{"id":187,"date":"2007-06-18T21:33:44","date_gmt":"2007-06-19T02:33:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/?p=187"},"modified":"2007-06-18T21:33:44","modified_gmt":"2007-06-19T02:33:44","slug":"the-definition-of-hubris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/?p=187","title":{"rendered":"The definition of hubris"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2007\/06\/18\/griles-community-service\/\">Thinkprogress<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In March, J. Steven Griles, formerly the no. 2 official at the Interior Department, pleaded guilty to \u201clying to the Senate about his relationship with convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff.\u201d Griles asked the lobbyist \u201cfor many favors for close female friends and in exchange helped Abramoff\u2019s clients at the government agency.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As part of Griles\u2019s plea, he is supposed to receive \u201c10 months \u2014 five months in jail and five months in a halfway house or in home detention.\u201d His lawyers are now arguing that Griles should receive no prison time and instead be allowed to perform \u201ccommunity service.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But one of the two organizations he wants to do \u201ccommunity service\u201d for \u2014 the American Recreation Coalition (ARC) \u2014 is actually a major lobbying firm that apparently benefited under Griles\u2019 tenure in the Bush administration. ARC leads the \u201cWonderful Outdoor World\u201d (WOW) program, which has close ties to various federal agencies and the Walt Disney Co. Griles helped ARC set up WOW during his tenure at the Interior Department. Greenwire reports:<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>In his \u201ccommunity service\u201d role with WOW, Griles \u201cwould raise money, develop new public and private partnerships and conduct outreach to the government and media.\u201d Bottom line: Griles is asking that his punishment be to perform the same activities that landed him in jail.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Thinkprogress: In March, J. Steven Griles, formerly the no. 2 official at the Interior Department, pleaded guilty to \u201clying to the Senate about his relationship with convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff.\u201d Griles asked the lobbyist \u201cfor many favors for close female friends and in exchange helped Abramoff\u2019s clients at the government agency.\u201d As part of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-republican-corruption"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}