by seemslikeadream » Sun Oct 08, 2006 1:33 am
<!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://www.blogactive.com/" target="top">www.blogactive.com/</a><!--EZCODE LINK END--><br><br><br>Starting Monday... Investigate these closeted staffers<br>I am very concerned what these CLOSETED high level staffers have done. This site first reported on the danger Kirk Fordham was to gays OVER TWO YEARS AGO. Before anyone gets out the violins for poor Kirk, remember he was the money chief for US Senator Mel Martinez's campaign. You know Mel, he's the one who equaled marriage equality with living under "totalitarian rule in Cuba."<br><br>It's not that Kirk is gay that got him in trouble. It's that he was hiding in a closet and facilitating Mark Foley's actions.<br><br>Well, America, I want other closeted staffers questioned. I want all entities investigating this matter to look at every other closeted staffer who may have contributed to this national disgrace.<br><br><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>So.... Beginning Monday, and every weekday thereafter, I will be identifying the name of a closeted senior staffer in Congress</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--> with the hopes that those investigating this matter will make sure to include them in their questioning. And I hope the press looks for them as well. It's time to rid the government of those that would harm us.<br><br>I will also highlight a past case from the site's history. I will ask you all to join me in sending emails to the ethics committee and media about these staffers who are putting the very stability of our government.<br><br>Some have said this is a purge of gays from the government. No my friends, this is NOT about gays. To suggest that there will be a purge of gays from the government is preposterous. Now, if you want to talk about a purge of anti-gay closet cases facilitating the hard Right's agenda... I say purge away.<br><br>It's about the hypocrisy. The know it. We know it. They want to change the focus. As the boss himself says:<br><br><br><!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/010238.php" target="top">www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/010238.php </a><!--EZCODE LINK END--><br>TPM: Hastert's Chief of Staff Is In A Heap of Trouble (Scott Palmer) <br> Remember that Kirk Fordham, one-time Chief of Staff to Mark Foley (R-FL), resigned Wednesday as Rep. Tom Reynolds' (R-NY) Chief of Staff and promptly announced that he had warned Hastert's staff about Foley's page problem as far back and 2003. Specifically, he said he repeatedly asked Hastert's Chief of Staff, Scott Palmer, to take action to deal with Foley. <br><br>Palmer promptly denied it.<br><br>Now, according to the Post, another congressional staffer has come forward to say that Fordham is telling the truth and Palmer is lying. <br><br>And the piece in the Post also touches on this topic we discussed back on October 1st. Jeff Trandahl, you'll remember, is the former House Clerk who, along with Rep. John Shimkus (R-IL), had the sit-down with Foley in late 2005 ...<br><br><br><br>Trandahl's departure came within days of his confrontation with Foley over e-mails that the congressman had sent a former page. House aides say the circumstances of Trandahl's exit were oddly quiet. The departure of a staff member of long standing, especially one as important as the House clerk, is usually marked with considerable fanfare, said Scott Lilly, a former Democratic staff director of the House Appropriations Committee. Debate is suspended in mid-afternoon to accommodate a stream of testimonials from lawmakers.<br><br>Trandahl's departure was marked by a one-minute salute from Shimkus and a brief insert into the Congressional Record.<br><br>"My one-hour Special Order changed to a five-minute Special Order, now to a one-minute," Shimkus said. "I just want to say thank you for the work you have done."<br><br>Lilly said: "He seemed to suddenly disappear in a puff of smoke."<br><br><br>Pretty clear a lotta this story has yet to unfold.<br><br>But I guess that's what next week is for. <br><br><br> <p></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://p216.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=seemslikeadream@rigorousintuition>seemslikeadream</A> at: 10/7/06 11:38 pm<br></i>