who is the democrat on the panel? Charles S. Robb

[gWbush is Mabus]

former Senator Charles S. Robb on WMD panel

anybody heard of him?

my hunch is that Bush Sr. has some CIA dirt on him, effectively "owning" him.


EDIT:

does anybody know if he is honest, trustworthy, a good person, not a DINO, etc.???

[NWHarkness]

1. Chuck Robb

LBJ's son-in-law. Centrist Democrat from Virginia.

[mitchtv]

2. Chuck Robb if I am not mistaken

former Dem from VA., military man ,son in law to LBJ,a good Dem, being a southerner is far to conservative for me, but it shouldn't matter in this affair.

[LSdemocrat]

3. He was Senator from Virginia. Ollie North ran against him in 1994.

He was known as a deficit hawk. Don't know much else about him.

[mitchtv]

5. Ollie might have won , too

but an 11th hour trashing of North by Nancy Regan fixed that.

[LittleApple81]

4. But since Bush was allowed to name the panel, can anybody say

this is not the panel we want? I have been reading the posts about Silberman and it is scary. And McCain already said the Bush did not distort the information... he has reached a conclusion before the panel gets together.

[Malva Zebrina]

6. I would never trust anyone Bush appoints

never. He is a liar, a cheat and a manipulator, besides being nuts. He does not have our country in his best interests. That much is for certain. So why take anything he does with an open mind and hope he has changed his ways? :-)

Be sure there is some devious reasons behind this appointment. It does not speak well for Robb, either.

[lastknowngood]

7. DINO very beholde to the shrub

n/t

[papau]

8. Not DINO - but rich kid/conservative democrat

private schools - but hung in working class town (Waukegan, Ill) - not a bad guy when I knew of him and indeed I've heard nothing bad about him! 'Nam decorated officer.

[w13rd0]

9. Panel modelled on the Warren Commish...

...noone appointed by Bush is worth warm spit. Just a whitewash/stonewall...

[SharonAnn]

10. He got in trouble with videos(?) from a hotel(?) showing he

had a prostitute in his room? Or something like that. That's why he beaten in his laast run, I think.

[grasswire]

11. Robb is a compromised man

In the late 1980s, Robb was considered a possible future presidential candidate until stories began surfacing about his weekends at Virginia Beach, where people said that he routinely caroused at wild parties attended by drug dealers, cocaine users, prostitutes and businessmen with organized crime connections.

Watson investigated the stories himself and brought back leads indicating that Robb had attended more than 100 parties and engaged in sex with at least a dozen women, including underage girls, hookers and married women. One woman, Tai Collins, was a former Miss Virginia and was threatening to blow the story sky-high. Worse, the Republicans had gotten wind of the story and hired Billy Franklin, a private investigator to dig up dirt on Robb.

McCloud fought off the stories at first with threats and countercharges against Republicans. On one occasion, which was tape-recorded, he threatened to have the IRS harass Franklin if he continued his inquiries. Collins would later say that she had received several death threats designed to keep her from going public with stories about Robb.

In a final effort at damage control, McCloud and Watson attempted to argue that the stories were being engineered by Doug Wilder, Robb's main rival in the Virginia Democratic Party. In a move both cynical and stupid, they attempted to prove their point by releasing a transcript to reporters of a conversation on Wilder's cellular phone in which Wilder joked about Robb's political troubles.

The fact that Robb's team possessed an illegally-obtained tape recording of Wilder's phone conversation quickly became the center of the scandal. The widening investigation showed that the Robb for Senate Committee had also secretly purchased Franklin's private phone records for $2,375, disguising the transaction by billing it as a "legal fee" for "research services."

McCloud and Watson eventually both copped guilty pleas to lesser charges and were punished with fines and community service. Robb narrowly escaped a grand jury indictment thanks to political string-pulling by the Bush administration and a well-connected attorney at Covington & Burling, the same law firm that would later help McCloud and Philip Morris to oversee Contributions Watch.