Schumer to VA Bar: Release Allen's Records

By: PM
Published On: 10/30/2006 2:52:30 PM

Well, this is interesting.  Wonder if the MSM papers will carry it.

VA-SEN: Schumer Demanding Release Of Allen's Bar Application -- Will Dailies Cover It?

By Greg Sargent

Okay, so now DSCC chief Chuck Schumer is demanding the release of GOP Senator George Allen's Bar Application. Schumer has sent a letter to the Virginia State Bar, asking it to release the records and noting that Allen's name has made two appearances in court records which he has refused to account for. Schumer points out that Allen may have been required to address the court-records appearances on his application, and notes that release of the record "may be the only way Virginians can learn the truth" about this. So, a question. Both the Times and the Washington Post devoted extensive coverage to Allen's attack on Dem Jim Webb's novels, deeming it newsworthy simply because Allen raised the issue. Now that a U.S. Senator and Dem party leader has raised the issue of the court records, when will the Times and Post write about it?


This picture from the Vietnam War is a tribute to Jim Webb, An American Hero

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Comments



Bar Application (Ken C. - 10/30/2006 5:30:50 PM)
There is no "may" have been required to disclose to the equation, unless they were so lax in 74' or whenever it was that Allen applied that they didn't bother to ask, he was REQUIRED to disclose all details. I find it difficult to believe that they were so lax back then they would not have required full disclosure.

Full disclosure was the case in 1985 when I turned in my application.  At that time (1985) you had to account for every arrest, even every "moving" vehicle violation, no matter if it was as an adult or juvenile, any lawsuits in which you were a plaintiff or a defendant, full disclosure of any type of contact with the court system, including civil matters.  In short, you had to divulge everything, no matter how minor! If for some reason Allen did not care to fully disclose these matters he will likely have big trouble with the state bar.  He might actually need to get a job after next Tuesday! 



I remember having to provide (Catzmaw - 10/30/2006 8:48:16 PM)
letters certifying that I was of good character, and I had to go through an interview process.  Waited for hours because the panelists (there were three of them) got to chatting with my predecessor.  They spent about 3 minutes on me.


Sigh... (libra - 10/31/2006 1:09:00 AM)
I wish DSCC had woken up a tad earlier... Like... 2 weeks ago, when the story first surfaced, and Allen's campaign was saying that one warrant was for for a parking ticket and the other for fishing without license. With 7 days to go, they're gonna stall way past election, when the outcome won't matter.

If you read the *comments* on that same (Greg Sargent) piece (TPMCafe/ElectionCentral), some of the readers did some digging and brought up all kinds of pertinent laws, including what the requirements for admission to the VA Bar Association are/were.

*Had* DSCC acted right away, they still might not have got any answers, but they'd have had the time to cobble up an ad using the Repub favorite (albeit used under entirely different circumstances  ):"you shouldn't mind scrutiny if you have nothing to hide" to suggest that Allen had plenty to hide.

We have a legend in Poland, about a medieval knight who's asleep under our highest mountain (one of the profiles of the mountain does, indeed, look very much like a head of an armored knight),. When the time comes... When Poland is in dire need... The knight will wake up and lead his army to help. It's been over a 1000yrs now (Poland was "established" in 966), we've had many a "dire need" during that time, and the SOB is *still* snoring... Just like DSCC.

Barf.