We’re always trying to do our best to help our readers make sense of the news. And along those lines we just got this email from TPM Reader AB …
So Iâm lost and maybe TPM can help. Just how many GOP senators or congressmen are currently accused of sex-related crimes?
Yâall might come up with some handy-dandy chart so that we can keep Sweeney from Gibbons from Foley from whosiewhatsits in Pennsylvania who started the whole strangling fad.
Okay, let me see if I can give a run-down here.
We have Rep. Foley (R-FL) accused of various inappropriate sexual contact with underage congressional pages.
Then we have Rep. Gibbons (R-NV) in an on-going story about allegedly accosting/propositioning a woman other than his wife in a parking garage in Las Vegas. Gibbons is currently running for governor. And there’s a separate dimension of this scandal where his cronies are trying to cover up what happened. I guess this explains how things that happen in Vegas stay in Vegas.
Next we’ve got the older story of Rep. Don Sherwood (R-PA) who allegedly tried to strangle his mistress.
Then just last night we learned that the apparently more traditionally-minded Rep. John Sweeney (R-NY) “got into [a] verbal argument [with his wife] that turned a little physical by her being grabbed by the neck and pushed around the house.”
Anyway, that’s the House GOP sex/assault/battery checklist. Am I missing anyone?
