Rep. Jo Ann Emerson , R-Mo
Wonder if some "unauthorized person" sent this using one of the computers in her office?
Posted on 04/20/2006 3:19:41 PM PDT by LucyJo
Lawmaker Puzzled by Obscenity in Letter By SAM HANANEL, Associated Press Writer Wed Apr 19, 10:23 PM ET
WASHINGTON - Nobody expects to get a letter from a member of Congress that ends with an expletive.
But that's what happened when Rep. Jo Ann Emerson , R-Mo., recently corresponded with a resident of her southeast Missouri district.
The letter ended with a profane, seven-letter insult beginning with the letter a — "i think you're an. ..."
Emerson says she can't explain how the offensive language made it into the letter, which otherwise reads like a typical response to a citizen's question about last year's testimony of oil executives before the Senate Commerce Committee.
"There is no excuse for this inappropriate letter having been sent, and every apology has been made to the individual who received it," Emerson said in a statement to The Associated Press.
"We cannot determine whether the addition to the letter was made by someone within the office or by someone with access to the office, but it is on my letterhead and the responsibility for it lies with me. A valuable lesson has been learned and new procedures will be adopted as a result."
(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...
a Clymer?
Are we to assume the constituent was not, in fact, an A$$hole? Perhaps it was meant as a compliment.
Rep. Jo Ann Emerson , R-Mo
Wonder if some "unauthorized person" sent this using one of the computers in her office?
sounds like a closet RAT in her office was out to embarass her. Some housecleaning needs to be done.
OR the person who received the letter doctored it up A La Dan Rather. What makes me suspicious is how would the letter get out to the media. An ordinary person would have called the Congresswoman's office to get an explanation. Once they got it and an apology, that would be the end of it. Instead they called in the media, which makes me go hmm.
I'm wondering if the same person who sent it to the constituent also helped it "make its way to the Missouri Democratic Party".
Should have included you to the comment in post #6...
Nah.....the story said it was a seven letter word, Clymer has only six letters.
I'm smelling a set-up, either by a 'Rat mole in the Rep's office or else by the 'constituent' who may well turn out to be a DailyKos addict. Why would a copy of the letter "make its way" to the Democratic Party unless the recipient had a real axe to grind with the Rep? They should not have taken responsibility unless they were provided with the original document so they could examine it - hope that was done.
I suspect there is one somewhere around this incident!
This is an election year, so security is going to have to be tight - even on things like this, I guess. *sigh*
Not necessarily in her office. It's possible that Congress has a mailing service where the letters are created on a computer and submitted out to a printing site and zip sorted. They have a system like this in the CA legislature tough not everyone chooses to use it. At any rate some RAT in the mailing service location could have done that.
We're going to position ourselves as the vehicle for change," Dean said Wednesday.
What would I recommend? Securing mail facilities, and with secure and screened staff. There'll be a lot of money coming in -- something the Dems need a lot more of.
"The Vehicle for Change"? Fascinating choice of words from El Deano.
If Emerson were a Democrat, we'd expect that kind of thing.
"The Vehicle for Change"...
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Reminds me of Boy George, and Culture Club. lol.
Dean and the Deaniacs - CounterCulture Club!
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...I'm a man without conviction, I'm a man who doesn't know
How to sell a contradiction, you come and go, you come and go
CHORUS:
Karma karma karma karma karma chameleon
You come and go, you come and go...
...and worse!
lol! I can't get the song out of my head now... ACK!
Howard Dean has remade the yellow submarine. It's very artistic. Maybe the good Rep should also open an artistic based "501(3)c.". :)
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