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Frank tells of his despair during sex scandal (Hot Bottom Barney Tells All)
Boston Globe ^
| August 14, 2004
| Frank Phillips
Posted on 08/14/2004 7:52:32 AM PDT by Lance Romance
Frank tells of his despair during 89 sex scandal
Says he sought psychiatrist's help
By Frank Phillips, Globe Staff | August 14, 2004
US Representative Barney Frank acknowledged yesterday that for a brief time in 1989 he saw a psychiatrist and took antidepressant medication as he battled allegations from a gay prostitute and companion who had operated a sex-for-hire ring in the congressman's home.
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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: barneyfrank; gobie; stephengobie
Frank's depression came as the furor raged over Stephen Gobie's allegations that Frank was aware that he ran a gay prostitution ring out of the congressman's Washington, D.C., apartment. Frank had met Gobie in 1985, and later hired him as a personal assistant and driver. He fired him in 1987. And yet, the people of Massachusetts return him and Killer Ted back to Congress election after election.
This moral failing is one of the main reasons I packed my bags for Georgia.
Eventually, in July 1990, the House Ethics Committee, in a 57-report, rejected as untrue Gobie's charges that Frank knew about the prostitution ring or that Frank had committed sexual acts with Gobie in front of President Bush's locker in the House gymnasium.
But the panel did conclude that the congressman wrote a misleading memo that went to a Virginia prosecutor and was aimed at ending Gobie's probation on felony charges. It also found that 33 parking tickets issued to Frank's car, many when Gobie was driving, were improperly waived through the congressman's House privileges.
On its recommendation, the House issued a public reprimand to Frank. But he was easily reelected that year and has faced no serious opposition since.
To: Lance Romance
US Representative Barney Frank
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posted on
08/14/2004 8:04:33 AM PDT
by
KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
(I feel more and more like a revolted Charlton Heston, witnessing ape society for the very first time)
To: Lance Romance
They weren't allegations, they were factual disclosures.
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posted on
08/14/2004 8:05:39 AM PDT
by
OldFriend
(WAR IS THE REMEDY OUR ENEMIES HAVE CHOSEN)
To: Lance Romance
Did Frank make Gobble available to all the Democrats
so that he would .... get off?
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posted on
08/14/2004 8:08:13 AM PDT
by
Diogenesis
(Re: Protection from up on high, Keyser Sose has nothing on Sandy Berger, the DNC Burglar)
To: Lance Romance
''I was pretty dysfunctional for five or six weeks," Frank said in a brief interview Yeah, now he functions normally!!!
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posted on
08/14/2004 8:11:22 AM PDT
by
Toddsterpatriot
(Cry......and let slip the dogs of whine.)
To: Lance Romance
Frank probably was unhappy about the loss of his boy toys.
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posted on
08/14/2004 8:14:00 AM PDT
by
tkathy
(The choice is clear. Big tent or no tent.)
To: Lance Romance
The 64-year-old congressman said he was still able to ''show up and vote" in the House during the period.
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posted on
08/14/2004 8:15:34 AM PDT
by
KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
(I feel more and more like a revolted Charlton Heston, witnessing ape society for the very first time)
To: Lance Romance
At one time Barney headed the House Judiciary Subcommittee, and rejected the nomination of the late John Tower because he was a drinker and a womanizer. Apparently Rep. Frank doesn't see anything wrong with a Congressman being a "man-izer"...
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posted on
08/14/2004 8:22:39 AM PDT
by
Exeter
To: Lance Romance
There is nothing that Fwank says or does that isn't self-serving! These dem fairies do seen to love to put their current deviant on the government payroll.
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posted on
08/14/2004 8:24:12 AM PDT
by
Tacis
To: Lance Romance
Frank had met Gobie in 1985, and later hired him as a personal assistant and driver. He fired him in 1987. Barney paid Gobie "off the books", i.e. no income tax, no FICA tax, no HI tax. And he got away with it.
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posted on
08/14/2004 8:31:02 AM PDT
by
jackbill
To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
Getting the mea culpa out of the way for the Senate run, are we?
To: OldFriend
Are you as tired as me of reading this psychobabble from these people?
It's like a nightmare -- one long national group therapy session.
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posted on
08/14/2004 8:55:31 AM PDT
by
Howlin
(Kerry being called a war hero is "a colloquialism.")
To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
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posted on
08/14/2004 8:58:25 AM PDT
by
BunnySlippers
(Must get moose and squirrel ... B. Badanov)
To: Howlin
Even our esteemed former Governor, Christie Whitless stated that she thought McGreevy was so courageous............before she said he should resign now.
AAAARRRRRRGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHH
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posted on
08/14/2004 9:03:24 AM PDT
by
OldFriend
(WAR IS THE REMEDY OUR ENEMIES HAVE CHOSEN)
To: BunnySlippers
There are no amount of depravity these people won't sink to.
Well what do you expect when you you have made a choice to become a Democrat?..... "anything goes".
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posted on
08/14/2004 9:59:03 AM PDT
by
Chantal
To: Lance Romance
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posted on
08/14/2004 10:05:07 AM PDT
by
Dallas59
To: Lance Romance
This whole thing sucks; it's a pain in the butt.
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posted on
08/14/2004 10:16:01 AM PDT
by
pankot
To: Diogenesis
Is it the "down low" that glues the Dems together?
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posted on
08/14/2004 10:20:04 AM PDT
by
bvw
To: pankot
Have you heard of the new Fenway hot dog, the Barney Frank?
If you don;t like it you can shove it up your ass.
To: Lance Romance
I would just about pay money to hear Barney Franks say:
"I have a vewy gweat fwiend in Wome called 'Biggus..."
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posted on
08/14/2004 10:49:18 AM PDT
by
Living Stone
(The following statement is true: The preceeding statement is false.)
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