Whoops, wrong democrat.
Posted on 03/02/2013 6:51:33 PM PST by chessplayer
Did you ever mean to say "If you are shy then I have an acre of land in the Everglades." and have it come out "If you're bashful I got a snake sitting under my desk here"? I mean, those sentences are so close to being identical, and these kinds of misstatements happen all the time, right?
Well, that's what you have to believe if you're still a defender of Connecticut legislator Ernest Hewett, who said the latter on February 20 to a 17 year-old girl at a public hearing and is now saying he meant to say the former.
But someone is still defending Hewett, namely Edward Moukawsher, a state representative for Groton and Ledyard, also not identified as a Democrat by the New London Day, which published his letter to the editor:
Moukawsher defends Hewett's comment
The treatment of Rep. Ernest Hewett for his remark to a 17-year-old woman who testified before the Appropriations Committee is completely unfair to him and defies common sense. In her testimony she said she was a shy person who overcame her shyness and fear of snakes. The chair of the committee complimented her on her testimony that belied her expressed shyness. Rep. Hewett followed the chair's remarks, and said "If you're bashful, I got a snake sitting under my desk here." It is absurd to think he was saying anything other than that she had overcome her shyness so well that her bashfulness was as nonexistent as a live snake under his desk.
Rep. Hewett turned on his microphone to speak on the record in a public meeting. This was not an offhand, surreptitious comment but a compliment to a witness following a compliment by the committee chair.
Meanwhile, Hewett can't seem to keep his story straight, telling the Day on Friday that "If she had said elephants, I would have said elephants." As noted earlier, he said he originally meant to say "acre of land" instead of "snake."
This is not a national story at the Associated Press, and has barely garnered any attenting in the establishment press.
I must be very tired because I can’t figure out what this is talking about.
I think those girls are a bit older than what he prefers.
being a protected minority means never having What a ridiculous and tortuous explanation by the Post.
Err....If i said you had a Hot Body would you Hold it Against Me?
At least he didn’t say “trouser”
Just your average pervert Rat.
/johnny
A 17 Year Old Woman?
A 17 Year Old Female is a Girl, not a Woman. An 18 Year Old Female is a Woman.
OK, I guess I’m just an old fashioned Geezer.
Good for you. Don't try to. Trust me. My BP is up by 10 points and I just got out of a hot bath.
Go for the guy is a fat arsehole, and move on.
Some daddy will fix that little problem.
/johnny
Nope, the Girls are the wrong shade. Menendez prefers nice dark Dominican Teenagers.
bump
He said he had a snake (his junk) in his pants under his desk, and then tried to say he meant he had an acre of land in the Everglades. Easy mistake to make, right?
I can’t tell from the article quite what’s going on. If the girls were there testifying about their need for taxpayer-funded contraceptives, then the representative is entirely in line talking about his trouser snake.
I will bet that if the dirtbag had his legislative laptop gone over with a forensic digital sweep, they’d find plenty of teenie-porn accessed very recently.
I will bet that if the dirtbag had his legislative laptop gone over with a forensic digital sweep, they’d find plenty of teenie-porn accessed very recently.
No you are 100% correct, your age has noting to do with it.
When it's a Republican's being a jerk it's in the headline or the first paragraph.
Style-books are for more than punctuation...they're for consistency and integrity. One more reason the press has lost credibility.
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