Rep. Fossella to resign within next 72 hours.
WNBC reports that Rep. Vito Fossella (R-NY) is expected to announce his resignation “within the next 72 hours — if not late Friday then certainly by Monday.” On May 1, Fossella was arrested in Alexandria, VA, and charged with driving while intoxicated. Yesterday, he issued a statement admitting that he had an “extramarital affair with Laura Fay, a former Air Force lieutenant colonel, and that the two of them have a 3-year-old daughter together.”
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Fossella!
May 9th, 2008 at 5:16 pmAs long as a scumbag republican can maintain the visage of “respectability,” then he has no need to actually be respectable. When that visage (brought to you by the MSM) is also compromised, it is finally revealed that there was, in fact, no respectable individual to begin with.
Only an illusion; the very strength of the republican master plan…
May 9th, 2008 at 5:20 pmrepublicans doing shady stuff… is this really news anymore?
May 9th, 2008 at 5:21 pmWhat kind of Republican is he? Larry Craig is still cruising the Senate bathrooms, and David Vitter schtupped hookers for years! Democrats like Spitzer resign, but Family Values Republicans hang tight. Don’t do it Vito! You need to stay and continue your war against teh gayz!
May 9th, 2008 at 5:21 pmGross
Old
Perverts
Once again, the Republic party exwmplifies their commitment to moral values snicker
May 9th, 2008 at 5:24 pmexwmplifies = exemplies
May 9th, 2008 at 5:24 pmexemplifies.
sheesh
May 9th, 2008 at 5:25 pmit’s been a long day, folks.
i know every baby momma like it if her sugar daddy congressman shows up drunk to see the kid.
hahahahahaha
May 9th, 2008 at 5:27 pmThe party of “family values” …………
May 9th, 2008 at 5:28 pmAnother BumScag. Whoda thunkit! A God Fearing, Bible Thumping Hypocritcal Repuglycan.
May 9th, 2008 at 5:28 pmHere, Uncle Ho, take a hit off this… Now you can resume your typing…Oh, and please exhale!
May 9th, 2008 at 5:29 pmAnother one bites the dust…
At least isn’t Fusilli, like Fusilli Jerry. But he does screw around!
May 9th, 2008 at 5:30 pmWill there be another shell-shocked wife standing by her politician husband during this announcement?
May 9th, 2008 at 5:30 pmYou just gotta love those republican family values, huh?
May 9th, 2008 at 5:30 pmWe now can resume our regular programing….LOL.Like the bush wedding who care’s…Blessings
May 9th, 2008 at 5:34 pmAnd then the mom is or was an Air Force officer. Doesn’t the Air Force academy have some issues with cadets who don’t adhere to the religious dogma espoused by the academy? I mean, if she is a christian, why is she screwing a married man? And if the congresscritter has been using his religion in his job as a representative, how come he had to bed another woman? The right side is the most convaluted and confused group of ‘christians’ I have ever seen. They want to control YOUR body, but they make sure they don’t follow the same rules. Can you say authoritarian? The GOP sucks, big time.
May 9th, 2008 at 5:35 pmI know that much will be made of Fossella’s extramarital affair and his child out of wedlock. But when it comes right down to it, that’s really nobody’s business except the people directly affected by it — himself, his wife, his family, Laura Fay, the child involved, and his God. It’s not ours.
What IS our business, whether he is a politician or Joe Citizen, is that he was driving with his blood-alcohol level TWICE the legal limit. This is a threat to public safety for which he must be accountable (not to mention against the law). Unfortunately, this transgression will get the back burner treatment while everybody goes ga-ga over his sex life.
I hope he doesn’t get off with just a slap on the wrist for this one.
May 9th, 2008 at 5:37 pmRU; aaaaahhhhhh! I needed that. One toke over the line. :-)
May 9th, 2008 at 5:40 pmmisshusseinmolly Says:
Will there be another shell-shocked wife standing by her politician husband during this announcement?
I really question the soul of a man who wants his wife to stand next to him during those god-awful press conferences while he admits his guilt and begs for “forgiveness.” Frankly, most women worth their salt would turn such a scum bag out.
May 9th, 2008 at 5:41 pmBut when it comes right down to it, that’s really nobody’s business except the people directly affected by it — himself, his wife, his family, Laura Fay, the child involved, and his God. It’s not ours.
I would have to respectfully disagree. The reason being is that these folks wrap themselves up in God and country anytime it suits them or benefits them. Then, when the lights are off, they are screwing like rabbits - with other peoples wives and husbands. They are hypocrites in the highest order.
My feeling is that if citizens knew about all the differences between their words and their behavior, we might get a citizenry which better scrutinizes what their elected reps are up to. Maybe that would lead to a better informed - and more wary voters.
May 9th, 2008 at 5:44 pmMaybe when he goes to DUI Training School, they will also show him some films on safe sex while they have his (tiny) Repug brain open to new ideas.
NAWWWW, that would just get in the way of his future as another K Street lobbyist.
May 9th, 2008 at 5:45 pmand another one bites the dust! How many more to go?
May 9th, 2008 at 5:46 pmI can honestly live with a person having the occasional DUI on the part of an elected individual. Somehow shows that even the normal joe making a mistake should be given a second chance. The affair is a different affair. I would feel the way missmolly feels had it not been the Republicans who went after Clinton and declared themselves as the party of morality when so clearly they are not.
May 9th, 2008 at 5:48 pmLet the baby momma stand by this loser at the press conference. Sheesh…
May 9th, 2008 at 5:50 pmRUCerious Says:
Here, Uncle Ho, take a hit off this… Now you can resume your typing…Oh, and please exhale!
Over here, give me a toke too, I ran out last night!
May 9th, 2008 at 5:52 pmI agree with StratRat on this one missmolly. These people need to be exposed for the hypocrites that they are.
May 9th, 2008 at 5:52 pmStratRat Says
May 9th, 2008 at 5:44 pm
I would have to respectfully disagree. The reason being is that these folks wrap themselves up in God and country anytime it suits them or benefits them. Then, when the lights are off, they are screwing like rabbits - with other peoples wives and husbands. They are hypocrites in the highest order.
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OK, you have a point. I really don’t know that much about Fossella — whether he brays “family values” to pander to the evangelicals like many other Republicans, or whether he focuses more on GOP issues not having to do with sexual morality (like warmongering, shoveling money toward the rich, obsessing about flag pins, etc.). If he’s one of the former (like Larry Craig), then his hypocrisy IS the business of his constituents.
May 9th, 2008 at 5:52 pmUncle Ho, I was able to view the video from home and you’re right, it’s must see. I don’t know why I couldn’t get it to work at the office.
(I’m IINB in case anyone’s forgotten)
May 9th, 2008 at 5:54 pmJMOHR Says:
I can honestly live with a person having the occasional DUI on the part of an elected individual. Somehow shows that even the normal joe making a mistake should be given a second chance.
Any elected Federal official should have enough sense not to drink and drive. There are limo’s, cabs, buses and the Metro there, as well as his lover who he ended up calling after he got caught. Must not be too many members of MADD here or they’d be skinning you alive right now.
May 9th, 2008 at 5:57 pmZoo, Better yet, have BOTH her and the good wifey flanking him, showing total support. Maybe even his Pastor and the head of the RNC could be up there as well. Now, that would be a C-Span worth watching! Heh Heh!
May 9th, 2008 at 5:58 pmUncle Ho, pass St Augie the roach!
May 9th, 2008 at 5:59 pmAnother Family Values Rethug, nice.
May 9th, 2008 at 6:03 pmZooey Says:
Let the baby momma stand by this loser at the press conference. Sheesh…
Given that she’s an Airforce Lieutenant Colonel, she’s not really a baby momma. She’s the baby’s momma, true, but I suspect she’s not going to the press conference with him. I’d love to see her expression if she did, though. Wasn’t he on the way to see his kid when he was arrested. “Oh, look, Daddy’s bombed out of his skull!”
May 9th, 2008 at 6:10 pmIf he was a Mormon like Mitt he could have both the mothers living in the same house so he could drink like a fish and play with the all the kids without having to drive drunk.
Kids just love that, when daddy comes to visit all wasted.
May 9th, 2008 at 6:15 pmBuckie Boy Says:
You got me crying with laughter a couple of threads ago with the cardboard, syrup and ant sandwiches.
May 9th, 2008 at 6:22 pmPLEASE. DON’T. STOP.
gummitch Says:
Given that she’s an Airforce Lieutenant Colonel, she’s not really a baby momma.
May 9th, 2008 at 6:10 pm
No, she’s a baby momma — have a baby with a married man, that’s your designation.
May 9th, 2008 at 6:26 pmThese Repug butt wholes are going to throw my predicitions all to hell. By November there won’t be any Rethug incumbents left to get their collective ass thrown out of office.
May 9th, 2008 at 6:30 pmZooey Says:
No, she’s a baby momma — have a baby with a married man, that’s your designation.
Maybe in Idaho. Pshaw.
The term generally implies that the mom gave birth when she was very young, and that the father didn’t marry her. He could easily not be married to anyone, and not even in the picture.
May 9th, 2008 at 6:35 pmZooey Says
May 9th, 2008 at 6:26 pm
No, she’s a baby momma — have a baby with a married man, that’s your designation.
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Maybe I missed something — I always thought that term applied to somebody who has a child while still a child herself (generally applied to unwed teen pregnancies). Regardless of the age or marital status of the father. Of course, I could be wrong…
May 9th, 2008 at 6:38 pmShayne Says
May 9th, 2008 at 6:15 pm
If he was a Mormon like Mitt he could have both the mothers living in the same house so he could drink like a fish and play with the all the kids without having to drive drunk.
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Um…if he was a “Mormon like Mitt”, chances are he wouldn’t be drinking at all. Which in his case, would probably be a good thing.
May 9th, 2008 at 6:40 pmAfter the messy divorce, my sincere hope is that this dickweed experiences at least a few months of being homeless, on the streets. He deserves a wake up call, and the alarm is ringing.
May 9th, 2008 at 6:40 pmI guess the lines on the “baby momma” issue are blurred in a sparsely populated state like Idaho. I heard used that way by the kids on campus. Fascinating listening, by the way. :|
May 9th, 2008 at 6:49 pmIINB; I have the reverse problem. Easy to get the video from the office computer, unable to see it from home. :-(
May 9th, 2008 at 6:49 pmDon’t count on it missmolly, it’s all those non-drinking Baptists in the south that keep the moonshine pumping.
May 9th, 2008 at 7:27 pmI think the term baby momma if a lot more fluid. I think it’s street for out of wedlock mothering where the father maintains a relationship with the mother and/or child or not. Even married men use it to refer to their wives when they’re trying to be … what’s the word for … groovy?
May 9th, 2008 at 7:30 pmI’ve not read all of the previous, something I do religiously, so pardon me if this has been said.
Fossella is pure scum. Has been and will always be scum. The RePugniScum in NY state are corrupt to the core of their very being. And NY is a very corrupt state!!!!!
May 9th, 2008 at 7:34 pmA Republican with a WOMAN? wait…TWO WOMEN? And no diapers involved?!
May 9th, 2008 at 7:37 pmAnother one bites the dust. It’s a tsunami!
May 9th, 2008 at 7:48 pmabarts Says:
A Republican with a WOMAN? wait…TWO WOMEN? And no diapers involved?!
May 9th, 2008 at 7:37 pm
Only on the baby. This guy must be a conflicted Republican.
May 9th, 2008 at 7:53 pmVito is finito! Enough said.
May 9th, 2008 at 8:01 pmThe few, the proud, our representatives in Washington!
May 9th, 2008 at 8:12 pmTo my way of thinking, nobody could possibly put it any better as one of our local papers here in NYC did…
VITO IS FINITO!
May 9th, 2008 at 8:41 pmMaybe the mafia is hiring.
May 9th, 2008 at 9:40 pmYet another gop toad is resigning –
Oh! My bad. “Stepping down to spend more time with the family he ruined.”
There.
May 9th, 2008 at 10:55 pmthe MSM needs to figure out which family he’s stepping down to spend time with. Without the taxpayer gig supporting him in his home away from home i’d wager on him staying with the SI family (stikes me as a slimy cheap guy unwilling to foot the bill to see his away from home family), but hey, maybe true love is in DC and he dumps the SI family.
Such decisions these republicans need to make.
May 10th, 2008 at 9:42 amI wonder if the list of Republican scandals will be updated soon?
Here is a more direct URL: http://hammernews2.com/scandals.htm
May 10th, 2008 at 1:44 pmIs this a Republican trifecta?
May 10th, 2008 at 4:30 pmAs a New Yorker, Vito has always been a stain on our Congressional delegation (Staten Island is a weird place, he represents them and also small parts of southern Brooklyn). Time to get behind Steve Harrison, he only lost by 7 points in 2006 being out spend something like 30 to 1.
May 10th, 2008 at 11:26 pm