Posted on 04/20/2005 9:18:27 AM PDT by ArmyBratproud
The woman whose testimony now threatens to derail John Bolton's nomination as U.N. ambassador claims he was "genuinely behaving like a madman" during a 1994 trip to Moscow.
But she's a self-described "liberal Democrat" who helped organize the Dallas chapter of "Mothers Opposing Bush" during last year's presidential campaign.
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Melody Townsel first offered her bizarre allegation to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on April 8, in a letter claiming that during a trip ten years ago to Kyrgyzstan, Bolton chased her through the halls of a her hotel throwing objects and screaming threats.
In her unlikely account Ms. Townsel said the harassment was not sexual.
Still, her uncorroborated story appears to have prompted at least one key Republican on the committee to withdraw his support for Bolton, forcing a delay in the vote.
"I don't feel comfortable voting today," Ohio Republican George Voinovich told the committee on Tuesday. "I think we ought to get the information [and] get a chance to have [the allegations] rebutted," he added.
Ms. Townsel was a subcontractor for the U.S. Agency for International Development at the time she and Bolton worked together.
"For nearly two weeks, while I awaited fresh direction from my company and from USAID, John Bolton hounded me in such an appalling way that I eventually retreated to my hotel room and stayed there," Townsel claimed, in quotes first reported by the New York Sun on Monday.
"Mr. Bolton, of course, then routinely visited me there to pound on the door and shout threats," she continued.
The paper also uncovered the Bolton accuser's anti-Bush credentials.
Townsel's allegations which were touted by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee's ranking Democrat, Joe Biden, who told his colleagues on Tuesday that the Bolton accuser was willing to sign a sworn affidavit to back her story.
Biden read from Townsel's letter:
"When I was dispatching a letter to AID, my hell began. Mr. Bolton proceeded to chase me through the halls of a Russian hotel, throwing things at me, shoving threatening letters under my door, and genuinely behaving like a madman."
But in an interview with the Sun, Townsel admitted that she has no witnesses to back her claims. "There were people aware of the harassment, but they are not willing to come forward because they have existing business with the government," she said.
Townsel also admitted she was a staunch Bush basher, explaining, "There is no question that I have been a vocal and outspoken critic of this administration and I am a very liberal Democrat."
Asked why she didn't go public with her complaint in 2001, when Bolton's nomination for undersecretary of state was being considered by the same committee, Townsel said that at the time she had retreated from politics and was raising young children.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/4/15/101542/050
Also get this to Sen. Boxer.... (4.00 / 4)
She is a diarist here, so it would be easy to get her attention.
The Moral Majority - all those Christian conservatives left on Earth AFTER the Rapture....
by sp0t on Fri Apr 15th, 2005 at 07:47:24 PDT
Ahh yes! (4.00 / 3)
More ammuniation for her to use. And she can reiterate Tuesday's comment: "I think Mr. Bolton needs anger management at a minimum and he does not deserve to be promoted."
"You don't lead by pointing and telling people some place to go. You lead by going to that place and making a case." - Ken Kesey
by Glinda on Fri Apr 15th, 2005 at 08:59:49 PDT
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amyindallas is Amy Boardman Hunt. While her friend Melody Townsel is in hiding because she is being seen as a liar, amyindallas is trying to explain that it's a he said, she said indicident and there is no proof that any of this happened because Melody's lawyers burned the evidence after 10 years. lol!
Amy Boardman Hunt and her husband Brian
Amy Boardman Hunt, who works for a public relations company and has a 20-month-old daughter.
You just hit the motherload!!!
George Lakoff, the UC Berkeley professor of cognitive linguistics whose scrutiny of the language of politics has begun to bring him national recognition. The author of the seminal book "Moral Politics: How Liberals and Conservatives Think," Lakoff's specialty is dissecting "framing," or the ways in which conservatives and liberals position issues to fit their respective moral worldviews.
26 August 2004
Lakoff returns to teaching at UC Berkeley with Linguistics 290L, a seminar that will train students to recognize frames and follow their usage in the presidential election. And starting August 30, he will comment for the NewsCenter on how issues are being framed by Republican Convention speakers.
'A "war president" has extraordinary powers. And the "war on terror," of course, never ends. There's no peace treaty with terror. It's a prescription for keeping conservatives in power indefinitely.'
-George Lakoff
Lakoff was interviewed July 23, 2004 by David Brancaccio for PBS's "NOW with Bill Moyers."
"Framing the Dems: How conservatives control political debate and how progressives can take it back," by George Lakoff, The American Prospect, Sept. 1, 2003
"Framing the issues: UC Berkeley professor George Lakoff tells how conservatives use language to dominate politics," by Bonnie Azab Powell, UC Berkeley NewsCenter, October 27, 2003
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"In her unlikely account Ms Townsel said the harrassment wasn't sexual."
That's easy for her to say, but how do we know that Bolton wasn't fighting off unwelcome sexual advances from a horny liberal female , and was just too much of a gentleman to report her aggressive behavior to the authorities.
ALERT-
Mo1 just hit on something big here.
-If the info pans out......
Townsel and her pal Amy Boardman Hunt hang out on the dailykos.
Townsel's company (according to her own web page) has done work with Androvett Legal Media and Marketing, which Amy Boardman Hunt is a media consultant for.
-AMY BOARDMAN HUNT IS ALSO CO CHAIR FOR MEDIA RELATIONS OF THE DALLAS BAR ASSOCIATION. (Many dem connections).
-Now, Think back to when all that stuff about Talon News was going on.
I posted a few times how Howard Dean's folks had Zuniga, the guy who runs dailykos, on their payroll. And then there was a post where Zuniga had mentioned that they were in talks with DNC folks about how to do fund raising through dailykos.com.
If Townsel and her pal Amy are posting on Kos...they could know folks at the DNC as well.
Since Townsel worked with that Dallas Chapter of Mothers against Bush....and they had all the Kerry campaign links...odds are they had contact with the DNC.
How hard would it be for Biden and Dean and their goons to put her up to the bogus charges she seems to be throwing out at Bolton? Not very hard.
The left lunatics have found another Anita Hill to push their liberal kook agenda. And Harry Reid is crowing like a proud little hen that John Bolton is "damaged goods". That should tell anyone what they are doing!
Look at Amy Boardman Hunt's bio from the DBA piece.
-Amy Boardman Hunt is a legal media consultant for Androvett Legal Media and Marketing and co-chair of the DBA Media Relations Committee. Previously, she was a reporter for Texas Lawyer newspaper and its Washington, D.C., affiliate, Legal Times.-
She certainly has the means to be in contact with Dems...even in D.C.
Looks more and more like Townsel is a lib who may have gotten some marching orders from the Dems.
candy corn ehhh? She seems like a corn eyed brown trout being flushed down the toilet bowl!
I have no doubt it's a Dem hit job. NONE!
Melody just remembered TEN YEARS AFTER THE FACT that John Bolton attached her?! What a crock!!!
Good point ... which would mean there would be no need to spread this letter throughout the internet
She would have known who to go to
Interesting how Amy does not mention that she has done work with Townsel's company.
Via the firm she works with that does Legal Media and Marketing.
Also...she is a media consultant.
So It looks like she and Townsel worked this whole little thing up.
When the U.S. Senate approved an amendment to the corporate tax bill last week, it effectively undermined the Department of Labors proposed overtime rules. The amendment ensures that workers who were already qualified to receive overtime pay will not be denied. This is a classic example of the exception swallowing the rule, says JOHN T. PALTER, an attorney with Dallas Davis Munck, P.C. Labors proposals could have brought much-needed certainty to the antiquated overtime standards of the Fair Labor Standards Act. The uncertainty increasingly makes employers a target for plaintiffs lawyers. The amendment, while clearly paved with good intentions, promises to lead employers still farther down a winding, chaotic path. To interview Mr. Palter about overtime rules, contact Melody Townsel at 800-559-4534 or melody@legalpr.com.
Typical conversation between two Democrats:
"You lie, and I'll swear to it."
This woman is bogus, and any Repub who uses her lies as an excuse not to vote should be thrown out on his rear.
She's a fruitcake.
OH, my gosh, I just got to the thread where you pinged me, I clicked on the link and what do I see?
A picture and the name of Sharon Boyd!!! I didn't have to read a word at that website or anything! ANYbody that is even remotely involved with Sharon Boyd is a NUT, because Sharon Boyd has a reputation in Dallas for being a political activist NUT, NUTTIER THAN NUTS!!!!
Thanks for posting that, even if I wasn't a Bolton fan before, I would be now---
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