DNC: Why Did Tom Reynolds Cover Up Congressman's Sex Crimes?

[Bozita]

DNC: Why Did Tom Reynolds Cover Up Congressman's Sex Crimes?

9/30/2006 2:01:00 PM
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To: City and National desks, Political Reporter

Contact: Damien LaVera of the DNC Press Office, 202-863-8148

WASHINGTON, Sept. 30 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The Democratic National Committee today released the following, "Why Did Tom Reynolds Cover Up Congressman's Sex Crimes?":

Yesterday, Florida Republican Congressman Mark Foley resigned from Congress when sexually inappropriate emails and instant messages he sent to a teenage boy came to light. While the shocking exchanges produced an immediate uproar that cost Congressman Foley his job, at least one member of the House Republican leadership had known about the situation for months and did nothing about it: New York Republican Congressman and chair of the National Republican Congressional Committee Tom Reynolds.

According to the Associated Press, Congressman Reynolds' spokesman confirmed that Reynolds had been informed by another Congressman that the boy had complained about Foley's inappropriate communications "months ago." According to the report, the allegations first came to light in late 2005 (AP, 9/30/06). It appears that Reynolds did not tell authorities about the emails or take any step to discipline Foley, apparently choosing instead to sweep the matter under the rug to protect the Republican party's dwindling chances of retaining control of the House of Representatives this November.

"Congressman Reynolds' inaction in the face of such a serious situation is very troubling, and raises important questions about whether there was an attempt to cover up criminal activity involving a minor to keep it from coming to light before Election Day," said Democratic National Committee Communications Director Karen Finney.

"We need real answers to important questions about precisely who knew about these activities and when they knew it, whether other current or former pages were victimized by Congressman Foley, why the Republican House leadership was prepared to adjourn without at the very least referring this matter to the ethics committee, and what corrective action if any Congressman Reynolds and the rest of the Republican House leadership took. Failing to answer to these questions would send a terrible message to the parents who entrust their children to the care of the Page School and send them to Washington to serve Congress."

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[sce56]

1. It is the repugPEDOPHILElican way

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x2855921







Got Fascism Yet?

[Monkeyman]

2. Its should say why did the Republican Leadership cover up

[MADem]

3. He's from NY, that Reynolds.....up in the GOP western part of the state

I'll bet this business won't resonate too well with those folks.

[William Bloode]

4. If the cards are played right.....

These guys are so screwed.

[BrklynLiberal]

5. They have been covering for each other since Shit for Brains' father

was head of the CIA. Why should things change now? The press has been complicit too. I am more than a little amazed that they have started to rebel and reveal some of the truth nowadays.

Repugnant Hypocrites

http://www.weblog.nohair.net/archives/000395.html a list
http://www.comedyontap.com/features/congress.html
Ted Bundy Active in WA repug party
Susan Smith’s stepdad molested her and had longterm sexual relationship with her
He was Beverly Russell, S. Carolina GOP Bigshot member of Christian Coalition
Mary Kay LaTorneau’s Dad was John G. Schmitz was an ultra-conservative Republican congressman forced into retirement by the discovery that he had an affair and children with one of his students..and probably with his daughter when she was younger.
Rush Limbaugh (also multi married)
Bill O’Reilly – phone sex
Wm Bennett - gambling
Ralph Reed - Gambling
South Dakota Congressman Wild Bill Janklow speeding, killed someone
Schwarzenegger (a multitude of sins….)
Mehlmen,. Dreier, all the closeted gays,
Santorum, living in Va, saying he lives in PA



Multi married, affairs, etc
Dole, McCain, Hyde, Newt Gingrich, Bob Barr R-Ga, R. Livingston R-LA

Evangelists caught with prostitutes
Faye’s husband……………
the right-wing, gay-hating, prostitute-loving Jimmy Swaggart
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A COMPENDIUM OF SEXUAL HYPOCRISY
You know, with all the ink and air time spent commenting on Mr. Clinton's real and alleged sexual improprieties, you would think that the "fair and balanced" media would note the avalanche of GOP and right-wing sex crimes and hypocrisy. I mean it's not like they don't think sex sells. Consider, it's all Kobe all the time now.
Just to get this off my chest, let's list the ones I know about. This is not an exhaustive list because I have a job that does not allow me to track all this stuff down. As Jackson Thoreau said, "There are just too many Republican mistresses and not enough hours in the day. Nevertheless, <warning>long post ahead</warning>

There's President George Bush accused in a criminal complaint and lawsuit of raping one Margie Denise Schoedinger (who apparently dated Bush years ago when she was a minor) and who is also accused by Tammy Phillips, a former stripper quoted in the National Enquirer in 2000 saying she had an affair with Bush that had ended in 1999. There's the press ignoring extramarital activities by the hypocrites who served on the impeachment committee like Henry Hyde and Bob Barr. And then there's the documented sexual misconduct of Bill Thomas, Bob Livingston, Dick Armey, Dan Burton, Charles Canady, J.C. Watts, Helen Chenoweth, Sue Myrick, Ken Calvert, John Peterson, Dan Crane, Donald Lukens, Jim Gilmore, Scott McInnis and Arlan Stangeland. All Republican hypocrites who attacked Clinton for his affairs and expressed outrage when people put a microscope on their private sexual lives. If you want more, like these randy GOPers, check out the site Congressional Arrest record.

My favorites are Rep. Helen Chenoweth who, during her 1998 campaign, admitted to a six-year adulterous affair with a married associate but noted that "I've asked for God's forgiveness, and I've received it," Rep. Joe Scarborough, and, of course, the Newtster.

Remember the non-stop Gary Condit smear campaign? He admits to an affair with Chandra Levy who, when she goes missing, becomes prima facia evidence of murder, much as Hillary is/was accused of offing Vince Foster. No problem with coverage there. But when a dead woman was found in Congressman Joe Scarborough's office, where was the outrage and the non-stop coverage? Now Joe holds forth on his own MSNBC show, lecturing us about the crimes of the Democrats and the bleating the GOP party line.
That paragon of virtue Newt Gingrich is on his third 3 wife now. (God, I don't mean literally, I hope. That image is just too much too imagine.) Gingrich campaign worker Anne Manning admitted that she gave Newt oral sex while he was still married to his first wife. She told Vanity Fair, "we had oral sex. He prefers that because then he can say, 'I never slept with her.'" Well, where else did we hear that, I wonder. Meanwhile, he dumps his first wife during a visit to the hospital where she is recovering from surgery for breast cancer. Famously, he attributed Susan Smith’s drowning of her children as being due to our “sick system” fostered by the "amoralty" of the Democrats in the White House and then said, "the only way to make it better is to vote Republican.”

Compassionate. Conservative.
But let's not confine ourselves to Congressional Republicans. While we're on the subject of Susan Smith, let's flesh out that story.
Not too much later - although I don’t recall the media pointing this out, Susan Smith’s stepfather publicly apologized to Susan, saying, “You don’t have all the guilt in this tragedy,” because he had molested her early on, then drew her into a full-blown sexual affair later. He knew she was already traumatized by her father’s suicide. As her stepfather, he should have been there FOR her, not there to USE her.
And just who was her stepfather, this man named Beverly Russell? He was a key operative in the South Carolina Republican Party and a Christian Coalition member. Susan testified that one morning after he had been out putting up campaign posters for Pat Robertson for president, he came into her bedroom and put her hand on his genitals and kissed her and fondled her. Later, he made her his full-time sex object.

Then there's Richard Delgaudio. This prominent GOP activist and Bush Pioneer fund-raiser is the head of an array of conservative activist groups. The compassionate conservative helped out a 16-year-old girl who had a baby and dropped out of school, who needed money. Delgaudio paid her for pornographic photo sessions. But then, he continued to raise money without the embarrassment of newspaper stories or non-stop TV coverage from November, 2001, when he was first arrested, until April 23 when he was sentenced after pleading guilty to child pornography.

These GOP leaders seem to have something for pre-pubescent girls. Parker J. Bena, a Virginia GOP activist and Bush elector was indicted and convicted in 2001 for possessing child pornography. Kevin Coan, GOP election official in St. Louis, who found time from altering votes during the 200 election to solicit sex from a 14-year-old girl on the internet. Let's also point out Philip Giordano, the former GOP mayor of Waterbury, who was sentenced to 37 years in prison for soliciting sex with underaged girls.

And, let's not forget Randy Ankeney, rising star in the Colorado GOP circles, who was arrested in 2001 for trying to have sex with a 13-year-old girl he met on Internet. The indictment revealed he warned the girl and her family he’d ruin them if they told anyone. Doesn't that sound familiar? After his arrest, another 17-year-old girl who worked on Ankeney's campaign came forward alleging he sexually assaulted her. In 2002, he pleaded guilty to attempted sexual assault of a child.
How about registered GOP hypocrite John Fund, late of the Wall Street Journal, a prominent anti-abortion columnist and fund raiser? He lost his position after it was revealed that he impregnated the daughter of an old girlfriend and then encouraged her to abort his child.

Besides Oxy-Contin addict and uncharged felon Rush, Florida GOP smear radio host Marty Glickman was arrested in 2001 for giving drugs and money to underage girls in exchange for sex. He kept his show spreading lies and denying the charges until he was convicted, taken off the air only because there was no studio in the Palm Beach County Jail.

The moral corruption on the GOP goes so deep that almost anywhere you scratch, the slime comes to the surface, even out of left field. Remember Mary Kay LeTourneau? You know, the teacher who had a compulsive series of affairs with her students and was the object of much tutt-tutting and outrage by the corporate media. Despite court orders prohibiting any further contact, she sacrificed her career, marriage, and her children to this sexually compulsive behavior. Well, her father, John G. Schmitz was an ultra-conservative Republican congressman forced into retirement by the discovery that he had an affair and children with one of his students. Imagine that! It has been alleged, but not proven (or, unsurprisingly, investigated) that Mrs. LeTourneau's her out-of-control sexuality came sexual abuse as a child.

I'd like to apologize to my readers about this post, this exercise in yellow journalism, in this heretofore highbrow blog, but I just had to get it off my chest.

Posted by Gordon at October 10, 2003 01:21 PM | E-mail Author | Back to main page
Comments
Good work! I've been astounded at this phenomena for a long time. One site I found that dealt only with well verified sexual affairs had 33 Re-Pube-icans and 9 Dems. That is statistically VERY significant. I also Googled "republican hypocrites" and ditto for Dems. The score was 223 to 85. Either the Repubs are far kinder - sure - in their critiques, or Dems are far more unkind and prolific. Or there are more Repub hypocrites.

[Erika]

6. Foley should be charged for indecency with a minor

All those who knew and did not report it to authorities
should also be criminally charged.

If the Republican party has any integrity left, they should demand charges and cleansing.

[Bozita]

7. Not reporting stuff like this in MI is a felony, IIRC

Teachers, counselors, and social workers are the likely targets of this law.