The Gantt Report
By Lucius Gantt
President Donald Trump’s recent criminal history includes obstruction of Congress, obstruction of justice, violations of emolument clauses, and more.
His expected, and desired by many, impeachment is focused on alleged extortion, bribery, perjury and other crimes that The Gantt Report predicted a long time ago.
Trump’s behavior is an example of abuse of power. If you don’t know, abuse of power happens in every government in every state, every county and in every city in America and in every city around the world!
OK, Lucius, where are you going with this? I’m going where the brothers go. I’m going to the ghetto, to the trap and I’m going to the neighborhood that I know about and write about.
I was a “fulltime” government lobbyist for about 20 years. Full time for many lobbyists means one meeting a month for about six months, two meetings a month for three months and unlimited meetings when Congress and Legislatures are in session.
When an elected official tells you to meet him or her at an expensive restaurant, it not only means meet it also means, if you’re a lobbyist, pay for it. The same scenario goes for golf, trips, sex, drugs and whatever else elected officials ask for.
It is not unusual for campaign contributors to call judges and ask for someone to be released from custody, get sentence reductions, “country club” jail stays, etc.
Many of the people that you elected to represent you have no problem putting their party before you, helping lobbyists and campaign contributors
more than they help voters in their districts and some politicians, like Trump. use the power of their positions to benefit themselves personally, politically or financially.
It doesn’t bother me one bit that elected officials can “come up” as a result of being in office.
However, I feel embarrassed, shocked and sorry when Black people try to come up in politics, wrongfully, get caught and face jail time because of being greedy and stupid.
Let me give my brothers and sisters in office some advice. If you want a casino, energy company, pari-mutuel facility, media company or some other interest to pay you, tell them to pay you after you leave office.
Why go to jail for a couple of ugly suits, a new designer purse, a car, college admission for a child or a trip to New York City offered by a political devil?
There are Black people in your district that could have made things you like happen if you only loved them as much as your party and your campaign contributors.
I advise my political clients to not take ANYTHING. I tell them to say, “You can’t do anything for me but you can talk people in my district, my community and my district that I respect like _______”.
Black elected officials, you can never get away with what your white colleagues get away with, especially when dealing with white middle men and women.
When a Black and white person are involved in government misconduct, the white can always tell the white prosecutor and white judge that the crime was the Black man’s fault!
More often than not, the white lobbyist or politician that wears a wire will walk away as free as a Jay Bird when you go to the “Pelican Bay” shoe program.
If you run for office in 2020 and you’re not quite sure how to navigate in the political governmental world, don’t take your questions and concerns to the political criminals that seek you use you.
Go to the people in your district, in your family or in your race to help you maximize your political tenure via legal, honorable and acceptable means.
Black abuse of political power is still abuse of power and is always undesirable.
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