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Politician in bed with lobbyists.... no, really.
I thought about putting this in News of the Weird, but in case it gets political, I started a new thread.
Basically, Duvall of California was at a committee meeting and started bragging to a coworker about his sexual conquests. What we assume he doesn't know is that his mic is live. :sweatdrop:
Watch here.
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“So, I am getting into spanking her. Yeah, I like it. I like spanking her. She goes, ‘I know you like spanking me.’ I said, ‘Yeah! Because you’re such a bad girl!’”
It turns out that the two women he's talking about are both lobbyists, and all three of them are married. :no:
At least he had the decency to resign afterwards. Read more here.
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Originally Posted by Xiahou
At least he had the decency to resign afterwards.
Well he had to, after this it would have been really awkward for him to ever approve one of her motions again. ~D
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wow another corrupt politicians. This is really shocking.
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Originally Posted by Centurion1
wow another corrupt politicians. This is really shocking.
He's a Republican, and he was sleeping around with a woman. This is Big News! :beam:
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Originally Posted by
Xiahou
At least he had the decency to resign afterwards.
Well, normally, I detest it when politicians resign or the populace urges the politician to resign after a sex scandal. IMHO, sexual lives of a politicians have little real effect on their overall performance. Now, of course, sex for favours is dirty business, but many brilliant politicians and generals in the past had been notorious womanisers. It would be a shame to see a great man taken down due to his inability to restrain his phallus. Not to mention, almost every single President of US has had an affair, including some of the most revered ones, such as Franklin Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln for starters.
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Originally Posted by
Centurion1
wow another corrupt politicians. This is really shocking.
Well, lobbyism to a certain degree is legalised corruption. There really is no way to eliminate lobbying. Or corruption. Or suspiciously large campaign contributions by businesses. One can only abolish one, but not both. And there is certain merit in special interests as well. Oh, and yes, of course I realise your sarcasm, lest someone here accuses me of not having noted that.
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There's a lesson in here somewhere, but I can't seem to put my finger on it....
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Originally Posted by
drone
He's a Republican, and he was sleeping around with a woman. This is Big News! :beam:
Burn!!! :campfire:
Ajax
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Originally Posted by
Hosakawa Tito
There's a lesson in here somewhere, but I can't seem to put my finger on it....
That Dems are not the only womanisers? But I suppose Sanford sort of busted that myth...
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“So, I am getting into spanking her. Yeah, I like it. I like spanking her. She goes, ‘I know you like spanking me.’ I said, ‘Yeah! Because you’re such a bad girl!’”
Duvall was obviously aspiring to become the California Assembly's Minority Whip. :whip:
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'Spank me, spank me very much!' :verycool:
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I thought about posting this in News of the Weird but refrained, as it's too political.
I note without surprise that this politician was considered a "family values" candidate.
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Discipline is key to a good family. :hairpin2:
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Originally Posted by
Lemur
I note without surprise that this politician was considered a "family values" candidate.
As a Republican, frankly speaking, there is little else you can tout.
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Originally Posted by drone
He's a Republican, and he was sleeping around with a woman. This is Big News!
It was two women, thank you very much. :wink:
As I've said, the only good news was that he had sense enough to resign. Maybe he could talk some sense to Mark Sanford...... :sweatdrop:
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Originally Posted by
Aemilius Paulus
Well, lobbyism to a certain degree is legalised corruption. There really is no way to eliminate lobbying. Or corruption. Or suspiciously large campaign contributions by businesses. One can only abolish one, but not both. And there is certain merit in special interests as well. Oh, and yes, of course I realise your sarcasm, lest someone here accuses me of not having noted that.
Isn't lobbyism atleast partially responsible to the bemoaned inefficiency of the US goverment?
Consider it's influences on porking and overexpensive solutions (Medicare D for example)?
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Originally Posted by
Lemur
I thought about posting this in News of the Weird but refrained, as it's too political.
I note without surprise that this politician was considered a "family values" candidate.
Doesn't "no sex before marriage" count as a family value? :laugh4:
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Before I comment on the subject, I'd like to see pictures of these... "lobbyists".
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Andres is very wise indeed.
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Originally Posted by
Lemur
I thought about posting this in News of the Weird but refrained, as it's too political.
I note without surprise that this politician was considered a "family values" candidate.
He did value families. Just other peoples. :laugh4:
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Originally Posted by
Andres
Before I comment on the subject, I'd like to see pictures of these... "lobbyists".
https://img38.imageshack.us/img38/3887/hyzbom0ojnws.jpg
I don't think she's all that hot. She looks a bit scary. Then again, if you're 54 I guess it beats another tiresome lunch with your lobbyists.
I love the thought of the family values of the Christian right dripping down into her panties...
drip...
drip...
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Originally Posted by Duvall
we had made love Wednesday--a lot! And so she'll, she's all, 'I am going
up and down the stairs, and you're dripping out of me!' So messy!"
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A little overdate and most likely overdone, dried up man, dried up
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Louis VI the Fat
Are we sure that's a woman? :inquisitive:
She looks a bit better on the picture linked to by Hosa, though.
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She needs a flat head so you have a place to set your drink. You people are just too nitpicky to ever make it in the world of politics.
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<looks at Duvall's picture, then at hers>
I wonder what SHE was thinking?
<shudders>
Actually, I think she'd make a better politician - the kind we need. She's obviously willing to make sacrifices (and ugly sacrifices) to get the job done.
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Rich powerful men having affairs?! My god! What has the world come to.
Why is there a direct link between the amount a politician moralises about family values and the amount of phillandering he does?
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Originally Posted by
Idaho
Rich powerful men having affairs?! My god! What has the world come to.
Why is there a direct link between the amount a politician moralises about family values and the amount of phillandering he does?
Reflex. The first systematic lie you'll ever learn. If you enter a room with 10 children and one child shouts "It wasn't me!" or "I'm innocent!" when you enter, even before you know something have happened, who's the guilty child?
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Originally Posted by
Ironside
Reflex. The first systematic lie you'll ever learn. If you enter a room with 10 children and one child shouts "It wasn't me!" or "I'm innocent!" when you enter, even before you know something have happened, who's the guilty child?
Genius! :laugh4:
The best political analysis I've ever read about 'family values' politicians! Merely labelling yourself as one seems to indicate guilt.
(Not that I care which women have Christian/conservative values dripping down in their panties. Sleep with whom you want. What I mind is the hypocrisy. And in this case, the all too personal nature of the relationship with his lobbyists)
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She looks like a Post Op Transvestite.
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Don't forget that this is Cali. Odds are she has had work done, looks like her face has had it's share of botox. :yes:
Apparently, he is denying the affairs, he is just guilty of "inappropriate storytelling". ~:rolleyes: Any chances his wife believes this? Of course not.
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Originally Posted by OC Weekly
"And so her birthday was Monday," he said at the Wednesday, July 8 committee hearing. "I was 54 on June 14, so for a month, she was 19 years younger than
me. I said, 'Now, you're getting old. I am going to have to trade you in.' And she goes, '[I'm] 36.' She is 18 years younger than me. And so I keep
teasing her, and she goes, 'I know you French men. You divide your age by
two and add seven, and if you're older than that, you dump us.'"
And like French men, he should say that he is nailing anything that moves, and be proud of that fact. What a tool.
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Why is sex such a big issue?
Is he a worse politician cause he spanked some girl?
Same with Clinton... Who cares!
I, for me, do not cheat on my partner, never have, never will. However, what OTHERS do is not a concern of mine, unless it is my partner.
I have a few friends i know have cheated, both male and female. They are still my friends.
If you had a friend who cheated, would you dismiss him/her as friend?
If not, then how come you expect higher standards from your politicians than your friends? I, for one, am way more picky with who I choose as friend than I am about who I vote for.
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Originally Posted by
Kadagar_AV
Is he a worse politician cause he spanked some girl?
While the sex factor makes it juicier, she is not "some girl", but a lobbyist. While we don't know this as a fact, he may have been exchanging legislative favors for sexual ones. Sort of an untraceable bribe.
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Originally Posted by
Kadagar_AV
Same with Clinton... Who cares!
The Clinton impeachment was technically about lying under oath, not sex. The fact that he was getting oral from a fat intern just made it too irresistible for the GOP attack machine to pass up. Personally, I think it ended up making the GOP look petty, and started their downfall. It was no real secret that Clinton was sleeping around. He's married to Hillary, it's totally understandable. :beam:
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Originally Posted by
Kadagar_AV
I, for me, do not cheat on my partner, never have, never will. However, what OTHERS do is not a concern of mine, unless it is my partner.
I have a few friends i know have cheated, both male and female. They are still my friends.
If you had a friend who cheated, would you dismiss him/her as friend?
If not, then how come you expect higher standards from your politicians than your friends? I, for one, am way more picky with who I choose as friend than I am about who I vote for.
That depends. Did your friends go on and on about "family values" and such? The hypocrisy factor is the reason Democrats can get away with infidelity and the conservative Republicans lose their political careers.
Truth be told, sex is such a big issue because it sells papers (or rather, generates site hits). I'd much prefer reporters to post more articles about influence peddling, bribery, and misuse of public funds. :shrug:
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Originally Posted by
drone
That depends. Did your friends go on and on about "family values" and such? The hypocrisy factor is the reason Democrats can get away with infidelity and the conservative Republicans lose their political careers.
That and the fact Republican electorates tend to disapprove of infidelity.
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Originally Posted by
Kadagar_AV
Why is sex such a big issue?
Why did you have so much of it and open threads about it?
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Originally Posted by
Kadagar_AV
If you had a friend who cheated, would you dismiss him/her as friend?
Depends a lot on why they did it and how they explained it.
