Massa: "Rahm Would Strap His Children to a Locamotive for a Vote" (confronted him in the shower)

Rahm Emanuel has been accused of a lot of things during his political career, but today one outgoing congressman may have topped all insults.

“Rahm Emanuel is son of the devil’s spawn,” disgraced Rep. Eric Massa (D-NY ) said during a radio show, -- the radio diatribe is posted on Real Clear Politics.com. “He is an individual who would sell his mother to get a vote. He would strap his children to the front end of a steam locomotive.”

"Let me tell you a story about Rahm Emanuel," Massa said on the program. "I was a congressman in my first eight weeks; I was in the congressional gym, I went down and I worked out and I went into the showers ... I'm sitting there showering, naked as a jaybird and here comes Rahm Emanuel not even with a towel wrapped around his tush, and he starts poking a finger in my chest yelling at me because I wasn't going to vote for the president's budget.

For the record

http://www.gov.mb.ca/legislature/hansard/1st-37th/vol_016/h016.html

Mrs. Myrna Driedger (Charleswood):
Mr. Speaker last week we saw just how soft and mushy this government has become on welfare abuse. By scrapping the welfare fraud line, this government is scrapping over two million dollars in savings a year.

Can the Minister explain to Manitobans why taxpayers can use dedicated fraud lines such as Crime Stoppers, the TIP line to turn in poachers, Operation Phone Busters to report telephone scams as well as lines to report income tax evasion and insurance fraud, but now Manitoba taxpayers are no longer going to have the convenience and use of the welfare fraud line to protect them from the cost of welfare abuse?

Hon. Tim Sale (Minister of Family Services and Housing):
I appreciate the question, Mr. Speaker. It is interesting that in 1989 the former government hired a certain Mr. Ron Hikel to review the structure of the income security system. Mr. Hikel chose a random sample, entirely at random, 372 cases. He looked at those cases, and he came up with the fact that three, three cases, may have had–and he used the term “may have had,”–some possible fraudulent activity involved in them.

One of them was a waitress who did not report all her tips. One of them was someone who sold a clunker that he had declared ownership of but forgot to sell or rather sold and forgot to declare the small amount or did not declare. Three out of three hundred and seventy-two. Nevertheless, Mr. Speaker, Mr. Hikel said what the department ought to do is strengthen its intake procedures. He said, furthermore, that of all the overpayments that were created during the time of that sample that he looked at, 60 percent were due to errors on intake. So, that is precisely–

Clusty has better info on Hikel:

http://clusty.com/search?v%3afile=viv_1167%4021%3aVvGoDU&v%3aframe=list&v%3astate=%28root-0-999%29%7croot&id=N252&action=list&sw=%7cLinkedIn%7cProfile%7cCare%7cEric%20Massa%7cFamily%7cHikel%20Ancestry%7cWorkplace%7cPoverty%7cAnnual%20Report%7cJustice%7cCongressional%7cAverage%20rate%20premium%20for%20Schedule%201%7cLegislative%20Electronic%20Publications%7cB.C.%7cReview%20of%20the%20impact%7cElectable%7cHugh%20Davies,%20Marilyn%20Evers,%20Geoff%20Garrett%7cTownsend%7cHigh%20School%7cSector%7c%7c&sec=1268138509&;

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