Al French Smearboat update from Willamette Week

[swag]

How the deal went down:

http://www.wweek.com/story.php?story=5471

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The spectacle of a local prosecutor pooh-poohing Kerry's medals on hearsay evidence sent shudders of outrage through local veterans. Protesters descended on Clackamas County Courthouse, demanding French's resignation. The Oregon State Bar received dozens of complaints. Democrats fomented much of this outrage. But French's undoing came courtesy of a fellow Republican nursing an old resentment.

Terri Gustafson, once the Clackamas County district attorney, was voted out of office in 2000 after being accused of disobeying a judge's orders to destroy files relating to a juvenile suspect. She was eventually disbarred--thanks in part to Al French, an office rival who testified against her during disciplinary proceedings.

"I don't like Al French very much," Gustafson told WW.

When Gustafson heard about French's star turn in the Swift boat ads, she emailed an Oregonian reporter a juicy tip: French lied to his former boss, ex-DA Jim O'Leary, about an affair with a secretary in his office.


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[Qutzupalotl]

1. I guess it's better than nothing,

but you'd think good old-fashioned PERJURY would still count for something.

[aquart]

2. What goes around...

Or is this more related to the law of unintended consequences?

Or that thing about glass houses?

[Ducks In A Row]

3. revenge is sw-e-e-e-t

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

4. I want to say this with all sincerity:

Fuck Al French. Hard, deep and runnin'. Long time, too.

Get thee to a patent practice, Al. It's all you are good for, now.

[depakid]

5. I had a funny feeling that Gustafson might have been involved

A couple of my coleagues made the suggestion over some beers last week that there was a lot of bad blood between the two and that she may have taken the swift boat opportunity to take a little payback.

btw: She's not a very nice person- nor was she well regarded in the legal community before being disbarred. The two deserve each other, IMHO.