOP candidate accused of stealing from comedians, hotel,
>movie theater, Mercedes dealerThe 48-year-old Delecia Holt sounded like a
>refreshing change in a race to replace a disgraced Republican congressman
>who plead guilty to accepting bribes in 2006.
>
>"Ethics reform begins with me," she told a Republican luncheon that year.
>"I am the only candidate that has pledged not to accept a salary for the
>first year of service while in Congress."
After reading this again, it's pretty hilarious. A year earlier she's
scribbling out bad checks, then she runs on the fact that she wouldn't
take a salary for the first year.
I guess she looked at her checkbook, saw she still had checks, and
figured she was good...
5295 Dead, 428 since 1/20/09
wrote:
Yeah, the woman sounds like a nut, and judging from her performance in
elections, the voters know it. But, combined with her sordid
finances, the campaign slogan was an irresistable subject header.
5295 Dead, 428 since 1/20/09
wrote:
>On Tue, 15 Dec 2009 09:22:59 -0600, "5295 Dead, 428 since 1/20/09"
Yeah, anyone can bounce a check for $15,000.
lab~rat >:-)
<ze...@finestplanet.com> puked:
LOL She was so fucked up, she ran for office under the wrong party...