John Sweeney, architect of the Brooks Brothers Riot, is a SORE LOSERMAN!

[Cooley Hurd]

http://timesunion.com/AspStories/storyprint.asp?StoryID=543338

On the Hill, the sound of silence
John Sweeney, still reeling from re-election loss to Kirsten Gillibrand, fails to show for votes

By JUDY HOLLAND, Washington bureau
First published: Sunday, December 10, 2006

WASHINGTON -- Since losing re-election last month, Rep. John Sweeney has played hooky in Congress, skipping votes, dodging reporters and avoiding his new make-shift office in a basement cubicle set up for lame ducks.
Sweeney's friends and colleagues Capitol Hill say the Republican from Clifton Park is still stunned about the outcome of the Nov. 7 election when he lost to Democratic challenger Kirsten Gillibrand.

Rep. Pete Sessions, R-Texas, a close friend of Sweeney's, says the four-term Republican is "frustrated and angry" and feels he was unfairly attacked a week before the election after the Times Union and other newspapers disclosed that police had investigated a domestic dispute between Sweeney and his wife on Dec. 2, 2005.


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"There's a lot of upheaval in his life," Weldon said. "It's one thing if you're behind for six months and see it coming," he said of Sweeney's election loss. "What do you do now? How do you feed yourself and your wife?"

Retiring Rep. Sherwood R. Boehlert, R-New Hartford, said Sweeney was "still smarting from the loss" and had "suffered from a multitude of problems."

Boehlert said Sweeney's biggest problem was that he had an "R" (for Republican) after his name, so he was hurt by the unpopularity of the Iraq war and the congressional page scandal.

Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-Manhattan, said Sweeney is usually "hail-fellow-well-met" but ignored his greeting of hello and "went right by" when they encountered each other last week.

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Boo-fucking-hoo, ya wife beating drunk!

[Binka]

1. Boo Fucking Hoo Indeed

I'm sure it will be hard for Johnny to put food on his family. That is after he stops kicking the shit out of them.

[xchrom]

2. binka!!!

:hi:

if he's acting like this after an election loss -- he's probably not going to stop kicking his family right away.
hope he doesn't have a dog.

[Cooley Hurd]

3. LOL!!

Good morning, Binka!:hi:

[Hubert Flottz]

13. Burger King is looking for a few good men!

And So is Ronald McDonald!

[OzarkDem]

15. Nah, he needs to enlist

and go to Iraq, like all the other Yellow Elephants.

[Hubert Flottz]

17. Right he helped Bush break it!

Now let him go help "fix it!"

[liberaldemocrat7]

20. "What do you do now? How do you feed yourself and your wife?"

Well holding him to Republican standards

"Exercise some personal responsibility and get a job!"

That's what Republicans like to bellow to people who lost their jobs and can't find one right away despite looking very hard and can't find one due to Republican economic policies.

[bvar22]

35. Time to enlist!!!

[Cha]

41. Best suggestion! They need to

suit up!

[jgraz]

4. Typical rethug -- classy to the end

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

5. How do you feed your wife?

Well, I'd think someone who has been a conman-er Congressman as long as he has would have some savings stashed away. I'm sure that his former constituents who are working two jobs and still not getting by are all sympathetic.

[Hubert Flottz]

14. If your wife is a typical republican gal, I suggest feeding her with a

sling shot! Or a 10 foot pole!

[Rhiannon12866]

26. According to what I've read, Sweeney's current wife is a former stripper.

I guess she'll have to go back to work...:evilgrin:

[Bluebear]

6. "How do you feed yourself and your wife?" BOO HOO HOO!!!

It's one thing if you're behind for six months and see it coming! What does he do now!!!!


CRY ME A FUCKING RIVER. Pretend you work for Whirlpool or Ford and the plant is closing from underneath your feet. Pretend you work IT for Dell and your job just went to India, you wife-beating drunkard.

[librechik]

22. America is a wonderful place--he can work 3 jobs to make ends meet

night janitor at WalMart, McDonald's breakfast, and fluffer for GQ photoshoots.

[Rhiannon12866]

27. Or his wife could go back to work...

:evilgrin:

[sendero]

7. Who writes these $%^#$ stories?

And what is their point?

I'm sure it is a shock to lose an election that you thought was in the bag. I'm sure it sucks to have your cushy-ass perk-encrusted job taken away.

Some people handle hardship better than others. As far as I'm concerned - that's when you see what a real man or woman is made of - when they get the crap kicked out of themselves by life.

This guy's made of whine, self-pity and other typical traits Republicans are made of, but like to accuse Dems of being made of. And the reporter who wrote this tripe and the publisher who published it, well isn't that special.

[nuxvomica]

8. I think their point is that he's not doing his job

I'm not sure whether you're questioning the point of the story itself -- that he's missing votes -- or the depiction of his personal torment as an explanation of his poor work performance.

[sendero]

9. I read the whole thing..

... it sounds like a "oh losing is so unfair, so awful" piece to me.

Never seen one of those about a Dem.

[nuxvomica]

12. Yeah, some of the comments were kinda lame

The Pete Sessions bit about him picking up a "bug" in Iraq or Afghanistan is really a stretch. That doesn't explain the lying, smearing ads he ran against Gillibrand. I think those ads hurt him more than anything and I don't think he failed to take Gillibrand's challenge seriously because, after all, he bought a ton of air time to run lying, smearing ads against her!

[Rhiannon12866]

24. Did you ever post your LTTE on Sweeney?

If not, this might be the right time to do it... It explains a lot.:-)

[nuxvomica]

32. Here's my LTTE published by the Post Star in October:

As a longtime resident of this district, I am insulted by the lies emanating from the Sweeney camp. We should all feel insulted. They have accused his opponent, Kirsten Gillibrand of being a war profiteer and of involvement in HUD scandals, neither of which is true.
Sweeney’s accusation of “war profiteering” against Gillibrand – a serious charge considering the cost to district families of Bush’s war -- is especially egregious. A “war profiteer” is someone who benefits from defense spending over which they have some influence. Gillibrand’s husband owns some stock in defense contractor BAE Systems as part of a retirement plan, as do a lot of Sweeney’s constituents, who, I guess, are now war profiteers in the congressman’s eyes. Had Mrs. Gillibrand been a member of Congress the last 6 years, had she also voted for Bush’s war and had BAE rewarded her for doing so, I would not quibble with the charge of “war profiteer”. But none of those three conditions applies to the Democratic candidate or her husband. All three, however, do apply to Mr. Sweeney, who received $2,000 in this election cycle alone from BAE’s PAC. His total career take from defense contractors of $49,500 buys a lot of air time with which to smear his opponent and distract voters from his own record of voting against the interests of the troops. According to the non-partisan Disabled American Veterans organization, Sweeney has voted on their side only 13% of the time in his career and 0% in 2005, while representatives in neighboring districts can boast a 100% record for the same period.
I say to my fellow voters in this district that you can and should look all this up. Sweeney’s well-financed campaign is betting their massive ad budget that you won’t.

[Rhiannon12866]

39. Thank you! This was terrific!

:toast::applause::bounce::woohoo:

Rhiannon:hi:

[Rhiannon12866]

25. What about Joe Lieberman?

The press worked overtime on that one. Or don't you consider him to be a Dem?;)

And John Sweeney orchestrated his defeat all by himself. And was defeated by an unknown.:eyes:

[Rhiannon12866]

23. K&R. That's exactly what this story is about... he's no longer doing his job.

Guess there's no point in writing or calling him, anymore...:shrug: But he set up his defeat all on his own, and lost to an unknown...:eyes:

[DoYouEverWonder]

10. How is he going to feed his wife?

How about the 3000 families of the soldiers killed in Iraq? How are they going to feed their families?

[Rhiannon12866]

29. His wife can go back to work...

As for the families of those killed in Iraq, I'm hoping that they voted against him and are responsible for his defeat. He voted for the war and supported Bush* policies...:-(


Red Handed Defense: Rep John Sweeney
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJpqff--0eg

[tanyev]

11. Yeah, how do you keep the money flowing in when you no longer

have anything the crooked lobbyists want? Poor thing. Maybe his local Wal-Mart is hiring greeters.

[Hubert Flottz]

16. The Army is way short handed they tell me!

[OzarkDem]

18. My favorite part

"Since losing re-election last month, Rep. John Sweeney has played hooky in Congress, skipping votes, dodging reporters and avoiding his new make-shift office in a basement cubicle set up for lame ducks."

I love that these creeps are losing their prime office space and are getting sent to the basement. They're so shallow.

[Danascot]

19. As one of the proud citizens of NY-20

who help make sure we pulled off one of the greatest switcheroonies of this year's election, McSlimy for Kristen Gillibrand, I'd be delighted to read monthly updates about how hard life is being for this arrogant thug. Boo-fucking-hoo indeed!

[DinahMoeHum]

21. Hey, Sweeney, don't go away mad. . .

Just go away.

:nopity::nopity::nopity:

[Cocoa]

28. my God I hope the Sweeney family doesn't starve to death

:scared:

[dapper]

30. Sorry Charlie...

They should set up rules so you get docked part of your pay if you don't do your job. Granted, I would get docked if I didn't show up.

What a loser!

Dapper

[Spirochete]

31. He should count his blessings

If he was going to still be around, he'd have to go to a 5-day workweek anyway. If he's on a sulkfest now, it looks like he was a lot more interested in keeping his job than actually doing it anyway.

"I know how hard it is to put bruises on your family"

[DiverDave]

33. He can sign up for unemployment

food stamps, you know all the "welfare" stuff he hates.

just sayin...

[WI_DEM]

34. I think he actually committed adultry on his wife and beat his mistress

I feel no pity for him.

[Jim Lane]

38. You may be thinking of Don Sherwood (R-Pa.)

I know of no allegations of adultery against Sweeney. The domestic-violence incident involved his wife, not any mistress.

Sherwood was in his DC apartment with a much younger woman when she called 911, telling police he was trying to choke her. He said he was only giving her a back rub. He also said she was merely a "casual acquaintance". Eventually, he admitted to a five-year-long adulterous affair with her. Her suit against him for assault was settled out of court, with a confidentiality provision.

Sherwood's family still owns the car dealership he opened. If he reads this article, maybe he'll hire Sweeney as a salesman. On the other hand, he doesn't need as many sales people as there are jobless Republicahs. Tom DeLay will have to teach some of them how to kill termites.

[mdmc]

36. a ny

k/r

[zreosumgame]

37. humm, a disgruntled ex-employee?

how many guns does he own?

[Cha]

40. Ya Brooks Brothers

"wife beating drunk"!

Those interviewed regarding mr. sweeney should have let it out that "KARMA'S A BIAAAAATCH!"

"How do you feed yourself and your wife?" Wasn't sweeney some kind judge or something? Maybe you start practicing law..just a suggestion.