Jaymes Song’s AP story about Bob Awana’s resignations was getting reprinted in publications across the country yesterday. This can’t be good news for Lingle, who is looking ahead to a future campaign.
The questions immediately arise: What did the governor know and when did she know it? Awana has said that he told the governor at the beginning of the blackmail investigation, which would have been in late 2005 or before. Lingle hasn’t answered questions about the affair or how she responded to the information at that time.
I noted that you can find a lot of relatively trial packaged in the governor’s press releases, but the statement she released yesterday announcing Awana’s resignation doesn’t seem to appear on the governor’s web site.
I reported yesterday that the defendant in the Awana blackmail case, Rajdatta Patkar, is now expected to change his plea to guilty during a hearing next week.
The Advertiser reports: “A hearing on the motion before federal Judge Michael Seabright is scheduled for Friday.”
The Star-Bulletin says: “He originally pleaded not guilty but is now expected to change his plea to guilty on Thursday.”
Richard Borreca’s story in the Bulletin has it right. The hearing was originally scheduled for Friday morning but was quickly moved up to Thursday. Here’s how it appeared in the court docket.
Although I posted news of the plea change yesterday, I also had the day wrong after somehow getting in my brain that the 4th falls on Tuesday, putting the hearing on Wednesday. Not so. That’s why calendars were invented, to avoid such errors. I perhaps should have consulted one.
It’s been a while since I did a food entry, so why not today?
This meal began as an attempt to make something out of a big mistake. The mistake was somehow putting a container of cottage cheese into the freezer. Hint: Not a good idea. The recovery was to use the unfrozen and re-textured cottage cheese as the base for a mix used to fill large pasta shells, which were then covered with a red sauce and baked. The good news is that it worked out very well and will go on the list for future refinement. You can click on the photo for more.
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1 charles // Jun 30, 2007 at 7:47 am
You have hit the nail on the head. The ‘what’ and ‘when’ of it all.
Remember the Galen Fox scandal? After the verdict, Lingle said she knew when Fox was charged with the crime but nothing was said until the verdict well over ten months after the arrest.
One wonders what would have been divulged if Fox had been found innocent.
2 LeeAnn // Jun 30, 2007 at 9:26 am
Dinner looks great and who cares about politics! I think most of them spend all of their time covering up something….needless to say I do not have a high opinion of any politican.
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