Posted on 02/17/2006 6:28:43 AM PST by Hemingway's Ghost
ANNAPOLIS, Md. – William Donald Schaefer, a former governor who is now state comptroller, ogled a young woman at a Statehouse meeting. And he made no apologies about it.
“She's a pretty little girl,” the 84-year-old Democrat told reporters. “The day I don't look at pretty women is the day I die.”
Schaefer stared intently at the woman – an aide to Gov. Robert Ehrlich – as she walked away after bringing him a beverage Wednesday during a Board of Public Works meeting. Then he summoned her back, as people waiting to testify watched and waited.
The aide, looking puzzled, returned to the table, and Schaefer told her, “Walk again,” and watched her as she made the second trip to the exit.
He then went into the governor's office and returned to say the woman was embarrassed by the incident.
When reporters asked him about the incident, he called their interest “dumb.” He said “this little girl” ought to be “happy that I observed her going out the door.”
“The one who is offended is me,” he said.
Shareese DeLeaver, a spokeswoman for the Republican governor, declined to identify the aide, saying the woman did not want to talk to reporters.
Schaefer is seeking re-election as comptroller in November and has spent 51 years in public service, including eight years as governor and 16 years as Baltimore's mayor.
Odd remarks and antics by Schaefer at meetings of the Board of Public Works are commonplace. He once complained about a Spanish-speaking fast-food worker and suggested creating a public registry of people with AIDS.
He also has referred to women as “little girls” – a term celebrated by some women who have worked for him, who say he treated them with respect. After a campaign ad in 2002 suggested he was unfair to women, some former employees held a rally and waved signs that read, “Little Girls for Schaefer.”
Fodder for FR's libertines?
lol I like this guy. Can we make him President?
Long live Strom Thurmond!
A manly-man!
Men are suppose to watch women, the feminist have tried to destroy men and its about time we fight back, one ogle at a time.
Democrat I presume?
“The day I don't look at pretty women is the day I die.”
Same spirit as my grandfather (RIP), who was ogling nurses the very day he went off to meet his maker.
Viagra bump!
They will charge us all with "reckless eyeballing"..
Yes they are supposed to watch women! It's why God made the girls that way. So we would LOOK!
Here's what I found amazing:
the paper correctly identified his party affiliation!
"She had a nice azz..." ;-P
I know we here on FR love to rip on France, but over there, they've got this part nailed down straight. It's a-o-k over there for a guy to take notice of an attractive woman, and the women appreciate the attention.
This PC/sensitive/sexist bravo sierra has been brought to us thanks to bitchy and unattractive women, period.
He doesn't strike me as the usual panty-waist whiny-liberal RAT.
No need to presume, the first sentence of the second paragraph identifies him as such.
Of course if it's a Republican, like Bob Packwood, he's toast.
No matter where go, women's breasts keep staring at me.
He's a senile old fool.
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