Rod Blagojevich (D)

[monster]

ha

[Ibby]

Mayor Adams is openly gay. They elected him knowing he was gay. He had sex with another gay guy. Where's the story...? That he lied? Fine. But it's a lying scandal, not a sex scandal... except that Adams does have a committed partner, if i'm not mistaken... I guess that is kinda not cool. But Adams didn't build his career on legislating against gay people. THAT's why it's a scandal when republicans do things like that.

[Undertoad]

It's just kinda skeevy when a 42-year-old hooks up with an 18-year-old. For many reasons.

[classicman]

Aside from the fact that the other person was 18.... He lied about it and told the kid to lie about it during the campaign so that he could get elected and then AFTER getting elected decides to apologize.

Where is the leadership in that? This whole thing stinks - D or R - doesn't matter.

[classicman]

How bout this winner?

Wisconsin: Racine Mayor Resigns

The mayor of Racine resigned in a one-sentence letter, days after being accused of trying to arrange a sexual encounter with someone he thought was an under-age girl. The letter from the mayor, Gary Becker, left, made no reference to the six felonies he faces. Mr. Becker’s lawyer, Patrick Cafferty, said he decided to resign because “it was in the best interest of everyone involved.” Mr. Cafferty said his client intended to plead not guilty to all charges at an arraignment on Feb. 10 in Racine County Circuit Court.

Mr. Becker, 51, was arrested Jan. 13 at a suburban Milwaukee mall after a two-week investigation by the Division of Criminal Investigation at the State Department of Justice. After chatting online with a state agent posing as a 14-year-old girl, Mr. Becker went to the mall to meet her and buy lingerie for her, according to a criminal complaint. During the chat, he offered to take her to a hotel to “have lots of fun,” the complaint said.

The investigation started last month after Mr. Becker asked city workers to help him fix a problem with his personal computer. The police said the computer technician found six pornographic images of what appeared to be under-age girls and alerted the authorities.

Form another source

Becker, who is married and has two children, is charged with attempted second-degree sexual assault of a child under 16, possession of child pornography, child enticement, use of a computer to facilitate a child sex crime, attempt exposing a child to harmful material and misconduct in office. The charges carry a maximum penalty of more than 114 years in prison and $370,000 in fines.

Interestingly enough there is no mention of his political affiliation either. Took me a little bit of searching to actually find it.
No, It doesn't matter whether he is an R or a D, but the bias in reporting is becoming a trend. This is the second time in a week.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Never trust those "city worker" pricks, they'll rat you out every time.

[TheMercenary]

Originally Posted by classicman

Interestingly enough there is no mention of his political affiliation either. Took me a little bit of searching to actually find it.
No, It doesn't matter whether he is an R or a D, but the bias in reporting is becoming a trend. This is the second time in a week.

Same thing happened with the mayor from Baltimore, there was no mention of her political affiliation until somewhere at the very bottom of the original articles. Subsequent articles moved her political affiliations closer to the top of the page, but still no headlines. You know if it were a Republickin it would have been a headliner on page 1.

[Urbane Guerrilla]

At forty-three minutes after the hour, the Illinois State Senate voted unanimously, 59-0, to remove Blagojevich from office. One State Senator voted with a gesture -- thumbs down.

[classicman]

"Oh, and don't let the door hit you in the ass."

[capnhowdy]

Now its time for the juvenile approach of "well if your gonna spank me your gonna spank him and him and her and him..." and "he started it". What a fokkin wimpweasle.

[Madman]

Originally Posted by Urbane Guerrilla

Blagojevich behaved just like Clinton.

One more datum for why people of integrity don't vote for Democrats, and shouldn't vote for Democrats.

Give campaign contributions to somebody else.

There used to be a time when I could choose a candidate to vote for and I actually had faith and confidence in their personal integrity. Over the last couple of decades my faith had dwindled down to damn near a coin toss or plucking petals from a daisy.

I'm either getting paranoid or just losing my faith in mankind. Honestly, I almost prefer the paranoia.

<heavy sigh>

He got what he deserved.

[Urbane Guerrilla]

Well, I've been well served by a habit of either voting for a candidate -- or against. Not a lot of starry-eyed idealism goes into my voting either. Sometimes it's a third-party candidate, with the aim of encouragement to that third party. In my case, only one third party.

Skepticism towards officeholders is hardly a vice in a republic.

Originally Posted by Urbane Guerrilla

...One more datum for why people of integrity don't vote for Democrats, and shouldn't vote for Democrats.

Give campaign contributions to somebody else.

Someone should have given that advice to Jack Abramoff and all those members of Congress (mostly Republican) that he bankrolled.

It might have kept him and a bunch of Republicans out of jail or under ethical clouds.

Seriously, that is really an ignorant comment.

[Urbane Guerrilla]

Redux, start reading National Review for at least half a year -- then get back to me about "ignorance," okay?

[TGRR]

Originally Posted by Urbane Guerrilla

Redux, start reading National Review for at least half a year -- then get back to me about "ignorance," okay?

Why not just read the RNC talking points and be done with it?