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Cocaine Bust Derails Fledgling GOP Congressman
    #19190975 - 11/26/13 09:13 AM (10 years, 2 months ago)

The only time I'm glad when someone gets busted for prohibition is when its the mother fuckers that write the prohibition laws getting impaled on their own sword.

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Cocaine Bust Derails Fledgling GOP Congressman
FORT MYERS, Fla. November 23, 2013 (AP)
By MICHAEL J. MISHAK Associated Press
Associated Press

From the outset, U.S. Rep. Trey Radel — a brash and digitally savvy darling of the political right — was determined to make a name for himself. And so he has.

Just 10 months after being sworn in as a member of Congress, the rookie Republican — who supported drug testing for food stamp recipients and championed cuts in sheep-farm subsidies, of all things — pleaded guilty to cocaine possession, took a leave of absence from politics and checked into a Naples rehabilitation center. It was his purchase of 3.5 grams of cocaine from an undercover officer in Washington's Dupont Circle neighborhood last month that caused it all to unravel.

In a flash, an ambitious lawmaker known to few outside southwest Florida became America's "Cocaine Congressman," the first sitting member of Congress to be charged with a drug offense in more than three decades.

"I hope, like family, southwest Florida can forgive me for this. I've let them down," Radel, 37, said in an emotional late-night press conference Wednesday that marked an embarrassing retreat from public view. "But I do believe in faith, forgiveness and redemption."

The unseemly distinction of a drug arrest has derailed a promising political career and divided this quiet stretch of golf courses and retirement communities with the force of a hurricane. The largest daily newspapers and a growing number of Republican leaders in the district, which includes the Gulf Coast communities of Fort Myers and Naples, are demanding his resignation. Potential challengers are openly weighing primary bids. And late-night talk show hosts are once again focused on Florida.

"I can't wait for the School House Rock on how a bill becomes a straw," cracked Jon Stewart on "The Daily Show."

Whether Radel remains a politician or a punch line is an open question. His office hasn't answered questions from The Associated Press since his Wednesday news conference.

On Thursday in downtown Fort Myers, his name elicited rolling eyes and hearty chuckles. Asked about Radel, several voters responded with one word: "Cocaine."

"If he were a coke-head kid working at McDonald's, he'd be out of a job," said Richard Bruehl, a retired general contractor.

Others were more supportive.

"We thought he was a really great guy to represent us," said Carol Hess, a retired business owner. "We just hope he gets the rehab he needs and comes back and continues for us."

The lawmaker comes from a family that ran a funeral parlor on Cincinnati's heavily Catholic and conservative west side, where he helped run ceremonies and drove the hearse. This week he spoke about his mother's struggles with alcoholism and later her sudden death at his wedding; she choked on a piece of food.

After high school, he seemed to crave life in the public eye. He moved to Chicago to attend Loyola University, where he studied broadcast journalism and minored in Italian. He worked his way through college by bartending and briefly took classes at The Second City, the improvisational comedy outfit that trained John Belushi and Steve Carell.

He studied abroad and backpacked through Europe. After graduation, he traversed southern Mexico and parts of Central America, and became fluent in Spanish. Later, he would tell the Washington newspaper Roll Call that his favorite vacation spot outside Florida was Cartagena, Colombia, an expensive coastal city in a country known for cocaine trafficking.


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Re: Cocaine Bust Derails Fledgling GOP Congressman [Re: Ellis Dee] * 4
    #19191441 - 11/26/13 11:09 AM (10 years, 2 months ago)

typical Republican piece of fucking shit


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Re: Cocaine Bust Derails Fledgling GOP Congressman [Re: lurkmode]
    #19191924 - 11/26/13 12:59 PM (10 years, 2 months ago)

Who the fuck are you to judge?! Im sure you've NEVER done any illicit substances,lurk? He's human just like the rest of us, fuckin hypocrite!


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Re: Cocaine Bust Derails Fledgling GOP Congressman [Re: dutchfunkle] * 4
    #19192071 - 11/26/13 01:24 PM (10 years, 2 months ago)



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Re: Cocaine Bust Derails Fledgling GOP Congressman [Re: dutchfunkle] * 6
    #19192110 - 11/26/13 01:33 PM (10 years, 2 months ago)

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Who the fuck are you to judge?! Im sure you've NEVER done any illicit substances,lurk? He's human just like the rest of us, fuckin hypocrite!




Here's the difference: I'm not on record voting for doling out piss tests to welfare recipients.

Fuck off


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Re: Cocaine Bust Derails Fledgling GOP Congressman [Re: Ellis Dee]
    #19198347 - 11/27/13 09:14 PM (10 years, 2 months ago)

greetings from SWFL

He checked into rehab for alcohol. What happened was that a female undercover cop flirted with him at the bar and got him to buy coke for her from her "friend". he was drunk.

It was a setup.

He's apparently also really against cops setting up sales and using CIs... which is pretty damn common in SWFL where he's from.

someone was out to get him.

Not defending the guy... just sayin.

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Re: Cocaine Bust Derails Fledgling GOP Congressman [Re: Mykes logos]
    #19199294 - 11/28/13 03:48 AM (10 years, 2 months ago)

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It was his purchase of 3.5 grams of cocaine from an undercover officer in Washington's Dupont Circle neighborhood last month that caused it all to unravel.



It's unbelievable that in a 1st world country the police are allowed to do that. The other way round - selling to an undercover cop and being arrested for it - I can just about understand, though even then there's huge potential for them to be an agent provocateur and encourage people to commit crimes they might not otherwise have committed. Voting for drug testing welfare claimants isn't cool but I still hope this guy gets his life back. The police screwed him.


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Re: Cocaine Bust Derails Fledgling GOP Congressman [Re: Mykes logos]
    #19199996 - 11/28/13 09:42 AM (10 years, 2 months ago)

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greetings from SWFL

He checked into rehab for alcohol. What happened was that a female undercover cop flirted with him at the bar and got him to buy coke for her from her "friend". he was drunk.

It was a setup.

He's apparently also really against cops setting up sales and using CIs... which is pretty damn common in SWFL where he's from.

someone was out to get him.

Not defending the guy... just sayin.

cheers




Sure that was a setup but what of the coke already at his house and his trips to Colombia?

Glad they got his hypocrite ass. But he'll be just fine because Jesus or Benghazi or something.


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Re: Cocaine Bust Derails Fledgling GOP Congressman [Re: lurkmode]
    #19200456 - 11/28/13 11:58 AM (10 years, 2 months ago)

I fully support his use of cocaine, but I don't support his unjustifiable and immoral stance of support for drug-testing among food stamp recipients.


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