WASHINGTON (AP) — A portrait of former Speaker Dennis Hastert has been removed from a hallway outside the House chamber. Just last week, the Illinois Republican pleaded guilty to breaking banking laws in a hush money scheme.
The portrait has hung for years in the Speaker’s Lobby, a plush area just outside the chamber where lawmakers and reporters congregate.
Spokeswoman AshLee Strong says new Speaker Paul Ryan felt it was time to “rotate in a different portrait.”
Hastert pleaded guilty last Wednesday to evading banking laws. He acknowledged in a written agreement he tried paying someone $3.5 million to hide misconduct decades ago, around the period he was a high school wrestling coach.
Anonymous sources have told The Associated Press that the payments were meant to hide claims of sexual misconduct.
Can’t they just slap a wrought iron gate over Dennis’ portrait to remind some of these guys where they’ll end up one day?
Brilliant…don’t want his infamy to fade …ever.
Nah. No one goes to jail for breaking banking laws. Hell, that’s a republican badge of honor, bona fides, if you will. It’s not like he was found guilty of buggering a minor or something nefarious like that.
I’m crestfallen. Just so upset. I was planning to throw rotten eggs and dead cats at Hastert’s portrait hanging in its new place in Boehner’s Freedumb Foyer.
So the House Republicans had spent a hundred thousand dollars for a portrait of a pedophile? Just like Kaisch, I’m so sick of those people. All those fake social conservatives and fiscal Republicans. Why doesn’t the the KKK and Aryan Nation take them out for good?
“The portrait has hung for years in the Speaker’s Lobby”
“Spokeswoman AshLee Strong says new Speaker Paul Ryan felt it was time to ‘rotate in a different portrait.’”
All right, who’s the Freudian wise guy who wrote this article?