Day: July 24, 2013

Washingtonpost.com:

RICHMOND — Gov. Robert F. McDonnell, who for months has said very little about gifts and loans received from a campaign donor, has launched an aggressive drive to improve his reputation.

Over the past two weeks, he has switched lawyers, hired a private spokesman, apologized to the commonwealth, given back $124,000 to the wealthy benefactor and, on Wednesday, traveled to Afghanistan, looking very much like a governor immersed in something other than his own political and legal troubles. The activity, culminating in McDonnell’s surprise visit to Virginia troops overseas, represents a clear shift in strategy for the governor.

“We’re going to be more aggressive in presenting the governor as a man who is honest, honorable and has spent a good deal of his adult life in public service,” said Rich Galen, the private spokesman McDonnell hired to work with his legal team.

So McDonnell has gone from someone who has done nothing wrong to someone who is apologizing and repaying nearly $125,000 to Jonnie Williams.  I am not sure why he went to Afghanistan.  He is the govvernor of Virginia.  He does not hold national office.  I am not sure it is at all appropriate.  The bottom line of course, is, who paid for this horse-hair trip?

According to all news sources, Athony Weiner is still at it with the lewd messaging.  Washingtonpost.com:

Anthony Weiner, the disgraced former congressman who polls suggest is a leading candidate for mayor of New York, admitted Tuesday that he engaged in a series of sexually explicit communications with a young woman on the Internet.

The behavior allegedly occurred in 2012, more than a year after Weiner was forced to resign from Congress after admitting to similar episodes. But in a news conference that seemed a little like a public therapy session, Weiner stood with his wife, Huma Abedin, and vowed to stay in the race for mayor.

According to a gossip Web site called the Dirty, the Democratic ex-congressman, using the pseudonym “Carlos Danger,” exchanged obscene messages and nude pictures and engaged in phone sex with an unidentified woman, then 22.

Nuff said?  It all depends on the voters.  If that kind of behavior bothers the voters, they won’t vote for him.  If it doesn’t, then they will.  Weiner is fractious and cantankerous.  Once again, his poor wife Huma Abedin bailed him out.  She spoke for him and said she loved him.  She is a class act.  Weiner is not, nor is he a “changed man.”

Huma should take away his cell phone.  He lacks self-control.  For the record, Weiner was strutting his stuff, once again.