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They were traveling on the job, so their behavior is directly related to job performance. Eliot Spitzer is probably a better example. He had to quit because he was Mr. Law Enforcement so he could not engage in any illegal activity without seeming like a hypocrite.

I think Menendez can survive Dominican hookers, but probably not underage hookers.

To the old saying "As long as he's not found in bed with a dead girl or a live boy," we can add "underage prostitute."

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What this does show is that the voters either did not believe the Republican allegations or did not think the issue was relevant to public service.

FBI agents lost jobs over similar charges and I don't believe the hookers were underage. Let the investigation begin, if true then Gov. Christie will pick another Senator.

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Yeah, I mean if Massachusetts can elect someone who drowned a girl in a drunk-driving accident and ran away from the scene while she was slowly suffocating, and someone who launched his political career by libeling his comrades-in-arms using forged evidence, and someone who advanced her academic career by pretending to be a minority...

I mean, if Massachusetts can do that, sure thing, New Jersey will easily vote for someone who flies to Dominican for sexual trysts on a private plane of some "donor"!!!

Let's show them!

Menendez's political enemies know that the allegation that while on vacation he had consensual sex with someone who wanted money from him (or his host) is not quite enough to topple him, but add the toxic word "underage" and he is tainted with the horrors of child abuse and rape. It's hard to imagine a worse political scandal.

The interview with the prostitutes that is the source of this story calls the prostitutes "women" and does not even mention their age.

The article that is cited as the source for this charge says:

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It seems the use of the word "underage" is a disgraceful hack job.

It would be a real loss to New Jersey to destroy such a powerful Senator. Please be careful with the rumors you spread.

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FBI raids office of Florida doctor who has donated to Menendez campaign

By Jeff Goldman/The Star-Ledger
on January 30, 2013 at 8:51 AM, updated January January 30, 2013 at 12:47 PM


The office of a West Palm Beach, Fla. eye doctor who has donated thousands of dollars to U.S. Sen. Robert Menedez (D-N.J.) was raided by FBI agents Tuesday night, according to a report on MiamiHerald.com.

The IRS has a lien for $11.1 million in taxes owed from 2006 to 2009 on Salomon Melgen, the report said.

Melgen has contributed at least $357,000 to various candidates since 1998, about 9 percent of which went to Menendez's campaign.

Agents removed potential evidence from Vitreo-Retinal Consultants Eye Center in an operation that lasted into the early hours of the morning.

The Herald also reported that Melgen is suspected of providing free trips and underage prostitutes to Menendez. The senator has flown in Melgen's private plane at least once, the report said.

Full nj.com piece?.


http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2013 ... da_do.html#incart_m-rpt-1

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Agree completely.

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How so? I don't think Anthony Weiner, Elliot Spitzer, Charlie Rangel or Bill Clinton would agree.

Another Hudson County politician who doesn't think the rules apply to him.

Sound familiar?

What a time to have his career derailed.

http://www.philly.com/philly/news/188518621.html

Sen. Robert Menendez is about to assume a more powerful role in Washington

By Jonathan Tamari
The Philadelphia Inquirer
January 27, 2013

WASHINGTON - New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez took a seat at the head of the dais and looked down toward John Kerry, a towering figure in American politics.

"Yours is a big chair to fill," Menendez said.

He meant it as praise, but Menendez's words Thursday also foreshadow the challenge and opportunity awaiting the fast-rising Democrat as he prepares to assume a larger rolein Washington and, perhaps, on the world stage.

Menendez is expected to become chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee after Kerry (D., Mass.), the current chairman, becomes President Obama's secretary of state. The Senate's all-but-certain confirmation vote on Kerry is scheduled for Tuesday.

Menendez would follow a man who was once nearly president, a widely traveled statesman who helped Obama defuse volatile situations in Pakistan and Afghanistan.The two previous chairmen were also Senategiants: Joe Biden of Delaware, now vice president, and Richard Lugar of Indiana.

For Menendez, following their paths will mark another step in a relentless rise from modest beginnings. It will also seta high bar forsuccess.

"I know the importance of the committee," Menendez said Friday. "I certainly know that when the chairman speaks, it has weight both at home and across the globe and I'm very cognizant of that responsibility."

Smart and willful, Menendez will need to expand his focus from a handful of issues and the Western Hemisphere subcommittee he now chairs to a worldwide view.

"You take on a much larger role,and the impact you have on foreign policy is that much greater," said Sen. Bob Casey (D., Pa.), a member of the committee.

Menendez has a reputation as a more confrontational figure than Kerry, sometimes prosecutorial in tone, often described as a "street fighter" who rose through Hudson County, New Jersey's most ferocious political battleground. He has at times clashed with the White House, and he rarely betrays any hint of a softer side.

The son of Cuban immigrants,Menendez notes that he will be the first Hispanic chairman of the committee. He will havea larger platform forhis tough standson Iran and Cuba, as well as oversight of national security and diplomatic issues.

"It's one of the most important positions in the government for influencing policy," said Carol Lancaster, dean of Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service. "They can put issues on the agenda that force the administration to address them."

Menendez will lead the committee as the United States deals with Iran and North Korea's nuclear ambitions, continued Middle East upheaval, violent conflict in Mali, and an accelerating transition in Afghanistan.

After the assault that killed four Americans in Benghazi, Libya, Menendez has stressed steps to improve security at American outposts, saying last week it would be a top priority.

Though most foreign policy is established by the White House and State Department, as chairman, Menendez can lead hearings that draw scrutiny to issues, ramp up pressure, or bolster the president's decisions.

Biden, for example, used hearings to focus attention on the Iraq war. Menendez, in a preview of his new job, presided over the politically charged session Wednesday in which departing Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton testified on the Benghazi attacks. He then led the hearing on Kerry's nomination.

After each event, reporters from the United States and abroad awaited his words. He spoke first to English-language media, then switched to Spanish for the Spanish-language reporters.

On Sunday, he is to appear on ABC's This Week, opposite Sen. John McCain (R., Ariz.), another member of the committee, which is packed with Republican power. Florida's Marco Rubio and Kentucky's Rand Paul also hold seats.

The son of a seamstress and a carpenter, raised in a Union City tenement, Menendez still begins his days at the IHOP there when he is home in North Bergen.

But he is experienced in foreign policy. He has sat on the Foreign Relations Committee since 2007, after 13 years on the corresponding House panel. He opposed the war in Iraq, and made that stand a central piece of his 2006 campaign for Senate.

His parents having emigrated shortly before Fidel Castro's rise, Menendez forcefully pushes back against all efforts to ease relations with Cuba.

On Iran, he muscled tough sanctions through the Senate, bristling when the Obama administration publicly asked him to relent, drawing attention to his defiant streak. He said he and the White House were on the same page "98 percent" of the time.

"Sometimes, just the slightest set of different views gets overplayed," he said. "I'm looking forward to working very closely with the administration, but I will always have my degree of independence on the things I care about."

It's a busy time. Along with working on the relief bill for Hurricane Sandy, Menendez sits on the powerful Finance Committee. Having broken barriers for Hispanics at nearly every step in his career, he is one of a handful of senators working toward a deal on immigration reform.

People who have worked with him said he was more than just a scrapper.

"He does the reading," Casey said, joining others who praised Menendez's intelligence and preparation. Sen. Bob Corker of Tennessee, the top Republican on the committee, credited what he called his thoughtful, serious approach.

Menendez "understands the politics and the policy," said Andrew Kauders, a former senior aide in the House.

He'll now test those abilities on a worldwide stage. It's a moment of robust possibilities.

Not looking good.

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Well it looks like there might be some truth to this all.

http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2013 ... office_of_florida_do.html

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First, sex with underage girls is not a character flaw, it's a crime.

Second, when it is a conservative, the media pursues the story most doggedly, and the perpetrator is forced to resign in the short order. When it is a liberal, the media will cover it up. Like this week Menendez was interviewed by Martha Raddatz of ABS and she didn't ask one single question on the subject. Or, consider the Fast and Furious scandal, - which is by any objective measure worse than Watergate (there were no bodies in the Watergate, were there?), worse than Iran Contra (then we supplied arms to the anti-communists, not to the drug cartels), much worse than Lewinsky's story, worse than any scandal I can remember. And yet, - not significant coverage, no Pulitzer awards, nothing.

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Well, one man's conspiracy theorist is another man's investigative journalist, but this is beyond the point.

The real question is, - why do you think nobody else covers it? The FBI investigates a Senator for what appears to be a statutory rape, - is it not something that should interest the mainstream media?

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Oh, that must be a pure coincidence. What else could it possibly be?

So maybe the ABC news and the FBI got the senator's activities with underage 16 year old girls in the DR confused with the illegal immigrant sex offender that was discovered on his staff last summer.... both stories were squelched by justice department until after his reelection.

Not on topic -- but there is sad but interesting Doc on the founder of DHL (he really did have sex with underage prostitutes) it is on Netflix streaming right now:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1212449/

The short answer is that there's no proof yet. The only people covering it are conservative conspiracy theorists.

It may be true, but I'll wait til there's actually something to show before I rush to judge.

The American media loves a good sex scandal. Why isn't this national news? Could it be because Tucker Carlson is a lying weasel?

The Bob Menendez & whores stories started late last year. There was a complaint from one or two prostitutes that Menendez stiffed them.


Dailycaller covered his alleged escapes in detail:

http://dailycaller.com/2012/11/05/dom ... ers-and-drinking-parties/

Call me skeptical, but I'll wait until I see this in a publication that does not have a tab for Guns and Gear and which spells Hillary (sic) Clinton's name correctly.

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Everybodys human when they're off the court, just as long as they do their job what they are on the court.

Nowadays character of the elected official is not important so long as he/she is going to support the grand liberal or the grand conservative agenda in Washington.

Emails show FBI investigating Sen. Bob Menendez for sleeping with underage Dominican prostitutes

Documents published online for the first time Thursday indicate that the FBI opened an inquiry into New Jersey Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez on August 1, 2012, focusing on repeated trips he took to the Dominican Republic with longtime campaign contributor and Miami eye doctor Salomon Melgen. TheDC reported in November that Menendez purchased the service of prostitutes in that Caribbean nation at a series of alcohol-fueled sex parties.

The documents, which The Daily Caller had obtained hours earlier from an anonymous source, also indicate that Carrie Levine, research director at Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), was alerted on April 9, 2012 to Menendez?s habit of paying for sex while outside the United States. (RELATED: Read the tipster?s dossier on Sen. Menendez)

ABC News senior investigative producer Rhonda Schwartz was aware as early as May 2, 2012, the documents show, when Levine wrote a source in the Dominican Republic to say that she had ?shared your allegations, but not your identities, with a respected, trusted journalist with whom we have worked on other stories.?

Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2013/01/25/ema ... rostitutes/#ixzz2J93cnMhc