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Lord knows I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but yet another GOP sex pervert has been caught...
"Rep. Christopher Lee is a married Republican congressman serving the 26th District of New York. But when he trolls Craigslist's "Women Seeking Men" forum, he's Christopher Lee, 'divorced' 'lobbyist' and 'fit fun classy guy.' One object of his flirtation told us her story."
http://www.businessinsider.com/marri...st-babe-2011-2
http://gawker.com/#!5755071/married-...raigslist-babe
Last edited by ilovedomains; 02-09-2011 at 09:57 PM.
Why do smart people do dumb things?
Tea party favorite? Says who? LOLOriginally Posted by ilovedomains
Why didn't you report this one?:
In March, Representative Eric J. Massa, a freshman Democrat from New York, stepped down after the House ethics committee began an investigation into accusations that he had harassed a male aide.
Must have drank to much beer again with the libers.
I have no sympathy for Massa and Clinton either. They all deserve the ridicule they get.
Probably because many of these "chosen" (elected) people don't live in the same world as we do. Not all but some seem to lose all ethics and morality when they reach high places.
Why are you accusing him of being "smart people"?
"Just a lot of embarrassment, embarrassed to be part of group of domainers who would do this to their fellow man.",
Condemnation of Mobee boys and investors by our precious Mother Theresa of Domaindom
I'm not sure how intelligent the guy is but I don't consider his actions that big a deal in light of all that goes on in politics. At least he didn't screw the American people by jumping in bed right away with the lobbyists...
The fact that he immediately resigned shows the guy still has some moral integrity as a true politician would grind thru it with no regards to his constituents and family. That and he quickly accepted responsibility for his actions which is highly apolitical.
I'm not condoning his actions nor do I probably agree with his politics. Just making some observations.....
Well, um...
Former New York Rep. Christopher Lee’s Craigslist fiasco may not have been the first time he bared his chest to women other than his wife: Politico says, John Boehner, then House minority leader, warned Lee over his partying with female lobbyists last year. Lee resigned Wednesday just three hours after Gawker posted shirtless photos from Lee’s online flirtation with a stranger he met on Craigslist. A special election will be held to pick his replacement.
Feb 10, 2011 6:15 AM
Read it at Politico
"Just a lot of embarrassment, embarrassed to be part of group of domainers who would do this to their fellow man.",
Condemnation of Mobee boys and investors by our precious Mother Theresa of Domaindom
My bad. Was trying to give him the benefit of a doubt. Guess I should have just read the first post in this thread where he lists his occupation on craigslist as a "divorced lobbyist". Well, good riddens then...
At least he resigned.
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at least it wasn't teenage boys. thats the typical MO. i'd estimate that at least 40% of those in congress are ****ing around on their spouse in one way or another. most likely its even higher than that.
Power is a powerful drug. And most are always on a power high. Some are looked at almost from the aspect of a rock star and have groupies.
The group (yea, more than one) of congressmen that did go after the underage teenage male pages is quite disgusting.
"Just a lot of embarrassment, embarrassed to be part of group of domainers who would do this to their fellow man.",
Condemnation of Mobee boys and investors by our precious Mother Theresa of Domaindom
Charles Rangel (Democrat) found guilty of 11 counts of ethics violations is allowed to keep his seat in Congress.
Christopher Lee (Republican) Married man who likes to pickup on Woman, Removes himself from Congress.
Now, looking at these two, who do you have more respect for?
I personally think Christopher Lee is a idiot, not just for cheating on his Wife but for giving up his seat so easily......
He should of done what Democrats do and that is; LIE... Deny any wrong doing, Fight to the very end, It's what William Jefferson did and it's what Maxine Waters is doing right now..
Democrats like these are nothing but greedy political self serving whores who care little about serving the people in this country...... Lee on the other hand was a public servant who truly wanted to serve the people.
Big difference.
Wasn't you guys who wanted to give Clinton a free pass?
Where's Lee's free pass?
Oh, I forgot, he's a Republican, they don't get Free Passes.
Greg, is Bill Clinton really a registered sex offender?.. Send me link if you can.
I didn't know this.
Last edited by Raider; 02-10-2011 at 05:01 PM.
Please vote Republican in 2012, America can not sustain another 4 years
of Liberal policies that are fiscally and socially destroying the country..
It's got to be fake. The real one would be full of bullet holes.
I don't care about politicians screwing around, I pretty much expect it. They have money and power and that works great. Now republicans (or anyone) who try and shove their religious "moral values" down america's throat while banging 18 year old male prostitutes while doing drugs, they're total hypocrites and I have to chuckle when I see guys like that get their dirty laundry put on display. What Lee did is nothing. I couldn't care less.
You are totally blind if you think republicans have people in mind while democrates are greedy. They're both self serving pigs. Maybe 2-5% of those in office really deep down give a sh*t. Its a job, its money and its a sweet lifestyle. They don't care about you. Stop dreaming.
In France and some parts of Europe Christopher Lee's "indiscretions" would blow over in a day or 2. No one would ask him to step down nor would they expect him to. I think this fellow shouldn't have resigned. What he did isn't shocking for a politician in this country. NEXT!!
It's like Sanford of SC hiking all the way down to South America for his lover. eh, nothing's shocking anymore. It's only the attempted coverups that really make the deal worse than it is.
"Just a lot of embarrassment, embarrassed to be part of group of domainers who would do this to their fellow man.",
Condemnation of Mobee boys and investors by our precious Mother Theresa of Domaindom
Can you post some examples of politicians who have done this? You throw out these wild accusations but you never seem to back them up.
If that's true, then why are Democrats faced with charges of corruption far more than Republicans are?
Judicial Watch Announces List of Washington’s “Ten Most Wanted Corrupt Politicians” for 2009
Washington, DC
Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, today released its 2009 list of Washington’s “Ten Most Wanted Corrupt Politicians.” The list, in alphabetical order, includes:
1. Senator Christopher Dodd (D-CT): This marks two years in a row for Senator Dodd, who made the 2008 “Ten Most Corrupt” list for his corrupt relationship with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and for accepting preferential treatment and loan terms from Countrywide Financial, a scandal which still dogs him. In 2009, the scandals kept coming for the Connecticut Democrat. In 2009, Judicial Watch filed a Senate ethics complaint against Dodd for undervaluing a property he owns in Ireland on his Senate Financial Disclosure forms. Judicial Watch’s complaint forced Dodd to amend the forms. However, press reports suggest the property to this day remains undervalued. //
2. Senator John Ensign (R-NV): A number of scandals popped up in 2009 involving public officials who conducted illicit affairs, and then attempted to cover them up with hush payments and favors, an obvious abuse of power. The year’s worst offender might just be Nevada Republican Senator John Ensign. Ensign admitted in June to an extramarital affair with the wife of one of his staff members, who then allegedly obtained special favors from the Nevada Republican in exchange for his silence. According to The New York Times: “The Justice Department and the Senate Ethics Committee are expected to conduct preliminary inquiries into whether Senator John Ensign violated federal law or ethics rules as part of an effort to conceal an affair with the wife of an aide…” //
3. Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA): Judicial Watch is investigating a $12 million TARP cash injection provided to the Boston-based OneUnited Bank at the urging of Massachusetts Rep. Barney Frank. As reported in the January 22, 2009, edition of the Wall Street Journal, the Treasury Department indicated it would only provide funds to healthy banks to jump-start lending. Not only was OneUnited Bank in massive financial turmoil, but it was also “under attack from its regulators for allegations of poor lending practices and executive-pay abuses, including owning a Porsche for its executives’ use.” Rep. Frank admitted he spoke to a “federal regulator,” and Treasury granted the funds. (The bank continues to flounder despite Frank’s intervention for federal dollars.) Moreover, Judicial Watch uncovered documents in 2009 that showed that members of Congress for years were aware that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were playing fast and loose with accounting issues, risk assessment issues and executive compensation issues, even as liberals led by Rep. Frank continued to block attempts to rein in the two Government Sponsored Enterprises (GSEs). For example, during a hearing on September 10, 2003, before the House Committee on Financial Services considering a Bush administration proposal to further regulate Fannie and Freddie, Rep. Frank stated: “I want to begin by saying that I am glad to consider the legislation, but I do not think we are facing any kind of a crisis. That is, in my view, the two Government Sponsored Enterprises we are talking about here, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, are not in a crisis." //
4. Secretary of Treasury Timothy Geithner: In 2009, Obama Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner admitted that he failed to pay $34,000 in Social Security and Medicare taxes from 2001-2004 on his lucrative salary at the International Monetary Fund (IMF), an organization with 185 member countries that oversees the global financial system. (Did we mention Geithner now runs the IRS?) It wasn’t until President Obama tapped Geithner to head the Treasury Department that he paid back most of the money, although the IRS kindly waived the hefty penalties. In March 2009, Geithner also came under fire for his handling of the AIG bonus scandal, where the company used $165 million of its bailout funds to pay out executive bonuses, resulting in a massive public backlash. Of course as head of the New York Federal Reserve, Geithner helped craft the AIG deal in September 2008. However, when the AIG scandal broke, Geithner claimed he knew nothing of the bonuses until March 10, 2009. //
5. Attorney General Eric Holder: Tim Geithner can be sure he won’t be hounded about his tax-dodging by his colleague Eric Holder, US Attorney General. Judicial Watch strongly opposed Holder because of his terrible ethics record, which includes: obstructing an FBI investigation of the theft of nuclear secrets from Los Alamos Nuclear Laboratory; rejecting multiple requests for an independent counsel to investigate alleged fundraising abuses by then-Vice President Al Gore in the Clinton White House; undermining the criminal investigation of President Clinton by Kenneth Starr in the midst of the Lewinsky investigation; and planning the violent raid to seize then-six-year-old Elian Gonzalez at gunpoint in order to return him to Castro’s Cuba. Moreover, there is his soft record on terrorism. //
6. Rep. Jesse Jackson, Jr. (D-IL)/ Senator Roland Burris (D-IL): One of the most serious scandals of 2009 involved a scheme by former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich to sell President Obama’s then-vacant Senate seat to the highest bidder. Two men caught smack dab in the middle of the scandal: Senator Roland Burris, who ultimately got the job, and Rep. Jesse Jackson, Jr. According to the Chicago Sun-Times, emissaries for Jesse Jackson Jr., named “Senate Candidate A” in the Blagojevich indictment, reportedly offered $1.5 million to Blagojevich during a fundraiser if he named Jackson Jr. to Obama’s seat. Three days later federal authorities arrested Blagojevich. Burris, for his part, apparently lied about his contacts with Blagojevich, who was arrested in December 2008 for trying to sell Obama’s Senate seat. //
7. President Barack Obama: During his presidential campaign, President Obama promised to run an ethical and transparent administration. However, in his first year in office, the President has delivered corruption and secrecy, bringing Chicago-style political corruption to the White House. Consider just a few Obama administration “lowlights” from year one: Even before President Obama was sworn into office, he was interviewed by the FBI for a criminal investigation of former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich’s scheme to sell the President’s former Senate seat to the highest bidder. (Obama’s Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel and slumlord Valerie Jarrett, both from Chicago, are also tangled up in the Blagojevich scandal.) Moreover, the Obama administration made the startling claim that the Privacy Act does not apply to the White House. The Obama White House believes it can violate the privacy rights of American citizens without any legal consequences or accountability. President Obama boldly proclaimed that “transparency and the rule of law will be the touchstones of this presidency,” but his administration is addicted to secrecy, stonewalling far too many of Judicial Watch’s Freedom of Information Act requests and is refusing to make public White House visitor logs as federal law requires. The Obama administration turned the National Endowment of the Arts (as well as the agency that runs the AmeriCorps program) into propaganda machines, using tax dollars to persuade “artists” to promote the Obama agenda. //
8. Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA): At the heart of the corruption problem in Washington is a sense of entitlement. Politicians believe laws and rules (even the U.S. Constitution) apply to the rest of us but not to them. Case in point: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her excessive and boorish demands for military travel. Judicial Watch obtained documents from the Pentagon in 2008 that suggest Pelosi has been treating the Air Force like her own personal airline. These documents, obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, include internal Pentagon email correspondence detailing attempts by Pentagon staff to accommodate Pelosi’s numerous requests for military escorts and military aircraft as well as the speaker’s 11th hour cancellations and changes. //
9. Rep. John Murtha (D-PA) and the rest of the PMA Seven: Rep. John Murtha made headlines in 2009 for all the wrong reasons. The Pennsylvania congressman is under federal investigation for his corrupt relationship with the now-defunct defense lobbyist PMA Group. PMA, founded by a former Murtha associate, has been the congressman’s largest campaign contributor. Since 2002, Murtha has raised $1.7 million from PMA and its clients. And what did PMA and its clients receive from Murtha in return for their generosity? Earmarks — tens of millions of dollars in earmarks. In fact, even with all of the attention surrounding his alleged influence peddling, Murtha kept at it. Following an FBI raid of PMA’s offices earlier in 2009, Murtha continued to seek congressional earmarks for PMA clients, while also hitting them up for campaign contributions. //
10. Rep. Charles Rangel (D-NY): Rangel, the man in charge of writing tax policy for the entire country, has yet to adequately explain how he could possibly “forget” to pay taxes on $75,000 in rental income he earned from his off-shore rental property. He also faces allegations that he improperly used his influence to maintain ownership of highly coveted rent-controlled apartments in Harlem, and misused his congressional office to fundraise for his private Rangel Center by preserving a tax loophole for an oil drilling company in exchange for funding. //
http://www.judicialwatch.org/news/20...liticians-2009
So as not to overwhelm the reader, I'll post the 2010 list in my next post.
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Last edited by Raider; 02-10-2011 at 11:10 PM.
Please vote Republican in 2012, America can not sustain another 4 years
of Liberal policies that are fiscally and socially destroying the country..
It's a fake Raider.
Most thought at the time Bill C. got out of the scandal too easy.
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