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To: Zoltan! who wrote (126189)	2/8/2001 3:06:03 PM
From: swisstrader	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

You are correct, Burton is WORSE than Jackson...sexual harrassment, fathering a child out of wedlock, a multitude of affairs as a father of 3, campaign fund raising questions...all the while bad mouthing Clinton about the same exact things...check out the following: "Burton has repeatedly faced questions about his own campaign fund-raising tactics, including accusations from a lobbyist that Burton strong-armed him for contributions and threatened to destroy his career if he did not pay up. Even more disturbing are allegations uncovered by Salon of the illegal use of congressional offices by Burton and a member of his committee staff for campaign fund-raising -- the very charge that has been leveled by Republicans at President Clinton and Vice President Al Gore. Burton receives a 100-percent rating from the Christian Coalition for voting its positions on key issues. Yet the championing of family values by this father of three is undermined by a personal history of marital infidelity. In September, fearful of revelations that might surface in an article by this reporter, then scheduled for publication in Vanity Fair, Burton admitted that he had fathered an illegitimate son in an extramarital affair in the early 1980s. This did not come as a complete surprise to reporters following Burton, who had been hearing rumors about a former Burton mistress with an out-of-wedlock "love child" for years. The woman involved, who is now in her late 40s, told Salon she worked for a Cabinet-level state agency when Burton came calling, wooing her with flowers. The woman, who declined to be interviewed at length or on the record, did affirm reluctantly that Burton is her son's father. The boy, who recently turned 15, would have been conceived during the 1982 campaign when Burton was first elected to Congress as "a man who cares." But Burton's moral standing is further clouded by allegations of on-the-job sexual harassment, including an accusation that he groped a lobbyist from Planned Parenthood in the mid-1990s when she visited his Washington office. According to several sources, Burton has also maintained sexual relationships with women on his congressional and campaign payrolls."

To: Zoltan! who wrote (126189)	2/8/2001 3:10:47 PM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (5) \| Respond to of 769670

That is exactly right. Lamebrains fail to note the relevant details. For example, Henry Hyde had a normal affair. He did not screw around with someone close to his daughters age, she was not in his employ, he did not initiate the affair recklessly while under the cloud of a harassment lawsuit, he did not get a bj while talking to Congressmen or foreign leaders on the phone, he did not use influence to get her a good job as a bribe for silence, he did not slander her in order to save his own skin, and so forth. Nor has there been testimony to believe that he is an habitual philanderer, or capable of sexual assault and rape.