So now it’s bribery, is it? Well, why not? Is it so hard to believe that a throw-the-book-at-’em, law and order guy may have stuck his foot in it, or, god forbid, flip-flopped on his "hang ’em high" stance when the law came after one of his? Consider the case of Duke’s son, whose lifestyle choices are somewhat at odds with dad’s suggestions of how to deal with the drug problem:
Randall Todd Cunningham: The son of Duke "Death Penalty for Drug Kingpins" Cunningham (R-Calif.) was convicted for possession of 400 pounds of marijuana. In court, the congressman cried and pleaded for mercy, explaining that his son "has a good heart. He works hard. He’s expressed to me he wants to go back to school." While out on bail, the hardworking son tested positive for cocaine use three times; when an officer tried to apprehend him following the third positive test, Randy hurled himself out a window and broke his leg. Still, the congressman -- who has denounced Clinton’s "soft-on-crime liberal judges" and railed against "reduced mandatory-minimum sentences for drug trafficking" -- won for his son the mercy denied so many others. Randy got 30 months -- half the federal "mandatory" minimum sentence.
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