Bastards.... utter bastards.
I saw a news report about them calling for French's resignation somewhere yesterday but didn't post it here. I should have.
The article pointed out that French's critics claimed he lied on his affidavit when he said he "witnessed" certain events, but then the article admitted that French never stated in his affidavit what they are accusing him of stating.
I've searched and searched but can't find where I saw the blasted thing :-(
There will be a backlash for this. There is no doubt in my mind. The Media and the Demoncrats are wounded and angry. The Swift Vet Heroes have destroyed them---and the slime fest is just beginning.
The Clackamas County district attorney's office said French had been placed on a 30-day paid leave while it conducts an investigation into his conduct.
Foote declined to say what aspects of French's conduct the office would investigate. But Chief Deputy District Attorney Greg Horner said the investigation is in response to the specific questions raised by The Oregonian.
"We're going to investigate all the facts we've been told, and once we get all the facts we're going to make a decision about what we should do," Foote said.
(French's former boss) O'Leary said Thursday that he heard about the rumored affair about a year before he retired as Clackamas County district attorney in 1995. After French denied it, O'Leary did not talk to the woman but asked his chief legal secretary to do so, he said. No one was disciplined as a result.
At the time, O'Leary's policy forbade employees from having extramarital affairs with colleagues, he said. Clackamas County had a sexual harassment policy that covered the district attorney's office, but it did not specifically cover extramarital office romances.
Foote later heard a rumor about the relationship. But he never asked French about it, saying he thought it "was a personal matter and I try not to mix people's personal lives with work."
He said he does not think he ever talked to French about it in detail until contacted by The Oregonian on Thursday.
"I do think this is the first time I really sat down with him and said, 'What is this about?' " Foote said.
Since the anti-Kerry commercial catapulted to the forefront of the presidential campaign last week, French has been the target of protesters who say he violated legal ethics in his affidavit.
In the document, French said Kerry "wildly exaggerated and lied about his record in Vietnam." He asserts Kerry received two of his three Purple Hearts under false pretenses.
French also said Kerry lied about the record of their unit twice when he returned from Vietnam. But French later acknowledged that he was relying on the account of trusted friends when he said Kerry lied about the two Purple Hearts.
The reporter who wrote this story for the Oregonian is Stephen Beaven
Phone: 503-294-7663
Email: stevebeaven@news.oregonian.com
Counties in Oregon are riddled with politics and the deputy district attorneys are always being fired and rehired, depending on who wins the latest election. One of French's former employers, a female district attorney, was disbarred by the Oregon Supreme Court for breaking the law.