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 Posted: Wed Oct 11, 2006 9:04 pm Post subject: Shays Hits Hard In Page Scandal (Invokes Chappaquiddick) |
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Shays Hits Hard In Page Scandal
Invokes Chappaquiddick In Rebuking Farrell; Polls Show Issue Not Helping Democrats
October 11, 2006
By DAVID LIGHTMAN, Washington Bureau Chief
WASHINGTON -- When the congressional page scandal broke last month, Democrats across the country saw a chance to lambaste Republican leadership - including Diane Farrell, who called on House Speaker Dennis Hastert to step down.
But when Sen. Edward M. Kennedy came to Connecticut last week to help her campaign, Rep. Christopher Shays hit back.
"I know the speaker didn't go over a bridge and leave a young person in the water, and then have a press conference the next day," said Shays, R-4th District, referring to the 1969 incident in which the Massachusetts Democrat drove a car that plunged into the water and a young campaign worker died.
"Dennis Hastert didn't kill anybody," he added.
Shays' words were emblematic of the increasing bitterness over the fallout from the conduct of former Florida Rep. Mark Foley, a scandal that may not be helping Democrats as much as they had hoped.
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They all stopped short of naming names, but Shays went further, drawing a link between Hastert and Kennedy.
"We don't know what he has or hasn't done," Shays said of Hastert. "But she had a fundraiser for Sen. Kennedy, and we know what he did."
Farrell was incredulous - "my jaw dropped," she said, when she heard Shays' comments, and she said Chappaquiddick had nothing to do with Hastert's current plight.
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"Dennis Hastert didn't kill anybody," he added.
well that aught to leave a mark...
things heating up just a tad
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Yes this is heating up a tad--it is bordering on an impending inferno.
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Thats the 2nd slapdown of Demo hypocracy in the span of less than a week. (earlier this week Sen Clinton was bloviating about the NoKo situation being a "failure of the Bush Admin., and Sen McCain stood up and reminded her that the problem was due to mistakes made by the Clinton Admin)
Don't these upstart Republicans realise they're not supposed to call out the Dems in their lies?  
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