Fossella May Be Thinking About Re-Election

2008_05_fossella10.jpgA close friend of Representative Vito Fossella says the troubled Congressman is far from thinking about resignation. Maybe! At first, former Staten Island Borough President Guy Molinari told the Staten Island Advance Fossella "has every intention of running." But then Molinari withdrew the statement, amending it to, "I wouldn't be surprised if the ultimate decision is to run again."

The Post notes how Fossella was allegedly surprised that other members of the House GOP might want him to step aside (S.I. District Attorney Daniel Donovan has been contacted about his interest in running). Hmm, Fossella has spent the past week and a half getting arrested for DWI, apologizing to his constituents with his wife in the audience, being questioned about the woman who picked him up from the Virginia police station, and ultimately admitting the woman, Laura Fay, is his mistress and having 3-year-old love child.

Still, fellow Republican congressman, Peter King of Long Island, is upset with the criticism his colleague has faced from within the GOP, "He's entitled to an interval of decency without having this constant pressure coming from his own party." And the Daily News details how Fossella and Fay's romance unfolded during a congressional junket in Malta. And Fosella's wife Mary Pat was seen at the function of Fossella's godson by herself--her father told reporters she's doing "bad."

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"He's entitled to an interval of decency without having this constant pressure"

Yeah... just like the way the hypocrites in the GOP treated Bill Clinton. Idiots!

Fossella blatently deceived his wife and lied about his marital status to his baby momma.

Are the voters of Staten Island really ignorant enough to think he's been more honest with them? Frankly the residents of Staten Island are not the sharpest pencils in the box. Remember, they went along with the notarious Fresh Kills landfill after being told that it would be "temporary." Yeah, temporary for 50+ years.

"Yeah... just like the way the hypocrites in the GOP treated Bill Clinton. Idiots!"

Bill Clinton received a BJ from an intern in the White House while his wife was in another room.

just_saying - The Fresh Kills landfill opened in 1948 and was never temporary. It was the primary landfill for NYC until 2001. It took a long time for the city to come up with a plan and an empathetic Mayor to shut it down. To judge Islanders by the landfill is foolish. It's shameful the way you speak of Staten Islanders without even having an understanding about the struggle they have had with the city and state.

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"He's entitled to an interval of decency without having this constant pressure coming from his own party."

Yeah, Dammit! It's not like the GOP is in danger of losing the Majority in the House!

Ohhhhhh, too late...

#3 - maybe it wasn't "temporary" in the minds of certain government officials, but that was what the residents were told at the time. And that lame story about a temporary landfill was certainly believed by a significant number of Staten Islanders.

http://acc6.its.brooklyn.cuny.edu/~scintech/solid/silandfill.html

He sounds like a jerk, and I think his wife should leave him, as should the mother of his daughter, but I don't think that Clinton should have resigned or given up, and neither should this jerk. Staten Island seems to elect jerks regularly, so be it.
Now since this guy was riding the wave of moral superiority that he republicans regularly try to dawn, perhaps he should quite for that, but I don't know his history.

Fossella May Be Thinking About Having Another Drink

First he must go to confession then Communion
then to Drunk Driving school then to Planned
Parenthood. Whew!

Cheers to #7!

And yeah, Larry Craig is still under The Big Top, lusting after boy pages so why not an extra glass of Vito Vinifera? The cork may be off the bottle but the dregs are still there.

sonya: The page incidents were Mark Foley, who resigned.

There he goes - talking with the hands. He can't help himself.

#10, so Larry Craig doesn't lust after pages? Or is he exclusively a toilet fetishist, which would be even more creepily republican? I can't figure that one out..

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