Ugh. So I have had just about my fill of all this Anthony Weiner shit. I really have. I'm presently conflicted about whether or not I want him to resign, but Jesus Christ on a pogo stick, the coverage is non-stop, it's everywhere.
Wee! Let's watch the man fall like a house of cards! Yay! (Grr.)
And now I hear that his wife could be/probably is pregnant. Super! What a family man! I'm losing respect for the man I once adored by the motherfucking minute.
Tonight, I learn that Michael Hancock, recent mayor-elect of Denver, is currently being dogged by rumors that he visited an escort service. And Hancock's dismissals of said rumors are effing sad, just like Weiner's were. When Weiner was lying, anyway.
To wit:
Hancock's attorney, Bruce James, requested June 3 that the police give him any evidence of Hancock at the escort service at 1675 Fillmore St., and on June 6 he asked that if any information is found about Hancock at other locations for the escort service that it be withheld from media, citing Hancock's privacy.
OK, great. Red flags abound in my mind. So I ask this community, in earnest, WHY THE FUCK WOULD YOU ASK FOR VIDEOS OF YOUR CLIENT AT A REPORTED "WHORE HOUSE" AND REQUEST THAT THE MEDIA NOT BE INFORMED OF SAID VIDEO, IF IT'S NOT TRUE?!
I mean, fucking seriously people, why the hell would you do that?!
In short: you wouldn't.
Hancock's name (although misspelled) and current cell phone # are included on the escort service's client list, as well as in an appointment planner, apparently 3x at that. The escort service in question demanded that they call their potential clients back right before appointments, just to make sure that they were real.
"The numbers get entered into the database anytime a customer calls to use the service," said Ewing.
"How did you verify the number?" asked Zelinger.
"They would call in wanting to book an appointment. We would always call the number back to verify that someone did answer it and that it was not a fake appointment," said Ewing.
"The other method that we used are services similar to a company called Intelius, where we would enter a phone number, pay a certain fee and get any kind of information about that person we wanted to. All we really wanted was employment history -- where they worked, and first or last names were important," said Ewing.
Fucking oy. OY! Democratic men everywhere, why can't you seem to keep it in your pants?! Goddamnit. You are starting to really piss me off. Steam is coming out of my ears right now, for example.
To the vey, people. Hancock's lawyer, trying to refute the rumors:
"While we believe the search will produce the same results (as the Fillmore location), in the unlikely event it does not, we believe disclosure of the result would violate the privacy interests of Mr. Hancock, and we would request that such a result be disclosed only to me in my capacity as his counsel," James wrote in an email.
Yeah. Well. Hancock, if you hadn't visited hookers, then you probably wouldn't be worried. So excuse me while I don't believe you.
Now, normally, I don't fucking care what elected dudes do in their personal lives. I just don't. As long as they're not hurting anyone, I honestly do not effing care. Whatever. Private lives are private lives.
But, coming on the heels of Weinergate, I truly cannot handle anymore stories of good men doing bad things. I just can't. There are limits to this kind of shit. I'm not naive, and I'm not overly judgmental, but Christ on Christian TV in the middle of the night, can't you men do something else in your free time besides think of sex?! I am honestly asking.
Really. I mean it. Because I'm losing faith in the masculine sex, and fast!
Goddamnit. I liked this guy over Chris Romer, too. (Except for Hancock's anti-immigration stance. Not happy about that at all.)
I would also like to state that, if I'm proved to be wrong here, I will earnestly apologize. But my Spidey Sense™ is tingling right now, and I don't think I'm wrong at all.
/Sigh. Shit.