Mike Duvall
You most likely have heard about Mike Duvall by now. The California legislator who got caught bragging about two affairs – spanking is involved — while on a live mic. Crag Fergusson has all the details in last night’s monologue – it starts about 2:30 in.
Mr. Duvall is one of those “family values” Republicans.
I was bouncing around the Internet last night and reading comments about Duvall’s trysts when I came across the following summary of elected-officials misdeeds someone posted.
While I think men and women should honor their marriage vows, I find their actions more repulsive when they’re condemning someone else for their actions, or denying same-sex couples the right to marry as it will diminish the importance of their marriage, when, all the time, they’re carrying on themselves. (And who is Tom DeLay to be having an issue with Obama’s birth?)
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So, just in case you were losing track of the GOP white men (and occasionally women) hypocritical scandals out there:
Mark Sanford – votes to impeach Bill Clinton for having an affair and lying about it, and then has an affair and lies about it and pays for it with state funds.
John Ensign – calls for the impeachment of Bill Clinton, says ‘he has no credibility left’, then has an affair with a staff member while giving her family members jobs with public funds.
Larry Craig – attacks ‘nasty boy’ Bill Clinton repeatedly for having an extramarital affair, then gets caught soliciting gay sex in a bathroom by a police officer.
Mark Foley – attacks Clinton’s “vile” affair and then spends several years having sex with young male pages and covering it up.
David Vitter – calls for the resignation of Bill Clinton while having a multi-year relationship with ‘the DC Madam’.
Newt Gingrich – had enough sense not to attack Clinton because he was already having sex with future wife number three, Calista something or other, while Clinton was having his affair.
Tom DeLay – leads the move to impeach Clinton while he is engaged in bribery and corruption scams for which he is ultimately convicted and sentenced to prison.
Ed Schrock (R-VA) – another conservative ‘family values’ Republican here in Virginia with a 90% rating from the Christian Coalition who resigns after being outed in a gay sex scandal
Helen Chenowith (R-ID)- staunchly conservative Republican Congresswoman who called for the resignation of Bill Clinton while she was having an affair herself, got caught, and said, ‘that’s different’.
Bob Allen (R-FL)- another conservative Republican ‘family values’ Congressman until he was caught solicitiing sex with a male police officer.
And now… Mike Duvall.
