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THE PORTEOUS IMPEACHMENT: THE FACTS

With the completion of the trial portion of the Porteous impeachment, the parties are required to submit the proposed findings of fact as established in testimony. Below are the material facts in the trial in a filing that we submitted to the Senate.

The findings are divided by Articles of Impeachment and may help explain why particular witnesses were called as well as lines of questioning.
Porteous Proposed Findings of Fact

119 thoughts on “THE PORTEOUS IMPEACHMENT: THE FACTS”

  1. He may have become an environmentalist working in the gulf for greenpeace….

  4. eniobob
    1, October 7, 2010 at 8:47 pm
    Blouise
    1, October 7, 2010 at 8:26 pm
    mespo,

    “I will raise a silent toast to you when we pour the wine.”

    Don’t forget BIL,cause I know you will never hear the end of it:=))

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    The little green guy is off on a great adventure … I toast to his success!

  7. As my Daddy use to say when I’d come home from college, going on about something I learned in class,( when I didn’t know how to fix a blown fuse): “They didn’t teach you too much up there in college did they?” The vastly different worlds of a farm in Mississippi with a very strong Italian flavor vs. being in the “big city” goin’ to college! That’s why I remain a tad off- center now as a big city criminal defense attorney. Frank

  8. Blouise:

    So you will see the difficulty with communicating with an Italian boy born and raised in the Mississippi delta ( prior to leaving and going to get “educ-a-cated”:

  9. Blouise
    1, October 7, 2010 at 8:26 pm
    mespo,

    “I will raise a silent toast to you when we pour the wine.”

    Don’t forget BIL,cause I know you will never hear the end of it:=))

  13. Frank & Blouise:

    As JT knows, I am of Italian heritage on both sides with each ancestral side originating in the same small town in Italy, just west of Rome. Both groups arrived at Ellis Island within two months of each other in 1918.

    I am aware that JT had enough Italian blood in his veins to champion the law (or rule the known world for 1000 years, whichever) and he has the added benefit of some Irish blood which is both cheery, passionate, thoughtful, and likely antiseptic. Personally, I had to marry into the brogue.

    Ruffino Chianti Classico Riserva Ducale Gold Label 2004!! Blouise, can your house guest visit me too?

  14. Frank,

    Serendipity … I just received a parting gift from a house guest and one of the bottles is a Ruffino Chianti Classico Riserva Ducale Gold Label 2004 … not 2001 but I’m sure we will enjoy it!

  16. Blouise:

    Treat yourself to a bottle of Ruffino Chianti Classico Riserva, Ducale Gold Label 2001 (retail $93.00)[ A red wine from Tuscany, sangiovese grapes ] or Ruffino Chianti Classico Riserva Ducale gold label 2005 (retail $36.99). Salute!

  17. Elaine M.

    My grandfather’s “real” name was Francesco Mascagni [ma-scong-yee]. Changed to “Frank” at Ellis Island and pronunced in America ” Ma-scag-knee”. Only in America can we change immigrants birth names by the employee/public servant doing the paperwork at the turn of the century. My grandfather was proud to be an American and became a naturalized citizen as a grown man.

  19. Frank,

    Opera … now we’re talkin’

    Here is Angela Gheorghiu doing a piece I performed many times and dearly love.

    Vissi d’arte, vissi d’amore,
    non feci mai male ad anima viva!
    (I lived for my art, I lived for love,
    I never did harm to a living soul!)

    “Vissi d’Arte” Tosca’s Aria from Puccini’s Tosca

  20. Frank Mascagni,

    I’m not Italian by blood–just by marriage…and by cooking/eating preferences. Italian cuisine is my favorite! My husband is half Italian. His paternal grandparents came to the US from Naples.

    I bet the “g” in your last name shouldn’t be pronounced with the “hard g” sound you hear in get and go.

    *****
    Blouise,

    I do enjoy a good bottle of Prosecco every now and then.

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