Political Scandals (Part 1)
"Accept certain inalienable truths,
prices will rise, politicians will philander,
you too will get old,
and when you do you’ll fantasize
that when you were young prices were reasonable,
politicians were noble and children respected their elders..."
- Baz Luhrmann, "Everybody's Free to Wear Sunscreen" (1999)
Republican racist pedophile and United States Senator Strom Thurmond had sex
with a 15-year old black girl, which produced a child.
Roy Cohn, continually condemned gays and gay rights. Was a closet gay who
died of AIDS.
John Schmitz (R-CA), former extreme right-wing Republican fathered two
children by a mistress — a former student named Carla Stuckle whom Schmitz
taught when he was a professor at Santa Ana College. One of these children
was once admitted to an Orange County hospital with hair tied in a square
knot around his penis so tightly that it was almost severed.
Congressman Schmitz' daughter, Mary Kay LeTourneau, made national headlines
when as a schoolteacher, she was arrested twice for having sex and producing
two children with an underage student of hers (beginning when he was only 13
years old).
Robert Bauman (R-MD) was campaigning for his fourth term as a Maryland
Congressman in 1980. A practicing Roman Catholic with a wife and child, he
was one of the most vocal conservatives in a very conservative Congress. He
regularly rallied for old-fashioned values and attacked all supporters of
abortion and homosexual rights. His campaign changed overnight with a
series of shocking revelations. The public learned that Bauman had been
charged with soliciting sex from a 16-year old boy he picked up at a gay
bar, and that he had been the victim of an extortion scheme by a man who
claimed to have had a sexual relationship with him. This, combined with an
alcohol problem (which did not seem to bother his fellow Congressmen
before), doomed his political career.
Dan Crane (R-IL) On July 20, 1983, the House voted to simultaneously censure
two members of Congress for sexual misconduct, the first time it had ever
done so.
Crane was censured for having sexual relations with a 17 year-old female
page.
Donald "Buz" Lukens (R-OH) was found guilty of having sex with a minor and
sentenced to one month in jail.
Dick Armey (R-TX): as an economics professor before entering Congress, was
accused of sexually harassing female students, according to the Dallas
Observer.
J.C. Watts (R-Oklahoma): has said "Character is simply doing right when no
one is looking." Watts has tried to cover up his out-of-wedlock child.
Bob Packwood, Senator (R-OR), resigned in 1995 under a threat of public
senate hearings related to ten female ex-staffers accusing him of sexual
harassment.
Bob Barr (R-GA) the principal sponsor of the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act,
has been married three (or is it now four) times. And at a party in 1992,
Barr actually licked whipped cream off the breasts of two women, neither of
them his current wife. Now that's family values!
Charles Canady (R-FL), Judiciary Committee member. A leading opponent of
abortion, Canady lied to his constituents about his adulterous affair with
Sharon Becker, which caused her divorce from Florida businessman Robert
Becker.
Jim Bunn, (R-Oregon) With his success due in great part to support from the
Christian Coalition, Bunn won his congressional seat, then left his wife
(and mother of his five children), married a staffer, and put his new wife
on the state payroll with a salary of $ 97,500.
Lewis Libby, former Assistant to the President and Chief of Staff to Vice
President Dick Cheney. In 1996 published a novel containing bizarre sexual
content, including bestiality and pedophilia.
John Peterson (R-PA): has been accused of sexual harassment and
hostile-work-environment claims by six women.
Chip Pickering (R-MS) 's estranged wife claims in a lawsuit he had an affair
that ruined their marriage while Pickering was in Congress and living in a
Christian building for lawmakers on C Street, near the U.S. Capitol.
Pickering, 45, was elected to Congress in 1996, and is now a lobbyist in
Washington for Cellular South, the company that is owned by his mistress's
family.
Bob Livingston (R-LA) was about to replace Newt Gingrich as Speaker of the
House until he resigned in disgrace when it was revealed that he admitted to
had been involved in several adulterous affairs, (while attempting to
crucify Democratic President Clinton for having done so)!
Dan Burton (R-IN) was the Chairman of the House Government Reform &
Oversight Committee. He hated President Clinton so that he publicly called
him a "scumbag." Following an expose, Burton was forced to admit that he
fathered an out-of-wedlock child, a fact he denied for years.
Ken Calvert (R-CA) said in 1998, "We can't forgive what occurred between
the President and Lewinsky." This is the same Christian Coalition ally, who
was caught by police in 1993 receiving oral sex from a prostitute. His
ex-wife also sued him for failure to pay alimony.
Helen Chenoweth (R-ID): one of first to condemn Clinton, admitted to having
a six year extramarital affair with a married associate. The Spokane
Spokesman-Review, but now she claims a pardon from a higher authority: "I've
asked for God's forgiveness, and I've received it," she revealed. (She has
since divorced and remarried – no doubt with the Lord's blessing!)
Mike Bowers Former State Attorney General of Georgia, prosecuted the famous
"Bowers vs. Hardwick" case, based on Georgia anti-sodomy laws. Admitted to a
10-year adulterous affair.
Ed Schrock, two-term republican congressman, with a 92% approval rating from
the Christian Coalition. Cosponsor of the Federal Marriage Amendment,
consistently opposed gay rights. Married, with wife and kids. Withdrew his
candidacy for a third term after tapes of him soliciting for gay sex were
circulated.
Bill Thomas (R-CA) This 11-term Republican is chairman of the Ways and Means
subcommittee on Health. In June, (2003?) the Bakersfield Californian
reported that Thomas, who is married, was having an affair with health care
lobbyist Deborah Steelman, who steered huge campaign gifts to Thomas' war
chest. In an "open letter to friends and neighbors" (voters), Thomas did
not deny the relationship, but said during his legislative career, " . . .
Any personal failures of commitment or responsibility to my wife, family,
or friends are just that, personal. I have never traded a public
responsibility for a personal one and I never will."
He has yet to admit, however, that during 38 years of marriage he has
committed adultery with dozens of women, sexually assaulted others
(including a lobbyist for Planned Parenthood), and kept mistresses on his
campaign and public payrolls – to the tune of at least a half-million
dollars.
Neil Bush, brother of George W. Bush, in a March 2003 divorce deposition,
admitted repeatedly having sex with strange women who just showed up at his
room while he was on an Asian business trip.
Don Sherwood (R-PA) Had a five year adulterous affair which only ended when
his mistress sued him for physical abuse (and attempted murder?) in 2004.
Carey Lee Cramer, political consultant and producer of negative presidential
campaign ads, convicted of molesting two young girls, one of whom lived with
him, and was 8 yrs old; the other starred in an anti-Kerry commercial.
Andrew Buhr, Republican politician, former committeeman for Hadley Township
Missouri, was charged with two counts of first degree sodomy with a 13-year
old boy.
Senator John Ensign (R-NV) confessed to serious cheating on his wife with a
staffer and caught paying hush money to the husband, his chief of staff.
Gov. Mark Sanford (R-SC), confessed to serious cheating on his wife after
leaving his state unsupervised for a week.
Senator Larry Craig (R-ID), caught in a gay sex sting operation in a MN
bathroom.
Senator David Vitter (R-LA), found to have been a client of prostitutes in
DC and Louisiana.
Rep. Mark Foley, (R-FL) forced to resign when he was found to be having
inappropriate communications with male pages.
Rep. Vito Fossela. (R-NY) another "family values" Republican lost his seat
when it was revealed that he had fathered a child with a woman not his wife.
In the Fall of 2009, yet another conservative Christian Republican fell from
grace. Assemblymen Michael Duvall of Yorba Linda, CA. made the mistake of
bragging before a "hot mike" to a fellow legislator, about his sexual
conquests with female lobbyists, at "the head table" of a legislative
hearing room, . This champion opponent of gay equality was a married man
with two children who had earned a 100% rating for good Christian family
values organizations. Now, he's joined the cavalcade of disgraced
hypocritical Republican former politicians.
Rep. DesJarlais, who is also a doctor, made the unfortunately rather common
decision to cheat on his wife before assuming office. However, that's not
all. You see, besides cheating on his wife, Rep. DesJarlais' choice of
partners bears mention – specifically, he…
Cheated with his coworkers
Cheated with his own patients.
Wrote false prescriptions for one of his mistresses to get drugs, and…
Pressured his own wife to get an abortion – twice – while campaigning as a
supposedly family values-friendly candidate.
Sue Myrick, Congresswoman (R-NC), describes herself as a "devout Christian."
Yet she's divorced and now married to the man with whom some say she has
admitted committing adultery when she and he were married to their prior
spouses.
Adelphia Communications Corp.: Donated large sums of money to some of the
most conservative members of Congress. They are also the first cable company
to offer hard-core adult movies to subscribers. [
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/2/8/12123/29391 ]
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