Jean Schmidt's Values Scandal (Campaign Manager S&M scandal?)

[RamboLiberal]

Schmidt has focused her campaign on family values, but now it looks like her Campaign Manager may have used the internet to satisfy his bizarre sexual fetishes. If this is true, it is the ultimate in hypocrisy.

Here's how this whole thing came about. People who emailed the Schmidt campaign had their email's bounce back. The details of the bounce back showed that the email [e-mail] actually went to [e-mail]. This is important because it shows that Schmidt Campaign Manager Joe Braun was using his AOL account for campaign purposes.

People googled this AOL account and apparently found that the same email account being used for the Schmidt campaign was also being used for a profile on a BDSM (bondage, discipline, sadomasochism -- think of the pawn shop in Pulp Fiction) website used by freaks to meet other freaks.

The smoking gun appears to be the fact that this profile was removed within a couple of hours after it had been linked to Joe Braun on the blogs (screenshot here).

http://stevegilliard.blogspot.com/2005/07/time-to-get-scrunchy.html

[kestrel91316]

1. Hypocrisy and weird sexual pecadillos are perfectly acceptable as long

as you are a Republican. If you are a Democrat, however, they rise to the level of capital crimes. Nobody will pay any attention to this, once again, and nothing will come of it.

[GainesT1958]

2. Don't bet on it....

This time WE'VE got the candidate with the squeaky-clean image--and staff--and THEY'RE the only ones who keep stumbling into holes--of all kinds, apparently!:eyes:

Remember, the media whores love those sex scandals--even if they happen to the ones they love!

OT, but P.S.: Rep. Walter "Freedom Fries" Jones Jr. (R-3rd Dist, N.C.) is apparently fed up with the tacitcs of the crooked Bug Man. When Jones voted against CAFTA yesterday, Delay & Co. cut $78 million from the Federal highway allocation for the Third District (the home, BTW, of Camp LeJeune, Seymour Johnson AFB, and Cherry Point Marine Corps Air Station). Walter Jr. is calling for an ethics investigation. Best of luck waiting around for that one, Jr.!:eyes:

B-)

[yorkiemommie1]

3. that's why they enjoyed the clinton scandal so much

it was so titillating and they could enjoy it out in the open whilst looking morally outraged.

the lies and deaths re: Iraq don't hold the same forbidden fruit appeal.

[roguevalley]

4. do the papers know about this?

[derby378]

5. Check this out

Someone updated Schmidt's page on this site:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Schmidt

[sshan2525]

6. I do think most Republicans need a beating, but.....................

as I said about Bubba, what consenting adults do in the privacy of their bedrooms is their business. I'll withhold judgment until I hear if this guy's a hypocrite (family values bullshit) or not.