Right Wing's latest hero under investigation for groping staffers

[WI_DEM]

Former Rep. Eric Massa (D-N.Y.) has been under investigation for allegations that he groped multiple male staffers working in his office, according to three sources familiar with the probe.

The allegations surrounding the former lawmaker date back at least a year, and involve "a pattern of behavior and physical harassment," according to one source. The new claims of alleged groping contradict statements by Massa, who resigned his office on Monday after it became public that he was the subject of a House ethics committee investigation for possible harassment.


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/09/AR2010030902157.html

[Ozymanithrax]

1. I am not surprise that this former Republican has been gropping staffers...

It may have been a carryover form his previous party affiliation.

[blogslut]

2. He's supposed to be Beck featured guest tonight

For a whole hour.

I'm dying to know what old chalky will do about this.

[kestrel91316]

3. Why is he a RW hero? I mean, other than because he's a total douche

in his personal life?

He's a Dem. Is he a DINO? I haven't been following the drama.

[malaise]

4. He was a card carrying ReTHUG

but he left the party over the Iraq war or so he said.

Formerly a Republican, Mr. Massa campaigned in 2006 on his opposition to the Iraq war, which precipitated his switch to the Democratic Party.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/04/nyregion/04massa.html

You would think Democrats would have asked why he waited until 2006 to switch parties. I sure he was sent to spy on Democrats. Everything about Massa is ReTHUG. Good riddance - go back to Beck.

[kestrel91316]

7. Oh, ok. So it's ok for me to consider him a douche?

[gratuitous]

5. Ah, the saga of Eric Massa

One post probably can't do the man justice. Eric has been up to his eyeballs lately in a little scandal over propositioning male staffers, so much so that he has resigned his congressional seat. The rationales have varied, from recurrence of cancer (everyone felt bad for him) to the surfacing of the allegations against him about using his position to do a little fishing off the company dock (everyone felt much less bad for him). Then Eric started to totter off the rails, variously ascribing his misfortunes to a partisan witch hunt, then an Ethics Committee abuse of authority, then as payback for opposing health care reform.

In the floundering around for an excuse, Mr. Massa struck oil and gold with the last one. Before he'd been an insignificant cog in the congressional machinery, now he was the poster child for the right wing, proof that health care reform was being rammed down our throats in a 90-year slow-motion open process. Okay, the facts don't really matter, and the whole thing makes less and less sense the more facts you know. Suffice it to say that Mr. Massa's opposition-come-lately to health care reform has endeared him to the likes of Glenn Beck, who will have Mr. Massa on in an hour long craze-off later today. In the rarefied, fact-free atmosphere of Beck's studio the crazy should flow like the Mississippi through Iowa in 1997.

[bahrbearian]

6. If he stayed on with GOP he wouldn't have had to resign.