Election in two days and Akagi scandals still coming to light …
Posted by Matt Dioguardi on July 27th, 2007
Could they DPJ ask for anything more?
Another fund scandal involving Akagi comes to light
Farm minister Norihiko Agaki, who has been under fire over a political fund scandal, doubly allocated some 200,000 yen of mail costs by attaching photocopies of two receipts to funds reports of his two political organizations, electoral council documents showed Friday …
July 28th, 2007 at 1:35 pm
Attaching the same receipts to the reports for two different organizations to get 200,000 - or less than 10% of his monthly Diet member’s salary.
Being a crook is one thing, being a dimwitted petty crook is almost worse in Akagi’s case. I’d like to be the first to publicly call fir him to continue his predecessor’s work as thoroughly as possible and at his earliest possible convenience.
And how stupid could Abe possibly be? Did he really think this stuff wasn’t going to come to light? Did he think it would somehow be OK? Did he not do any digging before appointing Akagi?
Did Akagi think no one would find out? (Probably. He’s stupid enough to send the same receipts in twice and expect not to get caught, even as he fills the position of Matsuoka, who committed suicide amid hounding misreporting of political fund expenses.)
Most of all, though, the thing I will never understand is, where is the outraged public? Where are the people saying, “No more”?
July 28th, 2007 at 4:28 pm
Let’s hope there is a little bit of outrage tomorrow when everyone goes to the polls.
July 28th, 2007 at 10:32 pm
It’s all we can do.
I saw pretty good attendance at last minute rallies in Shinjuku and Nakano this evening, so I can only hope that translates to greater voter turnout and the incorporation of the oft-stated desire for change.