Jesse Jackson Scores A First In Politics (Letter to Editor)

The (Syracuse) Post-Standard | September 25, 2003 | L.E. Rice

[jigsaw]

Jesse Jackson has added former Chicago Democratic Congressman Mel Reynolds to Rainbow/PUSH Coalition’s payroll.

Reynolds was among the 176 criminals excused in President Clinton’s last-minute forgiveness spree.

He received commutation of his six-and-a half-year federal sentence for 15 convictions of wire fraud, bank fraud and lies to the Federal Election Commission.

He is more notorious, however, for concurrently serving five years for sleeping with an underage campaign volunteer.

This is a first in American politics: 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.

His new job? Youth counselor. Is this a great country?

[jigsaw]

Democrats are to Subordinates as Predators are to Prey.

[mikeb704]

Hey, someone has to minister to troubled youths.

Michael M. Bates: My Side of the Swamp

[mhking]

Black conservative ping

If you want on (or off) of my black conservative ping list, please let me know via FREEPmail. (And no, you don't have to be black to be on the list!)

Extra warning: this is a high-volume ping list.

[As i mentioned, the B/C & JD! lists are going to float into and out of whack over the forseeable future, while I try to cobble a rig back together for myself. My apologies for any incovenience or misunderstandings in this time frame. New signups/removals may be flaky in this time-frame as well; please bear with me, and keep in mind you may have to FReepmail me more than once for me to get it done. Thanks again!]

[mikeb704]

The Honorable Melvin’s troubles started in 1995 when he was convicted of having sex with a 16-year-old campaign worker. That charming young girl engaged Mel in phone sex (Hmmm. Where have we heard that before?) and in a conversation pretended she was going to set him up with a 15-year-old acquaintance, “a Catholic school girl.” Hearing this, the delighted congressman asked: “Did I win the Lotto?”

[headsonpikes]

"Is this a great country?"

I sense a note of sarcasm there. Look at it this way - the guy won a trifecta of Demo-style exploitation.

Don't begrudge him the pay-off!

[ctlpdad]

So her name was "First?"

[mikeb704]

. . the guy won a trifecta of Demo-style exploitation.

He's more into Lotto, as described above.

[jigsaw]

So her name was "First?"

LOL!

[geedee]

Democrats are to Subordinates as Predators are to Prey.

[Stultis]

Great Catch! You should email this to Bret Hume. It would make an excellent item for The Grapevine.

[Stultis]

Looks like a freeper wrote that letter. The text of it appears in an 8/7/03 post from rmvh.

[Stultis]

Lots more on Reynolds (on FR, via google):

search="Mel Reynolds" site=freerepublic

[pupdog]

Note: I don't know how old, but this isn't a new story. Uh... (scans long-since unused memory sectors) ... I think this was originally posted in early 2002, but take that with a salt truck or two.

[jigsaw]

Looks like a freeper wrote that letter. The text of it appears in an 8/7/03 post from rmvh.

Holy Tamale! I'd hate to be trying to hide stuff from Freepers!

Interestingly, rmvh has been banned or suspended from FreeRepublic.

[visualops]

Bret Hume

That would be Brit Hume.

[Stultis]

And, as I now notice, irrelevant anyway as this is an old story.