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Posted on 02/18/2011 7:14:06 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY
WASHINGTON -- Three days before the Nov. 2 election, Oregon Rep. David Wu’s most loyal and senior staffers were so alarmed by his erratic behavior that they demanded he enter a hospital for psychiatric treatment.
Their concern had been spiking for weeks in tandem with Wu’s increasingly unpredictable performance on the campaign trail and in private. He was loud and sometimes angry, some of them told The Oregonian. He said kooky things to staff and -- more worrisome with a tough election fast approaching -- around potential voters and donors.
Most of all, they were worried for Wu, a 55-year-old single father of two young children.
Earlier and gentler efforts had failed, so the tight-knit group of high-level staff took other steps, including quiet inquiries about the availability of beds in hospitals in Portland and Washington, D.C., multiple sources familiar with the effort told The Oregonian.
Several staff members confronted Wu for the final time on Oct. 30. Wu’s psychiatrist was brought into that meeting as well, joining the group at the Portland campaign headquarters by speaker phone. The meeting was held after four consecutive days of troubling behavior that led the staff to agree that Wu needed a higher level of medical care, according to people intimately familiar with the events of that period.
Wu's past Read earlier news stories from The Oregonian about David Wu. "This is way beyond acceptable levels and the charade needs to end NOW," wrote Lisa Grove, a senior and long-serving campaign pollster, in an e-mail to colleagues that day. "No enabling by any potential enablers, he needs help and you need to be protected. Nothing else matters right now. Nothing else."
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Oregon Rep. David Wu, Democrat, responded to Rush Limbaugh’s insulting and offensive impersonation of Chinese President Hu Jintao. Wu, the the first Chinese American to serve in Congress, found Limbaugh’s remarks to exhibit “pathetic childishness,” and a “fundamental lack of character.”
You are talking about the Portland. OR, liberal towne here.
One of the blue parts of Oregon. Otherwise Oregon is all red.
I remember reports about him assaulting a woman while in college. One would think that would have ended his career.
Apparently the author doesn't know what "scurrilous" means.
1. Making or spreading scandalous claims about someone with the intention of damaging their reputation: "a scurrilous attack".
No, he's a Democrat.
Well, that explains this:
Sorry, Klingon interpreters, Oregon's not hiring
AP ^ | Tuesday, May 13, 2003Officials have said they won't be needing your services, after all.
The office that treats mental health patients in Multnomah County had included Klingon on a list of 55 languages that could be spoken by incoming patients.
But the inclusion of the Star Trek language drew a spate of tongue-in-cheek headlines.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/910543/posts
Keep in mind that the media suppressed these reports until the election was over. Even that being said, Wu nearly lost the last election in this solidly Democratic area.
According to a previous article he quit drinking last summer. Not so! I have seen it with my own eyes.
Bi-Polar?
Oh, he is a drinker? They are hard to deal with.
“It’s Not a Tuooomor” (from Kindergarten Cop, it was filmed in Oregon)
But it might just be
TT
Wu knew?
TT
“It does not say a whole lot for the Republican party or their candidate in that district to lose to a psyco-nut case Democrat now does it?”
No, it does not. As a resident of Oregon, and in Wu’s district, I can tell you that this place is a lost cause.
The Oregon Republican Party is the reason I’m not a Republican anymore.
However, I think the ‘rats will throw him under the bus next time so that they can run someone else. If Wu runs against Cornellis again, he just may lose.
Bump!
Heh...a democrat in Oregon who assaulted a woman during his youth. lol
We have a forner Governor who committed statutory rape, and he got a pass.
Oh, these crazy, perverted dems...
LOL!
This guy obviously has a parasite-rich district where they don’t care who the Democrat is who hands out the free stuff in exchange for their votes.
>>>>I remember reports about him assaulting a woman while in college. One would think that would have ended his career.
>>No, he’s a Democrat.
And further, just based on the life and times of the Kennedy clan, it would appear to be a resume-enhancer in Dem circles.
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