I wrote to my Congresscritter asking him to support Congressman Weiner.

[LiberalLoner]

I know that many here would like him to resign, and I respect your point of view, but I would like him to stay, and I am dismayed by the growing chorus of voices among the Democrats in Congress asking him to resign.

I feel I need to do everything I can to support Congressman Weiner because he has been such a strong voice in supporting everything I believe in. I don't feel he is replaceable.

I find myself wishing for a chorus of Democratic voices asking him to stay.

So I wrote and asked my Congressman, Congressman Connolly, to consider supporting Congressman Weiner.

I realize many here will strongly disapprove of my actions in this case, but each of us must act according to our own conscience, and I did.

[aquart]

1. Emailed Nadler first day and said Don't let Weiner resign.

Actual support of a dick idiot is always risky, but letting him know that other districts aren't howling for his blood should help.

Would have snailmailed but I was afraid he might resign in the initial lynch mob hysteria.

Unless Breitbart's ferrets have more than talk and masturbation photos...

The stock market is tanking and Missouri is having a 100-year flood.

They've shut Weiner up for the moment, but they may wish they hadn't.

[LiberalLoner]

2. Thank you so much for your actions! I'm not the sharpest knife in the block, so it

took me this long to figure out that I could write to my congresscritter to ask him to support Rep. Weiner. :dunce: :eyes:

[aquart]

6. Have you set up a Favorites folder of your elected officials?

Bookmark them all at once and you have it to refer to any old time.

[LiberalLoner]

8. No, have no idea how to...? n/t

[aquart]

9. I use FireFox and it walks me through it.

When you bring down the Bookmarks or Favorites menu, there should be some instructions for creating a new folder. Ah. Bring down the menu and right click on it. That bring up another menu with a New Folder option. (Talk about hiding something that should be easily accessible.)

[LiberalLoner]

11. Thank you! n/t

[sabrina 1]

4. Lucky you to have Nadler as your Rep.

I would be surprised if he joined the witch hunt. He was the first to raise questions over the ACORN defunding vote pointing that it was unConstitutional. He was one of only 75 Dems who voted against it. A court later ruled that he was correct.

I see nothing unconstitutional in what Weiner did, so I imagine that will be Nadler's litmus test for him. He's probably waiting to make sure there is nothing more, anything illegal eg, coming out, before making any comment.

[aquart]

7. I'm not asking him to comment.

Supporting a dick idiot is always an iffy proposition. Although if anyone on the planet has a safe seat, I would think it's Jerry.

I just want him to tell Weiner to stay put.

Nobody can defend sending dick shots because it is sleazy and creepy and guys should have figured out long ago that girls don't care what it looks like, they're all pretty homely. Only gay guys can be happily sure that their dick is admired and envied and lusted after as they would wish it to be.

I'm really happy that he wasn't wearing a diaper in the shot. Although I would have considered that also his own private business.

They want us to buy the proposition that a dick idiot has nothing to contribute and should not be allowed to contribute and that is hypocritical puritanical nonsense that should be trounced every time.

I will always prefer my elected representative to screw his mistress than my country. I would rather his children hate his guts and his wife cry herself to sleep every night because the well-being of the people came first. That ass Christie left New Jersey buried in snow because it was more important to take his kids to Disney World. OH NO, IT WASN'T.

[sabrina 1]

3. Thank you for doing that. My Rep. is a Republican so it would be

a waste of time.

I did see one Democrat from NY last night who said the will be working with Weiner and has no problems with him. Maybe others will get over their fear of the right and join him.

[LiberalLoner]

5. Oh, that's good news, I hope so much others join in and support him and

work with him! Thank you for this good bit of news! :)

[customerserviceguy]

10. I appreciate your expression of your political will to your congresscritter

And I hope you will feel similarly charitable to my expression to my congressman that he should not trust Rep. Weiner ever again.

I also hope that you don't expect your representative to actively support Rep. Weiner in public, because there's really nothing that Repigs would rather see us do.

[LiberalLoner]

12. Of course! I understand. Each of us has to follow our conscience on this. n/t

[sabrina 1]

13. Well, two Democratic Congressmen have expressed their

support for Weiner in public so far. So, not everyone is afraid to speak out when someone is targeted by the far right dirty tricksters.

I wish they had had the courage to speak out on behalf of people like Juan Carlos Vera eg, whose life was destroyed by these same thugs. He was, as it turned out, and I'm happy to say I was one of the few who defended him also, and took a lot of abuse for it, completely innocent. But his reputation and his job is gone. Rather than take the time to find out IF the man was guilty of anything, considering the source, Democrats went ahead and joined Repubicans in their condemnation making life even harder for this innocent man.

So forgive me if I don't have much respect for those who will not stand up for someone under attack from this rightwing hate machine fronted by Breitbart and give them at least the benefit of the doubt until proven guilty of something.

I have more respect for the two Democrats from NY who have stated that they see nothing illegal in what he has done and will be happy to continue to work with him. It really doesn't take much to have common decency and courage. If it turns out that he did something illegal, I will still be glad I did not rush to condemn him an still respect others who did not either, although I'm sure there will be plenty of gloating from hoping for a crime. I have to live with myself, and prefer to err on the side of justice rather than condemnation.

I don't have much respect left for DC insiders who think only of politics to the detriment of human beings. Breitbart has served one purpose, he has exposed many Democrats as people willing to cast even formerly good, loyal democrats into the trash for their own political reasons. That doesn't give me much confidence in their support for the people who elected them.

[customerserviceguy]

15. I've followed the story about as well as anyone

and I really don't recall which two Congressmen you're talking about. I fully expect their opponents to use that support against them in the next election, but in some NY districts, there will never, ever be anything but a Republican or a Democrat elected from those districts, they're very well fashioned to produce that result. Perhaps the gentlemen you're talking about are from such districts.

As for Juan Carlos Vera, he'll have his day in court. I really don't expect a lot of politicians to touch him with a ten-foot pole until all that has played out. But you can thank Weiner for giving Breitbart some measure of credibility going into that lawsuit. Can you at least decry Rep. Weiner's action in doing that, even if the sexting is no big deal to you?

Breitbart is a muck-dwelling creature, and those who give him an opportunity to extort them will enable him to discover if they will take the bait or not. Weiner clearly did.

[bluestate10]

14. You are well advised to grovel on your knees and beg for that email back.

But as we all know, electronic mail sent over the internet is permanent.