Great Minds Needed: Help me gather bits for an email response...

[Blue Belle]

I just recieved this email today:


Jesse Jackson's New Staff Member

Mel Reynolds

Jessie Jackson has added former Chicago Democrat Congressman Mel Reynolds to Rainbow/PUSH Coalition's payroll. Reynolds was among the 176 criminals
excused in President Clinton's last-minute forgiveness spree. Reynolds received a commutation of his six-and-a-half-year federal sentence for 15 convictions of wire fraud, bank fraud and lies to the Federal Election Commission. He is more notorious, however, for concurrently serving five years for sleeping with an underage campaign volunteer.

This is a first in American politics: An ex-congressman who had sex with a subordinate... won clemency from a president who had sex with a subordinate... then was hired by a clergyman who had sex with a subordinate.
His new job?

Ready for this??

*********YOUTH COUNSELOR********

IS THIS A GREAT COUNTRY OR WHAT?

So... where do I start?? Any thoughts?? Anyone??

[wryter2000]

1. Ask them why conservatives are obsessed with sex

Wars are just fine with them, but they hate sex.

[wryter2000]

2. Oh, and...

You could inquire after the health of Joe Scarborough's secretary.

[Blue Belle]

3. Yeah... I was thinking about mentioning Scarborogh..

AS well as our New UN Ambassadors fequent visits to the group sex clubs...

Any other bits about repub sex scandals and criminal behavior of those who are in positions of power?? (I know... I know.. where to start..)

[wryter2000]

5. Glass houses and stones

Republicans have no business chiding other people about their sex lives.

[KarenInMA]

4. Don't reply.

When you blindly support everything the left does, it makes you look weak. Hiring this guy isn't a good move, if the above is true.

Bringing up Scarbourogh or Bolton et all is the same as when we say, "Bush did..." and they reply with "Ak!! Clinton!!".

let this go.

[GoBlue]

6. Old news and distorted as SOP/GOP

In 2001, Reynolds became a consultant for the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition as a consultant for prison reform. He is employed as the community development director of Salem Baptist Church in Chicago.

http://www.breakthechain.org/exclusives/reynolds.html

[Jim__]

7. If it's true, that Jackson (or his organization) hired a convicted

sex offender as a youth counselor, I would say that is a very bad decision.

Do you know whether or not it's actually true?

If it is true, I would say very bad decision on Jackson's part and move on.

[lynettebro440]

8. Ask them

about Jeff Gannon.

[Blue Belle]

9. Oooh... how could I have forgotten Jimmy-Jeff....

That's a good one to bring up!

[deadparrot]

10. try this link...Republican involvement in pedophilia...

http://www.armchairsubversive.com/

[BigBearJohn]

11. Wow -- utterly amazing. Is this really true?

[deadparrot]

13. Well, each claim has a couple of links in it,

to news sources/TV stations. If you Google the names, I'm sure you'd be able to find out more information.

It is amazing, though, isn't it? If these are Republican family values, then I'm glad I'm a liberal.

[Blue Belle]

12. Wow... that's a pretty damning link for the GOP....

yikes.

[BigBearJohn]

14. Yep. I sent the link to whole address book. Good ammo against GOP