D.C. Pages In Oral Sex Scandal
Blotter:
A year after the Congressional page program was thrown into turmoil by the Mark Foley scandal, sexual escapades and a shoplifting spree by teenage Capitol aides have ignited new controversy.
Two Republican lawmakers have announced they will quit the panel that oversees the page program. The page program brings 15- and 16-year-old students to Washington to study and work as assistants in congressional offices.
Reps. Ginny Brown-Waite, R-Fla., and Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., said they were not properly informed about two recent incidents involving the young pages, including ones in which pages allegedly performed oral sex on each other.
The Washington Post reported an incident which took place in a page dormitory room, where some pages watched for adults outside while others were in the room spectating.
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Brown-Waite told the Post that the dorm room incident was “not an isolated” one. According to Congressional Quarterly, another such incident occurred in a dormitory elevator.
A male and female page were allegedly dismissed from the program as a result of the reported sexual activity.
In a separate incident, two pages were reportedly caught shoplifting from the Pentagon City mall in suburban Virginia. CQ said the same PAGES had been nabbed shoplifting from a store in Washington, D.C.’s Union Station, as well. One of the shoplifters was charged with a felony, Brown-Waite and another source told the Post. Both have been dismissed from the program.
“You have learned nothing from the lessons of the Mark Foley scandal,” Brown-Waite scolded House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., in a letter announcing her resignation. Pelosi oversees House Clerk Lorraine Miller, who operates the page program.
Both Brown-Waite and Capito say Miller has failed to alert members in a timely fashion to problems in the page program. A Brown-Waite staffer told the Hill newspaper the lawmaker believed Miller only informed the page board’s Democratic chairman, Rep. Dale Kildee, D-MIch., of the pages’ misbehavior.
Kildee’s office released a statement claiming the problem had been resolved last month. “In our Page Board meeting of November 9, 2007, the Board unanimously agreed that the Clerk. . . should immediately and simultaneously inform all Members in cases where pages were dismissed,” he wrote. “Indeed, that was the case in the most recent incident.”
In a separate statement released Thursday, House Clerk Miller defended new page policies implemented under Pelosi. “We have adopted a zero-tolerance policy when faced with rules violations or conduct that is ethically or legally suspect,” Miller said. A spokesman for Miller declined to elaborate on the number of recent sexual incidents involving pages.
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but the girls are still virgins
how nice for the families
December 8th, 2007 at 11:54 pmI am NOT easily bullshitted. Ask my kids.
I got $10 says they were pages for dhimmicraps … and that’s why Nancy “… learned nothing from the lessons of the Mark Foley scandal” and “… failed to alert members in a timely fashion to problems in the page program …”
“We have adopted a zero-tolerance policy when faced with rules violations or conduct that is ethically or legally suspect,” …
Read: When It Involves a Republican …
December 9th, 2007 at 7:15 amRead: When It Involves a Republican
I wouldn’t be so sure ; see the last novel from Tom wolf, who is not known for having the dems’ ideas : “I am Charlotte Simmons”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_Charlotte_Simmons
December 9th, 2007 at 7:46 amDrillanw
Come on man not EVERYTHING is got to be Dem and Repub my brother.
I am sure plenty of Dem soldiers have paid the highest price for this country in battle.
I guess FDR was scum too?
Side note don’t ask me because my answer is way too controversial and un PC.
December 9th, 2007 at 10:25 amI agree.
If they were in any way connected to Reps and Dems were quiting, then this shit would be all over the front page (no pun intended) of every paper in the country.
December 9th, 2007 at 10:59 amC’mon. They are horny kids. If you lock 4 teenagers in a room… two of them will be hookin’ up before you let them out.
December 9th, 2007 at 1:59 pmPIGLOSI IS KEEPING OPEN HER RECRUITMENT PROGRAM FOR FUTURE CARPET MUNCHERS, TO STOCK HER OWN PRIVATE STABLE.
December 9th, 2007 at 2:17 pmLadyAngler
C’mon. They are horny kids. If you lock 4 teenagers in a room… two of them will be hookin’ up before you let them out.
OH!!! WELL OF COURSE, THIS MAKES IT O.K. THEN.
December 9th, 2007 at 2:18 pmNever said it was okay, but calling it a scandal is a bit much. Sounds like some kids with nothing but time on their hands with not enough supervision.
December 9th, 2007 at 2:30 pmIt became a scandal when the Dems decided to sweep it under the carpet. Had they been pages for the Republicans it MOST CERTAINLY would have brought it to the front page of EVERY paper and Pelosi/Reid would be standing on the steps of Congress in front of a media frenzy preaching about how the Republicans allowed these “kids to go unmanaged exposing them to goodness knows whom or what”!
December 10th, 2007 at 5:38 am