You Will Anyway: Funeralgate

Friday, January 30, 2004

Funeralgate

Digging up the bodies. Literally sometimes.

Remember the funeral director that was dumping bodies out in the woods?

[W] Bush's connection to the story is that he was subpoenaed in 1999 but refused to testify* in a lawsuit by an ousted Texas state employee as to what his involvement was in halting an investigation into SCI's embalming practices, among other things.

This was a big Texas scandal for our president at the time, but as you will learn from this Washington Post article dated August 31, 1999, a Texas judge put everything right for then-governor Bush, just in time to campaign for the Presidency.

Taxpayers of the state of Texas and SCI settled the lawsuit for $210,000 on November 9, 2001, weeks before the gruesome discovery made at two cemeteries in Florida caught the brief attention of the media. article

There's another little line in this article that bothers me...

George W. Bush is directly linked to this scandal (as is current FEMA director Joe Allbaugh, GW's Chief of Staff while governor of Texas).

That last part. The the director of FEMA is a buddy of Double-face.

*"This is politics. I spent at most 20 seconds on the subject. And that's why, every single time someone has a lawsuit you want your governor being drug through the courts? The answer is no," Bush said.

Speaking of drugs, Dufus, I suppose you won't talk about that either, huh?

Being dragged, Georgie. And, for you, yes. I think it's high time you got dragged through the courts.

And don't they just turn up dead so often around Georgie's doin's....

A central figure in an investigation into the desecration of graves at two Florida Jewish cemeteries is dead of an apparent suicide, police said Thursday. article

More bodies.

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