and the RATS, take another one in the...............HA ha!!!
Posted on 12/06/2007 5:04:55 PM PST by Perchant
A former aide to Sen. Maria Cantwell, arrested on federal sex charges last week, had worked for the 2004 presidential campaigns of Democrats Dick Gephardt and John Kerry.
James Michael McHaney, 28, of Washington, D.C., was ordered held without bond following a brief hearing Wednesday in federal court. Dressed in an orange jumpsuit and blue jacket, McHaney responded "Yes, sir," when questioned by Magistrate Judge John Facciola.
McHaney was fired Friday from his job as a scheduler for Cantwell, D-Wash., hours after he was arrested by FBI agents. The FBI said in a charging document that McHaney tried to set up a meeting with a witness posing online as a 13-year-old boy.
McHaney, a native of Little Rock, Ark., did advance work for both Gephardt, a former Missouri congressman, and Kerry, a Massachusetts senator, in their 2004 campaigns, Democrats said Wednesday.
A spokesman for Kerry confirmed that McHaney worked for the campaign from February to November 2004, but declined to comment.
Following the election McHaney worked for the Human Rights Campaign, the nation's largest gay rights group, before being hired by Cantwell in July 2006.
Cantwell's chief of staff, Michael Meehan, is a veteran political operative who worked on the Kerry campaign before joining Cantwell's staff.
Meehan issued a strongly worded statement Monday night saying McHaney had been fired.
"Our office has and will continue to fully cooperate with the ongoing federal criminal investigation. Senator Cantwell has zero tolerance for crimes against children," Meehan said.
McHaney's lawyer, Thomas Abbenante, said in court Wednesday that his client would not exercise his right to a speedy trial, agreeing to a Jan. 14 court date. The nature of the charges, which involve allegations of extensive online communications between McHaney and the unidentified witness, require time to study, Abbenante said.
According to court papers, McHaney, known as Mike, said he would "take a long lunch" to meet with an unidentified person posing as a teenage boy. When the witness asked whether McHaney was interested in sex with a 13-year-old, McHaney allegedly replied, "I'll be there," the court papers said.
It is not known if McHaney used a Senate computer to arrange the alleged meetings. Abbenante declined to comment.
McHaney, who has no previous criminal record, was charged with attempted child exploitation. If convicted he faces at least five years in prison.
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Gephardt.
I hate where I live sometimes......
Pffft. I’m sure, just like in the case of Bernie Ward, McHaney was just doing “research for a book”.
I guess neither Gephardt nor Kerry trused him in the rear! :0)
Yes but, but, Romney had a couple of wetbacks mowing his grass....doesn’t that even it out?
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Dick Gephardt? I have heard that name before.
Says a lot about the “City of Brotherly Love” story too.
Move to Maryland...you can hate it ALL the time!!
No comment!! NO FRIGGEN COMMENT!!
So Mr. “no comment” Kerry, do you feel like you’re being Pedophile-boated?
Are you going to bring out some phony solders to tell us that you have never had sex with children?
Did you experiment with children before or after you deserted the troops in Nam?
So kerry, if you are associated with or in fact molested children yourself, did you quit are you still doing it now??
Do you have any other associates that are child molesters and what did you know about them and when did you know it?
” It is not known if McHaney used a Senate computer to arrange the alleged meetings. “
What are they trying to hide? There could be a computer trail to all kinds of children this pervert may have molested while working for these despicable democrats.
I demand a congressional investigation. It’s for the children you know. ;>)
NAMBLA is so disgusting. I can’t believe that any politician would want to be part of their “political recommendation process”.
The last sentence indicates one doesn’t have to participate for an endorsement. I wonder what the participation process was???
Q. Why didn’t the Democrat want to go to war?
A. He didn’t want to leave his brothers behind.
Gephardt.
I've read that he worked hard for Dick. He'd stop at nothing for Dick and was on call for Dick 24/7.
Sounds like somebody has just got swift-butt’d.
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