and the RATS, take another one in the...............HA ha!!!
Posted on 12/06/2007 5:04:55 PM PST by Perchant
A former aide to Sen. Maria Cantwell, arrested on federal sex charges last week, had worked for the 2004 presidential campaigns of Democrats Dick Gephardt and John Kerry.
James Michael McHaney, 28, of Washington, D.C., was ordered held without bond following a brief hearing Wednesday in federal court. Dressed in an orange jumpsuit and blue jacket, McHaney responded "Yes, sir," when questioned by Magistrate Judge John Facciola.
McHaney was fired Friday from his job as a scheduler for Cantwell, D-Wash., hours after he was arrested by FBI agents. The FBI said in a charging document that McHaney tried to set up a meeting with a witness posing online as a 13-year-old boy.
McHaney, a native of Little Rock, Ark., did advance work for both Gephardt, a former Missouri congressman, and Kerry, a Massachusetts senator, in their 2004 campaigns, Democrats said Wednesday.
A spokesman for Kerry confirmed that McHaney worked for the campaign from February to November 2004, but declined to comment.
Following the election McHaney worked for the Human Rights Campaign, the nation's largest gay rights group, before being hired by Cantwell in July 2006.
Cantwell's chief of staff, Michael Meehan, is a veteran political operative who worked on the Kerry campaign before joining Cantwell's staff.
Meehan issued a strongly worded statement Monday night saying McHaney had been fired.
"Our office has and will continue to fully cooperate with the ongoing federal criminal investigation. Senator Cantwell has zero tolerance for crimes against children," Meehan said.
McHaney's lawyer, Thomas Abbenante, said in court Wednesday that his client would not exercise his right to a speedy trial, agreeing to a Jan. 14 court date. The nature of the charges, which involve allegations of extensive online communications between McHaney and the unidentified witness, require time to study, Abbenante said.
According to court papers, McHaney, known as Mike, said he would "take a long lunch" to meet with an unidentified person posing as a teenage boy. When the witness asked whether McHaney was interested in sex with a 13-year-old, McHaney allegedly replied, "I'll be there," the court papers said.
It is not known if McHaney used a Senate computer to arrange the alleged meetings. Abbenante declined to comment.
McHaney, who has no previous criminal record, was charged with attempted child exploitation. If convicted he faces at least five years in prison.
bump
Gephardt.
I hate where I live sometimes......
Pffft. I’m sure, just like in the case of Bernie Ward, McHaney was just doing “research for a book”.
I guess neither Gephardt nor Kerry trused him in the rear! :0)
Yes but, but, Romney had a couple of wetbacks mowing his grass....doesn’t that even it out?
ping
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Dick Gephardt? I have heard that name before.
Says a lot about the “City of Brotherly Love” story too.
Move to Maryland...you can hate it ALL the time!!
No comment!! NO FRIGGEN COMMENT!!
So Mr. “no comment” Kerry, do you feel like you’re being Pedophile-boated?
Are you going to bring out some phony solders to tell us that you have never had sex with children?
Did you experiment with children before or after you deserted the troops in Nam?
So kerry, if you are associated with or in fact molested children yourself, did you quit are you still doing it now??
Do you have any other associates that are child molesters and what did you know about them and when did you know it?
” It is not known if McHaney used a Senate computer to arrange the alleged meetings. “
What are they trying to hide? There could be a computer trail to all kinds of children this pervert may have molested while working for these despicable democrats.
I demand a congressional investigation. It’s for the children you know. ;>)
NAMBLA is so disgusting. I can’t believe that any politician would want to be part of their “political recommendation process”.
The last sentence indicates one doesn’t have to participate for an endorsement. I wonder what the participation process was???
Q. Why didn’t the Democrat want to go to war?
A. He didn’t want to leave his brothers behind.
Gephardt.
I've read that he worked hard for Dick. He'd stop at nothing for Dick and was on call for Dick 24/7.
Sounds like somebody has just got swift-butt’d.
Wouldn’t it be neat if he admitted to encounters with J.F’in Kerry?
[NAMBLA is so disgusting. I can’t believe that any politician would want to be part of their “political recommendation process”.]
So who is their pick this time? Hillary “Cut a rug” Cliton?
"It's Bush's fault!"
this is funny:
http://bigheaddc.com/2007/12/05/senate-sex-predators-shocking-facebook-details/
Senate Sex Predator’s Shocking Facebook Detailsig Head DC has gotten our dirty little paws on James McHaney’s Facebook.com page, and the info therein paints a complicated picture of the former staffer for Sen. Maria Cantwell, who was fired on Friday after allegedly trying to set up a sex session with a 13-year-old boy.
McHaney, a Little Rock, Ark., native who graduated in 2002 from Kenyon College with a political science degree, describes his political views as “liberal” on the page. His interests include “cooking, going out, drinking and politics,” and he listens to techno and trance music. His favorite TV show is Desperate Housewives. (You know there’s something wrong with him based on that information alone.)
In one eerily omniscient recent message from a friend, McHaney is advised to “Watch out for Larry Craig!” And, under “Politicians Mike McHaney supports,” he lists his boss.
They have another photo of him linked from that site where he is dressed up as a sailor. If it’s from the time he worked for Kerry, I’d wonder what was going on there. One of Kerry’s “New Soldiers”?
Didn't Scott Ritter get caught doing just about exactly the same thing, but with a young girl rather than a young boy?
I know it was in a different state, but I think Scott was charged with a misdemeanor, wasn't he?
I checked....
“Sources told the Gazette that Ritter’s attorney and a town court judge agreed to adjourn the matter in contemplation of a dismissal.
That generally means the case is on hold for six months, and if the defendant doesn’t get into trouble, the case is usually dismissed and the record sealed. The adjournment means neither an admission of guilt or innocence. The charge was reportedly a class B misdemeanor.”
Re “Wouldn’t it be neat if he admitted to encounters with J.F.’ in Kerry?”
Nah, but don’t count on him doing anything with Hillary either, despite the fact that she wears the pants in the family.
This guy is going to get me action in jail than he ever planned on. Will be living the Democrats new plan for gays, known as “Leaving no man’s behind, behind.”
Just wandering. So many thoughts, so little space.
Oh, I love the Democrats. They give you so much to work with. Democrats - the gift that keeps on giving.
Talking about “giving” and Hillary - She just keeps on taking - from you - and giving to whoever votes for her. Wonder how much of her $6 million for her book she gave to the poor? Oh, I forgot, she “gives” your money, not hers.
It’s a badge of honor in some “circles” this day and age.
I find it totally revolting.
and...isn’t it against the law?
I trust that John and Dick paid him industry rates and let him keep his tips? /snicker
ROFLMBO!!
the CW asked whether McHaney was interested in engaging in anal sex with a 13-year-old boy. "I'll be there," McHaney allegedly replied. He later asked for a photo of the child with whom he and the CW would have sex and whether the boy had "any pubes." When told no, McHaney allegedly replied, "That's hot."
I don’t think anyone was surprised that NAMBLA would be anti Bush. I’m thrilled that they are.
Looks like this is his father:
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=990CE3DC1131F935A15757C0A963958260
James M. McHaney Dies at 76; Prosecuted Nazis at Nuremberg
Published: April 26, 1995
Excerpt:
James M. McHaney, the American prosecutor who sent Nazi doctors to the gallows for conducting gruesome medical experiments on concentration camp inmates and others during World War II, died on Thursday at a nursing home in Little Rock, Ark. He was 76.
(snip)
After the trials, Mr. McHaney spent a year in Washington as general counsel of the precursor to the Small Business Association, then returned to Little Rock, where he practiced law until his retirement in 1988.
In addition to his wife, he is survived by a son, James Jr., a lawyer in Little Rock; a daughter, Frances Allen of Pasadena, Calif.; a brother, Gallon of Fort Walton Beach, Fla.; two sisters, Virginia Thayer of Chicago and Bette Bennett of Lonoke, Ark., and four grandchildren.
Maybe that’s his grandfather. I think his father is a Little Rock lawyer. We’ll have to see how the Democrat lawyers work their magic to get this guy off...so to speak.
Grandfather - the perp is only 28.
An alternate point: Since he's only 28 now and worked for kerry four years ago, he must have been no more than 24 at the time that picture was taken. (He appears to be even younger than that.) Assuming that he joined the Navy at 18, he sure seems to have made HM1 awfully quickly. Either that or I'm not up to date on promotion rates anymore. It has been a while. :=)
He liked Dick and John.
And probably hated Bush.
Were he older, he probably would have worked for Dukakis.
yea I think it’s a halloween costume.
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NEVER FORGET
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No Joke.
JOHN KERRY =
The horrid loss of Freedom for Millions
http://www.Freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1806248/posts
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NEVER FORGET
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Won't they eventually need to change that motto to "City of Man-boy Love"?
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