What are the odds?


By DIA, Section News
Posted on Fri Aug 22, 2008 at 06:18:50 AM EST

So I see a story about one of the "lawmakers" from Buffalo has been outed for banging some interns. I think to myself, "No kidding. Never believe a married man who gets drunk with some interns on Lark Street and then spends the night in one of the girl's bedrooms and claims he just slept on the floor". My bad.

The current married Assemblyman from Buffalo caught up in a scandal for cheating on his wife is Sam Hoyt (D). I had him confused with the "i slept on the floor" guy who is an Assemblyman from the Buffalo region.
An upstate assemblyman was removed from his post as ranking member of the Assembly Committee on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse on Thursday after revelations that he slept at the home of a 21-year-old female intern last month after a night of heavy drinking.

The assemblyman, Mike Cole, a Republican who represents parts of Niagara and Erie Counties, also received a rare letter of censure from his colleagues, citing his violation of a policy banning lawmakers from fraternizing with interns. Mr. Cole will also be stripped of his seniority and prohibited from taking part in the Assembly’s intern program in the future.
They are bipartisan men up around Buffalo. They share the interns. The "willingness to cross the aisle" jokes have all practically written themselves. And research has shown they are all much funnier when you are getting drunk in Albany with some English Major from Siena while the wife is home in Buffalo raising the kids.

On a side note, I'm considering a way to reduce binge drinking among our elected officials. John Sweeney was in charge of some anti-DWI program at one point. We all know how that worked out (didn't he also have a young woman on his lap when arrested for DWI?). I fully expect Mr. Sweeney to use the Bob Ney defense in his impending trial ("I was too drunk to know I was being bribed"). And Cole was running a program on drug and alcohol abuse. Methinks these programs encourage "field work" and should all be eliminated.

For those who don't remember Mr. Ney's trangressions.
Rep. Robert W. Ney (R-Ohio) is expected to plead guilty in the coming days to charges stemming from his association with convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff, and he will blame a long-standing problem with alcohol for behavior that spiraled down to illegality, sources close to the congressman said last night

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by A Muse on Mon Aug 25, 2008 at 07:10:39 PM EST
There is precedent for all of this.  Watch PBS Civil War.  Burns did a nice job on the sections I have seen.  I think that it is where Bill Clinton got his defense and definition of sex.  I assume he approves of his daughter doing the same thing that Monica did to him.  Just after a public televised church service.  Maybe it was pubic, I am not sure.  Leading by example.  We have raised the bar from Cesar's time so I thought but the Clintons set new standards that the Democrats approved, as President Clinton was not impeached for his foul abuse of power.  Andrew Jackson as the founding father of the Clinton Democratic Party set the standard for the Democrats and the bar was in the dirt.  The Democratic Party is the party of the born again Christians and the Roman Catholics?  Well that makes sense with all the Priests forgetting that they sexually abused members of their church.  Gee Wiz I wonder why so many parishes are closing throughout the country  

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