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H/T to Memeorandum for the link to Mary Ann Akers post:
So much for reform of the House page program in the wake of the Mark Foley scandal. House teenage pages are so wild and unsupervised that two GOP members of Congress have resigned from the House Page Board, protesting that they were not informed of two pages caught shoplifting and two others busted for engaging in public oral sex.
One of the members who resigned, Rep. Ginny Brown-Waite of Florida, tells the Sleuth that she felt “very, very uncomfortable” both as a mother and a grandmother continuing to serve on a board she feels is inadequately supervised.
“I thought the Mark Foley incident was a wake-up call,” Brown-Waite said, referring to the disgraced former GOP congressman from Florida who was caught sending sexually tawdry instant messages to male House pages. “Apparently it wasn’t.” The congresswoman added, “If I had a 16-year-old granddaughter, I wouldn’t let her come up here. I would not let my 16-year-old grandson come up here.” (The congresswoman does have a 16-year-old grandson.)
One of the incidents that bothered Brown-Waite involved what she called “inappropriate sexual indiscretions” between two teenaged pages. She would not elaborate, though she said other pages served as “enablers.” A source familiar with the incident - which resulted in the expulsions of two pages - said one female page performed oral sex on a male page in the page dorm room as the other teenagers watched. “The enablers provided cover for them, the other pages were watching,” the source said.
According to Brown-Waite, the alleged public sexual indiscretions were “not an isolated incident.”
Two other pages were expelled for shoplifting. Brown-Waite and another source said one of the shoplifters was charged with a felony.
In a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (Calif.) , Brown-Waite suggested that the Clerk of the House, whose job it is to oversee the House page program, should no longer be in charge of the teenagers. “Page supervision, other than on the floor of the House, is found to be sorely lacking, and the clerk has been slow to share information with members of the board,” Brown-Waite wrote. “In at least one vitally important incident, we were intentionally kept in the dark about dismissals for more than a week, and were only given the details after personally confronting the clerk with rumors we had heard.”
Both Brown-Waite and Rep. Shelly Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), who also resigned from the page board in protest, said they blamed Pelosi for not reforming the program as promised. Capito said the “problems with communication between board members that plagued the program in the past have only continued under new House leadership.” Capito plans to officially tender her resignation on Friday.
So much for draining that swamp!
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December 7, 2007 - 07:10 AM on December 7th, 2007
But,But,BUT!!! The Democrats are not infavor of stopping people’s personal sexual preferences and partaking. Look at their leader, TED KENNEDY!!!!
December 7, 2007 - 08:55 AM on December 7th, 2007
But of course in a liberals mind anything goes. No values, no constraints, no judgements.
I think the very fact that two GOP members resigned in disgust.
Let’s elect Republicans folks and this time around they may have learned their lesson. Act, vote and live by the Republican standard of excellence or else.
December 7, 2007 - 09:10 AM on December 7th, 2007
BonBon, I don’t know. We have too many crap for brains in this country. I see them go out and treat Bill Clinton like he was something to admire.
I am in a foul mood and mind set because of the Omaha shootings and the after discussion. I’d just like to start kicking people in their Brains(located in their lazy, stupid butts).
December 7, 2007 - 09:14 AM on December 7th, 2007
PCD…I’ve been a bit out of the news loop the last few days. I heard about the shooting but what after discussion?
December 7, 2007 - 09:25 AM on December 7th, 2007
4, a number of places.
Front page of today’s paper a local girl was one of the victims. One of my coworkers, who I sit next to and have been getting close to, called in. He may be related to this girl.
I am angry because I used to go to that mall a lot when I lived in Omaha. I am angry because of the knowledge I have of the Nebraska and Iowa social service system and how they’ve been politicized and unionized to the point where worthless people are making decisions not based on actually helping people and families in trouble, but what expands their personal and agency power, or their wallets. I am pissed because Jesse Kerrey Rasmussen, Sen. Bob Kerrey’s sister, had been in charge of the “Human Services” agency in both Iowa and Nebraska, and she’s plagued both states with scandal and ineffective agencies that have been involved in tragedies that could have been prevented if they did their jobs as intended.
I’m probably going over to Sister Toldjah’s blog to let loose. I’m tired of people just ratchet jawing to no effect, and displaying their stupidity.
December 7, 2007 - 07:35 PM on December 7th, 2007
Dr John Lott, brought up an interesting point about the shootings in Omaha that all of the news reporters failed to mention. This mass shooting, like virtually every other one in this country in the last quarter century, occurred in a “Gun Free” zone wherein no law abiding citizen with a concealed carry permit would’ve been allowed to be armed and thus able to defend themselves or any of the other victims from this psychopath’s onslaught. Has anyone ever noticed how none of these nuts ever go on a shooting spree at a police station?
I have a suggestion for everyone who thinks that gun ownership makes them less safe. Put a sign in your front yard informing the world that you oppose gun ownership and don’t allow them in your home. Have the courage of your convictions, and stop basking in the protection provided by the halo effect from those of us who do.