Mark Judge: Party Guy & Kavanaugh Classmate Goes Silent
AP/WASHINGTON — Mark Judge spent decades mining his recollections and writing books and articles full of semi-confessional details about the suburban Maryland prep school he attended with future Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. Now, though, Judge's memory has drawn a blank.
Judge, identified by Christine Blasey Ford as an eyewitness to her claim that Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her during a 1980s teen party, has said he has "no memory" of the episode. Ford, now a college professor in California, claims Judge watched the attack and urged Kavanaugh on. Judge told the Senate Judiciary Committee last week: "I do not recall the party described in Dr. Ford's letter. More to the point, I never saw Brett act in the manner Dr. Ford describes."
Over much of his adult life, Judge has dived back repeatedly into his memories of Georgetown Preparatory School student life in the early 1980s, and his two memoirs and a cluster of internet essays provide cautionary takes on his prep school days and boozy weekend rounds as a teenage drinker. Judge's book "Wasted: Tales of a GenX Drunk" surveyed his alcohol-fueled escapades in high school and college, a time of "drinking and smoking and hooking up," he wrote in a 2015 essay on the Acculturated website.
After Judge was publicly identified by Ford, some former Georgetown Prep classmates sifted through their own memories, trying to reconcile their recollections with Ford's account. Those classmates said they could not recall any instances where Kavanaugh acted similarly to Ford's account.
But three classmates, one speaking publicly and the other two speaking anonymously, portrayed Judge as a bullying presence during classes, and at weekend parties where athletes gathered at night to tap kegs of beer and woo girls from nearby schools. The two who requested anonymity did so out of concern that talking publicly about this issue could jeopardize their business and professional relationships within the tight-knit Georgetown Prep community.
Maryland state Sen. Richard Madaleno, who was in Georgetown Prep's 1983 graduating class with Kavanaugh and Judge, sharply remembers Judge as "nasty to other people." "He was an unhappy person who dealt with his own demons by making other people unhappy," Madaleno said, "especially those of us who he perceived to be on a lower rung of the high school ladder." A Democrat who mounted an unsuccessful 2018 candidacy for Maryland governor, Madaleno said if he had been asked 25 years ago who was the most difficult person at the school, "I would have answered Mark Judge."
Although Kavanaugh and Judge played on the school's football team and partied together, Madaleno did not remember the future judge the same way. "There's no guilt by association," he said. Two other Georgetown Prep classmates elaborated on Judge's "bully" persona at the time: Quick-witted and adroit with insults, he taunted kids with weight problems or foreign names. He dismissed many of those outside of his circle as "losers." He questioned the sexuality of members of the school's swim team. He sometimes openly mocked teachers and priests...
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- Daily Kos, 'Democrats Demand Mark Judge Testify Under Oath,' Sept. 19, 2018.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/9/18/1796678/-Breaking-Democrats-Demand-That-Mark-Judge-Testify-Under-Oath
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