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Defiant Wu will not resign
Politico ^ | July 24, 2011 | JOHN BRESNAHAN & JONATHAN ALLEN

Posted on 07/24/2011 7:55:56 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY

Embattled Rep. David Wu will not seek reelection in 2012, but he won’t resign from office now despite allegations that the Oregon Democrat had an “unwanted sexual encounter” with the teenage daughter of a close friend last Thanksgiving.

“He isn’t going to be running for reelection,” a Wu adviser, speaking on the condition of anonymity, told POLITICO late Sunday night. “But he hasn’t done anything that rises to the level of requiring him to resign.”

Wu’s decision to stay in office comes after a frenzied weekend of lobbying and pressure tactics designed to convince the Oregon Democrat to leave office, all of which seemed to have failed for now. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is likely to step up the pressure on Wu following this latest development.

Pelosi and other top Democrats are reviewing their options on Wu, which include outright calls for him to resign or to seek an Ethics Committee investigation into the explosive allegations against him.

(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cultureofcorruption; davidwu
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1 posted on 07/24/2011 7:55:59 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Forget the popcorn. Let’s go straight to the champagne.


2 posted on 07/24/2011 7:57:49 PM PDT by yup2394871293
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To: Free ThinkerNY

No of course he won’t resign, he’d be joining the unemployment line.

BARF.


3 posted on 07/24/2011 7:57:59 PM PDT by bergmeid
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Another one.


4 posted on 07/24/2011 7:58:12 PM PDT by onedoug (If)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Why don’t the close friend drop him?


5 posted on 07/24/2011 7:59:33 PM PDT by Big Horn (Rebuild the GOP to a conservative party)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

I think I have seen this movie.


6 posted on 07/24/2011 8:00:24 PM PDT by TaxPayer2000
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To: Free ThinkerNY
“But he hasn’t done anything that rises to the level of requiring him to resign.”

Not by Democrat standards anyway. cf Barney Frank and Gerry Studds

7 posted on 07/24/2011 8:00:33 PM PDT by MAexile (Bats left, votes right)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Talk about cult of corruption — the democrat party is a seething bath-house of immorality, corruption, and hypocrisy.


8 posted on 07/24/2011 8:00:33 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (Herman Cain 2012)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Report: “Defiant Wu will not resign>”

Response: Of course not he is a politician leading a degenerate electorate. By definition no politician has any shame.


9 posted on 07/24/2011 8:00:49 PM PDT by AEMILIUS PAULUS (It is a shame that when these people give a riot)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Our immoral ruling class is so above it all, aren’t they? The good people need to revolt at the revolting elite politocal class that is destroying us. I say we target some high profile leftist pseudo neutral media types-say, Matt Lauer, Christiana Ayamsopour! Hound them to death until the networks get it that we are done with it.


10 posted on 07/24/2011 8:02:06 PM PDT by LALALAW (one of the asses whose sick of our "ruling" classes)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
He needs some rousing theme music, an anthem that speaks of an unlikely hero battling impossible odds.

I nominate "Eye of the Tiger".

11 posted on 07/24/2011 8:02:42 PM PDT by ZOOKER ( Exploring the fine line between cynicism and outright depression)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Wu is a typical Democrat pig, nothing more and nothing less.

If the other Democrats allow him to finish out his term they’ll be telling the country that they condone his behavior. That makes them just as bad as he is.


12 posted on 07/24/2011 8:02:59 PM PDT by Two Kids' Dad ((((( )))))
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To: Free ThinkerNY

After seeing him in that tiger outfit - it doesn’t appear he’s fit to make a rational decision.


13 posted on 07/24/2011 8:03:36 PM PDT by bronxville (Sarah will be the first American female president.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

It doesn’t rise to the level of rape that bothers feminists. His abortion vote is secure.

Pray for America


14 posted on 07/24/2011 8:04:16 PM PDT by bray (Palin is the DC Nightmare)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

How old is this girl.

Countdown 1, 2....


15 posted on 07/24/2011 8:05:35 PM PDT by arrogantsob (Why do They hate her so much?)
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To: ZOOKER

I vote the theme from “Body Heat.”


16 posted on 07/24/2011 8:06:29 PM PDT by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

It sure sounds like the Democratic leadership is MUCH MORE concerned with Mr. Wu, than with the thought of the country DEFAULTING on its debt.


17 posted on 07/24/2011 8:13:23 PM PDT by BobL (PLEASE READ: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2657811/posts)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

"Weiner needs a bunk mate"

18 posted on 07/24/2011 8:16:26 PM PDT by Doogle ((USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Why should he resign? Isn’t that what Democrat daughters are for? I’m thinking along the lines of all of the Lewinsky’s trashed and dead along the way since Chapaqwidik.


19 posted on 07/24/2011 8:16:31 PM PDT by Dogbert41 (http://www.durban3nyc.com/. Go there and learn what those who seek to destroy Israel are up to)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Democrats will now commence circling of wagons.


20 posted on 07/24/2011 8:21:27 PM PDT by BigSkyFreeper (You have entered an invalid birthday)
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