Guess someone told Goodtime Vito “it’s game over man.” The reason Fossella, who was arrested for DUI in Virginia (and was fornicating and procreating outside of his sacred marital bond), isn’t resigning is because there would have to be a special election held for his seat, and the Republicans don’t want to lose it. (Staten Island Advance):
In a bombshell announcement that brings the curtain down on one of the most storied careers in Staten Island political history, fifth-term Republican Rep. Vito Fossella will not seek re-election this fall.Apparently Fossella doesn’t care about any wounds he caused in the past to his lesbian sister, as the homophobic lawmaker will not attend any family events if she and her partner are there; he also voted for the Federal Marriage Amendment.Mired in scandal after revelations about the secret daughter he fathered with Virginia divorcee Laura Fay became public, Fossella (R-Staten Island/Brooklyn) tells constituents in a letter to be posted on his Web site tomorrow that he will no longer serve them in Congress after his current term expires on Jan. 3, 2009.
“After a great deal of consideration, I have made the decision not to seek re-election to the United States House of Representatives this November,” Fossella says in the statement. “This choice was an extremely difficult one, balanced between my dedication to service to our great nation and the need to concentrate on healing the wounds that I have caused to my wife and family.”
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* Fossella’s judgment day?
* Another Republican protects the sanctity of marriage
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I wish I could be surprised by any of this. What are the chances we’ll take this seat no matter who’s running for it?
It’s been a safe GOP seat for decades, so the prospect of turning it over seems small. That would be seismic if it happened though.
im sick of seeing this assholes face
I should have just looked it up instead of being a lazy bum–Swing State Project has it listed as a tossup. Maybe we’ll get another Congresscritter out of this.
Without the anchor of a Congressional seat, he could quickly deteriorate.
So the issue with his lesbian sister is that he felt she was getting more than he was, or what?
I’m surprised. I think he probably would’ve won re-election. Staten Island would put a cocker spaniel in congress if it ran as a republican.
So which family is he going to heal the wounds of?
I love that his sister is so immoral that he can’t be expected to be in the same room with her, but having a child with another woman out of wedlock and maintaining her as a separate family is perfectly okay and OMG how can you even think of judging him!?!?
Actually, resigning would have resulted in a special election a few months before the regularly scheduled election and a congresscritter who probably wouldn’t be seated until the next session anyway.
At least this time he might have been thinking of others and the expense to the party and state.
Interesting contrast with his sister - somehow, male and hetero privilege buy you morality and respectability? Creep.
Absolutely lovely job of cleft lip repair.
[and a nice mug shot, too.]
Men - particularly …with facial defects are
often caught up in immoral or sociopathic activities.
Perhaps some sort of compensatory or anger thing…
shrinks would know.
[Which is NOT at all even to approach saying that
people with facial defects tend to miscreant.
Most everyone of that demographic is just like us.
Just that amongst this particular perp population
those so afflicted come up more often than what
might randomly be seen.]
See ‘Red Dragon’ [e.g.] with Ralph Fiennes and others
and a literature on this whole facial deformity issue.
Has te, I think his “facial defects” in this picture reflect heavy drinking more than anything.
I’ve often wished that hypocrisy were physically painful (to the hypocrite, not just those who have to deal with the fallout).
Pam? You obviously know nothing about Staten Island.
The local GOP just lost that seat. Molinari took it because “Traveling Jack” got ABSCAMed. Now the circle has turned.