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Kennedy Quits All-Male Social Club
AP via AOL News ^ | Jan 17, 2005 | Andrew Miga

Posted on 01/17/2006 3:39:46 PM PST by Rennes Templar

WASHINGTON (Jan. 17) - Sen. Edward Kennedy, who criticized Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito's past membership in a controversial Princeton University alumni club, severed his ties Tuesday with a former Harvard college social club that bans women members.

"He has decided to be taken off their rolls, believing that it is a mistake to continue to be affiliated," Kennedy spokeswoman Melissa Wagoner said in a statement.

The Massachusetts Democrat, a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, grilled Alito during Senate confirmation hearing last week about Alito's ties to the Concerned Alumni of Princeton, an alumni group that opposed the admission of women and minorities at the Ivy League School.

A Washington Times story about Kennedy's Owl Club ties last week sparked criticism from Republicans who branded Kennedy a hypocrite.

Kennedy joined the Owl Club when he was a student at Harvard. Though not an active member since college, he donated about $100 to the club last October, his office said Tuesday.

Kennedy has sent a letter to the club asking for his name to be removed from all official documents.

"Senator Kennedy joined Harvard's Owl Club in 1954, a social organization similar to a fraternity, before women were admitted to the campus and long before they were integrated into campus life," Wagoner said.

Harvard ended its ties with the all-male club and others like it in 1984.

"While we are glad Ted Kennedy has decided to get on the equality bandwagon, it's laughable given that his revelation comes less than a week after his hypocritical attacks on Judge Alito," Republican National Committee spokeswoman Tracey Schmitt said Tuesday.

Kennedy's spokeswoman said the Owl Club was primarily a social club, while the Princeton group actively supported excluding women and minorities from the school.

"There is absolutely nothing in common between this social club and an organization like CAP that was established to push a political agenda to prohibit women and minorities from attending Princeton," Wagoner said. "No one can question Senator Kennedy's lifelong commitment to fighting for civil rights, equality and justice."


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 109th; alito; alitohearings; harvard; owlclub; resignation; tedkennedy
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"No one can question Senator Kennedy's lifelong commitment to fighting for civil rights, equality and justice."

Searching for barf bucket.

1 posted on 01/17/2006 3:39:47 PM PST by Rennes Templar
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He was just looking for HOOTERS


2 posted on 01/17/2006 3:41:30 PM PST by CMailBag
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To: Rennes Templar

Has it been announced on CNN?


3 posted on 01/17/2006 3:42:07 PM PST by mtbopfuyn (Legality does not dictate morality... Lavin)
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To: Rennes Templar

Mary Jo isn't laughing.


4 posted on 01/17/2006 3:42:48 PM PST by Jim Robinson
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5 posted on 01/17/2006 3:43:08 PM PST by Zuben Elgenubi
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Though not an active member since college, he donated about $100 to the club last October, his office said Tuesday.

Snort.

6 posted on 01/17/2006 3:43:12 PM PST by mewzilla (Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. John Adams)
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"No one can question Senator Kennedy's lifelong commitment to fighting for civil rights, equality and justice."

He should be doing time for manslaughter. That would have been justice enough.


7 posted on 01/17/2006 3:43:31 PM PST by BigSkyFreeper ("Tucker Carlson could reveal himself as a castrated, lesbian, rodeo clown ...wouldn't surprise me")
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To: Rennes Templar

Ping me when he quits the Senate.


8 posted on 01/17/2006 3:44:12 PM PST by Radix (Welcome home 3 ID!)
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To: Rennes Templar

Just in time.


9 posted on 01/17/2006 3:45:15 PM PST by The_Republican
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To: Rennes Templar
Ted Kennedy: Almost a Green Bay Packer?


10 posted on 01/17/2006 3:45:41 PM PST by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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They probably had plans to close the clubhouse bar anyway;)


11 posted on 01/17/2006 3:46:27 PM PST by Frank_2001
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Already posted. Not sure where....but I thought I would just get it out of the way.


12 posted on 01/17/2006 3:46:27 PM PST by Focault's Pendulum (I'm not a curmudgeon!!!! I've just been in a bad mood since '73)
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Could it be that he was feeling a bit guilty about haranguing Alito for his membership in a group that didn't allow women and minorities. Or so the story goes.

He wouldn't want to look like a hypocrite. Now would he.
13 posted on 01/17/2006 3:46:31 PM PST by dhs12345
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$100 per month or $100 per year. Chump change to the swimmer.


14 posted on 01/17/2006 3:46:55 PM PST by showme_the_Glory (No more rhyming, and I mean it! ..Anybody got a peanut.....)
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Kennedy has sent a letter to the club asking for his name to be removed from all official documents.

Based on my understanding of Demo/Commie lies, that means that he will continue to support it with financial contributions, and he will remain a member, but his name will be removed from all official documents in order to give him plausible deniability.

15 posted on 01/17/2006 3:47:45 PM PST by The Electrician ("Government is the only enterprise in the world which expands in size when its failures increase.")
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Kennedy has sent a letter to the club asking for his name to be removed from all official documents.

Sorry Fat-Boy, it doesn't work that way!

16 posted on 01/17/2006 3:48:43 PM PST by Jambe ( Save the Cows ! -- Eat a Vegan !!!)
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I wonder it it ever occurred to him that he should have done that before the hearings. Not like it matters, he hypocrisy of the Democrats is incomprehensible.


17 posted on 01/17/2006 3:49:00 PM PST by chaos_5
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CAP that was established to push a political agenda to prohibit women and minorities from attending Princeton," Wagoner said.

This seems to be the Democrat's Big Lie of the Week.

Did CAP, at any time, advocate that no minorities by admitted to Princeton?

Wasn't their position that academic standards should no be lowered for the benefit of gender or minority quotas?

18 posted on 01/17/2006 3:50:12 PM PST by Polybius
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To: The Electrician

i had the same reaction. it doesn't even look like he bothered to resign.


19 posted on 01/17/2006 3:50:51 PM PST by drhogan
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To: Rennes Templar

P0STED!

Posted several times already today.

20 posted on 01/17/2006 3:51:01 PM PST by xcamel (Exposing clandestine operations is treason. 13 knots make a noose.)
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