Republican massages

[Mabus]

Self-evident Massage

:redbox: pResident George W. Bush




Self-confessed Massages
:redbox: Rep. Mark Foley, Florida

Maf54 (7:37:27 PM): how my favorite young stud doing

(7:37:46 PM): tired and sore

(7:37:52 PM): i didnt no waltzing could make you sore

Maf54 (7:38:04 PM): from what

(7:38:34 PM): what do you mean from what

(7:38:42 PM): from waltzing...im sore from waltzing

Maf54 (7:39:32 PM): tahts good

Maf54 (7:39:32 PM): you need a massage

Maf54 signed off at 7:39:37 PM.

http://pageoneq.com/news/2006/foley_093006.html

and

From his home on the island of Gozo, near Italy, Anthony Mercieca described a series of encounters that he said Foley might perceive as sexually inappropriate.

Among them: massaging Foley while the boy was naked, skinny-dipping together at a secluded lake in Lake Worth and being naked in the same room on overnight trips.

One night, when Mercieca says he was in a drug-induced stupor, there was an incident he says he can't clearly remember that might have gone too far.

"I have to confess, I was going through a nervous breakdown," he said. "I was taking pills -- tranquilizers. I used to take them all the time. They affected my mind a little bit."

http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061019/NEWS/610190725

:redbox: Rep. Don Sherwood, Pennsylvania

All was going along just fine, presumably, until the day in the fall of 2004 when his young lady friend called 911 from the bathroom of Mr. Sherwood's Capitol Hill apartment to report that he'd assaulted her.

When the cops arrived, Sherwood claimed he barely knew the woman, and denied her accusation that during a massage, he suddenly began to choke her. Eventually, he admitted they'd had a five-year affair, but he continues to deny ever choking or otherwise assaulting her, and no police charges were filed. She did, however, sue him for five million dollars; they settled out of court for an undisclosed sum.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/shelley-lewis/no-happy-ending-from-this_b_31411.html

:redbox: Pastor Ted Haggard, Colorado

According to Haggard, he met with Jones in a Denver hotel room after receiving a referral from the hotel in which he was staying.

When asked how he knew Jones would sell him meth, Haggard said he had told him about it.

"I went there for a massage," Haggard said.

When asked which hotel gave him the referral, Haggard said: "I've stayed at a lot of hotels in Denver because I write in Denver."

http://www.9news.com/acm_news.aspx?OSGNAME=KUSA&IKOBJECTID=af1bbeba-0abe-421a-01e2-01ca2e4711bd&TEMPLATEID=0c76dce6-ac1f-02d8-0047-c589c01ca7bf

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:redbox: Rep. Jim Gibbons, Nevada. Currently the GOP gubernatorial candidate in Nevada.

It was three weeks before Election Day when 32-year-old Chrissy Mazzeo made three 911 calls after leaving a Las Vegas restaurant where she had been drinking with a friend, the married congressman, his top adviser and others. Alternately breathless and laughing, the single mother who recently left the Wynn Las Vegas hotel-casino to work at the Bellagio hotel-casino told police that Gibbons grabbed her arms and tried to force himself on her.

Gibbons told police it didn't happen. He said he walked Mazzeo toward her truck and helped her catch her balance after she tripped at the garage entrance. At a news conference with his wife at his side, he insisted he had behaved like "an officer and a gentleman."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/31/AR2006103100869.html

:redbox: Arnold Schwarzenegger

A coalition of women's groups, meanwhile, met at the Feminist Majority offices in Beverly Hills to unveil an anti-Schwarzenegger ad campaign and introduce a former TV network intern who said the gubernatorial candidate groped her when she showed him around a sound stage 25 years ago.

She was one of several women — including radio psychologist Dr. Joy Browne — to come forward Friday with new allegations Schwarzenegger groped or made inappropriate comments to them. Browne told "Inside Edition" that Schwarzenegger groped her ankles and knees during an interview in the 1970s.

The Los Angeles Times quoted six women on Thursday who said Schwarzenegger had groped or sexually harassed them during separate incidents between 1975 and 2000.

In a report for Saturday editions, the Times said three more women came forward Friday with allegations the actor grabbed or groped them. The actor's campaign denied two of the claims — alleged incidents on the set of the 1988 movie "Twins" — and would not comment on the third.

Including the women who went public with their stories Friday, 11 have said Schwarzenegger touched them without their consent and seven have allowed themselves to be identified.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/10/05/politics/main576579.shtml

:redbox: Rep. Jim Kolbe, Arizona

Kolbe's office issued a statement to NBC News denying that anything improper had happened. "The rafting trip back in 1996 consisted of five current staff, two former pages, and his sister," a spokeswoman for Kolbe said. "There is absolutely no basis and no truth to any inappropriate behavior."

NBC News interviewed several people who were on the trip, and their accounts vary. One participant, who requested anonymity, said he was uncomfortable with the attention Kolbe paid to one of the former pages. He was "creeped out by it," he said, adding that there was a lot of "fawning, petting and touching" on the teenager's arms, shoulders and back by Kolbe.

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:redbox: Husband of Rep. Heather Wilson, New Mexico

A file allegedly suppressed by Congresswoman Heather Wilson (R-NM) has been obtained by RAW STORY.

In 1995, just three days into her tenure as Secretary of the New Mexico Children, Youth and Families Department, Wilson removed a routine working file alleging that her husband had engaged in inappropriate contact with a minor. The file was then transferred to the department's attorney in her own Albuquerque office, where it soon went missing.

At the time, a local investigative news team learned about the swap, but could not confirm certain details of the file. They were not able to recover the document itself.

More than ten years later, RAW STORY has uncovered and confirmed the authenticity of the police incident report believed to be contained in the missing dossier. Filed as a case of child abuse in 1993, it contends that Wilson's husband Jay Hone, an Albuquerque attorney, touched a then-16 year old boy "in a manner that was not welcome."

http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/Congresswoman_on_page_board_buried_file_1019.html

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:redbox: Sen. George Allen, Virginia

Senator George Allen (R) was at a campaign stop in Charlottesville Tuesday morning when a protestor was tackled by campaign staffers.

As Senator Allen was exiting a ballroom at the Omni Hotel, UVA Law student Mike Stark stopped the senator and began to ask him questions. Those questions were about whether or not the Senator spit on his first wife.

Stark pushed his way through some staffers and followed the senator out of the main ballroom and into a hallway. That's when one Allen campaign staffer put Stark in a headlock and threw him to the ground. Stark was also removed from the building.

http://www.nbc29.com/Global/story.asp?S=5613839

:redbox: The American Public

Waterboarding is a procedure used in interrogations and punishment that simulates drowning by producing a severe gag reflex, making the subject believe his or her death is imminent while ideally not causing permanent physical damage. It is widely condemned as torture and a form of mock execution.

The practice garnered renewed attention and notoriety in September 2006 when reports charged that the Bush administration had authorized its use in the interrogations of U.S. War on Terrorism detainees.<1> Though the Bush administration has never formally acknowledged its use, Vice President Dick Cheney implied that he did not believe "a dunk in water" to be a form of torture but rather a "very important tool" for use in interrogations, including that of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.<2>. In defense of the Vice President, White House Press Secretary Tony Snow stated that the Vice President was not referring to waterboarding in his interview but was unable to answer what he was referring to by his comment "a dunk in water".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterboarding

[Infinite Hope]

1. Heh, interesting. n/t

[crikkett]

2. very nice. n/t

[Silent3]

3. No, no! Karl told you...

...to keep on mEssage. On MESSAGE you idiots! :evilgrin:

[Mabus]

6. lol

:rofl:

[proud2BlibKansan]

4. Oh this is great!!

Well done, my friend, well done indeed.

[Mabus]

5. I kept noticing how the word "massage" cropped up in these things

and ran with the idea.

See you at the anti-Bush/Ryun/GOP rally later. I'm bringing reinforcements and will be there around 5.