FOSSELLA TO RESIGN? Drunken Congressman Vito Fossella, who has a 3-year-old illegitimate child, will apparently resign within 72 hours. And that will be the end of New York City's only Republican congressman. [WNBC 4]
"The Senate Ethics Committee declined Thursday to investigate Sen. David Vitter, who was linked to an escort service whose owner was convicted in federal court and subsequently committed suicide." But of course. [AP]
It has not been a very good week or so for Drunk Congressman Vito Fossella (R-NY). Last week he was arrested in Northern Virginia for drunk driving. He was in Northern Virginia to go see his family, he told police — his secret OTHER family, that is! He acknowledged today that he had a child out of wedlock who is now three years old. So apparently he only visits that one while drunk? He has apologized to his wife and three "real" children, who unfortunately live in Staten Island, with him. [AP]
Here is — no joke — the official portrait of Marc "Hawaiian Pizza" Dann, the Ohio attorney general who likes to stick it to his staffers and will soon be impeached. This picture literally hangs outside his office. Why anyone ever had sex with this creature, we will never know.
Ohio Attorney General Marc "Hawaiian Pizza" Dann, whose admission of a sex affair with a young staffer last week was the latest in a series of inappropriate Dann sex stories, is under pressure to step down. A lot of pressure. You know how much pressure? This much: "All statewide Democratic elected officials and legislative leaders are calling on embattled Attorney General Marc Dann to resign from office." And he's a Democrat too! Dann has heard their calls, and he has responded "No I ain't goin' nowhere, lamebots."
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WHERE'S PALFREY'S BOX OF EVIDENCE? "On one trip down the stairs, she lugged a 2-foot-wide box she suggested carried materials related to her infamous court case. 'This is my evidence,' she told Strizack before carrying it out the door." [Orlando Sentinel]
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And a sad story becomes sadder still: Deborah Jeane Palfrey was found hanging dead in a storage shed behind her mother's Florida mobile home. Many pages of "handwritten suicide notes" were reportedly found in the shed by the Tarpon Springs police. Read the weird transcript, after the jump.
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For the great crime of hooking up willing ladies with horny politicians, "D.C. Madam" Deborah Jeane Paltry was facing four to six years in prison, and today she was found dead in a shed behind her mother's house in Florida. The men who paid for hookers through her service, such as Republican Senator David Vitter, have paid no price for their crimes, and they remain in power as the very people who make up the laws. Anyway, good-bye, Deborah Jeane. Though we didn't know you at all, you had the grace to hold yourself while those around you crawled. They crawled out of the woodwork, and they whispered into your brain. They set you on the treadmill and then Dick Cheney had you killed. But Wonkette just sent your name to this moon spaceship, Deborah. Enjoy the ride to a better place! [Washington Post]
Let us revert our attention back to the Mayor of Detroit, Kwame Kilpatrick, and his human foibles for some time today. Kilpatrick — the greatest mayor in American history — was indicted earlier this year for perjury, obstruction of justice and "conspiracy" along with his former chief of staff, Christine Beatty. Kilpatrick happened to be shtupping Beatty several years ago, and then some city officials got wind of it, and then Kilpatrick fired those city officials for... being lame? And then Kilpatrick and Beatty both completely lied about the nature of these firings in investigative hearings last year. But it was those text messages, those sexy text messages, that the two had exchanged back and forth that did them in. Now an 18-page memo has been released listing all of the good text messages Beatty and Kilpatrick shared. Let's read them, LOL LOL!
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The leader of Australia's Liberal party ("the opposition"), Troy Buswell, likes his staffer ladies. First, in late 2005, he "crawled around on his hands and knees in front of a former Liberal staffer before she left the job." Then earlier this year he snapped open another staffer's bra. But hey, you work in the Australian parliament, you know what you're getting into! Yet there is no real excuse for Buswell's coup de grace: sniffing some staffer gal's chair, for its lady scent.
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Today's Wall Street Journal broadsheet features a delightful feature about the endless Democratic primary's steamy silver-lining: hot cross-campaign-pollinating sexy times. Rowr! As the Journal notes, "The most heated presidential primary in recent history has drawn a record number of new voters, galvanized young Americans and forced the nation to confront deep-rooted race and gender issues. It also got Brendan Gilfillan a girlfriend." Brendan Gilfillan, you sluuuuuut!
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An Oklahoma sheriff has quit his post after being charged with committing pretty much every sexual crime in the book against a number of female prisoners. For example, "rape by instrumentation." If he's convicted, he may serve up to 467 years in prison. Join us on a terrible sex tour of all the foul horrors former Custer County Sheriff Mike Burgess may have committed!
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Chesty Russian President Vladimir Putin denies tabloid reports that he has thrown over his ancient, bloated wife for Russia's most flexible woman: former Olympic gold medalist Alina Kabaeva, who won in the category of "rhythmic gymnastics." She is just 24 years old and a member of the Russian Parliament, so this is basically Sarkozy-Bruni all over again except with a sinister KGB troll and a bendy little minx who lounges around in polyester-blend lingerie from the Dress Barn.
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Pennsylvania's fifth congressional district front-runner, Republican Derek Walker, has been charged with two misdeameanors and four felonies for jaywalking repeatedly. And by jaywalking we mean stalking and videotaping some guy slamming Walker's ex-girlfriend at her house. The question is, of course, whose sex bits was his camera focusing on?
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