Bush Appointed Judge Resigns After Cross Dressing DUI Arrest

[Ichingcarpenter]

And where, you might ask, was the judge going that night dressed that way?



That I find this story so hilarious probably says more about me than the cross-dressing federal judge in question, but as they say these days, it is what it is. The punch line is probably the best part.

Somma worked in private practice for years in Boston before he was appointed to the bench by President Bush in December 2004.

Yes, the fact that Bush appointed him as a federal bankruptcy judge does crack me up, but let's start at the beginning.

Somma's Mercedes-Benz E320 sedan hit a pick-up truck from behind about 11:29 p.m. on Feb. 6, the police report said. No one was hurt.

Somma, who lives in Newbury, Mass., fumbled in his purse for his driver's license before handing it to the officer who later arrested him, the police report shows.

"He had a difficult time locating his license in his purse. He passed over it multiple times before removing it," officer Paul J. Thompson wrote in his report.

The officer offered no other details with regard to the judge's attire or accessories. Nor would representatives of the Manchester Police Department or the city solicitor's office, which worked out the negotiated plea agreement with Somma's lawyer...

But lots of other people did offer those details, of which Audrey Hepburn would have been proud.

When authorities removed him from the vehicle, they said he wore a black women's cocktail dress, fishnet stockings and high heels.

http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/77304/

[Blue_In_AK]

1. Oh, my God.

Fishnet stockings???!!!

[aquart]

2. Which is not illegal.

Driving drunk is illegal. Throw the entire library at him for that.

[Ichingcarpenter]

4. I hope he goes "BANKRUPTED"

Oh, the irony.

[HereSince1628]

5. My thoughts exactly.

Although I wonldn't be surprised if cross-dressing is illegal in many places in the US.

[Sanity Claws]

Blue eyeshadow?

What was he thinking? That should be charged as a second crime.

[Habibi]

25. Especially with a black dress!

Dude seriously needs some makeup lessons.

[Faygo Kid]

58. Obviously a Bush appointee. What a fashion faux pas.

Tacky.

[Habibi]

67. Well, not necessarily.

I'm a Dem and I can't accessorize to save my life!

[Sanity Claws]

3. Dupe - sorry

[Warpy]

6. Some transvestites are straight

and it sounds like he might be one of them. He was smart enough to go to an "alternative" watering hole, at least.

Cops and nurses all know that when they smell alcohol on somebody and ask him how much he's had to drink, it should be tripled. In some cases, it can safely be quadrupled.

Still, it's nice to see the GOP is consistent in its family values, that of poorly repressed kinky sexuality and public drunkenness.

[damntexdem]

10. Yeah, but all Dubya judges are crooked.

But if they say 'none' to the drinking question, don't try multiplication, just add something in.

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[LostinVA]

12. Most crossdressers are straight men

Being gay and/or crossdressing does not make one a pervert.

It's sickening to see posts like this on DU.

[SpiralHawk]

24. Who said anything about gay?

I commented snarkily on his closet kinkiness - republicon hypocrisy does not go down well with me. Be who you are. I have no trouble with cross dressers, transvestites, or whatever, as long as the person is not pretending to be some Holier Than Thou Conservative Family Values Straight Laced Uptight Dude -- and then sneaking out of the closet to secretly indulge his real self -- as sooooo many republicon homelanders do.

[LostinVA]

30. You did, before you edited your post

[SpiralHawk]

57. Bullshit. A false accusation.

Try reading more carefully before you get Lost in your own delusions. I made no such change. I did go back and add a graphic.

Get a grip.

[LostinVA]

59. No -- the graphic was there

You edited out the gay part. Of course, your whole disgusting post has been deleted, so it's a moot point.

[SpiralHawk]

64. Until you give up your thin-skinned fantasy life, Lost

you are on ignored. Deservedly so.

[skater314159]

66. I agree...

Repukes being bigots, well, they're Repukes, and I expect less from them...

But 'cmon you guys! Let's learn a little about Transgender and Genderfucks, please!
I'm a genderfuck, and I still get disappointed/sick when I see people here at DU who say things that sound like quotes from O'Reilly or that Rush asshole.

[superduperfarleft]

What a vile fucking graphic.

You're a real class act.

[damntexdem]

9. Well, DUI is pretty bad. It's good he resigned.

And in high heels, I bet it's hard to walk a straight line for the officers.

[bdamomma]

11. how sick huh?

it just never stops.

:hi:

[LostinVA]

16. What's sick?

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[LostinVA]

15. "Republiqueen?" -- watch, your homophobia is showing

Most crossdressers are straight men, btw.

[yardwork]

22. Cross-dressing is not considered to be a mental health problem.

People have the right to dress up as they please. Making fun of a cross-dresser puts you on the same maturity level as a sniggering second-grader who just told a potty joke. Grow up.

Drunk driver is against the law. Make fun of that. But drop the nasty jokes about cross-dressers. What's wrong with some of you people?

[LostinVA]

14. Great -- a chance for DUers to make transphobic remarks and cry, "But it's the hypocrisy!"

I'm glad he got arrested for a DUI, but everyone is going to focus on the man in a dress part.

It's already happened up thread. Sickening.

[malaise]

17. My response to Rethugs is simple

How does a Rethug cross dresser view other cross dressers? How would Fuckabee describe him? You see the truth is irrelevant to Rethug moralists and I'm betting that in daylight he'd think like a GOP hypocrite.
Gr.

[LostinVA]

18. That's no excuse to call him "sick," "perverted," "Republiqueen"

Those are homophobic, transphobic terms, and people who think they're okay to use are no different than Republicans spewing homophobia.

It's like excusing racism from somebody because they're a Dem. That would be ridiculous, right? Why should homophobia and transphobia be any different?

[Ichingcarpenter]

20. He was a conservative judge and a Federalist

The Boston-based judge chose the bar in question, according to local rumor, because his wife, Wendy, was out of town and no one knew him in New Hampshire. Sounds like Wendy is pretty cool, though.

"I suspect that he will not be interested in talking to anyone from the newspaper, and I'm his wife," said a woman who answered the telephone at the judge's home yesterday. She referred media calls to Gary H. Wente, chief administrative officer for the First Circuit Courts.

Somma showed his sense of style to the end. He phoned in his resignation from a vacation spot in the Caribbean.

[malaise]

31. A Rethug with style

That's one for the books.

[Ichingcarpenter]

42. His wife sounded understanding of his fetish

This judge resignation adds to the many appointments that
are being held up because of Bush's hard stance on
Assistant Attorney General Paul Clement

[gratuitous]

19. PM'ing you a quarter

I'm hardly transphobic. However, there is a large portion of the yammering class that is transphobic, homophobic, and just plain phobophobic, and that portion takes a great deal of delight in hammering on my gay, lesbian, transgendered, intersexed and questioning fellow citizens, as well as me for supporting them and their full inclusion and participation in society (including in the life my church congregation).

That segment of the yammering class also loves to paint in broad strokes the "perversion" and "unnaturalness" of my friends, and there is a segment of the political population that either agrees with that segment, or exploits their bigotry. By and large, those politicians reside in the Republican party, and pretend that "normal" Americans really have nothing to do with such "perverts." Of course, they do have quite a lot to do with sexual minorities, but propagating the fiction is vital to maintaining the yammerers in their political base.

So, when the truth seeps out like it does in this matter, a number of folks at DU use a certain shorthand to make themselves sound like the yammerers, who are convinced they are on the side of the angels, and have nothing to do with people the yammerers regard as so awful. And they're no more transphobic than me.

[LostinVA]

21. Ask some of the trans members of DU if that excuses their disgusting comments

I already know the answer, and it is "no."

Keep the quarter and tone down the condescension.

[gratuitous]

27. My, my

"Condescenion," is it? You seemed genuinely oblivious. I provide an explanation (one that obviously doesn't comport with your prejudices), and your characterization is "condescenion."

Hmmm.

[LostinVA]

28. My "prejudices?"

You're attempting to justify homophobia/transphobia.

:eyes:

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[LostinVA]

33. Against it -- what does that have to do with ANYTHING?

[timtom]

37. It's just a question.

But I can imagine a pedophile labeling those who are against pedophilia as pedophobes.

[LostinVA]

39. That's the most asinine thing I've read all day

Are you honestly comparing gay and transpeople with pedophiles?

[timtom]

47. You've more than satisfied my curiosity.

It's about who people are and name-calling.

BTW, I agree with you. I'm against it, too.

[uppityperson]

43. And open minded people label those who are against open mindedness close minded.

Your comparison gets a big eyeroll here. Are you really comparing pedophilia with crossdressers or gay people? or are you just doing and oh so innocent "it was JUST a question"?

[yardwork]

56. That's one of the most disgusting things I've ever read on DU.

[Midlodemocrat]

45. Are you out of your freaking mind?

Are you seriously equating homosexuality with pedophilia? That is about the sickest thing I've read here. You should be ashamed.

[Phillycat]

54. WTF?

I think you need a nap.

[gratuitous]

36. Yes, "prejudiced"

Like a 1950s-vintage McCarthyite, who saw Communists lurking under every bed, you're seeing "homophobia/transphobia" in every post, whether it's there or not. I provided an explanation for how those posts read, and you immediately resorted to name-calling, because that explanation doesn't fit with your stubborn desire to characterize them unfairly. If that's not prejudice, then the word doesn't have a meaning.

[uppityperson]

38. sick, perverted, Republiqueen, homos up the story=bigoted comments.

[LostinVA]

40. Not every post -- just the ones using homo/trans-phobic terms

And you're trying to justify such speech.

Astounding.

[Midlodemocrat]

46. Um, maybe because some posts are transphobic or homophobic.

Just a thought.

[Ghost in the Machine]

63. Ummm.. not to be nitpicky, but a 'phobia' is a fear...

He's not fearing homosexuals or transgendered people, he's just bashing them...

Call it what it is.... gay bashing. Words have meaning.. and power...

:hi: (psssst... tell Haruka I said "hi")

[MannyGoldstein]

23. Obviously, The Man Was Forced To Do This By Mass' Legalizing Gay Marriage

All men in the Commonwealth are now required to wear cocktail dresses w/ fishnets. Tough thing to do in the winter.

[Warren Stupidity]

26. The Vile Howie Carr homos up the story and blames Patrick.

Linked through the alternet blog page is the Murdoch hate rag's Howie Carr's original story on this: "Judge Roberta goes a-courting" where the twisted homophobe Carr manages to make this about Deval Patrick and also manages to work Obama into it:

"And where the case couldn’t be fixed. Like Carl Stanley McGee, the $115,000-a-year Deval aide now charged with molesting a young boy in a Florida steam room, Judge Roberta forgot that there is still a large country out there where this sort of behavior is frowned upon, at least in public. That country is called America.

Oh well, it’s over now for the judge, at least until Deval can arrange a soft landing on the state bench, where he so obviously belongs. He got a bad ice cube, is all. There comes a night when the best gets tight, as Rudyard Kipling put it. It’s easy to straighten things out. Just have your “spouse” donate $1,000 to Barack Obama and you’re appointed the next day. That’s how things work around here now.

http://news.bostonherald.com/news/opinion/columnists/view.bg?articleid=1074045&srvc=home&position=also

[LostinVA]

29. "homos up?"

Please edit that out, it's offensive.

[Ichingcarpenter]

34. Agreed

[Warren Stupidity]

50. Did you even bother to read what I wrote?

[Warren Stupidity]

49. Howie Carr is offensive the article is offensive

and that is exactly what he is doing: playing it for all the homophobia he can get out of it.

[LostinVA]

73. So you respond with the homophobic "homos up?"

Replace that with a racial epithet, and see how it sounds. Same difference.

[Warren Stupidity]

75. It was exactly what Carr's essay was doing.

But as you are more offended it seems by my description of his essay than the essay itself I apologize. Your concern for tagging posters here as homophobic when they aren't is far more important to you than going after the real bigots in the media who flaunt their bigotry down the runway for all to see. I understand that now. I will try to avoid pointing out the blatent homophobia in the media from now on out of regard for your sensitivity for calling things what they are.

Yes I would have used similar terminology to describe a deliberately racist essay.

[enid602]

35. cocktail dress

"When authorities removed him from the vehicle, they said he wore a black women's cocktail dress, fishnet stockings and high heels." He stole a cocktail dress from a black womens? I hope he left her some garments so she could get home.

[uppityperson]

41. Sloppy writing there. I do that too when I read things, go "wtf" and laugh.

Eats, shoots, and leaves.

[Chiyo-chichi]

52. "women's" not "woman's"

Funny though.

[enid602]

44. maybe

Maybe he was just on his way to have a late lunch with Rudy.

[shadowknows69]

48. Cross Dressing While Intoxicated

While not a crime probably should be. Those drunk crossdressers never get their hair and makeup right. B-)

[Ichingcarpenter]

51. His wife sounded understanding of his fetish

but he was drunk, a federal judge and a bush appointee.




For more understanding on fetish and cross dressing :

look here:http://dir.salon.com/story/sex/col/quan/2003/12/16/asktracy_tues/

and here:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_fetishism

[shadowknows69]

53. I've explored all the fetishes I need to in this life thanks

And dressing in the wifes clothes aint one of them. All power to those it thrills though.

[Feron]

55. Audrey Hepburn would not have approved.

A cocktail dress with fishnets?! That's more up Paris Hilton's alley.

Anyway I don't care if the man wore a dress, but it seems like there's a new conservative hypocrite popping up every 1-3 months. And these people make Bill Clinton's "bimbo eruptions" look positively bland in comparison. Hookers, restroom solicitation, and auto erotic asphyxiation spring to my mind and that's just a brief recap of the last half of 2007. A dress will never compare to a guy getting off and accidentally dying in a rubber suit with a dildo up his ass.

The kicker is that nobody would likely care about the dress if this group wasn't so sexually repressed.

Even though the DUI is the only crime here (fashion aside), it's the dress that did him in. And that is the really sad part.

[Marr]

60. That's hilarious.

[ruiner4u]

61. Yay!!! the DU gay glee and after that, News at 11!!!

Some things never "Change"

[leftofthedial]

62. sounds like a fun guy!

:thumbsup:

[aein]

65. BAP judges aren't appointed by the president, usually they are appointed by the...

...circuit judges.

[SoCalDem]

68. Did he steal the black woman's cocktail dress?

or did she loan it to him?


aaah.. writers...

[Rex]

69. Yer honor,

Mmm...summer mist.

[MrScorpio]

70. Did the weekly quota for exposing Republican hypocrites get upped this week?

Seems like we've had a lot

[rocktivity]

71. Maybe Bush should have appointed him as a MORAL bankruptcy judge!

rocknation

[Auntie Bush]

72. LOL Another family values Bushie bites the dust..

[InsultComicDog]

74. I guess that's one less

recess appointment we need to be concerned about...