Who remembers or can Google Gerry Studds, the Congressional pervert from MA? Why did he not resign?

Answer 1

I think he was a dem in a dem controlled congress and of course that is their standard, sex with teenage interns is okay for them but not for repubs.

Actually the hypocrisy is beyond belief. Do you have any idea how this is going to stimulate the republican base? I mean every single one is going to the polls, and this is going to backfire on the Dems big time.

At this point I will make a prediction on the the elections, dems lose a net one seat in the house and gain one seat in the senate.

Any takers?

Answer 2

He is a Democrat, and all Democrats are good people and only targeted by right wing conspirators.

On the other hand, Republicans are all morons.

BTW, when Barny Franks boyfriend ran an "escort" service out of Franks town house he didn't know, in spite of fixing a couple of dozen tickets for clients. As I recall a Mass. Senator left the scene of an accident and left a woman to die in the vehicle. I also recall a Democrat lying under oath to a Federal Grand Jury and having trouble defining the word "is".

I go back 50 years watching these guys and can disassemble either party with equal ease. It does seem the Republican is more apt to resign and the Democrats are more apt to circle the wagons and protect their member. But make no mistake, this type of activity cuts both ways.

History tells us Washington chased the ladies. Lincoln suspended Habeas Corpus during the civil war. The President during WWI suspended freedom of speech. FDR declared war on Germany, no matter Japan attacked us. Truman took very good care of labor unions. Ike liked the ladies. JFK had a bad back but it didn't stop his skirt chasing. Johnson was a micro-manager's micro-manager. ETC. ETC.

Politics is a nasty business and none of them are smear resistant, let alone smear proof. I sure wouldn't want my life put under a scanning electron microscope and I doubt many would.

Answer 3

Studs seems to be the latest republican talking point in response to the Foley scandal. Is the best you can do is come up with a 23 year old censure of a democrat over something that happened 33 years ago? What about the republican that was also censured in 1983? Both by a democratic congress. What did the current republican leadership do before they had to, because it was the right thing to do? The answer is nothing.

BTW, there was a republican caught up in the same scandal. Daniel Bever Crane (a former school teacher) had sex with an underage page in 1980. He didn't resign either. He ran for reelection and was defeated.

Answer 4

The 1983 Congressional page sex scandal was a political scandal in the United States involving members of the United States House of Representatives.
On July 14, 1983 the House Ethics Committee concluded that Rep. Dan Crane (R-Ill.) and Rep. Gerry Studds (D-Mass.) had engaged in sexual relationships with minors, specifically 17-year-old congressional pages. In Crane's case, it was a 1980 relationship with a female page and in Studds's case, it was a 1973 relationship with a male page. Both representatives immediately pleaded guilty to the charges and the committee decided to simply reprimand the two.

However, Rep. Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) demanded their expulsion. 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, who was 17, consented. Studds had taken the adolescent to Morocco to engage in sexual activity, and therefore did not break any U.S. laws in what he called a "private relationship."[1] He continued to be reelected until his retirement in 1996.Studds is remembered chiefly for his role in the 1983 Congressional page sex scandal, when he and Representative Dan Crane were censured by the House of Representatives for separate sexual relationships with a minor – in Studds's case, a 1973 relationship with a 17-year-old male congressional page. The relationship was consensual, but violated age of consent laws and presented ethical concerns relating to working relationships with subordinates.

During the course of the House Ethics Committee's investigation, Studds publicly acknowledged his homosexuality, a disclosure that, according to a Washington Post article, "apparently was not news to many of his constituents." Studds stated in an address to the House, "It is not a simple task for any of us to meet adequately the obligations of either public or private life, let alone both, but these challenges are made substantially more complex when one is, as I am, both an elected public official and gay."

As the House read their censure of him, Studds turned his back and ignored them. Later, at a press conference with the former page standing beside him, the two stated that what had happened between them was nobody's business but their own.

Answer 5

Hypocrisy runs heavy on both sides of the party system. Foley is an outstanding example of this, wooing 15-16 year olds on the Internet, and at the same time, writing legislation to 'prevent this very thing!" Dems and Pubs are the same when it comes to sexual desire..it is "All ABOUT ME" when the lust rises, but woe be to others who do the same thing. Herbert Hoover was the worst of this kind, spying and ruining Gays with his FBI organization, all the time running around in women's clothing and a lover who lived next door...with a tunnel between the houses! Give it a rest...the entire gamut of this kind of action is disgusting, regardless of which side of the fence you are on. There is an old saying in Politics, " Never get caught with a dead girl or a live boy." Seems to ring true, doesn't it?

Answer 6

Repbulicans resign when they're caught. Democrats scream "Vast Right Conspiracy" and it's the Republican's fault. Dems don't actually believe they've done anything wrong--as exampled by Clinton who refused to resign after humiliating the office of the President.

Answer 7

He knew he would not suffer any punishment from the voters of Massachusettes. That state provided us with Ted Kennedy and Barney Franks, who like Studds, committed felonies, but they kept getting reelected.

Answer 8

Because as a Mass Dem, he knew he would get re-elected.

Answer 9

studds was only censured for his sexual activities...he was also elected five more times by his constituants,...go figure...dems came to his defense...go figure.

Answer 10

that's a good question....if he is guilty of such activities....he should be gone!