Posted on 04/11/2014 10:01:03 AM PDT by GIdget2004
Prominent Republicans began deserting embattled Louisiana Rep. Vance McAllister on Thursday, as the freshman congressman’s prognosis for political survival became increasingly bleak.
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal (R) joined the chairman of the state’s Republican Party in calling for McAllister’s immediate resignation. Speaker John Boehner offered no support when asked about the so-called “kissing congressman” at a press conference. And former Rep. Rodney Alexander, who previously held the seat, told a local paper that he is open to coming back.
McAllister, meanwhile, stayed in the bunker, skipping another day of important votes on the budget sponsored by Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.).
“Congressman McAllister’s behavior is an embarrassment and he should resign,” said Jindal. “He says he wants privacy to work on his issues with his family. The best way to get privacy and work on putting his family back together is to resign from Congress.”
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Top GOP officials have become increasingly frustrated with how McAllister is handling the situation. Early Wednesday, his staff indicated they would ask for an FBI investigation, saying the release of surveillance footage was a “serious breach.” Later in the day, they dropped that request.
“Congressman McAllister’s office will not pursue an FBI investigation at this time regarding the distribution of a video filmed in leased federal office space,” his staff said. “Congressman McAllister is focused on earning back the trust of those he has disappointed, and he reiterates his request for privacy for his family during this difficult period.”
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the creep should have resigned days ago
If the Woman was an Unpaid Intern, this wouldn’t be a problem, right?
After all, it’s nobody’s business, right?
BTW, did the Congressman Lie un Oath?
Lie UNDER Oath...
I suspect there is a lot more story behind the story here.
As is often the case in politics, if someone does something really horrible, if their peers want them out they will find a petty excuse to give them the boot, not the real reason, figuring it will give ammunition to their political enemies.
Geez... Hey Vance! It’s one of the BIG ten that you are supposed to follow... You should resign and spend lots of time repairing your family...
Definitely hurts our cause. What he did, while common by today’s standards, was still selfish and wrong. He should have stepped down already.
All this trouble and not one Blue Dress.
WHY DO the DEM, cheaters, tax evaders, LAW breakers,ect.ect. seem
to be just fine, however OUR team is is expected to be PERFECT
PEOPLE!!! Just asking WHY???
He’s a freshman congressman and he’s already diddling around on his wife? He needs to go. Don’t want to be married? Then don’t marry, or get a divorce. But don’t break a vow you made to your spouse and expect the people you represent to trust you.
"He who is void of virtuous Attachments in private Life, is, or very soon will be void of all Regard for his Country. There is seldom an Instance of a Man guilty of betraying his Country, who had not before lost the Feeling of moral Obligations in his private Connections." - Letter to James Warren, November 4, 1775
"Since private and publick Vices, are in Reality, though not always apparently, so nearly connected, of how much Importance, how necessary is it, that the utmost Pains be taken by the Publick, to have the Principles of Virtue early inculcated on the Minds even of children, and the moral Sense kept alive, and that the wise institutions of our Ancestors for these great Purposes be encouraged by the Government. For no people will tamely surrender their Liberties, nor can any be easily subdued, when knowledge is diffusd and Virtue is preservd. On the Contrary, when People are universally ignorant, and debauchd in their Manners, they will sink under their own weight without the Aid of foreign Invaders." - Letter to James Warren, November 4, 1775
"Nothing is more essential to the establishment of manners in a State than that all persons employed in places of power and trust be men of unexceptionable characters. The public cannot be too curious concerning the character of public men." - Letter to James Warren, November 4, 1775
WHY DO the DEM, cheaters, tax evaders, LAW breakers,ect.ect. seem to be just fine, however OUR team is is expected to be PERFECT PEOPLE!!! Just asking WHY???
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Vance campaigned as a devout Christian and family man, at least as I understand it.
Vance dug his own grave on this one.
What I am saying is. Sheila Jackson Lee, Charlie Rangle, Elijah Cummings, that stupid woman from Florida with the flowered cowboy hats,
are THESE congress critters READY for PRIME TIME???? Yet crickets
and WE get lambasted!!!! People in general are NEVER perfect and most
ALL will have a slip of the tounge, the DEMS ARE RABID PIT BULLS and
WE just tip toe around like a bunch of pansies!!!!!!
JUST REPORTED Charlie Rangle jas not PAID rent for 6 months on
his DC offices or home, HE IS BLAMING pubbies for this due to
SEQUESTRATION although he has NOT paid rent starting 2 months
before sequestration EVEN STARTED!!! WE GET CRICKETS!!!! If this were a pubbie DEMS WOULD BE RABID PIT BULLS!!!!
He should resign. He never built up any trust to begin with.
Vitter did not admit to much.
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