Tuesday, October 02, 2007
McHenry on Blackwater, Tony Stewart, and asses
Aside from inspiring us to wonder if he committed voter fraud or tax evasion, this past week NC-10's Pat McHenry has been doing a pretty exceptional job of embarrassing himself.
Last week the little dweeb had the gall to interrupt well-liked Kentucky Freshman John Yarmuth just to say that the word "ass" is too vulgar, "is unbecoming to the debate." Thing is, Yarmuth was only quoting the guy McHenry's worked so hard to get elected, W.
Then, on Saturday, according to Wonkette, he put the moves on ("sucked up") to Tony Stewart at a NASCAR function. Wonkette gave him a nice dope-slap about it:
What do you think attracts him to the Christian mercenary organization? Their $586 million in undocumented money? Their lack of State Department oversight? I couldn't say. Perhaps he's just another Bushie with a hired gun fetish.
Thanks for the vid to Petulant Rumblings, your one-stop shop for all your Blackwater hearing video needs.
UPDATE: Greg Flynn at BlueNC has done some digging and found (golly gee) some financial ties between the NRCC and Blackwater's head, Eric Prince. Four NRCC officers (including Pat) are on that House Oversight Committee . . . how shocking. And Greg posted a whole list of "entities" under the Blackwater USA umbrella. A list Prince declined to tell the House Committee. Wonder why.
Last week the little dweeb had the gall to interrupt well-liked Kentucky Freshman John Yarmuth just to say that the word "ass" is too vulgar, "is unbecoming to the debate." Thing is, Yarmuth was only quoting the guy McHenry's worked so hard to get elected, W.
Then, on Saturday, according to Wonkette, he put the moves on ("sucked up") to Tony Stewart at a NASCAR function. Wonkette gave him a nice dope-slap about it:
Now, we agree that Mr. Stewart is a nice hunk o’ burning love, but face it Patrick, he’s just not that into you.Today, he defended the indefensible, North Carolina's own Blackwater USA. Here's the intial ass-licking video and then here's a follow-up shit-nuzzler. If you only have time for one, check the second one where Pat tries hard to sound likes he's a military dude, a SEAL military dude.
What do you think attracts him to the Christian mercenary organization? Their $586 million in undocumented money? Their lack of State Department oversight? I couldn't say. Perhaps he's just another Bushie with a hired gun fetish.
Thanks for the vid to Petulant Rumblings, your one-stop shop for all your Blackwater hearing video needs.
UPDATE: Greg Flynn at BlueNC has done some digging and found (golly gee) some financial ties between the NRCC and Blackwater's head, Eric Prince. Four NRCC officers (including Pat) are on that House Oversight Committee . . . how shocking. And Greg posted a whole list of "entities" under the Blackwater USA umbrella. A list Prince declined to tell the House Committee. Wonder why.
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Tuesday, September 25, 2007
McHenry's conservative roots exposed
Ever wonder where all these repressed Republican sex offenders learn how to be so repressed and offensive? Well, I'm starting to get the impression that their training comes from the finest conservative institutions of higher learning.Recently someone emailed me about predatory gays at Jerry Falwell's Liberty University in Virginia. When I posted it, I started hearing all about Patrick McHenry's alma mater, Belmont Abbey College.
Check this out:
While Congressman Pat McHenry was a student there, in the late 1990s, Belmont Abbey College officials knowingly hired as head of its theology department an accused sex offender who had been relieved of his Massachusetts responsibilities. When confronted by the press they lied about it. The truth came out in depositions by Boston's then-Cardinal Bernard Law that officials at Belmont Abbey had been informed that Geroge P. Berthold was dismissed due to such accusations. But the Abbey officials lied about this until the truth came out.
And Creative Loafing Charlotte uncovered this juicy tidbit: between 1995 and 2003, the Catholic Diocese of Charlotte paid $500,000 to local victims of sexual abuse.
So, let's recap: Paying people off, not reporting the abusers, hiring abusers from elsewhere, then lying about knowingly hiring abusers. That's the atmosphere at Pat McHenry's college, from which he was graduated not all that long ago. Gee, do you think he might have learned even more at that Benedictine Abbey in Mt. Holly, North Carolina?
Supporting material:
From Creative Loafing Charlotte:
Since 1995, the Catholic Diocese of Charlotte has paid nearly a half-million dollars to local victims of alleged sexual abuse. The carefully worded disclosure was buried in its 2001-2002 annual report at the end of a description of its policy on protecting young people from sexual abuse.By our deadline on Monday, diocese spokesperson Kevin Murray was still trying to determine how many victims had received the money and the date of the alleged incidents for which they were paid. The report, which was issued in November, states that no payments were made during the last year on behalf of victims of clergy sexual misconduct with children.Boston Globe:
The Archdiocese of Boston yesterday contradicted a statement by Belmont Abbey College in North Carolina that it was told nothing about allegations of inappropriate intimate contact against a Boston priest, the Rev. George P. Berthold, before the college hired him in 1997 to head its theology department.May 18, 2002 Boston Globe
Donna M. Morrissey, the spokeswoman for the archdiocese, said that church officials in Boston had notified the college and the Diocese of Charlotte ''verbally and in writing'' that Berthold had been accused of inappropriate physical behavior with adult seminarians when he was dean of the undergraduate college at St. John's Seminary in 1995.
The head of a Catholic college in North Carolina acknowledged yesterday that the Archdiocese of Boston did inform him of an allegation of inappropriate behavior against a priest seeking a teaching job at the school.Record of Berthold's placements.
Abbot Placid Solari, of Belmont Abbey College near Charlotte, said yesterday that the Boston Archdiocese had told him that an "allegation of improper conduct" had been lodged against the Rev. George Berthold while he was a dean at St. John's Seminary in Boston.
School officials earlier this week said that the Boston Archdiocese told them nothing about the allegation before the college hired Berthold in 1997 to head its theology department.
Berthold abuse of boys at bishop accountability data base.
Last week, CL requested police report numbers, or other evidence documenting that the diocese had reported the alleged abuse referred to in the report to civil authorities. It was also unclear Monday whether the alleged abusers are still actively working or volunteering for the diocese.Photo: Congressman Pat McHenry with Belmont Abbey College Chancellor Placid Solari.
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Thursday, September 20, 2007
Pat McHenry (NC-10): the overview
(Quick note form Mike: Welcome Leslie . . . just so everyone knows, we're looking at this ongoing story to explore the many connections, stories, sources and more. This post and others are not saying anyone is gay or closeted. That being said, there are people connected to the story who are gay...lots of them...and sources include people connected to the deaths of three gay Republican consultants in Florida. Here's Leslie's first post on the story. -MR)
Mike and I finally had a long overdue sit-down today. For three hours I delineated all the current well-sourced and not-so-well sourced dirt on our youngest Congressman, Pat McHenry of North Carolina's 1oth Congressional district.
(And we didn't even get to his advocacy for ousted College Republican Glenn Murphy, giver of unwanted blowjobs . . . how could we have overlooked that one, Mike?)
Mike tried to chart all of it. He really did. What happened to that chart, Mike? I seem to have misplaced it. It's not on my "action plan." Well, I guess mere words will have to do. (Leslie, that chart was so complicated I need a computer program to decipher it! - MR)
To start with, we've got several financial disclosure reporting irregularities (details to come on that), and nearly $200,000 of improperly reported 527 (Citizens Club for Growth PAC) funding in 2004. Also, Pat takes money from the gay Republican message master Arthur Finkelstein, who is married to a man in Massachusetts, as he foments ill will towards gays in his district and promotes the "sanctity of marriage."
Mike and I finally had a long overdue sit-down today. For three hours I delineated all the current well-sourced and not-so-well sourced dirt on our youngest Congressman, Pat McHenry of North Carolina's 1oth Congressional district.(And we didn't even get to his advocacy for ousted College Republican Glenn Murphy, giver of unwanted blowjobs . . . how could we have overlooked that one, Mike?)
Mike tried to chart all of it. He really did. What happened to that chart, Mike? I seem to have misplaced it. It's not on my "action plan." Well, I guess mere words will have to do. (Leslie, that chart was so complicated I need a computer program to decipher it! - MR)
To start with, we've got several financial disclosure reporting irregularities (details to come on that), and nearly $200,000 of improperly reported 527 (Citizens Club for Growth PAC) funding in 2004. Also, Pat takes money from the gay Republican message master Arthur Finkelstein, who is married to a man in Massachusetts, as he foments ill will towards gays in his district and promotes the "sanctity of marriage."
Then there's a wide assortment of unsavory colleagues, high-level staff with drinking and assorting driving problems (below). Three different documented voter fraud cases starting with his former roomie and staffer. Then there's the repeated co-habitation with men well past his college years (We'll have a very interesting story related to that in the next week or so).For this post, I don't want to make only promises, I start with Pat's current campaign spokesman Jason Jent Deans, left. He was Pat's chief of staff from May, 2005 to January 2007. Before that he worked as District Director and on the campaign staff. This is what we've uncovered of the vehicular charges he's faced in North Carolina since 1995 . . . Including death by vehicle.
2/21/04 GASTON County, NCWith a track record like this, the GOP is likely to consider appointing him to a post managing the nation's driver education instructors . . .
Expired Registration card/ tag, expired/no inspection sticker
C4181647
9/03/04 PITT County, NC
Expired/no inspection sticker, no insurance
3231043
9/03/04 PITT County, NC
Expired Registration card/tag
3231044
3/21/02 MECKLENBERG County, NC
Expired registration tag, no insurance
C2581182
12/15/00 WAKE County, NC
No license, no insurance
C0618098
9/06/00 WAKE County, NC
Expired registration card/tag, no insurance
C0265873
9/06/00 WAKE County, NC
Expired/no inspection sticker, no registration card
C0265874
5/06/00 MECKLENBERG County, NC
Speeding, expired/no inspection sticker
9593445
6/03/99 JOHNSTON County, NC
Simple worthless check
007258, complainant Golden House Restaurant
5/20/99 WAKE County, NC
no registration card
C8855533
6/20/99 WAKE County, NC
Expired Registration
C9500844
4/09/98 WAKE County, NC
Speeding
C8416644
2/21/95 NASH County, NC
Misdemeanor Death by Vehicle
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