Wow. This is just obscene. The incumbent GOP Representative from Connecticut has gone ahead and compared the Mark Foley page scandal to...Ted Kennedy?!?
Yahoo News
HARTFORD, Conn. - Republican Rep. Christopher Shays defended the House speaker's handling of a congressional page scandal, saying no one died like at Chappaquiddick in 1969 when Democratic Sen. Ted Kennedy was involved.
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"I know the speaker didn't go over a bridge and leave a young person in the water, and then have a press conference the next day," the embattled Connecticut congressman told The Hartford Courant in remarks published Wednesday.
Wow, that's just plain sick. You know you and your party are desperate when you have to compare this page scandal to an unforunately and tragic accident that happened almost 40 years ago!
This is all because Ted Kennedy was helping Shays opponent, Diane Farrell. Here's what Diane has to say about Shay's remarks.
"This is symptomatic of Chris losing his composure in a tight race," Farrell said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press Wednesday. "Chris just seems to be lashing out in anger."
Farrell said the scandal, which polls show could hurt the GOP's bid to hang onto control, has affected her because her 19-year-old daughter Margaret was a Senate page when she was 16.
"My first reaction to this whole scandal had nothing to do with politics," she said. "It was as a parent who had a child participating in the program."
It is anger. And it stinks of desperation. No wonder Chris Shays is stooping to this level, take a look at his poll numbers.
Reuters
CONNECTICUT 4 - Republican Rep. Christopher Shays, a staunch advocate of the Iraq war who emphasizes his independence in a Democratic-leaning district, trails Democrat Dianne Farrell by 46-41 percent.
Reuters/Zogby poll 09/25 - 10/02
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