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Studds, first openly gay person elected to Congress, dead at 69 [had sex with 17-year-old page]
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Posted on 10/14/2006 6:54:45 AM PDT by HHKrepublican_2

BOSTON, Massachusetts (AP) -- Former U.S. Rep. Gerry Studds, the first openly gay person elected to Congress, died early Saturday at Boston Medical Center, a hospital official said. He was 69.

Christian Kiriakos, central administrator at the hospital, said Studds died between 1 a.m. and 2 a.m. He did not have additional information, and details of Studds' death could not be immediately confirmed.

Studds, a liberal Democrat who spent more than 20 years in Congress, was censured by the House in the 1980s for having sex with a 17-year-old male page. He was re-elected for several more terms.

Last year he married his longtime partner, Dean Hara, in Boston.

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KEYWORDS: 2006election; doublestandard; foley; foleygate; gerrystudds; homosexualagenda; hypocrisy; pagescandal; partisanwitchhunt; rip; studds
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To: NaughtiusMaximus
Wellstone funeral coming up!

No way. This close to the election, what with the Foley thing still working for them, Studds will get the shaft from the Dems, pun intended. :) You will see no wailing or rending of garments.

61 posted on 10/14/2006 7:34:38 AM PDT by veronica (Angry kook location: In a house, on a street, in a town, soon to be posting from the loony bin...)
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To: HHKrepublican_2

Studds = Badpuppy


62 posted on 10/14/2006 7:37:28 AM PDT by maggief
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To: Tribune7

With Jerrold Nadler as a pallbearer and the grave at the top of a hill.


63 posted on 10/14/2006 7:37:46 AM PDT by Mojave
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To: misterrob
What in the world does the MSM have to do with this or how people behave on this thread?

Uh and what in the world wants you to dismiss the hypocrisy the MSM shows towards Studd's case and Foley's case.

64 posted on 10/14/2006 7:39:58 AM PDT by Dane ("Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall" Ronald Reagan, 1987)
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To: Arrowhead1952
Exactly ...

"Studds fell unconscious October 3 because of what doctors later determined was a blood clot in his lung, Dean Hara said." ... is the cleaned up version.

The first account .. "He'd been hospitalized after sustaining head injuries from an accident while walking his dog." is the local, WBZ account.

I think WBZ is the correct version and the CNN is true to form telling lies about anyone/thing that has to do with the destruction of America.

I have no pity nor sorrow for someone that is 100% Anti-American ... dieing .. isn't that what most people secretly think anyway?
"Geez, I wish he/she/this would just go away"

So now someone has just gone away ... Buck up, folks .. suck it in .. an enemy participant is dead.

65 posted on 10/14/2006 7:41:04 AM PDT by knarf (Islamists kill each other ... News wall-to-wall, 24/7 .. don't touch that dial.)
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To: NaughtiusMaximus


*ducking*
66 posted on 10/14/2006 7:41:43 AM PDT by maggief
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To: HHKrepublican_2

Did he suffocate himself with a roll of toilet paper like I heard a talk radio host saying another child molester had done?


67 posted on 10/14/2006 7:43:10 AM PDT by Spunky ("Everyone has a freedom of choice, but not of consequences.")
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To: HHKrepublican_2
Former U.S. Rep. Gerry Studds, the first openly gay person elected to Congress,

And what a fine fine specimen he turned out to be. Also the first Congressman to be censured for sodomizing an underage Congressional Page.
68 posted on 10/14/2006 7:43:27 AM PDT by Kozak (Anti Shahada: " There is no God named Allah, and Muhammed is his False Prophet")
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To: veronica
No way. This close to the election, what with the Foley thing still working for them, Studds will get the shaft from the Dems, pun intended. :) You will see no wailing or rending of garments.

I agree, Studd's funeral will be an "Eleanor Rigby" funeral amongst the current democrat party leadership.

Barney Frank probably won't show up.

69 posted on 10/14/2006 7:43:37 AM PDT by Dane ("Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall" Ronald Reagan, 1987)
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To: misterrob
This thread is going bad. A man has died. Let the Man upstairs handle it.

It is the double standard of the media and the democrats that we have a problem with.

70 posted on 10/14/2006 7:45:27 AM PDT by Mr. Brightside
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To: raccoonradio


"Walking his dog? Spanking his monkey? What's it matter? Our comrade
who actually had sex with a minor died just before our election.
What's it take to catch a break in this town? Religion?"


71 posted on 10/14/2006 7:47:23 AM PDT by OESY
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To: WashingtonSource

My very first thought.


72 posted on 10/14/2006 7:47:32 AM PDT by sine_nomine (Vote for the Democrats? - the party of Studds and Frank - the new family values party?)
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To: knarf

The third thread with Yahoo News as the source is already up this morning. It is also another "cleaned up" version. When I saw this thread earlier, I wondered how a person gets a blood clot in the lung from a fall. I smell Pepe le Pu.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1719324/posts


73 posted on 10/14/2006 7:48:38 AM PDT by Arrowhead1952 (DBM - still trying to create a nonexistent legacy for BJ Clinton.)
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To: misterrob

I am just amazed at the convenient deaths in the Democrat party. Just when someone could be the center of a scandal or go down in defeat, he dies. I find it improbable actuarially.


74 posted on 10/14/2006 7:49:09 AM PDT by sine_nomine (Vote for the Democrats? - the party of Studds and Frank - the new family values party?)
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To: veronica

It will be interesting to see which political colleagues turn up at the funeral. I'll bet no one who's up for election.


75 posted on 10/14/2006 8:01:18 AM PDT by NaughtiusMaximus (Bush Assassination Flick. Save your liberal friends a few bucks: the black guy in the tux dunnit.)
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To: WashingtonSource
Arkancide?

That was my first thought, too. Coincidence? What timing!

76 posted on 10/14/2006 8:02:37 AM PDT by madison10 (Live your life in such a way that the preacher won't have to lie at your funeral.)
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To: maggief

Great! ROTFLMAO!!


77 posted on 10/14/2006 8:02:43 AM PDT by NaughtiusMaximus (Bush Assassination Flick. Save your liberal friends a few bucks: the black guy in the tux dunnit.)
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To: Dane

You offered up the straw man here by trying justify people's behavior over a man who has died. We all know that being a Republican will guarantee coverage for bad deeds far more than what the Democrats get.

So what?


78 posted on 10/14/2006 8:11:57 AM PDT by misterrob (Bill Clinton, The Wizard of "Is")
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To: Mr. Brightside

So because the MSM and the democrats act poorly that excuses FReeper behavior in disparaging a man after he has died? How he lived was his choice and he can answer for it in the afterlife as he should.


79 posted on 10/14/2006 8:14:11 AM PDT by misterrob (Bill Clinton, The Wizard of "Is")
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To: basil
any rumors of Aides?

No, no! Not aides, pages! LOL!

80 posted on 10/14/2006 8:15:20 AM PDT by buccaneer81 (Bob Taft has soiled the family name for the next century.)
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