DUKE CUNNINGHAM TRADED SEX FOR VOTES

[LSK]

Story was covered on Scarborough. Apparently a defense contractor has been allowing Congressmen to have sex with prostitutes in the Watergate hotel in return to votes. One of the contractors (Brent Wilkes) has a "black book" with lots of names. He is not cooperating with investigators. Supposedly FBI agents are trying to question prostitutes and have information and dates on who went to the Hotel.

This is a whole new ballgame folks. Usually sex scandals were just for pleasure or bad judgement. But selling sex for votes??? This has got to be a new low!!


http://politicalwire.com/archives/2006/04/27/bribery_case_may_involve_prostitutes.html

The Wall Street Journal broke the story today:

http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB114610728002837324-nRnF_ahxSnYdWg6foBQ3_mvCwZ4_20070427.html?mod=blogs

[killbotfactory]

1. Have any charges been taken against the defense contractor?

Or is it legal to bribe politicians, now?

[LSK]

5. im thinking charges will come, its ongoing

Story is just breaking. Wouldnt be surprised if the MSM tries to suppress this story right now.

This totally blows away the fictional notion that Republlicans are the party of family values.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

2. How else can you remain on top??? I mean, stay on the

moral high ground???? Sheeeesh.

[tjwash]

3. Sex is only a travesty if it's Bill Clinton.

:sarcasm:

[Egalitariat]

9. If you remember, that wasn't "sex".*****

nm

[tabasco]

24. Who gives a shit?

If you remember, Clinton said he had an sexual relationship after a 50 million dollar investigation into a blowjob.

[LSK]

28. and what about Newts affair with his future wife during that time???

[SlavesandBulldozers]

45. oh good one!

nice zinger! oh, and it wasn't killing 100k iraqis and 3000 troops and spending half a trillion either.

[babylonsister]

4. For your enjoyment, LSK:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x1043278

[LSK]

6. i saw that one, but it was short on details

I figured a post with details might help get the story out.

[babylonsister]

7. How 'bout this?

CIA's Goss Drawn Into Hooker Probe?
By Justin Rood - April 27, 2006
http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/000494.php

Ken Silverstein reports at Harper's blog on the spreading Cunningham-Wade-Wilkes prostitute scandal. He says more lawmakers, past and present, are being investigated. Sounds like he thinks House Intel Chair-turned-CIA Director Porter Goss is one of them:

I've learned from a highly-connected source that those under intense scrutiny by the FBI are current and former lawmakers on Defense and Intelligence comittees -- including one person who now holds a powerful intelligence post.


I missed KO, but Scarborough mentioned it tonight as well, so there are legs there.

[LSK]

10. id love it if Goss got stung in this

He is turning the CIA into a political institution.

[Erika]

12. W has replaced all of DC with political hacks

and you can see how well the government is working.

[tabasco]

26. That's the bottom line.

Cronyism at its absolute worst.

But 32% still approve. :wtf:

[mirandapriestly]

27. That's what I thought, no integrity or ethics to be found! nt

[nicknameless]

37. But, but, but - Clinton let visitors sleep in the Lincoln Bedroom! *Gasp*!

:eyes:

[bleever]

29. S'okay, KO was off tonight.

And whereas the Gannon story was too hard for middle America to even hear, everybody's ears perk up when prostitution's mentioned.

So, there ARE legs there.

:)

[autorank]

34. I'm truly shocked to see you in a thread like this. Oh my...

So what's with the one leg, some sort of defective "Mechanical Bride?"

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=1044033&mesg_id=1044883

[Maccagirl]

8. Ewww..Duke Cunningham and sex

the imagery!

:puke:

[Erika]

11. Jeff Gannon/Guckert

Showed up in WH press meetings while his male escort service was online. MSM never said a word about it.

[Raster]

42. what i find absolutely incredible is that he was allowed into the most

private and secure areas of the White House numerous times with NO ONE able to verify his EVER LEAVING.

[skooooo]

13. Does this mean...

lobbyists bought Cunningham's vote on certain issues by bribing him with prostitutes? I think I'm finally catching on! Duh!

[gkhouston]

15. I certainly hope so...

if it means that Cunningham was literally whoring himself out in exchange for votes... :puke: ... must find bleach for mind...

[LSK]

16. thats the implication

[Lars39]

14. Calls to mind the Mayflower Madam.

[riderinthestorm]

18. Yeah, but she wasn't trying to bribe congressmen for votes.

This would be way bigger than that.

[in_cog_ni_to]

17. Uh Oh...I worry about the women they had sex with.

:crazy: There are many DEAD PEOPLE in the wake of the BFEE.:crazy:

[LSK]

19. supposedly the FBI is combing DC for some of them

[Sparkle]

20. Prostitution Ring at the Bush White House revisited??

[zulchzulu]

21. Whores usually say to Repugs: Oh, honey, that's OK, we can just sit & talk

...You don't have to cry that you have such a tiny peepee...

[tuvor]

22. Yeah, but were blow jobs involved?

If not, it won't matter.

[LSK]

23. damn, i forgot that detail

Now the case will fall apart! :sarcasm:

[deadparrot]

53. Not just blow jobs.

Blow jobs on the Clenis.

[IronLionZion]

25. See Clinton's affair has corrupted Cunningham

A good christian man's family values have been ruined. It's all Clinton's fault. Please, think of the children. :sarcasm:

[SlavesandBulldozers]

47. yep. we were warned this was going to happen.

the vicious Clenis knows no limits to its wicked ways.

[Autonomy]

30. In the Watergate hotel of all places. Oh, the irony!

:rofl: These guys never learn even the most basic lesson.

[BattyDem]

32. That's the best part of the story, isn't it?

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[klook]

31. Maybe now we're getting somewhere!

The M$M don't seem to interested in scandals involving Republicans, but if there's illicit heterosexual sex going on, they may not be able to resist covering it.

[autorank]

33. Thanks, things have been a bit dry lately.

You've oiled up the crisis for a new phase...sex scandal.

And what's with the pros? Good lord. I want to see the black book revealed
and then have the pros do a gossip book. "Positions of the Powerful: Life in
the Missionary Position;)"

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

35. Omg! This is going to be fun!!!!!

:popcorn:

[Renew Deal]

41. That's what I'm thinking.

:rofl: Fucking clowns

[Hippo_Tron]

36. They can't make this shit up

[SofaKingLiberal]

38. OMG! Those poor prostitutes. n/t

[SlavesandBulldozers]

46. lol seriously.

honestly that was first thought. i had to shut the thought of a nude dennis hastert out of my mind.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

39. In the WATERGATE Hotel. Sheesh have these people NO sense of irony, or

history? I guess they all assumed they were all bulletproof, DeLay told them so...

Also, whassup with the Wall St. Journal? Didn't they get Rove's instruction that they're not to report on stuff like this? (I do understand that the actual news reporting, non-editorial arm of the paper has stayed pretty decent even through the whole RW putsch...)

[peekaloo]

44. these plumbers were just laying pipe.

:spank:

[Jack Rabbit]

40. So what do we do with Cunningham?

Toss him out of Congress? Convict him for taking bribes?

Oh, wait . . .

[Roland99]

43. Kick!

[TheFarseer]

48. A caller on Hanitty confronted him with this story

Hanitty told him that was just some nonsense started by a liberal blog. I hope this blows up into something. I'd love to see him have to defend trading votes for sex when a casual bj between consenting adults was so wrong.

[LSK]

49. the Wall Street Journal is a liberal blog???

Scarborough Country is a liberal show???

Is there any more evidence how much of a moran and liar that guy is?!?!?

[enid602]

50. $$

Yes, but he paid those women with other people's money, and I don't think that counts.

[McCamy Taylor]

51. Who would pay Duke Cunnigham for sex?????

You mean he traded votes for sex, right?

[American Tragedy]

52. My God, does that ever conjure some dreadful mental images.

x(

[Disturbed]

54. "sex with prostitutes"

Yes that is usually the case. Female, male, both?

The RW has certainly bottomed down to a new low, eh?