Dan Abrams is listing R v D sex scandals of the last decade

[Coexist]

10 R to 5 D.

Nice.

But Pat Buchanan doesn't think it means anything.

[polichick]

1. It's the HYPOCRISY stupid! nt

[rurallib]

14. No kidding - R's want us celibate but then fuck everything in sight.

[tridim]

2. And three of the Dems were Governors

And Clinton and Condit's affairs were consensual.

It's not even close really.

[Coexist]

3. "Senators and Congressmen should be able to live by the standards they preach"

and that lady is kicking Buchanan's ass re: homosexuality

[CatWoman]

4. and Pat Buchanan is making a complete ass of himself

again.

[polichick]

6. He really is...

And Joan keeps getting cut off.

[Bjornsdotter]

7. Complete and total meltdown

...I'm enjoying every minute. :evilgrin:

[H2O Man]

5. Pat is not

doing well.

[Coexist]

9. no and they got right in his face when he

tried to make the Dems seem worse.

[Cameron27]

8. Pat is nearly frothing at the mouth,

Joan said she didn't know he was a libertarian lol.

[in_cog_ni_to]

10. The sex has nothing to do with it! HYPOCRISY!

HYPOCRISY! HYPOCRISY! HYPOCRISY! HYPOCRISY!

When you preach one thing and do another...you're a HYPOCRITE.

[TomInTib]

11. Exactly. That element has been sorely underplayed.

That's the whole thing with these rat bastards.

They are effing hypocrites.

[Gabi Hayes]

12. he SAID ten to five, but he showed five of each, and 'forgot' to mention

Livingstone and Vitter, both of whom went after Clinton hammer and tong

he's such a douchebag.

what about GONZALEZ??????

[H2O Man]

13. He showed ten republicans

and five democrats. He mentioned each by name.

They were all involved in sex-related scandals. This is why Gonzales was not included.

[Gabi Hayes]

18. I understand about Alberto-no-sex. I should have asked why they completely ignored this story.

I wasn't clear, but I'm so angry about the shiny object approach to 'news'.......

and, AFA the ten pugs shown, I didn't see the beginning of the segment, and all I saw were five pugs on the screen. perhaps I tuned in just as they showed them, and the first five were on just before I watched.

did they mention Vitter and Livingstone among the first five? they must have, as they were bigger names than the second five, except Gingrich

[stillcool]

15. I think that's bullshit...

there has got to be way more than 10 republican sex scandals...just with Poppy alone!

[H2O Man]

16. The show was

covering the past decade. The Bush1 administration is not included.

[stillcool]

17. I just did a not so quick...

perusal of the net, and I think my impression of way more scandals is because some do not involve elected officials, and some do not rise to the level of 'sex' scandal...more abuse, affairs, etc.,

1.
Excerpted from BBC:

A mayor in the US state of Washington has been ousted after allegations that he wooed gay men over the internet by offering them city jobs.

Conservative Mayor James West was recalled from his post in Spokane, the state's second-largest city, by voters in a special election...

2. http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/nevada/2006/oct/18/101810114.html
October 18, 2006

Nevada candidate for governor denies battery accusation
By KATHLEEN HENNESSEY
ASSOCIATED PRESS

LAS VEGAS (AP) - A single mother and a Nevada congressman running for governor gave vastly different accounts of a night of drinking that ended in three calls to 911, a police investigation and a battery complaint that was later withdrawn, police reports show.

Chrissy Mazzeo made three calls to 911 in which she told operators she had been assaulted by Rep. Jim Gibbons, according to investigative reports released by police Wednesday.

Mazzeo, 32, told police that Gibbons grabbed her arms and tried to force himself on her late Friday in a parking garage near a restaurant where she had been drinking with a friend, the congressman and his top adviser.

Gibbons, 61, a five-term Republican congressman who is running for governor against Democrat Dina Titus, told police the alleged assault "didn't happen." He said he walked Mazzeo toward her car and helped her catch her balance after she tripped.
- http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/nevada/2006/oct/18/101810114.html

3.
Federal prosecutors in Arizona have opened a preliminary investigation of a camping trip Congressman Jim Kolbe, R-Ariz., took 10 years ago that included two teenage congressional pages, a Justice Department spokesman told NBC News...

NBC News interviewed several people who were on the trip, and their accounts vary. One participant, who requested anonymity, said he was uncomfortable with the attention Kolbe paid to one of the former pages. He was "creeped out by it," he said, adding that there was a lot of "fawning, petting and touching" on the teenager's arms, shoulders and back by Kolbe.

4. Deputy Secretary of State Randall L. Tobias submitted his resignation Friday, one day after confirming to ABC News that he had been a customer of a Washington, D.C. escort service whose owner has been charged by federal prosecutors with running a prostitution operation.

Tobias, 65, director of U.S. Foreign Assistance and administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), had previously served as the ambassador for the President’s Emergency Fund for AIDS Relief.

A State Department press release late Friday afternoon said only he was leaving for “personal reasons.”
http://www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com/archives/10648.html#more-10648

5.
Young Republican National Federation Chair Resigns After Sex Scandal
By: Logan Murphy @ 12:44 PM - PDT
Former Clark County GOP Chair and newly elected Young Republican National Federation Chair Glenn Murphy is under investigation for criminal deviate conduct, a Class B felony, for allegedly engaging in oral sex with a sleeping victim. This is not his first run-in with the law for this kind of offense.Read the investigative report and a prior arrest for sexual battery in 1998 here: glennmurphy.pdf

WARNING: This is some pretty graphic stuff. Don’t let the kiddies read it.

UPDATE: Murphy recently sent an e-mail telling friends in Florida about his decision to resign from the YR
http://www.freedom4um.com/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=58875NF position for business reasons. Read more…

6.
The 2005 Gannongate exposed a male prostitute that had been planted as a news reporter with security clearance for the daily Whitehouse Press briefings.

7.
The 2006 Hookergate forced CIA Director Porter Goss to resign suddenly under the speculation that he had participated in poker games linked to a prostitution ring.

8.
Republican campaign strategists fear they have also lost the seat of Rep. Don Sherwood (Pa.), who has been dogged by the settlement of a lawsuit filed by a mistress who charged that Sherwood had throttled her.
October 19, 2006 LA PLUME, Pa. - He said she was "a casual acquaintance." She said they were extra-marital lovers, but told police that he tried to choke her. His wife says she forgives him. So does President Bush.

9.
The Albany Times Union published an article yesterday charging that the wife of Rep. John E. Sweeney (R-N.Y.) called police late last year to report that her husband was "knocking her around" during a late-night argument.

10.
Homeland Security Department, Operation Predator, and now DoD IT.

A high-ranking Defense Department IT official has been arrested and indicted on child pornography charges.

Charles Lynch, director of the Defense Information Systems Agency’s Internet Protocol version 6 transition program, was arrested March 8 and indicted in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia the next day on one count of possessing child pornography.

According to a statement by the DOD Inspector General’s Office, court documents allege that Lynch had been operating a peer-to-peer file-sharing program on a computer in his office at DISA. Agents confiscated several computers and more than 1,000 CDs from Lynch’s office. Agents found child pornography in computer file folders, the IG’s statement

11.

DHS Flack Arrested for Soliciting Sex from Minor
By Justin Rood - April 4, 2006, 11:11 PM Tampa Tribune reports:

A Department of Homeland Security deputy press secretary was arrested this evening on charges that he was using a computer to seduce a child. Brian Doyle, 55, was arrested at 7:45 p.m. in his Silver Springs, Maryland home on 23 charges related to the use of a computer to seduce a child and transmitting harmful materials to a minor after a joint investigation by the Polk County Sheriff's office, Florida State Attorney Jerry Hill's office and the Department of Homeland Security.
http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/000283.php

Congresswoman on page board buried file on husband's child abuse allegation

A file allegedly suppressed by Congresswoman Heather Wilson (R-NM) has been obtained by RAW STORY.

In 1995, just three days into her tenure as Secretary of the New Mexico Children, Youth and Families Department, Wilson removed a routine working file alleging that her husband had engaged in inappropriate contact with a minor. The file was then transferred to the department's attorney in her own Albuquerque office, where it soon went missing.

At the time, a local investigative news team learned about the swap, but could not confirm certain details of the file. They were not able to recover the document itself.

More than ten years later, RAW STORY has uncovered and confirmed the authenticity of the police incident report believed to be contained in the missing dossier. Filed as a case of child abuse in 1993, it contends that Wilson's husband Jay Hone, an Albuquerque attorney, touched a then-16 year old boy "in a manner that was not welcome."

http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/Congresswoman_on_page_board_buried_file_1019.html