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is bringing to light that the DEM party is nothing but a bunch of frauds................ i commend you!!!!!
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and i got this at CNN..Clinton News Network
Rep. Eric Massa speaks out on "Larry King Live," Tuesday 9 p.m. ET.
(CNN) -- House Democratic leaders on Monday refuted embattled Rep. Eric Massa's allegation that they want to get rid of him because of his opposition to health care legislation.
"That's completely false. There is zero merit to that accusation," said Katie Grant, spokeswoman for House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Maryland.
An aide to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-California, also denied Massa's claim.
Massa, D-New York, announced Wednesday he would not seek re-election because of health concerns and denied reports that he had harassed one of his Capitol Hill staff members. Two days later, he said he would resign effective Monday.
The first-term congressman said he learned of an ethics investigation into his conduct after deciding to retire.
Massa, who voted against the House's health care reform bill in November, said Sunday he was targeted because he was standing in the way of passing health care legislation.
"If you think that somehow they didn't come after me to get rid of me because my vote is the deciding vote in the health care bill, then ladies and gentlemen, you live today in a world that is so innocent as to not understand what is going on in Washington D.C.," he said on his weekly radio show on WKPQ-FM in Hornell, New York.
Massa said the ethics investigation stems from a sexually laced conversation he had at a New Year's Eve wedding for one of his staffers.
While at the wedding, Massa said he danced with the bride and bridesmaid as cameras rolled. He said that "absolutely nothing occurred" while dancing.
Massa said he then sat with some staff members who were bachelors and that most of them were drinking heavily.
One staff member "made an intonation to me that maybe I should be chasing after the bridesmaid," Massa said.
Massa said he told the staffer beside him, "Well, what I really ought to be doing is fracking you."
Massa said he "tousled the guy's hair and left -- went to my room because I knew the party was getting to a point where it wasn't right for me to be there," Massa said.
"Now was that inappropriate of me? Absolutely. Am I guilty? Yes," he continued.
Massa said the staff member to whom he made the remark never told him he felt uncomfortable. Instead, Massa said, someone else went to another staffer who was uncomfortable for the first staff member. That person in turn went to the House Ethics Committee, Massa said.
"It was a third-party, political-correctness statement," Massa said, reiterating that his information comes not from the ethics committee, but from what he read in newspapers.
The congressman said he wasn't told about the ethics probe until after deciding to retire and that he first learned details of the investigation from news reports.
"This is what Congress has come to. The government is not our enemy, but it is broken beyond repair," he said.
Massa shot down news reports that after Hoyer was informed of the allegations of misconduct, he directed Massa to report the charges to the House Ethics Committee.
"Steny Hoyer has never said a single word to me at all, ever, not once. Not a word. This is a lie. It's a blatant false statement," Massa said.
Hoyer's spokeswoman said it would have been inappropriate for Hoyer to have a personal conversation with Massa.
"Mr. Hoyer instructed his staff that if Mr. Massa or his staff did not bring the matter to the attention of the bipartisan Ethics Committee within 48 hours, Mr. Hoyer would do so. Within 48 hours, Mr. Hoyer received confirmation from both the Ethics Committee staff and Mr. Massa's staff that the Ethics Committee had been contacted and would review the allegations," said Grant, the House majority leader's spokeswoman.
Massa said on his radio show, "You have my apology and you have my resignation because I am a human being. But I will not go quietly into the evening. I will not be ashamed of my actions other than the fact that I used inappropriate verbal language and I was set up for this from the very, very beginning."
In a statement Friday, Massa said he already had decided to quit because of concerns about cancer before he learned a staffer had complained to the ethics panel.
"After I decided not to run again, I was told, for the first time, that a member of my staff believed I had made statements that made him feel 'uncomfortable,' " Massa wrote.
"I own this reality," he continued. "There is no doubt in my mind that I did in fact use language in the privacy of my own home and in my inner office that, after 24 years in the Navy, might make a chief petty officer feel uncomfortable. In fact, there is no doubt that this ethics issue is my fault and mine alone."
He went on to lament the "incredibly toxic atmosphere" in Washington, saying an ethics probe "would tear my family and my staff apart." Investigators, he said, would "be free to ask anything about me going back to my birth."
"I simply cannot rise to that level of perfection," Massa wrote. "God knows that I am a deeply flawed and imperfect person."
Massa defeated an incumbent Republican with 51 percent of the vote in 2008. But Sen. John McCain, the 2008 Republican presidential nominee, also carried the same congressional district by 51 percent, which gives the GOP hope of taking back the seat.
Massa said Sunday that should he ever return to Congress, it would be as an independent.jordanrules.................. -
Massa Details Naked Shower Fight With 'Son of the Devil's Spawn'
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Embattled Rep. Eric Massa used his final hours in office to settle scores with White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer and other Democrats he claims are pushing him out of office to clear the way for health care reform.
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This Oct. 14, 2008, file photo shows Eric Massa in Rochester, N.Y., when he was a Democratic candidate for Congress. (AP Photo)
It sounds like the kind of bad dream that only congressmen have -- White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, stark naked, approaches you in the locker room to give you a piece of his mind for not supporting the president's budget.
Only this actually happened, according to Rep. Eric Massa, the embattled New York Democrat who is expected to resign Monday and is using his last hours in office to settle some scores with party leaders.
He reserved his most excoriating stuff for Emanuel, whom he called "son of the devil's spawn" on his weekly radio show Sunday.
"He is an individual who would sell his mother to get a vote. He would strap his children to a front end of a steam locomotive," Massa said. Illustrating his point, he told the story of how he winded up in an argument with the chief of staff while they were both naked in the congressional gym showers.
Massa said Emanuel came up to him last year, shortly after he entered Congress, while he was trying to clean up to give him grief about a budget vote.
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"I'm sitting there showering, naked as a jaybird, and here comes Rahm Emanuel, not even with a towel wrapped around his tush, poking his finger in my chest, yelling at me because I wasn't gonna vote for the president's budget," Massa said. "Do you know how awkward it is to have a political argument with a naked man? ... It's ridiculous."
He continued, "By the way, what the heck is he doing in the congressional gym? He goes there to intimidate members of Congress."
Massa, 50, announced last Wednesday that a recurrence of cancer made him decide not to seek re-election in the fall. But two days later, following persistent reports about an Ethics Committee inquiry into inappropriate remarks made to a male staffer, he announced he would resign. The resignation is expected to become official on Monday.
In what may be his parting shot, he used his 90-minute local radio show on WKPQ-FM to defend himself against criticism, accuse House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer of lying and charge the Democratic Party with pushing him out of Congress in order to pass health care reform.
The Obama administration denied the latter charge. A White House official told Fox News that Massa's allegation is "ridiculous and there's no truth to it." Massa, who supports a robust government health insurance plan, was one of 39 House Democrats who voted against the health care bill last year.
But on Sunday, the first-term congressman claimed that the "forces that be" orchestrated a character assassination against him to push him out for the sake of the health care bill.
"Mine is now the deciding vote on the health care bill and this administration and this House leadership have said, quote-unquote, they will stop at nothing to pass this health care bill, and now they've gotten rid of me and it will pass. You connect the dots," Massa said.
"The future of the Democratic Party rests on passing this health care bill. They can get anyone to say anything about me concerning anything at all and in fact they did."
Massa said the incident that got him in trouble, and supposedly gave his rivals leverage against him, occurred at a staff member's wedding reception on New Year's Eve.
"I was with my wife. And in fact we had a great time. She got the stomach flu," he said.
Massa said he had just gotten up to sing Auld Lang Syne and had finished dancing with the bride and bridesmaid -- in full view of cameras -- when he sat back down at a table with male staff members.
That's when he made the "inappropriate" remark.
"One of them looked at me and, as they would do after, I don't know, 15 gin and tonics, and goodness only knows how many bottles of champagne, a staff member made an intonation to me that maybe I should be chasing after the bridesmaid, and his points were clear and his words were far more colorful than that.
"And I grabbed the staff member sitting next to me and said, 'Well, what I really ought to be doing is fracking you,'" he said.
"And then [I] tousled the guy's hair and left, went to my room, because I knew the party was getting to a point where it wasn't right for me to be there. Now was that inappropriate of me? Absolutely. Am I guilty? Yes."
But Massa said the staff member "never said to me that he felt uncomfortable" and "never went to anybody."
Rather, he said "somebody went to another staff member who was uncomfortable for him. It was a third-party political correctness statement."
Massa said he didn't know about the substance of the harassment complaint until after he announced he would not seek re-election -- he said he caught wind of an ethics inquiry after the wedding, but assumed it was about a separate matter.
And he said the accounting provided by Hoyer and his staff is a fabrication.
Hoyer's office claims the majority leader's staff was notified the week of Feb. 8 about the allegations, that Hoyer was "immediately informed" and that he told his staff that Massa should refer the matter to the Ethics Committee within 48 hours, or he would do so himself. According to Hoyer's office, Hoyer learned "within 48 hours" from the ethics committee staff and Massa's staff that the Ethics Committee had been contacted.
"Steny Hoyer has never said a single word to me at all, not ever, not once," Massa said on Sunday.
"Not a word. This is a lie. It's a blatant false statement. And that's what triggered me to understand what in fact is going on."
Hoyer, though, did not claim he spoke directly to Massa.
"Mr. Hoyer was asked if he knew of the allegations before they were made public, and he answered yes," Hoyer spokeswoman Katie Grant said Monday when asked about Massa's radio show. "We then released a statement clarifying his knowledge of the situation."jordanrules..................Comment
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this party is in SHAMBELS!!!!!!!!!!
HOWS THE CHANGE FOR YA......WHAT A JOKEjordanrules..................Comment
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Is this guy a "friend" of your jordan?Originally posted by jordanrules23 View Post
As for where the allegation came from, Massa says it stemmed from a New Year’s wedding, where a staffer made a drunken comment after the congressman danced with the bridesmaid that perhaps he should be chasing her.
“I grabbed the staff member sitting next to me and said, ‘Well, what I really ought to be doing is fracking you,’ and then tossled the guy’s hair and left, went to my room, because I knew the party was getting to a point where it wasn’t right for me to be there,” he said.
Massa also got into all sorts of other things, and we’re not sure we’ve ever heard a congressman talk this much about naked men — especially one who’s quitting under cloud of allegations about sexual harassment.
But Massa spent an awful lot of time recalling circumstances in his life with unclothed men, including the angry Rahm encounter, sailors sliding naked down chutes, and catching his shipmate in a rather private act and slapping him on the leg.Comment
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my daily point proven again...................
and isnt this ur location????
Location: Nowhere Near Uranus
ur the one talking about ass.........Last edited by Spark; 03-08-2010, 06:38 PM.jordanrules..................Comment
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it sounds like you have a crush on an Ati American fraud.........why do u imply that i have a crush? are you homophobic???Originally posted by BigWeiner View Postjordanrules..................Comment
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Originally posted by jordanrules23 View Post
This is not necessary jordan ...
BW posted a response to your thread ... no need to say what you did ... cool it with the comments ...
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Spark it doesn't even make any sense. It's like a preschool kid wrote itLast edited by BigWeiner; 03-08-2010, 06:57 PM.Comment
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Way toooooo much for me to read BIG ... hahahahahahaOriginally posted by BigWeiner View PostComment
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are you serious????Originally posted by Spark View Post
please tell me your jokingjordanrules..................Comment
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I am not joking ... cool it and move on!!!Originally posted by jordanrules23 View Post
if you do not want commnets flying back at you in this forum stop making these threads ... it's simpleComment
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jordan you better stop talking about men's asses, or you'll be banned for a weekComment
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