Buh Bye. It’s inevitable that in short order NY will not have any GOPers elected to Congress.
Man, the hits keep coming...I can’t take this anymore. This is what happens when a political party (GOP) starts emulating the opposition (demonrats). hint hint McCain...
He blowed up real good... and so did she. Therein lies the rub. :-}
We lose a RINO in a Democrat district. You can bet we lose the seat in November.
I knew he must have been an (R) before I read it simply because she had the kid...
Took them only three words to get to Republican.
If he was a d’RAT it might not get mentioned at all.
no hesitation in party ID for this story
At least he’s heterosexual. He sinned, but everyone sins sometimes: Clinton, Vinge (? that Louisiana Republican with the call girls), Spitzer. It doesn’t mean that seat needs to go to the Dems. Just get a strong Repub candidate and if Osama is the Dem candidate and there is a McCain tidal wave he’ll be elected, along with a lot of other Republicans.
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I hope it doesn't jeopardize a Nascar proposal for a track on Staten Island. :-)
He’s a shoe-in to win the Democrat primary to fill the seat he just lost.
Hey, Vito is such a strong family value guy, he had TWO families!
What a guy!
What a putz!
1) Vito did a lot of bad things.
2) He is not a rino. Above the Mason Dixon line you can be JUST so Republican and below it just so Democrat.
3)While the district LOOKS democrat on paper you can ask the five opponents Vito has beaten if it really IS a democrat district. It is not. The democrat registration numbers are city workers who falsly believe they would be at a disadvantage if they registered Republican.
4) With barack mcgovern at the top of the ticket an steve harrison below him the rat has a very tough sell on Staten Island.
5) If Vito steps down and Jim Oddo the mid Island city Councilman steps up he will not have a hard time holding the seat.
What a sleazebag!
Amazing, however, how Sue Molinari was able to get away with HER indiscretions for many years.
True there is a double standard in the media, but I don’t mind having a higher standard than the Democrats. Just because Clinton was an adulterer doesn’t make it OK. And drunk driving is a crime. This guy needs to go do his time, commit to one of these two women and end things with the other, support his children and do a lot of praying. Surely we can find a candidate with better moral standards to run in this district? And why on earth couldn’t we get the senator in Louisiana who was visiting prostitutes to resign? We have a Republican governor there, he could have appointed a more upstanding Republican and the whole party would be stronger. I don’t understand why we keep suporting these guys. We could do so much better.
Fashion tip to Mrs. Fossella: Tasteful, Chanel-inspired power suits are all the rage at the inevitable press conference where you stand by your man as he admits to all manner of embarrassing goings on. Pearls are a plus as well.
See: Silda Spitzer, Suzanne Craig, Wendy Vitter, Dina McGreevey, Patty Rowland, etc.
It's just a matter of time before the headline reads "Fill-in-the-name brags about affair, out-of-wedlock child"
This will not necessarily end his political career. At least 2 presidents (we know of) had illegitimate children: Grover Cleveland (D) and Harding (R). Rumors that the children existed circulated at the time of their elections but did not destroy their political careers.
Send him home and tell him the party is over.