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To: Suma who wrote (205144)	10/4/2006 11:22:38 AM
From: Ichy Smith	Respond to of 281500

angry? This kind of activity was acceptable to the Demoncrats when it was one of their own, and a huge problem when it is a Republican. I feel this is a serious problem, but more serious is the hysteria that seems to grip America on the whiff of a scandal. There seems to be absolutely no desire or interest in looking at the underlying problems and finding a solution, or a way to resolve the problems. Americans and particularly politicians seem to be willing to sacrifice anyone and any thing in order to play politics in it's most ruthless form. Why wasn't the use of Pages as a kind of dating service for perverted politicos addressed when there was a similar scandal under the Demoncrats? How could they allow Gerry Studds to sit in the house for term after term knowing he had a predilection for seducing Pages? And now how can they sit in Judgement over another politician, when they did absolutely nothing to solve the problem for years? The Demoncrats allowed Gerry Studds to sit in their ranks for years 13 to be exact after he was censured to taking a page to Morocco to have sex with him. "On July 20, 1983, the House voted for censure, the first time that censure had been imposed for sexual misconduct. Crane, who subsequently apologized for his transgression, lost his bid for reelection in 1984. Studds, however, stood by the facts of the case and refused to apologize for his behavior, and even turned his back and ignored the censure being read to him. He called a press conference with the former page, in which both stated that the young man was legal and consenting. Studds did not break any U.S. laws for that time, in what he and page called a "private relationship."[1] He continued to be reelected until his retirement in 1996"