Sex scandals in Congress: What Rep. Weiner's 'sexting' adds to the literature
How Congress has dealt with sex scandals has changed over time. The big issues for Rep. Weiner include whether there was an abuse of office or any use of official resources.
Rep. Anthony Weiner (D) of New York addresses a news conference in New York, on Monday, June 6. What does the 'sexting' done by Weiner, via his twitter account, mean for how Congress deals with sex scandals?
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Los tres más grandes escandalos sexuales presidenciales de todos los tiempos en USA
1- BILL CLINTON AND MONICA LEWINSKY.
November 1995 Lewinsky and President Bill Clinton begin a sexual relationship, according to audiotapes secretly recorded later by Linda Tripp.
December 1995 Lewinsky moves into a paid position in the Office of Legislative Affairs, handling letters from members of Congress. She frequently ferries mail to the Oval Office.
April 1996 ThenDeputy White House Chief of Staff Evelyn Lieberman transfers Lewinsky to a job as an assistant to Pentagon spokesman Ken Bacon. Lieberman told The New York Times the move was due to inappropriate and immature behavior and inattention to work. At the Pentagon, Lewinsky meets Tripp, a career government worker.
Summer 1996 Lewinsky begins to tell fellow Pentagon employee Linda Tripp of her alleged relationship with Clinton.
August 1997 Tripp encountered Kathleen Willey coming out of Oval Office disheveled. Her face red and her lipstick was off. Willey later alleged that Clinton groped her. Clintons lawyer, Bill Bennett said in the article that Linda Tripp is not to be believed.
Fall 1997 Tripp to begin taping conversations in which Lewinsky details her alleged affair with the president.
October 1997 Tripp meets with Newsweeks Michael Isikoff, Lucianne Jonah Goldberg at Jonahs apartment in Washington, according to a Newsweek report. The Goldbergs listen to a tape of TrippLewinsky conversations.
October 1997 Lewinsky interviews with U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Bill Richardson for a low level public affairs position.
December 1997 Lewinsky leaves the Pentagon.
Dec. 8 Betty Currie, Clintons personal secretary, asks presidential pal Vernon Jordan to help Lewinsky find a job in New York.
Dec. 11 Lewinsky meets with Jordan and he refers her to several job leads.
Dec. 17 Lewinsky is subpoenaed by lawyers for Paula Jones, who is suing the president on sexual harassment charges.
Dec. 28 Lewinsky makes her final visit to the White House, according to White House logs, and was signed in by Currie. Lewinsky reportedly met privately with Clinton and he allegedly encouraged her to be evasive in her answers in the Jones lawsuit.
Jan. 7, 1998 Lewinsky files an affidavit in the Jones case in which she denies ever having a sexual relationship with President Clinton.
Jan. 9 Tripp delivers the tapes to her lawyer, Jim Moody.
Pero esto no se acaba aquí: If Hillary Clinton had a lesbian affair with Huma Abedin then everything in Weinergate fits
By Coach Collins, on June 6th, 2011
By Kevin “Coach” Collins
People are motivated to follow their darker instincts by lust for money power or sex.
In mid 2007 rumors started to circulate about Huma Abedin a stunningly beautiful staffer working for Hillary Clinton. The wagging tongues of Washington asked logical questions about Huma. “If Hillary is bisexual (as had long been thought and occasionally uttered in public), what is the nature of her relationship with the dark eyed enchanting Abedin, a young lady from a strict Muslim family?”
“Is the fact that Huma was never seen twice in the same designer outfit and lived in a $649,000 condo explainable because she was trading sexual favors with Hillary for a fabulous lifestyle?” “If so what does that make Huma?”
“How did Huma, whose government salary was listed as $9,999, live as she did?”
“Is Hillary Clinton a lesbian?”
Is Huma Abedin her lesbian “kept woman?”
In 2007 Michael Musto a Village Voice columnist who writes about gay issues commented that Hillary might be “Gayle King-ing” Huma, that is getting her a higher profile in order to head off media scrutiny about her and why Clinton would be “hiding” Huma and the true nature of their relationship.
In her tell all book about her affair with Bill Clinton Gennifer Flowers wrote that when she asked Bill if Hillary is a lesbian he laughed and made reference to her being more experienced with women then he is.
The purpose of this essay is NOT to prove Hillary Clinton and Huma Abedin are lesbians, but to raise the question: If they are daughters of Sapphos wouldn’t it have been a good deal for Anthony Weiner to become Huma’s beard or faux husband?
Killing any rumor of a lesbian relationship between Hillary and Huma would be very helpful to Hillary’s drive to be elected president, and a “President Hillary Clinton” would be enormously helpful to Weiner’s long held dream of being elected Mayor of New York City.
The coverage of Weinergate has nibbled around the edges. The reports have carefully avoided mentioning the scandal’s “third rail”: the relationship between Huma Abedin Congressman Anthony Weiner’s wife and her former boss Hillary Clinton. Nevertheless, if this is the root of the relationship between Huma and Weiner the whole ugly affair falls into place.
Bill Clinton understands all to well what it’s like to live with a women like Hillary. He knows what it can drive an ordinary man to do. Anthony Weiner’s tweets to a porn star may be motivated by more than mere curiosity.
The biggest motivators driving human behavior are money power and sex. This one has all three.
To contact your Congressional Representative use this link: http://www.contactingthecongress.org/
To unravel this story for yourself use these links:
http://postmanpatel.blogspot.com/2007/11/ms-huma-abedin-was-born-in.html
http://www.villagevoice.com/2007-07-31/columns/can-you-top-this/
http://alanpetersworld.blogspot.com/2008/03/is-huma-abedin-hillarys-lesbian.html
http://www.villagevoice.com/2007-07-31/columns/can-you-top-this/
http://articles.nydailynews.com/2008-05-28/news/17896948_1_huma-abedin-pakistani-mother-body-woman
http://gothamist.com/2010/07/11/anthony_weiner_marries_huma_abedin.php
http://articles.nydailynews.com/2011-03-24/local/29355377_1_huma-abedin-clinton-ties-anthony-weiner
Meanwhile, 1993 has been a historic year for lesbians, gay men and bisexual people. Bill Clinton declared his intentions to lift the military ban on homosexuals. Last April, the March on Washington for Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Rights drew anywhere from 300,000 to a million people (the numbers are much disputed). An openly gay man, David Mixner, was appointed to a Cabinet-level position. A lesbian activist, Roberta Achtenberg, was appointed to be an assistant secretary in the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
These gains have not been met with equal enthusiasm by all. Indeed "family values" conservatives have lashed back at both Hillary and gay people. And, in a strange merging of far-right nightmares, Hillary, and two almost equally powerful women, Department of Health and Human Services head Donna Shalala and Attorney General Janet Reno are imagined to be lesbians. To quite different ends, some gay activist groups have also played around with these rumors.
Four years ago, in 1989, a controversy erupted at the University of Wisconsin, Madison over whether the Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC) should be allowed on campus. A substantial portion of the university's liberal community thought that it should be banned, because ROTC, like the rest of the U.S. military, discriminates against gay men, lesbians and bisexual people. Donna Shalala, then University Chancellor (now head of the Department of Health and Human Services), opposed ROTC's exclusionary policy, but did not want to risk losing state funding by angering the conservative citizens of the state of Wisconsin.
Madison's gay and lesbian activist groups were furious with her, particularly since she had long been rumored to be a lesbian. At an ACLU conference, activist Miriam Ben-Shalom called Shalala a lesbian. Ben-Shalom told the New Yorker, "I thought there was a great deal of hypocrisy in her position on the (ROTC) issue. I did not intentionally out her at the conference, but at the time I thought it was common knowledge that she was a lesbian, and I said that."
When Shalala was named to Clinton's cabinet last December, Queer Nation, a direct activist group, tried to out her at the press. According to Michael Petrelis of Queer Nation/Nation Capital, "We in the gay community need visibility. Closet cases like Shalala send the message that there is something shameful about being a lesbian." Shalala told the Associated Press: "Have I lived an alternative lifestyle? The answer is no." Her friends concur. Journalist Molly Ivins, a close friend of Shalala, told the New Yorker, "Donna's interested in men. She's very aware of what you have to give up to get ahead when you're a woman."
Despite these denials, not everyone is quite convinced. She has a review blurb on the back of the paperback edition of Rita Mae Brown's lesbian coming-out, coming-of-age classic, Rubyfruit Jungle, That book is only famous because it is about lesbians. Either she is a lesbian, or she actively wants to be mistaken for one.
Rumors of Shalala's lesbian leanings, for the most part, originated from gay activists, who acted out for some combination of presumed evidence, a very real need for lesbian visibility, and political anger over the ROTC issue. Similar rumors about our own Hillary and Attorney General Janet Reno, however, eliciting the playful curiosity of the gay community, have been far more zealously pursued by conservatives.
Janet Reno is one of the butchest individuals in Washington. In Florida she was known for her hog-punching, alligator wrestling nonconformity. She spearheaded wars on drugs for Dade County, one of the most crime ridden counties in the country. As U.S. Attorney General she has already dealt with tough issues like the World Trade Center bombing and the Waco, Texas crisis with an almost hawkish machismo.
The lesbian rumors started in Florida, when Reno was Dade County State Attorney. Jack Thompson, the one man Morals Squad who is best known for his campaign against rap group 2 Live Crew, has actively promulgated the notion, never providing any evidence or sources. Miami talk-show host Mike Thompson (no relation to Jack) has called Reno a lesbian on several air times. Right wing watchdogs Accuracy in Media (AIM) have declared their intent to further investigate Ms. Reno's sexuality, an objective based solely on the fact that she is "a 54 year old spinster" and that there has been "an abundance of rumors."
2- John F Kennedy Sex Scandals
Marilyn Monroe:
John F. Kennedy had some famously illicit affairs with Marilyn Monroe. The news didn't break at the time as the Secret Service didn't say anything about his exploits until after Kennedy was assassinated.
The Daily Mail reports Monroe became obsessed with the president after their first affair in Florida. The newspaper alleges Monroe became depressed after their sexual encounter and it may have contributed to her eventual suicide.
http://www.zimbio.com/America%27s+50+Most+Scandalous+Political+Scandals/articles/40/JFK+and+Marilyn+Monroe
All right, we all know that JFK was cheating on Jackie with Marilyn Monroe. However, did you know that after his death, several women came out and said they were having an affair with this Commander-in-Chief? Among them was a painter named Mary Pinchot Meyer who supposedly used to get high on LSD and marijuana while having sex with Kennedy and may have supplied Kennedy with the drugs. It has been suggested that she may have been an influence on him with his views on nuclear disarmament and the United States‘ stance on Cuban relations. Let’s not stop here, though. Kennedy also had trysts with a stripper named Blaze Starr (who also had an affair with Louisiana governor, Earl Long) and Judith Campbell Exner – who also had affairs with mobsters Sam Giancana and John Roselli – while she was with Kennedy. Is Exner the reason that Kennedy was assassinated?
Pero es que eso corre en la familia: Chappaquiddick incident
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
| Chappaquiddick incident | |
| Location | |
| Date | July 18, 1969 |
| Result | Ted Kennedy pleaded guilty to a charge of leaving the scene of the accident after causing injury; refused to campaign for President of the United States in 1972 and 1976 |
The term "Chappaquiddick incident" refers to the circumstances involving the death of Mary Jo Kopechne, whose body was discovered underwater inside an automobile driven by U.S. Senator Edward M. Kennedy. During the early morning hours of July 19, 1969, Kopechne's body and the car were found in a tidal channel on Chappaquiddick Island, Massachusetts. After the discovery, Kennedy gave a statement to police saying that during the previous night Kopechne was his passenger when he took a wrong turn and accidentally drove his car off a bridge into the water. After pleading guilty to a charge of leaving the scene of an accident after causing injury, Kennedy received a suspended sentence. The incident became a national scandal, and may have influenced Kennedy's decision not to campaign for President of the United States in 1972 and 1976.
Borracho abandono la escena del accidente y dejo que su asistente muriera ahogada.
The Exner File - Judith Campbell Exner, John F. Kennedy's mistress. The Exner File - Judith Campbell Exner, John F. Kennedy's mistress
by Michael O'Brien
THE DEATH OF JUDITH CAMPBELL Exner on Sept. 24, 1999, reminds us of the enormous impact she had on the reputation of President John Kennedy and on media coverage of the private lives of public figures. Exner had a two-year affair with Kennedy, and because of her gangland connections and Kennedy's CIA connection, their relationship became a public scandal when it was revealed in 1975.
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Of all the Kennedy sex scandals, the Exner story may be the one that troubles his admirers most. It is also a tale that remains clouded with uncertainty. Exner changed it several times, amplifying her original confession of an affair into bizarre claims about her role in a conspiracy involving Kennedy and the Mafia. The first accusations were bad enough; the later ones would seriously injure Kennedy's reputation as president, if true. For that reason, it's important to be clear about which of Exner's claims we should believe, and which appear to be fantasy.
The name Judith Campbell Exner burst into the national headlines on December 17, 1975. A month earlier the Senate Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities (the Church Committee), in its report on CIA assassination attempts, had discreetly stated that a "close friend" of President Kennedy had also been a close friend of mobsters John Roselli and Sam Giancana. After her identity had been leaked to The Washington Post, Exner, then 41, called a press conference. Sitting next to her second husband Dan Exner, a golf pro, and hiding behind large sunglasses, she denied any knowledge of underworld activities. Two years later, in her autobiography, My Story, Exner recounted her sexual tryst with JFK and her simultaneous relationship with Giancana, plus her friendship with Roselli. That the president would share the sexual favors of a Mafia don,s girlfriend was shocking and frightening.
3- Franklin D. Roosevelt's & Lucy Pager.
Franklin D. Roosevelt's almost thirty-year affair with Lucy Page Mercer, his wife Eleanor's social secretary for a time, probably began in the summer of 1916. Several years later, in 1918, Eleanor discovered some of the love letters Mercer had written to Roosevelt, and confronted her husband about the affair. Although Eleanor offered her husband a divorce and Roosevelt promised to stop seeing Mercer, he continued the affair, intermittently, until his death in 1945. While not the only affair that Roosevelt engaged in (he also had a long-term relationship with his personal secretary, Missy LeHand, for many years), it is the one that seems to have had the most profound effect on their marriage.
4- Most accounts mention that after Eleanor first learned of her husband's affair with Mercer, she began to create a life for herself outside of her role as "Mrs. Roosevelt." She grew more independent and became a pioneering first lady by becoming active in significant social causes, carving out a niche for herself in the White House. Rather than a traditional marriage relationship, Eleanor and Franklin developed more of a partnership, and Eleanor drew emotional support from other women. Her relationship with Associated Press reporter and lesbian Lorena Hickok, who moved into the White House in 1941 and shared a working relationship with the first lady, has been the source of some gossip.
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Top 10 Democrat Sex Scandals in Congress
10/03/2006
Information compiled from the Washington Post, “Congressional Sex Scandals in History,” and other sources.
10. Sen. Daniel Inouye. The 82-year-old Hawaii Democrat was accused in the 1990s by numerous women of sexual harassment. Democrats cast doubt on the allegations and the Senate Ethics Committee dropped its investigation.
9. Former Rep. Gus Savage. The Illinois Democrat was accused of fondling a Peace Corps volunteer in 1989 while on a trip to Africa. The House Ethics Committee decided against disciplinary action in 1990.
8. Rep. Barney Frank. The outspoken Massachusetts Democrat hired a male prostitute who ran a prostitution service from Frank’s residence in the 1980s. Only two Democrats in the House of Representatives voted to censure him in 1990.
7. Former Sen. Brock Adams. The late Washington Democrat was forced to stop campaigning after numerous accusations of drugging, assault and rape, the first surfacing in 1988.
6. Former Rep. Fred Richmond. This New York Democrat was arrested in 1978 for soliciting sex from a 16-year-old. He remained in Congress and won re-election—before eventually resigning in 1982 after pleading guilty to tax evasion and drug possession.
5. Former Rep. John Young. The late Texas Democrat increased the salary of a staffer after she gave in to his sexual advances. The congressman won re-election in 1976 but lost two years later.
4. Former Rep. Wayne Hays. The late Ohio Democrat hired an unqualified secretary reportedly for sexual acts. Although he resigned from Congress, the Democratic House leadership stalled in removing him from the Administration Committee in 1976.
3. Former Rep. Gerry Studds. He was censured for sexual relationship with underage male page in 1983. Massachusetts voters returned him to office for six more terms.
2. Former Rep. Mel Reynolds. The Illinois Democrat was convicted of 12 counts of sexual assault with a 16-year-old. President Bill Clinton pardoned him before leaving office.
1. Sen. Teddy Kennedy. The liberal Massachusetts senator testified in defense of nephew accused of rape, invoking his family history to win over the jury in 1991.
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