Posted on 10/12/2004 9:39:51 AM PDT by KillBill
David Wu admits to 'inexcusable behavior'
PORTLAND, Ore. - A Democratic congressman in a tight re-election race admitted Tuesday that while he was a college student 28 years ago, he was disciplined by school officials for "inexcusable behavior" toward an ex-girlfriend.
The admission by Rep. David Wu, D-Ore., came immediately after a report published in The Oregonian newspaper saying a former girlfriend from college once claimed Wu tried to force her into having sex. The report said the woman, whom the newspaper did not identify, declined to comment, citing privacy concerns.
In his statement, Wu said he had a "two-year romantic relationship that ended with inexcusable behavior on my part."
"I take full responsibility for my actions and I am very sorry," Wu said in a statement. "I was disciplined by Stanford University for my behavior, and I worked with a counselor. This single event forever changed my life and the person I have become."
He didn't elaborate.
Wu, 49, is facing a tough re-election challenge this year from Republican Goli Ameri. He is seeking his fourth term in Oregon's 1st Congressional District.
Wu would not speak to The Oregonian for the newspaper's story, which was accompanied by an explanatory editor's note and specified that none of the information in the story had come from Ameri or any Republican officials or activists.
According to The Oregonian, Wu and the woman dated in their junior year, until she broke things off in the spring of 1976.
A former patrol commander at Stanford, Raoul Niemeyer, told The Oregonian that that summer the 21-year-old Wu was brought to the campus police annex after his ex-girlfriend alleged that he tried to force her into sex.
According to Niemeyer, Wu told police that what happened was consensual.
Niemeyer did not see or meet with the woman but said his Officers told him that she was bruised and that she and Wu previously "had some type of a relationship."
"Whether it was an amorous one or whether it was just platonic or what, I never was able to determine because, you know, the guy, he basically clammed up after that and wouldn't talk," Niemeyer told the paper.
Wu was not arrested. The woman ultimately declined criminal prosecution and did not file a formal disciplinary complaint, former Stanford officials said.
But before the next school year began, Wu was "de-selected" for a job as a dormitory resident assistant, a professor who would have supervised him said.
Current Stanford officials would not discuss what happened between Wu and the woman or the university's handling of the matter, citing university policy and student confidentiality laws.
(Copyright 2004 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
Goli Ameri is going to win this race going away.
Oh, first story post. Did I do everything right?
Wu too? And who's Wu?
Oh Jeesh. Let it go, it's just personal behavior and non of our business. Besides all (D) guys do it.
Was Wu on first or second?
If these are the people IN CONGRESS, is it any surprise that baby-killing, sodomy, and soon gay marraiges are legal?
If you leave people of bad ethics in Congress, you have no right to complain when they legislate *surprise* bad ethics.
Are you with me David Wu?
Are you really just a shadow
Of the man that I once knew?
She is lovely yes she's sly.
And you're an ordinary guy.
Has she finally got to you?
Can you hear me David?
This could very well sink Mr. Wu. Goli Ameri is a strong challenger.
if he had been a real democrat, he would have told her to put some ice on it, called her a nut/slut trailer park trash, and been done with it.
I'm not sympathetic to this guy, BUT, if the newspaper won't identify her, and she declines comment, it is not fair to him, just as it would not be fair to any other man to have an unidentified "accuser."
Oh, do you mean like the young woman that Kobe Bryant raped ?
I'm not sympathetic to this guy, BUT, if the newspaper won't identify her, and she declines comment, it is not fair to him, just as it would not be fair to any other man to have an unidentified "accuser."
10 posted on 10/12/2004 9:45:56 AM PDT by Enterprise (The left hates the Constitution. Islamic Fascism hates America. Natural allies.)
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I agree. And it was 20 years ago. If his behavior has not reflected this incident in the past 20 years, then I think that it is dirty pool bringing it up now. It depends on his behavior the past 20 years. Regardless of anyone's political beliefs, I think it's getting crazy that past mistakes are being dragged out instead of current issues. I think that the reason Clinton's past was relevant is that he was still abusing women at the time. That's different.
I had Steely Dan on the other day, and this is exactly what I thought of....
Gives new meaning to trying to "Wu a women."
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