FORMER VIRGINIA GOVERNOR McDONNELL CONVICTED OF CORRUPTION; ANNOUNCES BID FOR GOP PRESIDENTIAL NOMINATION

by R J Shulman

RICHMOND, Virginia – (PTSD News Service) – Former Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell was found guilty of 11 counts of corruption and bribery by a federal grand jury.  Almost immediately, he announced that he is throwing his hat in the ring for the Republican presidential nomination to run in 2016.

“Heck, if Rick Perry’s mere indictment for abuse of power propelled him into the limelight and has given him traction in his bid for the presidency,” McDonnel said,  “can you imagine what my actual conviction can do for me?”  McDonnell said that Jesus has forgiven him, even if his wife, also convicted on 9 counts of corruption, hasn’t, and that informed Americans know that a vote for him is a vote against the political tyranny of Barack Obama and a vote for the Bible instead of the Koran.

The news of Perry’s indictment and now McDonnell’s conviction has thrown presidential hopeful Chris Christie from the spotlight.  “If my bridge scandal does not soon turn into a conviction,” Christie said, “my presidential ambitions may be sunk and if so, I may have to make McDonnell and Perry offers that they can’t refuse.”

McDonnell vowed that he would fight his corruption conviction by raising funds from taking all the donations he can from lobbyists who want favors from him when he is president.