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RS Interview: Rob Cornilles (R CAND, OR-01).

This one is the special election called for Oregon’s First District after incumbent David Wu retired.  Suddenly.  Under circumstances best described as “murky.”  Or possibly “neurological.”  It’s a D+8 district, but the Democrats are certainly acting as if it’s in play.  Rob’s a small business owner who ran against Wu in 2010 and gave the incumbent his toughest re-election fight; we talked about his chances in this contest, and a few other things as well.

Rob’s site is here; the special election is January 31st, but early voting starts in mid-January.

Moe Lane (crosspost)

#rsrh David Wu (D, OR) resigns over sex scandal.

I guess somebody explained to him that ‘having a sexual encounter’ with the daughter of a campaign contributor – particular one one-third your age – doesn’t get magically better when you explain that the whole thing was consensual.  Whatever she might or might not be saying about the matter.  Anyway, Wu’s on his way out the door: slowly but surely, the Democratic establishment is learning that leaving a Charlie Rangel or a Pete Stark or a Jim Moran or a …Sheila Jackson Lee** in place does their party no favors.

Anyway, at this rate I am never going to get to put together a list of Democrats I Plan To Help Remove in 2012*: the best candidates keep petulantly quitting before I can compile one.

Moe Lane Continue reading #rsrh David Wu (D, OR) resigns over sex scandal.

#rsrh Nancy Pelosi stands by her Congressman (Wu).

To be fair, it’s not like Pelosi has all that many caucus members available that she can just throw one away because of a potential sex scandal*.  Besides, she already threw Weiner to the wolves; what do people want, blood?  So, no calling for Wu to resign… yet.

Still, one point: no comment is fine, but no knowledge?  Tsk, tsk, tsk.

“I don’t have any comment on that at this time,” Pelosi (D-Calif.) told reporters as she left her Capitol office after a series of meetings with other congressional leaders on raising the debt ceiling. “I just really don’t know that much about it; I heard that there was some article in the paper.”

You know, it’d be nice if just once some of our elected officials would actually take the time to read up on this little topical stories that crop up from time to time.  I mean, it’s not every day that you get a media revelation where the positive spin is I had totally consensual sex with the one-third-my-age daughter of a long-time campaign contributor: I somehow suspect that the story was a popular topic of conversation around the Hill today.  Besides, it’s not like Nancy Pelosi has any input on the debt ceiling thing, anyway.  It should be safe for her to catch up on her email.

Continue reading #rsrh Nancy Pelosi stands by her Congressman (Wu).

Did Rep. David Wu (D, OR) rape a girl?

And did Wu’s old staff know about the incident?

Sorry to put it that bluntly. It’s just that Rep. David Wu (D, OR*) has gotten increasingly erratic… actually, let us not mince words: Wu has been acting nuttier and nuttier for the last year. This RedState diary from February of this year tells what we thought was the tale: strange emails, bizarre statements, erratic behavior… and two pieces of interesting data:

  • The first is that Wu’s campaign shut down in the final days of the campaign, after several events (most notably: a series of bizarre, possibly alcohol-related, but not obscene emails and photos sent to staffers) at the end of October triggered at least two interventions.
  • The second is that seven members of Wu’s staff (including his chief of staff) resigned in February of 2011.

The (heavy) implication at the time was that the second event was because of the first… which would make this story one where Wu is kind of going crazy, and his staff (not being trained mental health professionals, after all) are quietly extricating themselves from a somewhat awkward situation. Which may not be nice of those staffers, but, really, what were they going to do? After all, it’s not like anyone was saying that Wu did anything felonious…

“Sources: Young woman accuses Oregon Rep. David Wu of aggressive, unwanted sexual encounter”

Well, then. Continue reading Did Rep. David Wu (D, OR) rape a girl?

#rsrh This David Wu thing has gone on long enough.

If the man was blacking out and wandering around unattended on Election Day because of his reaction to “a common mental health drug” – do I even want to know what that’s an euphemism for? – and if this is part of a pattern of behavior that led to the end of his marriage and the mass resignation of his staff*… then maybe this guy shouldn’t be a Congressman.

Moe Lane

PS: Even in Oregon, “crazy” should not beat “Republican.”  Just to make that clear.

*Who, by the way, don’t get any credit for that, given that they all deliberately went and got somebody who they all think is crazy re-elected.  We’re just all fortunate that David Wu’s apparently fragile mental state is more conducive towards “dressing like a tiger” than it is something more, ah, problematical…