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Utah GOP leader resigns after hot tub confession
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| Mar 13, 6:03
| BROCK VERGAKIS
Posted on 03/13/2010 3:20:07 PM PST by JoeProBono
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posted on
03/13/2010 3:21:28 PM PST
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: JoeProBono
Unlike the Dems, our guys quit/resign when the jig is up.
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posted on
03/13/2010 3:23:37 PM PST
by
Victor
(If an expert says it can't be done, get another expert." -David Ben-Gurion, the first Prime Minister)
To: JoeProBono
"I'm sure the resignation was really difficult for him, but it needed to happen," Maher said. "This is a secret that devastated my life and my family's life."I'm sure that $150k you accepted was devastating.
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posted on
03/13/2010 3:23:37 PM PST
by
skeeter
To: Victor
Unlike the Dems, our guys quit/resign when the jig is up.They have to--some of their base have morals. Make no mistake: this man would never have resigned if he had not been caught.
It is the moral superiority of the base that makes this happen, clearly not the moral superiority of the candidates or incumbents.
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posted on
03/13/2010 3:25:50 PM PST
by
SeƱor Zorro
("The ability to speak does not make you intelligent"--Qui-Gon Jinn)
To: skeeter
I think this just proves that money doesn't buy closure anymore than it buys happiness.
Now that both of them are free to move beyond the filthy lucre and the shameful silence of the matter, they are both likely to be more happier.
Still, he bears much greater responsibility for what happened. He was what--30? She was 15? Not even a close call.
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posted on
03/13/2010 3:28:37 PM PST
by
behzinlea
To: Victor
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posted on
03/13/2010 3:28:50 PM PST
by
MaxMax
(Conservatism isn't a party)
“. . . more happier”? Sigh.
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posted on
03/13/2010 3:29:40 PM PST
by
behzinlea
To: JoeProBono
I see a book coming out in the next six months to a year called, “Confessions Of a Hot Tub Politician.”
To: behzinlea
And what was the purpose for revealing this career destroying bit of news - I'm not even sure laws were broken - that happened 25 years ago... "closure"?
NO sale.
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posted on
03/13/2010 3:32:16 PM PST
by
skeeter
To: Victor
Generally speaking, I think conservatives and Republicans have a better track record in this respect (Larry Craig notwithstanding).
It’s not popular here to say so, but I put Eric Massa in the same category. He screwed up, admitted it, and resigned - - only to be called a nut and a kook by everyone from Nancy Pelosi to Glenn Beck. Eric Massa didn’t pay anyone to keep quiet, and he didn’t lie or deny what happened. Yet “we” seem to want to crucify him for taking the high road.
To use Bill O’Reillys favorite line, “Am I wrong?”
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posted on
03/13/2010 3:33:22 PM PST
by
bigbob
To: JoeProBono
“legal minor”
Is that an oxymoron?
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posted on
03/13/2010 3:34:08 PM PST
by
RatsDawg
To: JoeProBono
He is paying her not to tell what ELSE happened.
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posted on
03/13/2010 3:38:47 PM PST
by
GeronL
(I Own Me (yep, boiled down to 6 letters))
To: behzinlea
He still has to pay her to not say what else happened.
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posted on
03/13/2010 3:39:36 PM PST
by
GeronL
(I Own Me (yep, boiled down to 6 letters))
To: RatsDawg
Obviously he is paying her for keeping what else happened quiet. Sitting nude in a hot tub is not a big deal, nudists and naturists do it all the time.
Something else happened. He is going to have to keep those payments coming.
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posted on
03/13/2010 3:40:43 PM PST
by
GeronL
(I Own Me (yep, boiled down to 6 letters))
To: GeronL
I think its safe to assume after 25 years the statute of limitations has been exceeded.
He was paying her to save his political career and she apparently accepted the money and outed him anyway.
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posted on
03/13/2010 3:44:17 PM PST
by
skeeter
To: Victor
*cough* Mark Sanford *cough*
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posted on
03/13/2010 3:48:08 PM PST
by
Doohickey
(I try to take my days one at a time, but occasionally several days attack me at once.)
To: JoeProBono
P.J. O’Rourke’s “Parliament of Whores” should be required reading by all FReepers.
Too many folks are easily swayed with the right marketing pitch. Hmmm O”Rourke and Barnum....
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posted on
03/13/2010 3:48:31 PM PST
by
mgstarr
("Some of us drink because we're not poets." Arthur (1981))
To: mgstarr
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posted on
03/13/2010 3:51:56 PM PST
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: bigbob
He did NOT admit it. He said it was nothing sexual etc. He only quit because the Ethics Cmte or whatver had just rec’d reords of his days in the Navy, IIRC.
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posted on
03/13/2010 3:54:01 PM PST
by
PghBaldy
(Like the Ft Hood Killer, James Earl Ray was just stressed when he killed MLK Jr.)
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