In Democratic leaders ostracize Weiner, CNN reports:
Democratic leaders in Congress turned their backs Tuesday on embattled Rep. Anthony Weiner a day after the New York Democrat admitted to improper sexually-tinged communications with women and lying about it.
. . .By Tuesday afternoon, two House Democrats from competitive districts announced they were donating campaign contributions from Weiner to charity.
A spokesman for Rep. Betty Sutton, D-Ohio, said she will make a $1,000 donation to local charities instead of keeping the campaign contribution from Weiner.
Minnesota Democratic Rep. Tim Walz also decided to give to charity the $3,000 he received from Weiner.
A source at the Walz campaign told Bluestem that the money went to the Mankato chapter of the Disabled American Veterans. Walz, a 24-year veteran of the Army national Guard, sits on the House Veterans Affairs Committee.
Good for Walz. Good choice of recipients, too.
Now let's see family-values guy David Vitter, he who frequented BDSM hookers, resign before we inflict any more punishment on a man whose misbehavior is not only relatively minor in comparison, but is shared by many of the journos and politicos reaming him out for it.
Posted by: Phoenix Woman | Jun 08, 2011 at 01:42 PM
Why do people demand their politician's show moral leadership in their private lives? Being a good politician does not require being a good person. And being a good person who is also politician doesn't automatically mean you're a good at governing. Throughout George W. Bush's political career he seemed like a good and wholesome man (past issues with alcohol addiction aside) but he was an absolutely disastrous president. JFK and Clinton were both culpable of not valuing their family as much as they should, but they are probably the best and most effective President's the United States has had since FDR
Posted by: Great Food Ideas | Jun 10, 2011 at 02:52 AM