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Eliot Spitzer, while you’re taking some time to “regain the trust” of your family, I thought you might like to see a list of politicians involved in famous sex scandals. By no means is this comprehensive, but it is relatively recent. In fact, you might know a man or two. Note the absence of women. Do arrogant, thrill seeking, powerhouse women partake in sex scandals like their male counterparts or are they just better at covering their tracks?
Here’s the list, in no particular order:
1) Mark Foley of Florida. The congressman sent inappropriate e-mails and instant messages to underage congressional pages. Since his resignation in October 2006, Foley has admitted to alcoholism and to being the victim of sexual abuse. According to Foley, his priest abused him when he was a young boy.
2) Randy “Duke” Cunningham of California. In 2003, the congressman was found frolicking with prostitutes in a Hawaiian hotel. He subsequently pleaded guilty to corruption charges and he is currently serving an 8-year prison sentence.
3) David Vitter of Louisiana. The senator admitted in July 2007 to using the escort services of Deborah Jeane Palfrey, aka the D.C. Madam. Not to be confused with Heidi Fleiss, the Hollywood Madam. Or Temeka Lewis, Spitzer’s contact at the Emperor’s Club.
4) James McGreevey of New Jersey. The governor came out of the closet in August 2004, after a former security advisor threatened to file a sexual harassment suit against him. McGreevey resigned three months later.
5) Larry Craig of Idaho. Accused of lewd conduct in a men’s room, the senator pleaded guilty. He then backtracked. “I am not gay,” he declared on August 28, 2007. “My only crime was pleading guilty” to the criminal charge.
6) James West of Spokane, Washington. The mayor, and neighbor of Larry Craig, became enmeshed in a gay Internet sex scandal in 2005. He resigned at the end of that year.
7) Daniel Crane of Illinois. The congressman admitted to sexual misconduct with female congressional pages in 1983. He did not resign. He did lose his seat in his re-election campaign of 1984.
8) Wayne Hays of Ohio. The congressman resigned in the wake of his secretary’s words. “I can’t type,” Elizabeth Ray admitted. “I can’t file. I can’t even answer the phone.” The implications for her hiring were clear.
9) Gerry Studds of Massachusetts. The congressman admitted to an affair with a teenage page. What is it about congressmen and pages?
10) Wilbur Mills of Arkansas. The congressman ended his political career by publicly cavorting with Fanne Foxe, otherwise known as the Argentine Firecracker. In a drunken stupor, the couple waded into the Tidal Basin in Washington with police in pursuit. Subsequently, Fanne Foxe changed her name from the Argentine Firecracker to the Tidal Basin Bombshell and wrote a book. Wilbur Mills went straight from chairing the powerful Ways and Means Committee to the Palm Beach Institute for Addiction.
11) Gary Hart of Colorado. When accused by the press of philandering, the senator and presidential aspirant challenged the press to prove it. In short order came the revealing photos of Donna Rice, the sailboat in Miami, and the termination of Hart’s presidential bid.
12) Gary Condit of California. The congressman did not resign after news leaked of his affair with intern Chandra Levy. The congressman did not resign when Levy’s body was discovered in a Washington park. It was up to the voters of Modesto to turn him out. And they did.
13) Bill Clinton of Arkansas. We all know about the cigar, the president thundering on national television, “I did not have sexual relations with that woman,” both the president and the first lady accusing the Republicans of a “vast right wing conspiracy.” And then came the DNA test, the mea culpa, the impeachment, the political impotence of the president. It’s understandable why a decent proportion of Americans don’t want the Clintons back in the White House.
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