Will Jesse Apologize for This: Jesse Jackson Has Hired an Ex-Con Sex Offender For His Staff

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[doug from upland]

Jesse Jackson Has Hired an Ex-Con Sex Offender For His Staff...And Appointed Him a Youth Counselor-Truth! & Fiction!

The eRumor says that the Rev. Jesse Jackson has added former Chicago Democratic Congressman Mel Reynolds to the staff of the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition.  According to the eRumor, Reynolds was serving a federal sentence in prison for convictions of wire fraud, bank fraud, and lies to the Federal Election Commission.  He was also serving five years for sleeping with an underage campaign volunteer.  Then, Reynolds was among those given pardons by outgoing President Bill Clinton.  According to the eRumor, it's the first time that an ex-congressman who had sex with a subordinate won clemency from a president who had sex with a subordinate, then was hired by a clergyman who had sex with a subordinate.  The eRumor adds that Reynolds has been hired as a youth counselor.

The text for this eRumor is taken from an article written by Deroy Murdock, a columnist for the Scripps Howard News Service. It was published on February 9, 2001.  The facts about Reynolds, his convictions, and his pardon are accurate.  According to the article, it is also true that Jesse Jackson added Reynolds to the Rainbow/PUSH coalition payroll.  

He was not hired as a youth counselor, however, but as a consultant on prison reform.

[martin_fierro]

June 6-7, 1994

Excerpts from the taped conversations of phone calls on June 6 and 7, 1994, between Rep. Mel Reynolds (D-Ill) and underage campaign worker Beverly Heard, as reported in The Chicago Tribune.

The first call begins with Heard telling Reynolds she can't make a rendezvous because she is baby-sitting and the children's mother hasn't returned home. In fact, Heard is sitting in the Cook County state's attorney's office during the conversation.

Reynolds: What you gonna wear?
Heard: Well, my peach underwear, like you told me to. I was hoping that we could do something really special but I see that's not gonna happen, I guess.
Reynolds: I was definitely gonna (slang for intercourse.)
Heard: Really?
Reynolds: Right in my office. I was gonna masturbate too.
Heard: Really?
Reynolds: I was looking forward to it.
Heard: Yeah, I been thinking about a lot times we had together. We had some really good times.
Reynolds: Uh-huh, that summer when I used to (vulgarity for intercourse) you out south in that Riverdale apartment.
Heard: Right, right. Remember that one, when I wore white lace underwear. I think it was like the summer of '92 over in the apartment -
Reynolds: Uh-huh.
Reynolds: I want you to do me a favor, all right?
Heard: What's that?
Reynolds: I want you to, I want to you - first of all, I want you to think about sex.
Heard: Yes.
Reynolds: And I want you to think long and hard. I want you to tell me about a sex thing you did, that I don't know about.
Heard: Oh, let me see.
Reynolds: Like when you (performed oral sex) or something, but it was a time that I wasn't there for it.
Heard: Oh, so you don't want to talk about any of our stuff, you want me to talk about something that you don't know about?
Reynolds: Right, a sex thing you did with some person, either a woman or some guy or something. And - cause I want to - cause I'd like to think about you in those little panties that I used to (vulgarity for intercourse) you.

Prompted by Reynolds, Heard graphically describes her first and most recent sexual encounters with her lesbian lover.

Reynolds asks if Heard's lover is willing to do a "threesome," and Heard says she has never expressed such an interest. But Heard says another girl, "Theresa," who is 15 years old, might be interested. There is no such person.

Reynolds: She's only 15?
Heard: Yeah, she's only 15, that's it.
Reynolds: You sure?
Heard: Uh-huh, I know how old she is.

Reynolds asks what specific sex acts Heard thinks "Theresa" would be willing to perform and if "Theresa" will watch him while the two of them have sex.

Reynolds: Why don't you try to set it up?
Heard: Yes, I will.
Reynolds: Now you - you're just telling me that, aren't you?
Heard: Uh-uh. I'm serious.
Reynolds: You are? You think she's going to like this (slang for penis)?
Heard: Yeah, I believe she would.
Reynolds: Yeah?
Heard: Yeah ...
Reynolds: What you gonna say to her?

(Heard and Reynolds discuss which details of their relationship will be shared with "Theresa".)

Heard: I'm gonna tell her that I used to go with you when I was 16.
Reynolds: Right.
Heard: Yeah, and that, you know, we've been lovers, we were lovers then, and we been, you know, I've been with you and-
Reynolds: You may not want to tell her that, that age thing.

Reynolds asks where "Theresa" goes to school.

Heard: I think it's Our Lady of Peace, something like that.
Reynolds: Lady of Peace? A Catholic school!
Heard: Huh? Yes.
Reynolds: Jesus, a Catholic -
Heard: A Catholic school girl, right?
Reynolds: Did I win the Lotto?
Heard: Yes.

[Dante3]

The Rev. Jesse J should also apologize for his anti-Semetic remarks.

[MotleyGirl70]

The eRumor adds that Reynolds has been hired as a youth counselor.

Hiring Reynolds as a youth counselor is like hiring Bubba as the president of N.O.W.

Or should that be: Hiring Reynolds as a youth counselor is like hiring Rosie O'Doughnuts as president of N.O.W.

You decide.

[MotleyGirl70]

Sick, sick, sick!

[ApesForEvolution]

Will Jesse Apologize for This: Jesse Jackson Has Hired an Ex-Con Sex Offender For His Staff

Of course not, next...

[xm177e2]

But he WASN'T hired as a youth counsellor.

[MotleyGirl70]

I know. My post was suppose to be read as more of a "what if". I should have made that more clear in my post. My fault.

[Enterprise]

Upon hearing that he was hired he said "I must have won the lottery."

(A grinning Mel Reynolds thinking - "So many luscious girls, so much counseling.")

[Slyfox]

it's the first time that an ex-congressman who had sex with a subordinate won clemency from a president who had sex with a subordinate, then was hired by a clergyman who had sex with a subordinate. The eRumor adds that Reynolds has been hired as a youth counselor.

Anybody got any nails handy? I feel like chewing me some nails.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Jessie's Father of the Year in Chicago.