After pleading guilty to cocaine possession, Rep. Trey Radel’s big announcement tonight was that he’s taking a leave of absence from Congress and getting treatment for what he described as “this disease.”
Before he was busted with cocaine, Rep. Trey Radel used to post Facebook photos of himself partying around the world.
Rep. Trey Radel (R-FL) invited a stranger to his home last month to do coke. The catch? That stranger was an undercover cop.
In light of the Kennedy assassination anniversary, Kennedy Half Century author Larry Sabato reflects on political dynasties. But America’s real political dynasty today isn’t Kennedy. “There is no real comparison: The more successful family dynasty by far, at least to this point, has the surname of Bush.”
If Rob Ford was a African-American/Canadian crackhead, boozing, episodically violent, John Mayor, how would this story be playing. From TPM Reader ND …
I’m enjoying your coverage of the Rob Ford debacle (if debacle is even the right word) up in Toronto. But as a native of Washington, D.C. whose formative years were shaped by the arrest, and subsequent reelection, of Marion Barry, I can’t help but look at the marked contrast between the two mayors through the lens of race (though, in full disclosure, I’m a white suburbanite, so make of this what you will).
Clay Shirky has some interesting thoughts on the launch failure of HealthCare.gov.
You might have missed this yesterday while news was breaking about a certain coked-up congressman, but Senate Democrats are edging closer to changing the filibuster rules for judicial nominees.
Freshman Republican congressman from Florida has been charged in DC with possession of cocaine, Politico is reporting.
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The details of new domestic violence allegations against George Zimmerman are horrifying: He allegedly pointed a gun at the woman known only as his girlfriend. He allegedly broke a glass coffee table and barricaded the door after shoving her out of the house, according to the arrest report. Today, at a court hearing, prosecutors claim there was a previous unreported incident during which he allegedly choked his girlfriend.
And though the incident itself is terrifying for the presumed victim, it’s not all that surprising. Zimmerman had previously been suspected of domestic violence, though charges never came through because he smashed the iPad allegedly containing the video of key evidence against him.
All too often, incidents of domestic violence aren’t the first time a partner has threatened the woman he is in an intimate relationship with. In an age in which we are constantly trying to calculate the next attack, incidents of domestic violence are by comparison almost easy to predict.