Channeling Garth Brooks, Ney sends farewell e-mail
By Jackie Kucinich
March 1, 2007
Former Rep. Bob Ney (R-Ohio), who will report today to federal prison in West Virginia, issued an emotional goodbye e-mail (see below) yesterday to friends and colleagues.
He thanked them for their support over the past six months and told them he had “gained a higher power” to help him through his incarceration. The e-mail closed with a quote from Garth Brooks’s “The Dance”: “And now I’m glad I didn’t know/ The way it all would end, the way it all would go/ Our lives are better left to chance/ I could have missed the pain/ But I’d have had to miss the dance.”Ney will serve a sentence of 30 months on federal bribery charges. He resigned from Congress in November after pleading guilty to one count of conspiracy and making false statements. (More)Â
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