When you look through a Lense of left or right, you are practicing confirmation bias. Only when you take the lenses away will you see the truth. Until then you are blinded by the lense.
The truth is the left and right in power are all scum, one in the same. There is no difference, power corrupts period. If I posted the entire list it would break SI. <G> The list runs about 50/50, left and right.
Mark Souder, Representative (Republican-Indiana) — A staunch advocate of abstinence and family values, [146] [147] Souder resigned to avoid an ethics investigation into his admitted extramarital affair with a female staffer. (2010) [148] [149] [150] Chris Lee, Representative (Republican-New York) — Resigned hours after a news report stated that he had sent a shirtless picture of himself flexing his muscles to a woman via Craigslist, along with flirtatious e-mails. [151] He did not rely on a pseudonym or a false e-mail address, but used his official Congressional e-mail for all communication. Lee said: “I regret the harm that my actions have caused my family, my staff, and my constituents.... I have made profound mistakes, and I promise to work as hard as I can to seek their forgiveness.” [152] (2011) Anthony Weiner, Representative (Democrat-New York) — Admitted to sending sexually-explicit photos of himself to several women through his Twitter account. [153] He resigned from Congress on June 16, 2011, [154] but kept sexting after his resignation. [155] (2011) On November 6, 2017, Weiner began serving a 21-month sentence for sexting a 15-year-old girl. [156] Scott DesJarlais, Representative (Republican-Tennessee) — Admitted under oath to at least six affairs, including two affairs with his patients and staffers while he was a physician at Grandview Medical Center in Jasper, TN. Additionally, while running on a declared "pro-life" platform, DesJarlais coerced his ex-wife into having two abortions, and tried to persuade a mistress, who was his patient, into an abortion as well. [157] [158] [159] David Wu, Representative (Democrat-Oregon) — On July 26, 2011, Wu resigned from the House of Representatives, after being accused of making unwanted sexual advances toward a fundraiser's daughter. [160] [161] Vance McAllister, Representative (Republican-Louisiana) — Although married and the father of five, was caught on surveillance camera deeply kissing a married staffer. Several prominent Republicans asked McAllister to resign. In response, he stated he would not seek re-election in 2016. [162] McCallister said: “There's no doubt I've fallen short, and I'm asking for forgiveness. I'm asking for forgiveness from God, my wife, my kids, my staff, and my constituents who elected me to serve.” (2014) [163] Blake Farenthold, US Representative (Republican-Texas) — was reported to have paid $84,000 of taxpayer money, via the House of Representatives Office of Compliance, to settle a sexual harassment complaint from a former staffer. Farenthold's former communications director, Lauren Greene, sued the congressman in December 2014, [164] and a settlement was reached in 2015. The identity of Farenthold with respect to taxpayer involvement was made public in 2017. This was the first documented case of taxpayer funds being used to settle sexual harassment complaints against a member of Congress. (2014) [165] Dennis Hastert, former Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (Republican-Illinois) — Pled guilty to structuring bank withdrawals in order to conceal deliberately-unspecified misconduct by Hastert against an unnamed individual years earlier. [166] At a sentencing hearing in October 2015, Hastert admitted that he had sexually abused boys while he worked as a high school wrestling coach decades earlier. (2015) [167] [168]
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