Is Pennsylvania the north’s Florida?
The encounter between Sherwood, 64, a four-term Republican congressman, and Cynthia Ore, 29, of Rockville, Md., occurred on the afternoon of Sept. 15, according to a copy of a Washington Metropolitan Police incident report obtained by the Wilkes-Barre (Pa.) Times Leader. … (Yahoo News) … More below:
Is Pennsylvania the north’s Florida? I just said that to get a rise out of Booman. However, one wonders…
But police also said in the report they did not receive a full account of events.
“Both parties have left out significant information or are not willing to discuss in detail what actually happened,” the incident report said.
Sherwood, who is married, told the Times Leader in a story published Saturday that Ore was “an acquaintance” but wouldn’t elaborate on why she was in his apartment. Ore told the newspaper the two met in 1999 at a Young Republicans meeting but wouldn’t go into specifics about their relationship.
“She made an allegation against me which, I say, is absolutely not true,” Sherwood said. “The police investigated the allegation and agreed.”
According to the police report, Ore called 911 on her cell phone from Sherwood’s bathroom and reported that Sherwood had “choked her for no apparent reason.” Both parties said he was giving her a back rub, but he said she “jumped up” and ran to the bathroom during it.
Police said Ore changed her account during an interview with police, saying nothing had happened, but added that the woman “did not seem to be of sound mind,” …
“Thinking of that day I could cry and cry,” Ore told the Times Leader.
Sherwood, whose 10th district encompasses parts of northeast and central Pennsylvania, said he’s the victim of a political smear. … (Yahoo News)
Emphases mine 🙂
I mean, it worked for Joe Scarborough….
Perhaps he is a dedicated Deadwood fan, and was consumed by the more melodramatic plot lines of recent episodes….
Seriously, I think we will hear the usual morally bankrupt excuses from the punditocracy and their masters in the Propaganda Factory about this. It’s all her fault. The liberal media are making a partisan attack. He’s been under a great deal of stress lately. It really didn’t happen that way at all.
Amazing how Republicans are all soooo forgiving and understanding when one of theirs is involved, like a thin white woman from a well-off Georgia family who goes berserk before her wedding. But if your skin is dark, or your bank account doesn’t have five or six zeroes, then they suddenly go all Old-Testament over your ass.
Do these Republicans actually not understand the meaning of the word “hypocrisy”? Or do they pass out Denial Pills with the Hypocrisy Syrup in Right-Wing jackboot camp?
Um…no, I don’t think we will. Typical politician shenanigans get buried at the bottom of a middle page. The Mighty Wurlitzer certainly won’t talk about things like this, and the RWCM is so cowed that they’re afraid even mentioning this would anger the Christian Right. If this turns into some enormous Condit-style soap opera, then sure, we’ll hear about it. But no one will care about an unkown politician screwing around on his wife, especially if he’s a Star-Belly Sneech–er, Republican.
Guess you’re never too old to be a young republican.
I blame it on Three Mile Island. Now, if we could only get him to give Santorum a nice massage…