Rep. Weller (R-IL) refers new page allegation.
By on Oct 20th, 2006 at 3:42 pm
Rep. Weller (R-IL) refers new page allegation.
Rep. Jerry Weller (R-IL) “moved Thursday to inform the House that a former page or intern may have been the subject of inappropriate attention from another lawmaker.” A spokesman said “the congressman was not prepared to reveal the identity of the youth, the timing, nor the identity of the lawmaker, but felt confident that a former page or intern was ‘inappropriately invited to a social function by another congressman.’” Rep. Weller has been the focus of recent Internet rumors suggesting he had acted inappropriately towards a page.
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than why bring information if your not willing to say it. don’t play games you dicks.
October 20th, 2006 at 3:44 pmOh wow this is getting crazy > the entire GOP membership in DC must be perverts?!
October 20th, 2006 at 3:56 pmDo not forget about GOP Sen. Larry Craig being outed for soliciting BJs in public restrooms in DC with hustler males!
October 20th, 2006 at 3:59 pmBut in this case he didn’t say it was a Republican… They had to start putting “rumors” about Dems and the page program at some point…
October 20th, 2006 at 4:00 pmShouldn’t he take this to the Page Board and the Ethics Committee to vet?
October 20th, 2006 at 4:04 pmFrom the Sun-Times article:
With rumors racing across a number of left-wing blogs naming Weller, his campaign manager Steve Shearer said there were no facts to back up any story.
This has “nothing to do with Jerry Weller doing anything,” Shearer said.
With the blogosphere pushing unsubstantiated rumor, Shearer said “it is a new way of political assassination.”
Shearer released the statement after the blog entries were multiplying and he was flooded with calls from reporters.
“There have been all kinds of wild rumors circulating over the past week,” Shearer said.
“We believe we have now gotten to the bottom of this and other reporters who have researched this agree — that what we have been told is that a page or intern who was sponsored by Cong. Weller was inappropriately invited to a social event with another congressman.”
Name? Age?
Shearer said the page or intern was a male but did not know a name, age or a date when he was in Washington.
Shearer said no investigative agency dealing with the page probe contacted Weller.
So his staff can make a couple calls and get to the bottom of this. Jeez, why do we need the Ethics Committee and the FBI working on the scandal?
October 20th, 2006 at 4:09 pmA spokesman said “the congressman was not prepared to reveal the identity of the youth(until just before the elections of course if it is a Dem)…
October 20th, 2006 at 4:10 pmI am sure the Clintonistas are happy progs are busying themselves with smear tactics, while they and the mainstream media back centrist Dem candidates at the expensive of progressive candidates. Lamont is way down and Webb is fading fast, but the moderate wing seems to be doing just fine, especially pro-war Lieberman.
You really did just fall off the turnip truck.
October 20th, 2006 at 4:12 pmPeople have been saying for years that much of the right is in the closet, and damn, they were right ………& add to it pedophiles. Outrageous!
October 20th, 2006 at 4:15 pmThis is all beginning to take on a McCarthyist flavor: lob accusations at others in order to deflect attention from yourself. Frightening, indeed.
October 20th, 2006 at 4:16 pmbut if it is a republican doing the informing, and they are delaying release of information until closer to the election, the scandal target must be a democrat.
October 20th, 2006 at 4:26 pm.
find it HILARIOUS that CRAZY CHRISTIANS like HENDLER care more about POLITICS than PEDOPHILES ABUSING CHILDREN!!!
and lest we forget, Hendler can “suspend his Christianity” when conveniant. Like say, oh, “hitting on” underage co-workers
October 20th, 2006 at 4:26 pmThis guy is putting up a smoke screen to protect his own transgressions until after the election. Win then deal with the accusations.
October 20th, 2006 at 4:27 pm‘at the expensive of progressive candidates’
October 20th, 2006 at 4:28 pmJason,
Progressive candidates aren’t expensive, but keeping
your buddies in office sure is!
That’s the only thing they have now; the money ripped off
& earmarked for the greedy bastards themselves is the way
they stay in office…very expensive to taxpayers & local
governments.
As I posted earlier, Jason, I hope you vote on Nov. 8th.
(We’ll vote on Nov. 7th!)
They’re worse than children!
If this were kids, this would the point where someone would yell “time out” and they’d re-establish the rules of the game.
October 20th, 2006 at 4:28 pm#15
October 20th, 2006 at 4:30 pmQualar,
Actually I was thinking the same thing. No Repub wants to touch this so who better to talk about it to the media than the one that is under investigation. All the while he doesn’t feel its right to divulge the information yet. So when it does bust loose only one man has the spotlight. They should just give him a blindfold and a cigarette.
This is now beginning to sound like a bona fide pedophilia ring!
October 20th, 2006 at 4:31 pm#8 JMH
Jason, your posts are, at best, meaningless and, at worst, utter crap.
Webb is fading fast
Uh no. Webb is hanging tight. The RNC has targeted VA, MO, and TN as their last stand to keep the Senate. Does that sound like Allen is walking away with it?
October 20th, 2006 at 4:35 pmWell, the Foley thing was starting to run its course; time for new inappropriate fun with kids!
October 20th, 2006 at 4:36 pmAmerica’s Least Wanted
Unethical Versus Criminal Behavior
20th of October 2006
by Jay Randal
The sexually sleazy scandals in Washington, DC, that involve former Rep. Mark Foley stalking male Pages, and Sen. Larry Craig allegedly soliciting sex in public restrooms requires evaluation of unethical acts versus criminal behavior, so what are the two men guilty of?
Mark Foley stalking underage teenage male Pages is a technical crime, if he met and consummated a sex act with one of the teens in State that legal age of consent is 18 years of age, but DC foolishly lowered the legal age of consent to 16 so in DC his actions are unethical.
Larry Craig allegedly soliciting BJs in public facilities is a crime in every State in America, and to be caught in the act of exposing himself or engaging in a sex act would lead to arrest, and if convicted of that crime he would be required to register as a sex offender as well.
Exposing oneself in a public location is an affront to common decency, and represents deviant behavior, so society has determined that act to be very immoral crime, which requires some kind of incarceration or some kind of probationary sentence for the offender.
( Jay Randal, Political activist and writer in Georgia, USA.)
PS: Unethical acts are grounds for removal from Congress!
October 20th, 2006 at 4:38 pmI am sure the Bushists are unhappy neocons busying themselves with trying to create new smear tactics, while the American people have begun to look behind the curtain at their hocus pocus style of governing. Contrary to comments of certain trolls who seem unable to recognize reality, Democratic candidates of all stripes across the U.S. are in leading or in highly competitive races. There is a growing desperation in the Republicans who have been licking BushCo’s boots and those who have had their immorality exposed (sometimes the same people), as evidenced by the inflammatory accusations they are making against their opponents.
Some BushCo trolls really do seem to have not only just fallen off the turnip truck, but also got run over by it, resulting in blindness, deafness, and severe brain damage.
Comment by Jason+M.+Hendler
October 20th, 2006 at 4:39 pmJeez, this is getting rediculous, someone ought to set up a sting with young boy models posing as green pages and watch the Republican flies swarm and strike. Love to see that one.
October 20th, 2006 at 4:39 pmRasmussen 10/12 – 10/12 500 LV 49% 46% Allen +3%
Washington Post 10/10 – 10/12 1004 LV 49% 47% Allen +2%
yeah, Webb’s really fading…Jason, please, try harder.
October 20th, 2006 at 4:41 pmHernando…
October 20th, 2006 at 4:42 pmSounds like a job for Geraldo! Or, maybe not. He might be dumb enough to forget it’s a sting and get caught in his own net.
I went to the Webb fundraiser last night and by the size of the crowd and the take — he is still very much in the running.
October 20th, 2006 at 4:50 pm8—Jason+M.+Hendler
When the page story first broke, you were defending Foley, defending a pedophile
Now you want to blame the “Clintonistas”
Thats right, it’s Clinton’s fault that Foley was after boy pages, and Clinton’sfault theRepuke leadership covered this up for up to 11 years.
Maybe youtell tell us how the urban heat islands play into this as well.
Keep posting away Jason, you are always good for a laugh at least.
October 20th, 2006 at 4:57 pmi know it’s friday afternoon in jason’s florida town, but from reading the comment he left here earlier, it sounds like he started the tanqueray a bit earlier than usual…
October 20th, 2006 at 4:59 pmkaty all of the GOP membership is getting drunk today, because all their supposed perfect Reps and Senators are getting exposed either as completely corrupt or perverts or both > lol.
October 20th, 2006 at 5:07 pmGosh, do ya think the page program in general was abused?
Sounds like a certain culture had formed around the page program, and it was seen as acceptable to cross certian boundaries. The power differential is so vast, without a solid program, abuse would be too easy.
October 20th, 2006 at 5:24 pmIf this is a pre-election attempt to smear a Democrat with the pedophile label, I don’t think it will work any more than most of the pathetic stuff the Republicans are trying these days. Democrats are energized to go to the polls, and there is no way a last minute smear job is going to undercut that enthusiasm, unless the Republicans can make it seem like the whole party are a bunch of pedophile coddlers (uh, like their own party), which seems very unlikely.
The damage to Republicans has more to do with the coverup by their leadership than Foley himself. Also, the negative impact of Foley on the Republicans is probably less vote-switching than it is to depress voter turnout among evangelicals. There won’t be a similar effect on turnout of Democrats, except perhaps for the accused candidate.
October 20th, 2006 at 5:26 pmi guess so, jay… then i’m not alone thinking that…
…
from the 2nd link:
With the blogosphere pushing unsubstantiated rumor, Shearer said “it is a new way of political assassination.”
it seems a great shield, or even prevention, would be the TRUTH, up front and early… but these guys can’t even grasp the old-fashioned notion of political SUICIDE… well, except they seem to do it so well…
October 20th, 2006 at 5:34 pm.
t seems a great shield, or even prevention, would be the TRUTH, up front and early… but these guys can’t even grasp the old-fashioned notion of political SUICIDE… well, except they seem to do it so well…
.Comment by katy
The problem is the Repugs believe that they should lie first, then support the lie. The truth is an idea that is alien to the Repugs. Their first response always turns out to be a lie. It’s reflex with them.
October 20th, 2006 at 6:09 pmSomebody go back and get a sh*tload of swords for these clowns to fall on!
October 20th, 2006 at 6:30 pmThere is a new phenomenon that I have observed around here (Northeast Florida) where drivers take a mirror image of an anti-Bush bumper sticker and rubber-band it to their sun visor. The W-84 stickers are more prevalent then the W-04 by 1.5 to one. It seems to me that Karl needs a suicide watch.
October 20th, 2006 at 7:08 pmMust also include Dick Cheney in the list of GOP pervs!
October 20th, 2006 at 10:23 pmhttp://rapturewatch.proboards38.com/index.cgi?board=political&action=display&thread=1161289528===WERE EVANGELICALS PLAYED FOR SUCKERS?
By Pastor Chuck Baldwin
October 17, 2006
NewsWithViews.com
No president in American history played the “God card” any better than George W. Bush. Early in his 2000 presidential campaign, Bush convinced fundamentalist/evangelical Christian leaders that he was “their” man. Those Christian leaders went on to promote and support Mr. Bush to the tune of two successful presidential election victories. To this day, they comprise his most loyal base of support.
But was it all a sham? Did G.W. Bush and Karl Rove simply dupe the Religious Right? A Bush insider now says that is exactly what happened: GOP strategists played evangelical believers for suckers.
October 21st, 2006 at 1:53 pmRose–
October 21st, 2006 at 3:42 pmI live in Pensacola, Fl. This is where Pastor Chuck Baldwin lives. He lives less than 2 miles from me, and I have been to his church, Crossroads Baptist Church, many times. I am not a Baptist, but find him an extraordinary speaker. He has a radio show here in Pensacola. This is a link to an interview he had, back in June, with Jerry Corsi about how Bush is selling out America. It’ very interesting.
Sorry, missed the link
October 21st, 2006 at 3:47 pmhttp://www.chuckbaldwinlive.com/Interview_Corsi.html
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