Posted on 12/07/2016 11:57:24 AM PST by johnk
...Only this actually happened, according to Rep. Eric Massa, the embattled New York Democrat who resigned Monday and used his last hours in office to settle some scores with party leaders.
He reserved his most excoriating stuff for Emanuel, whom he called "son of the devil's spawn" on his weekly radio show Sunday.
"He is an individual who would sell his mother to get a vote. He would strap his children to a front end of a steam locomotive," Massa said. Illustrating his point, he told the story of how he winded up in an argument with the chief of staff while they were both naked in the congressional gym showers...
“Son of the devil’s spawn”? And they call US mean.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Massa
From WIKI:
Resignation
Massa announced on March 5, 2010, that he would resign his seat in Congress effective 5:00 p.m. on March 8, 2010. In a published statement on his website, Massa identified his declining health and the ongoing ethics investigation as the reasons for his departure.
He apologized in response to the sexual harassment complaint, saying that “There is no doubt in my mind that I did in fact, use language in the privacy of my own home and in my inner office that, after 24 years in the navy, might make a Chief Petty Officer feel uncomfortable. In fact, there is no doubt that this ethics issue is my fault and mine alone.”[26]
On March 7, 2010, in his weekly radio address on WKPQ, Massa accused White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel of orchestrating the ethics investigation in an effort to intimidate other first-term Democrats who oppose the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.[27] Massa claimed that there was a conspiracy “to oust him because he had voted against overhauling health care.”[28][29] Massa placed specific blame for his resignation on Emanuel, stating that Emanuel “is the son of the devil’s spawn... He is an individual who would sell his mother to get a vote. He would strap his children to the front end of a steam locomotive.”[28] Massa also commented on the following alleged confrontation with Emanuel in the congressional gym locker room: “I am sitting there showering, naked as a jaybird, and here comes Rahm Emanuel, not even with a towel wrapped around his tush, poking his finger in my chest, yelling at me because I wasn’t going to vote for the president’s budget... He goes there to intimidate members of Congress... He’s hated me since day one, and now he wins. He’ll get rid of me, and this bill will pass.”[30][31][32] A Democratic spokesperson denied the existence of the alleged conspiracy.[29]
On March 10, 2010, The Washington Post reported that Massa was under investigation for allegations that he had groped multiple male staffers working in his office.[33] In the Washington Post article,
The freshman Democrat told Fox News Channel host Glenn Beck that “not only did I grope [a staffer], I tickled him until he couldn’t breathe,” then said hours later on CNN’s “Larry King Live” that “it is not true” that he groped anyone on his staff.
He told Beck that he resigned from the House because he made the mistake of “getting too familiar with my staff” members, but he told King that he left primarily for health reasons. Massa, 50, has survived non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, but he said he is afraid that he is facing his “third major cancer-recurrence scare.”
Massa claims that he contemplated vehicular suicide at least twice on his way back to his home in Corning, New York, following his resignation.[34] As of June 2012, he resides in Corning and is unemployed.[35] He has refused to grant interviews to the press since his resignation.[36] Later campaign finance filings revealed that his campaign funds were being used to fund his wife’s salary well after his resignation, as well as to pay legal fees stemming from disputes with his staffers.[37] The payments to his wife continued until the end of 2012.[38]
Yes I noticed that too. Just a lowly journalist though so no surprise.
Are there any good guys in this story?? Sounds like a spat between closeted gay men.
Really? FoxNews is now hiring 4th graders as copywriters and editors?
“Sounds like a spat between closeted gay men” Indeed it was. Prior to his stint in Congress, Massa was a supervisor where I worked. He was hated with a passion and was fired for sexual harassment.
Then there is this:
“... March 4, 2010, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer confirmed that the House Ethics Committee was investigating allegations against Massa of sexual misconduct as the result of a complaint that a senior member of Massa’s staff had filed with the committee on February 8, 2010. The investigation was said to involve alleged sexual advances and harassment toward a younger male member of Massa’s staff.[20][22][23][24]
At a press conference, Massa described his behavior and his language as “salty,” he claimed that he had apologized to the parties in question, did not know of the specific allegations, and that such allegations were not the reason behind his retirement.”
I would have loved to been in that meeting. I wonder if they discussed Rahm’s plan to raise money to defend those Chicago criminal illegals hiding there ..??
I have a feeling Rahm was told what the penalty would be; a fine in the sum of $$$$$$$$$$, which would bankrupt his city.
W I N N I N G !!!!!!!!
Maybe Barack can loan Rahm a few $$$$$$$ from Hillary’s STASH in the Clinton Foundation.
W I N N I N G !!!!!!!!
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