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October 13, 2004

This Democrat can't be serious?

Good lord, this is Silly Season stuff raised (lowered?) to new levels:

DALLAS -- The gloves have come off in a tight election race between two Texas congressmen -- and every other article of clothing appears to be fair game as well.

Democrats are circulating old newspaper clippings of a 1974 college streaking stunt staged by hundreds of students at what was then called Southwest Texas State University.

One of the participants was an 18-year-old freshman named Pete Sessions -- who grew up to become a conservative Republican congressman.

A Sessions spokesman said the congressman's "old school days are long gone" and that he recognizes the streaking stunt was "an immature action."

But the campaign of Democrat Representative Martin Frost is holding his rival's bare body to the fire, saying he "exposed himself to children and strangers." [emphasis added]

The two incumbents are battling each other in a new Republican-leaning district in the Dallas area. Frost, Texas' senior congressman, had his district redrawn by Republicans last year.

Bizzare. Three hundred male and female college students streak in 1974 (which was quite ubiquitous at the time) and Democrats are trying to charge Sessions with committing a sex crime? Poor Sessions, I guess we'll just have to call him Trenchcoat Pete now, eh?

If I know nothing else about Frost, his own words expose him as indecent and he needs to lose on this point alone.

cross-posted at redstate.org

Posted by Darleen at October 13, 2004 09:39 AM

Comments

Hey, Darleen - I'm not in their district, but in the area. Sessions is a good guy, Frost is a sleaze. Sessions has run some great ads this race, like the "Martin Frost School of Ethics" in which adorable little kids repeat the mantra "It's only wrong if I get caught", which details Frosts's canceling an event after the main attraction was found to be a convicted child molestor. He did not return the money collected, btw.
What a case of Pot v. Kettle. We have a lot of local talk-show guys here and they've hoorawed this streaking ploy unmercifully. Frost should have learned from Kerry - leave the events of thirty years ago alone!

Posted by: Sally at October 14, 2004 04:34 AM

P.S.: Congrats to Siobhan on her band competition win! That's great!

Posted by: Sally at October 14, 2004 04:35 AM