Another “error” by McDonnell on his annual financial disclosures should be a political TKO

Another “error” made by Gov. Bob McDonnell on his 2011 and 2012 financial disclosure forms was recently uncovered. In this latest “oops” affair, it appears that Gov. McDonnell misrepresented his wife’s, Maureen McDonnell, role with the Frances G. and James W. McGlothlin Foundation.

On his annual financial disclosure forms for 2011 and 2012, McDonnell stated that his wife performed the role of paid trustee for the Frances G. and James W. McGlothlin Foundation. Unfortunately for McDonnell, James McGlothlin has no such recollection.

Instead, McGlothin stated that his family foundation asked Maureen McDonnell to become an adviser to the Frances G. and James W. McGlothlin Foundation and the United Co., a real estate and natural resources company based out of Bristol, Virginia whose website is almost as bad as its business is for the health and welfare of Virginians (cough, cough).

As The Washington Post pointed out, by reporting that his wife was on the McGlothlin Foundation board, Bob McDonnell didn’t have to disclosure how much his wife was paid. And my fellow Virginians, if Bob McDonnell is engaging in this kind of educated backdoor disclosure scheme, there is almost certainly more where this came from among the rustic circles of Virginia’s Republican Party (and I’m sure the Democratic Party, as well), not to mention McDonnell himself.

Not surprisingly, Virginia’s governor, who is either a criminal, incompetent, or both, declined to comment about this latest “error” on his annual disclosure forms. In our bastion state of progressivism, elected officials MUST legally disclose any employer that pays their spouses at least $10,000 a year.

According to The Washington Post, “By listing it as a paid trusteeship instead, he did not have to provide any information about the size of her compensation.”

So while thousands of Virginians have struggled over the course of McDonnell’s tenure as governor to find a job or a livable wage (by American standards), Maureen McDonnell was paid $36,000 in 2012 merely because she is the wife of a sitting governor. It’s good to be the king (and queen)!

I don’t wish for anyone, even Ken Cuccinelli, to be publicly humiliated. But when an elected official so egregiously affronts the laws of our state and its norms, it not only throws a big middle finger in the face of hard working and law-abiding Virginians, it also undermines the faith that many Virginian’s may have had in their system of government.

As I’ve said before, this may only be the tip of the iceberg for McDonnell. Given the picture that has been painted so far, McDonnell and his wife immersed themselves in a world of privilege and luxury paid for by wealthy Virginians who have business interests waiting to be massaged by the executive branch.

As something of an aside, all of these “gifts” make one wonder how much a company like Virginia Uranium Inc., with so much on the line during the last session of the General Assembly, gave to his highness, Bob McDonnell, to lead them to the promise land of boundless uranium ore?

Regardless of what we find out on that front, there’s no question now that McDonnell’s political career has just hit a nuclear meltdown!