Republican Values??????..... Hotel suites.. and, and ...oh my!!

[RedEarth]

Prosecutors May Widen
Congressional-Bribe Case

Cunningham Is Suspected
Of Asking for Prostitutes;
Were Others Involved?
By SCOT J. PALTROW
April 27, 2006; Page A6

Federal prosecutors are investigating whether two contractors implicated in the bribery of former Rep. Randall "Duke" Cunningham supplied him with prostitutes and free use of a limousine and hotel suites, pursuing evidence that could broaden their long-running inquiry.

Besides scrutinizing the prostitution scheme for evidence that might implicate contractor Brent Wilkes, investigators are focusing on whether any other members of Congress, or their staffs, may also have used the same free services, though it isn't clear whether investigators have turned up anything to implicate others

In recent weeks, Federal Bureau of Investigation agents have fanned out across Washington, interviewing women from escort services, potential witnesses and others who may have been involved in the arrangement. In an interview, the assistant general manager of the Watergate Hotel confirmed that federal investigators had requested, and been given, records relating to the investigation and rooms in the hotel. But he declined to disclose what the records show. A spokeswoman for Starwood Inc., Westin's parent company, said she wasn't immediately able to get information on whether the Westin Grand had been contacted by investigators.

Mr. Cunningham, a Republican from San Diego, was sentenced March 3 to more than eight years in federal prison after he admitted taking $2.4 million in bribes. The bribes were taken in exchange for helping executives obtain large contracts with the Defense Department and other federal agencies. Mr. Cunningham, who resigned from Congress in November, pleaded guilty to two criminal counts, one of tax evasion and one of conspiracy.

http://online.wsj.com/public/article_print/SB114610728002837324-nRnF_ahxSnYdWg6foBQ3_mvCwZ4_20070427.html

[bryant69]

1. Does Duke Cunningham sound like a made up name to anybody else?

It is nice to see him get his comeuppance - although they are probably going to play him as a special case and not indiciative of the corruption that has engulfed their party.

Bryant
Check it out --> http://politicalcomment.blogspot.com

[Bake]

2. What's worse? Stealing $2 mil or engaging a couple of hookers?

My problem is with the $2 mil.

Bake

[Ian David]

3. Republicans & prostitutes? Shocking! Why are they only interviewing women?

http://www.thelawparty.com/FranklinCoverup/franklin.htm



http://toolz.blogs.com/toolz_of_the_new_school/videos/



Bush Waives Saudi Trafficking Sanctions

WASHINGTON -- President Bush decided Wednesday to waive any financial sanctions on Saudi Arabia, Washington's closest Arab ally in the war on terrorism, for failing to do enough to stop the modern-day slave trade in prostitutes, child sex workers and forced laborers." - The Associated Press

Full article
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/21/AR2005092102260.html


Northern Mariana Islands, Abramoff, DeLay, and Enron

Okay, this admittedly has a lot of moving parts. Let me see if I can get all of this straight.

The New York Times runs a story this morning about $1.2 million in unaccounted for work done by a Rabbi David Lapin to "promote ethics in government" for the Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands (CMNI), a U.S. territory. Tom DeLay and disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff are at the center of this one.

Here's some background:

1. The Northern Marianas have weaker labor laws than the mainland U.S. and the garment industry likes it that way. They bring in labor -- some would say slave labor -- from China and other Asian countries, and pay them a pittance while exploting them. Some go into prostitution.

2. CMNI hired Jack Abramoff to lobby for them and paid him roughly $9 million to prevent the Clinton Administration from stregthening labor and human rights standards.

3. As part of Abramoff's lobbying, Tom DeLay took a trip with his family and some staff members there in 1998. While there, as ABC News caught on tape, DeLay extolled the factories as the way capitalism ought to operate. When he returned he declared the Clinton Administration efforts to raise wages and clamp down on immigration dead on arrival.

4. Abramoff also funneled more than a million dollars, it appears, to David Lapin, who is a conservative rabbi, for promoting ethics in government. Rabbi Lapin later ran a school, now defunct, that was supported by Abramoff. CMNI cannot account for what David Lapin did for the islands.

More:
http://dailydelay.blogspot.com/2005/04/northern-mariana-islands-abramoff.html




See also:

Myth: Republicans value sexual morality

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Ken Calvert, Congressman (R-Ca), champion of the Christian Coalition and its “family values.” Sued as an alimony deadbeat by his ex-wife. Said “We can’t forgive what occurred between the President and Lewinsky.” In 1993 he was caught by police receiving oral sex from a prostitute and attempted to flee the scene.

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Richard A. Dasen Sr., Republican benefactor of conservative Christian groups, convicted of sexual abuse of children, promotion of prostitution and several counts of solicitation, enough to add up to a sentence of 126 years in prison. Investigators estimated that he spent up to $5,000,000 on prostitutes.

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Jeff Gannon Partisan blogger with no journalism credentials and a fake name who got invited to Bush’s Press conferences. Is also a pimp and a gay prostitute. Truthout Article. See also dKospedia’s page on Jeff Gannon.

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Lawrence E. King, Jr., Republican Activist, organized orgies with child prostitutes at the White House during the 1980s. Full page include

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Brent Parker Utah State Representetive. Arrested for soliciting sex from an undercover officer posing as a male prostitute. KSL News Article |Desert News Article

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Craig J. Spence, Republican lobbyist, organized orgies with child prostitutes in the White House during the 1980s. Full page including Washington Times article Discovery Channel documentary

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Jimmy Swaggart, televangelist, said during a sermon “I’m trying to find the correct name for it … this utter absolute, asinine, idiotic stupidity of men marrying men. … I’ve never seen a man in my life I wanted to marry. And I’m gonna be blunt and plain; if one ever looks at me like that, I’m gonna kill him and tell God he died.” Had an affair with a prostitute.

More:
http://thinkprogress.org/2006/04/05/more-child-sex-troubles-at-dhs/



Republican Family Values

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Tom Delay, Texas: There is a rumor that a photograph exists with DeLay locked in a sexual embrace with a Mexican prostitute. There is another rumor that claims that DeLay has a grown daughter in Texas whose mother is not DeLay's wife. Allegedly DeLay has paid support for this child. (Flynt - 49)

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State Senator Drew Nixon: In 1997 was arrested and convicted of soliciting a prostitute who turned out to be an undercover police officer. (QR, 8.15.03)

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David D. Smith, president and chief executive officer of Sinclair Broadcast Group: Was arrested in his hometown of Baltimore and charged with a misdemeanor sex offense. Sinclair owns WPGH, the Fox affiliate in Pittsburgh, and programs most of WPTT. The Baltimore Sun reported that Smith, 45, was arrested Tuesday night in an undercover sting at a downtown corner frequented by prostitutes. Sinclair issued a statement that Smith's arrest was unrelated to company business and "The company will continue to operate under the direction of its current management." (Eschaton, 4.30.04) Sinclair is ran by David Smith, who in the mid-1970s was a partner in a company called Cine Processors, according the Los Angeles Times, which cites public records and a former partner in the company as sources. David E. Williams, Smith’s partner in the business, told the Times that Cine Processors’ sole business was the development of 8mm pornographic films. According to Williams, the film company went out of business in 1975 or 1976 after police confiscated film and other materials during an obscenity raid. Baltimore police officials were unable to locate records of the raid, citing the decades since the raid took place as the reason why. (LAT, 10.27.04). Never mind that (David) Smith's own behavior had almost nothing in common with (Sinclair's vice president of corporate relations, Mark) Hyman's moralistic segments. According to several sources close to Smith, the principal owner of Sinclair has never been the paragon of personal virtue that his stations preach and his political allies champion. Having launched his career selling pornographic videos in Baltimore's red-light district during the 1970s, Smith has apparently spent the past thirty years refining that passion. After he was caught by police in 1996 getting a blow job from a prostitute while driving a company Mercedes, his sexual adventures became a matter of public record, but according to his friends, that incident only begins to tell the story. "That was the time he got caught," says one. "He's a whoremonger. A real whoremonger. He loves the titty bars. The only people he likes go to the titty bars with him. Those are the only people he trusts. He also goes out to Vegas all the time. He goes to the high-end titty bars. He's always getting the private upstairs rooms, champagne, the works." (DCMG, 11.22.05)

More:
http://quinnell.us/politics/family.html


Also:

Myth: Republicans value sexual morality

<snip>

Richard A. Dasen Sr., Republican benefactor of conservative Christian groups, convicted of sexual abuse of children, promotion of prostitution and several counts of solicitation, enough to add up to a sentence of 126 years in prison. Investigators estimated that he spent up to $5,000,000 on prostitutes.
http://www.dkosopedia.com/wiki/Moral_Values

And finally, someone who "gets it."

If you want to be an adulterous prostitute toe-sucker, you should quit the Democratic Party, because there will always be a welcoming place for you amongst the Republicans:

See:
Dick Morris
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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On August 29, 1996, Morris resigned from the Clinton campaign after reports surfaced that he had been involved in an extramarital affair with a prostitute named Sherry Rowlands. A tabloid newspaper had obtained and published a set of photographs of Morris and Rowlands on a Washington, D.C., hotel balcony. Accompanying the photo layout was Rowlands' story of the casual affair, including the revelation that Morris's favorite sexual fetish was toe-sucking <1>. The article also revealed that Morris had allowed Rowlands to listen in on phone calls with the President, and had given her a copy of a campaign speech before it was delivered. Morris had been very casual about sharing his opinions of Bill and Hillary Clinton with Rowlands, and now some very inside personal information was available at thousands of supermarket checkouts.

Morris resigned on the same day that Bill Clinton spoke and accepted the nomination at the Democratic National Convention. In his resignation statement, he said that "while I served I sought to avoid the limelight because I did not want to become the message. Now, I resign so I will not become the issue." In his response, President Clinton praised Morris as a "friend" and thanked him for his years of service.

Morris was featured on two consecutive covers of Time magazine. The September 2, 1996, issue, which was released before the scandal story broke, featured Morris as "The Man Who Has Clinton's Ear." The following week, the cover featured Morris and his wife, Eileen McGann, and the headline read "The Morris Mess: After the Fall."

It was also revealed that Morris has a child in Texas, whom he fathered out of wedlock.

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Morris makes it known that he is a bipartisan consultant. In addition to his work with Bill Clinton, he once worked for senators Trent Lott and Jesse Helms, as well as former governors William Weld of Massachusetts and Pete Wilson of California and current governor Mike Huckabee of Arkansas. As early as 1988, he has said, he decided to work only for Republicans, a claim reiterated in 1995; his role in Clinton's 1992 campaign and presidency was kept secret from the staff. He is not believed to have worked as a U.S. political strategist since the scandal of 1996, possibly because of candidates' fears that their choice of consultant would cause bad publicity.

Morris says he became profoundly "disillusioned" with the actions of the Clintons in the late 90's, after his resignation. He has now formed a career of sorts as a political commentator and critic of the Clintons (primarily Hillary, whom he does not appear to care for at all, whereas with Bill he is more charitable), often appearing on talk shows such as Hannity & Colmes and the O'Reilly Factor.

More:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Morris

[Ian David]

4. Were Abramoff, Wilkes and Cunningham running a brothel for lobbyists?

Were Abramoff, Wilkes and Cunningham running a brothel for lobbyists?
Topic started by IanDB1 on Dec-06-05 02:09 PM (60 replies)
Last modified by leveymg on Dec-10-05 04:02 AM
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=132&topic_id=2294888

Guilty Congressman Duke Cunningham's “Co-Conspirator” Also Ran A DC “Hospitality Suite, With Several Bedrooms”…

National Journal | Posted December 6, 2005 10:39 AM


Sometimes we read too many political clips and overlook some amazing things staring us in the face. Among those in Monday's edition, this little factoid, culled from Sunday's San Diego Union-Tribune blockbuster digging deeper into the Duke Cunningham's relationship with "co-conspirator No. 1," a.k.a. lobbyist Brent Wilkes.

According to the U-T, Wilkes also "ran a hospitality suite, with several bedrooms, in" DC -- "first in the Watergate Hotel and then" in a Capitol Hill hotel.

Come again? A "hospitality suite with several bedrooms"?

Talk about raising more questions, including:

-- Why does a lobbyist need a "hospitality suite with several bedrooms"?

-- Who uses those bedrooms and for what?

These lobbying scandals involving Cunningham and Wilkes and Abramoff are looking more and more like a bad movie script every day. Except with one difference from the movies: this stuff actually happened.

Read entire blog at National Journal The Hotline
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2005/12/06/From%20National%20Journal%5C's%20The%20Hotline

Some people say that Republicans regularly have gay sex paid for by Abramoff, Wilkes and Cunningham.

Folks are saying that Tom DeLay may have engaged in sodomy with Jeff Gannon.


To be fair, they're not "beds" they're "resting platforms."

Some people say.

More:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=132&topic_id=2294888