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They can't easily go witch-hunting now.
Oh, yes they can go a witch-huntin'. It makes no difference to them that it's totally hypercritical.
Studds is remembered chiefly for his role in the Congressional page sex scandal in 1983, when he and Representative Dan Crane were censured by the House of Representatives for separate sexual relationships with a minor – in Studds's case, a 1973 relationship with a 17-year-old male congressional page.
During the course of the House Ethics Committee's investigation, Studds publicly acknowledged his homosexuality, a disclosure that, according to a Washington Post article, "apparently was not news to many of his constituents." Studds stated in an address to the House, "It is not a simple task for any of us to meet adequately the obligations of either public or private life, let alone both, but these challenges are made substantially more complex when one is, as I am, both an elected public official and gay."
As the House read their censure of him, Studds turned his back and ignored them. Later, at a press conference with the former page standing beside him, the two stated that what had happened between them was nobody's business but their own.
Studds was re-elected five more terms after the censure. He fought for many issues, including environmental and maritime issues, gay marriage, AIDS funding, and civil rights, particularly for homosexuals. In 1995 the Republican-controlled Congress abolished the House Merchant Marine and Fishing Committee, of which he had been chairman.
Since retiring from Congress in 1997, Studds has been a lobbyist for the fishing industry. His husband is Dean T. Hara.
Sure they can..and they will..and they've already begun. Pelosi had her yap all greased up and flapping my mid-day today....the usual "what did they know, and when did they know it" crap.
I seem to remember a few years back about a MA Rep who drugged an underage Page and then had sex with him. It was not sweet Barneykins. I think the fellow was reelected to boot. I cannot remember his name. At the time there was a big flap about the incident for a few days.