Curtis fallout minimal, GOP leaders say

[rodeodance]

Source: spokesmanreview


Curtis fallout minimal, GOP leaders say

By Jim Camden
Staff writer
October 31, 2007

Washington Republicans moved swiftly to cut off the scandal involving Rep. Richard Curtis of La Center, removing his name from the House GOP Web site within hours of his announced resignation.

A spokesman for the state Republican Party said Curtis’s political career was over, but discounted any long-term political effect for other party members. Curtis’ decision to resign stands in contrast to that of U.S. Sen. Larry Craig of Idaho, who announced plans to resign then changed his mind as he tries to withdraw a conviction for soliciting sex in an airport restroom, Josh Kahn said.


“It’s not going to be in the public mind for long,” Kahn said. The Craig situation is “a textbook case of the thing you don’t do, you don’t drag it out.”

Curtis will be replaced with a Republican appointee before the session starts, and the party expects to hold the seat in the next election, so the make-up of the Legislature isn’t likely to change, he added.


Read more: http://www.spokesmanreview.com/breaking/story.asp?ID=12189

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maybe it will be?
Are americans so used to this that it just is a breeze that flows by?

[rodeodance]

1. Republicans were hard pressed to come up with a comparable recent instance involving a Democrat

But Republicans were hard pressed to come up with a comparable recent instance involving a Democrat that compares with a GOP string that includes Craig, U.S. Rep. Mark Foley of Florida and former Spokane Mayor Jim West, who have been embroiled in gay sex scandals.

State Rep. John Ahern, R-Spokane, mentioned U.S. Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., but then added Frank is openly gay and “at least he’s honest about the whole thing.”

Candidates of either party who espouse family values on the campaign trail then indulge in illicit sex are hypocrites, Ahern said.

“I just don’t get it,” Ahern said. “It really floors me.”

[bluestateguy]

2. Yes, "you don't drag it out"

Quite an appropo choice of words there. :rofl:

[Nostradammit]

3. “It’s not going to be in the public mind for long,” Kahn said

"You are getting sleeeeepy. You will soon forget all that you have seen."
Kahn added, while waving a big gold watch.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

6. until the next GOP sex scandal

one a week!

We should be asking their party who isn't a diaper/bondage/pagetrawling sex fiend?

[annabanana]

4. Even the press accounts I read did not make it clear that this guy

was a rep in The House. The wording might have made you think that he was a local (State of) Washington legislator...

[Frances]

5. I thought he was in the Washington state legislature

So I guess my mistake proves your point.