Insurance Law

Biden gives back Scruggs money: does this mean he will be the Veep nominee?

By David Rossmiller

Q: How do you know you've hit rock bottom? 

A:  When even a politician doesn't want your money.  

This story says Delaware Sen. Joe Biden is donating some Scruggs campaign cash to charity, possibly to start offloading links to disreputable figures.  A sign that he's going to be looking to take up residence at the Naval Observatory come next year?  It's actually not just Dickie Dough, but money from the whole Scruggs Gang. 

You might remember this post I did last December on some of Scruggs' political outreach efforts -- the post quotes some news stories and mentions P.L. Blake's "relationship" with Biden.  Doesn't mean much by itself, I suppose, when you are a Senator everyone claims to have a relationship with you.  Heck, even I got yelled at by John McCain back in my reporter days, maybe that means I had a relationship with McCain. But hey, come to think of it, who hasn't been yelled at by McCain -- if you've spent any time at all around him, he's yelled at you.  Maybe there's more to the P.L. Blake-Biden thing,  maybe there's not.  Maybe Blake got $50 million to clip newspaper articles, maybe he didn't.  Just sayin'. 

I wonder, will Jim Hood follow Biden's lead and give back all those campaign contributions he got from Scruggs last year? 

Full post as published by Insurance Coverage Law Blog on August 22, 2008 (boomark / email).