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.”
"Perhaps your mother didn't raise you right."
It's a FATHER's job to show a boy how to treat a lady--and to show his daughter how she should be treated--and carry the shotgun at the wedding if she's not. Sad that so many boys don't have gentlemanly--ANY kind of manly fathers.
As an example I have the habit, in the South NEVER in the North, of starting conversations with anyone I find myself near. Standing in line, shopping etc. I talk to women all the time but would NEVER do so on a beach, parking lot or walking down the street at night. Not because I'm different but because she might feel threatened without others around.
I even slow down or stop so that people (female) will not feel I might be following them on a public street at night.
Guess you were sleeping in the pew when the preached preached this:
1 Timothy 5:2
2older women as mothers, and younger women as sisters, with absolute purity.
Can't really say that I blame the guy.
"I have made a covenant with my eyes, that I will not look *with lust* upon a woman."
from the book of Job
Awareness and acknowledgement of external attractiveness is healthy. Preoccupation with the external--or fantasizing about someone you are not married to, are sin.
But thanks for your input.
Don't even try that routine with me, I've read your posts and they are all consistent, not one even hints at his actions as being disrepectful to that young girl
Keep your boobs off of my eyes!
Ribbit.
Actually, if you ever make it out here, it will only take you a couple minutes to realize how destructive this guy has been to the state. If you still feel like having this guy as our prez, then we can have at it.
I don't really think I would vote for the guy, nor would I seriously consider him for president. Just trying to have fun on a thread here but it seems there are far too many folks with axes to grind for one reason or another. Guess I'll just go find another one to yak on :P
I wonder if seinfeld misses her? He must have at least a couple fond memories of her.
this old dude rules.
Give it a break, when a person gets to 84 he deserves a little leeway, he didn't touch, grab, or threaten her. He made a stupid statement, that's it. I guess you never did? I guess Reagan never said we were bombing Russia? I guess Bush never said that Clymer guy was an ass? Geezz
The old goat ought to be placed in stocks for maybe 5 hours on the courthouse lawn.
Hey, I understand, I am just having fun too. Still if you ever want to go a couple rounds, for fun, look me up!
A nursing home director once told me that sex was nearly always on men's minds until the end....even those with dementia illnesses.
lol I'll do that :)
hilarious!
Schaefer is a jackass, but I sure hope I'm still ogling young women when I'm 84. And I won't apologize for it either. Ogling is a pc liberal crime.
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