Archive for July 23rd, 2010
New twist on the Lee Roupas Cook County GOP scandal: was forced to make decisions against his better judgment by wealthy donor
The Elizabeth K. Christie Foundation believes "kisses are the ink large checks are written with"
We’re working on a full, definitive piece on the whole Lee Roupas Cook County GOP scandal we’ve been following the last few days, but we just did an interesting interview a few moments ago where we learned that Roupas has been burning up the phone lines since Monday, trying to save his job.
Part of what he’s claiming is that he was forced — against his will and better judgment — to hire “The Prophet” to a high paying position in the Cook County GOP because multi-millionaire cougar Beth Christie demanded this.
Roupas is saying he knew about the complaint against “The Prophet”, but was told to ignore it by GOP higher-ups because Christie wanted “The Prophet” to have that job.
Christie is one of only 6 large donors the Illinois GOP had, giving north of $100,000 easily. Roupas is telling angry GOP committeemen and Pooh-bahs that Christie threatened to stop writing her checky-checks if her favorite skinny, blond, bespeckled “Prophet” didn’t get that job under Roupas.
This directly contradicts the last story Roupas put out, where he claimed to have never known about the complaint. That was a story he sent in an email last Friday, where he said he first heard about the complaint against “The Prophet” in June of 2010, long after he’d hired him. But, affidavits now exist from prominent Chicagoans that show Roupas received the complaint in July of 2009. He just chose to do nothing with it, and then later hired “The Prophet” to work for the Cook County GOP despite being told he very well may have tried to date rape a young woman.
Roupas is now claiming a gun was essentially put to his head: lie, cover-up this mess, hire “The Prophet”, or risk the wrath of multi-millionaire cougar Beth Christie.
It’s no wonder RNC Chairman Michael Steele canceled an event Christie was supposed to host on Wednesday: would YOU have wanted to get yourself dragged into this mess in Cook County?
It’s stunning how bad a liar Roupas is. His credibility is gone, but the GOP in Illinois has only one known response to any scandal or crisis: Ignore-Lie-Deny-Lie Some More-Coverup-Shift Blame-Lie Some More-Hope People Get Tired of Talking About It.
Republicans need to know if one very wealthy woman has taken control of the GOP in Illinois, and is using it as her personal plaything. She’s treating the state party like her Malibu Dream House, where she gets to take any doll she wants, dress him up, and send him to cocktail parties. And if a grown-up tries to take her most favorite doll away, she threatens to throw a tantrum that would repossess the dream house, and take EVERYONE’S toys away.
And to think, this woman used to be the CEO of a major corporation.
It’s staggering the amount of power just $100,000 can buy you in Illinois. In most other states, it would take millions to be able to carry on like this.
Maybe there’s a silver side to this recession for some people after all.
QUESTION: Which deceased classic actress would you buddy up with which closeted male politician?
Why he uses this as his official photo is just beyond us, so we wonder what classic deceased actresses Lindsey Graham would choose for his fellow closeted politicians to buddy up with.
For reasons unknown to us, several years ago Republican Senator Lindsey Graham started inserting a small black and white photograph of Bette Davis in all official pictures released of him by his Senate office. Just like Claire McCaskill writing all of her official correspondence in crayon, and leaving jam fingerprints all over the envelopes, we don’t know why Graham does this, or why someone doesn’t stop him.
Lord knows we love us some Bette Davis up in here, but even we don’t include her in photos of ourselves (and Sebastian actually HAS a photo of himself, age 11 or so, with Davis…but it’s not his current headshot). So, Graham’s tribute, while appreciated as gay men, is odd to us.
We wonder what other deceased classic actresses would be used by other closeted politicians, as “buddy pics” in all of their portraits, the way Graham uses Davis.
At Sidetracks here in Boystown, there’s a video clip they run called “Dead or Alive” where shots of all these women flash across the screen, interspersed with photos of people like Whoopi Goldberg or Sigourney Weaver, and guys shout “Dead!” or “Alive!” as the case may be (except when it gets to Rosie O’Donnell, and everyone shouts “Fat!”…or Liza, when they shout, “Drunk!”).
Which actress would you pair with the following men?
(A) Mark Kirk
(B) Aaron Schock
(C) Larry Craig
(D) Trent Lott
(E) Rahm Emanuel
(F) Barack Obama
(G) Mark Foley
(H) Charlie Crist
(I) Eric Massa
Any other men you’d include?
Try and think outside the box with the actresses, but don’t be obscure for obscure’s sake.
Did Graham choose Davis for a reason — is he saying he’s Margot Channing, afraid of younger politicians usurping him…or is he really Jezebel at heart, wanting to wear red to the debutante ball, protocol be damned…did he grow up with a sister he wanted to serve rat to on a silver plate, a la Baby Jane?
Do the other guys have an obvious link to a black and white diva you think should be highlighted?
We’ll take the best ideas and make new official portraits for all these guys that we’ll match to Graham’s Davis pic, and will start running this going forward whenever we write about these closet cases.
QUESTION: What is gay-face and is it real?
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We always like it when those of you out there chime in and let us know that a term we use is alien to you. We’re more than happy to clarify it, because here in Boystown we take for granted that you know what we’re talking about most of the time, even though a lot of our friends are go-go boys, drag queens, motorcycle-riding lesbians, circus people, failed sitcom stars, washed up musicians, and the like.
So, when we say someone like Lindsey Graham, Mark Kirk, Aaron Schock, or others have “gay-face”, we assume you know what we mean.
Here’s the Urban Dictionary’s (the very first place we always go when we don’t know a slang term someone is using) definition of “gay-face”:
We think gay-face (or gayface, depending on how you spell it), is nature’s way of warning observant women so that they don’t become Katie Holmes or Kelly Preston. We don’t think there’s a lesbian equivalent of this, but then again, we don’t know of many lesbians who try to trick straight men into marrying them, or who go around town with straight men pretending these are their boyfriends. In our experience, only gay men use beards, and we’re not talking the kind that qualify you for discounts at Touche or other leather bars.
Gay-face, we believe, is a guy’s soul betraying him through his eyes, mainly. He’s working so hard to fool the world, and in many cases is trying to keep his voice low in register, his hands from flipping about when he talks, all the while stifling the FABULOUSSSSSSS! that’s just bursting inside him, desperate to come out.
Gay-face is that pained look in a guy’s eyes that tells you he’d rather be talking about the Golden Girls or Buffy instead of pretending to enjoy whatever baseball game is on the television.
Gay-face is the betraying “something” just behind the eyes that says this guy would rather be having a St. Germaine on the rocks at Sidetrack in a tank top instead of attending whatever the heck function he’s stuck at over in the Cubby Bear, wearing a jacket and button-up shirt, pretending he’s a straight, confirmed-bachelor, Republican from Peoria.
Gay-face is so obvious to all of us, and to other gay guys in Boystown, that it’s second-nature to spot it. And, no, it’s not limited to just Republicans hiding in the closet like Graham, Kirk, and Schock. Rahm Emanuel has serious gay-face. So does the current “president”, Dr. Utopia. There’s a host of young male celebrities starting their careers in Gay-Face, following in the footsteps of older stars like Tom Cruise, John Travolta, Robin Williams, and Tab Hunter, Troy Donahue, Rock Hudson, James Dean, and others before that.
We can look at old sepia-toned photos from the Victorian era and detect Gay-Face. A lot of oil paintings from the days before photography have clear Gay-Face in them too. Perhaps Gay-Face is even present in tomb carvings and cave scribblings, for someone discerning enough to spot it.
As long as there have been gay dudes trying to pretend to be something they are not, and trying to trick people (especially women) into believing they are gung-ho, He-Men, heterosexuals there has probably been Gay-Face to even the odds and spare these women from heartache.
Some women, of course, choose to ignore the Gay-Face and marry these guys anyway (usually because they get some sort of a big pay day out of it, like becoming the First Lady of Florida…or the United States). Some, unbelievably, can’t even spot it, which tells us someone in the universe must hate them, because they end up as Ariana Huffington.
Can you spot Gay-Face, now that we’ve explained it?
Do you have any other good examples of this phenom?
If the Islamic Victory Mosque in New York is allowed, then what other insanely offensive buildings will Democrats green-light in the years ahead?
Click above to embiggen, and ask yourself if Democrats would allow this to happen too?
Democrats are supporting the construction of the 13-story Islamic Victory Mosque at Ground Zero in New York, to commemorate what Muslims call “a spectacular and historic attack upon the United States”, much like Muslims commemorated their siege of Europe by building a massive mosque complex in Cordoba, Spain. “Cordoba House”, not coincidentally, is the name the Saudi wahabbists have given to the shell corporation that bought land at Ground Zero for the construction of what will be North America’s largest mosque.
Democrats are aiding Muslims with the planning and construction of this Monument to Islamization.
We ask the question: if they are supporting this monstrosity, what other sick and twisted abominations would Democrats sign on to?
Where would they draw the line?
QUESTION: What do you know about Cedra Crenshaw, and how can we help her drive the Left crazy?
It's going to take a lot of Moms to clean up the mess the Oppressives are making in this country.
We have to admit we know very little about Cedra Crenshaw, but have promised some good friends, who are big supporters of hers, that we’ll use this weekend to learn as much as we can about her. Our friend Althea is wild about Cedra, and actually knows her personally. If Althea likes you, you’re usually gold in our book, so more likely than not after reading up on her we’ll be all about Cedra, too.
But, we need your help to do the research on her so that we can in good conscience recommend her to others…and see what we can do for her on the ground here in Illinois. If the Democrat Machine wanted to Alice Palmer this candidate off the ballot (the way Obama did to his opponents back in 1996), then there must be something Democrats fear about this woman.
It actually puts us in mind of what Democrats would do if Althea herself was on the ballot: a smart, witty, sharp on her feet, gorgeous black woman who does not back the Race Industry and Democrat Machine in Chicago. That’s a bigger nightmare for these Lefties than a group of gay guys in Boystown beating down the Left with ever fiber in their being.
When Democrats’ bloc-voting, demographically-separated, favorite pets start turning against them like this, all Hell’s in danger of breaking loose.
Give us your take on Cedra Crenshaw in this post and tell us if you think her campaign is strategically worth putting some of our ground game time into.
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Check this video of Cedra out. Like we said before, Althea is not wrong about people: she says Cedra is the real deal and has asked us to go all-in for her. We need more Moms in office, and more Mama Grizzlies out there to kick the Left’s can nine ways to Sunday.
Looks like a Senator Crenshaw would do just that.
Our thoughts on Hottie McAwesome, Senator Scott Brown – July 2010 update
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For those of you who have some sort of short-term amnesia, we went all-in to elect Scott Brown Senator from Massachusetts back in January.
We decided to do this for two reasons:
(1) To take “The Kennedy Seat” back for the people of Massachusetts
(2) To put the living fear of God into Democrats nationwide, since “The Kennedy Seat” was considered the most safe elected position in the nation. If “The Kennedy Seat” could be captured, Liberalism itself, as a pseudo-religion, would be proved fallible. It would be like destroying Mecca or Medina to Muslims, the absolute most unthinkable, impossible thing these fanatics could imagine.
What prompted us to go all-in for Brown was the December 24th, 2009 vote in the Senate where every single Democrat voted for passage of Obamacare, without a single damn one of them reading the bill or understanding its ramifications. That was the day we permanently broke with the Democrat Party — when we realized that having Democrats in office is a bad thing for this country.
We were warned by Democrats in Chicago that backing Scott Brown would have consequences for us on a personal level, since the Left had been itching to take a direct swipe at us for being a thorn in their side for so long. We were also told we were vulnerable, on a personal level, because of the December 2009 actions of Fran Eaton at Illinois Review — who, acting at the urging of a man calling himself “The Prophet” here in Chicago — published one of our real names and photograph on her site, deliberately outing us and giving the Left a means of attack.
Eaton knew what she was doing. This was retaliation for us turning over evidence against “The Prophet” to a political candidate “The Prophet” was trying to undermine. We stopped that from happening, “The Prophet” knew it was us, and so “The Prophet” had Fran Eaton run a story that outed one of us, essentially handing him over to the Left for them to ruin his life. Such is politics in Chicago.
Incidentally, for her service, we’re told Fran Eaton got a large cake. Chocolate, we think it was. That’s all it took. Cake. Not even from a bakery either, just from Dominicks’ grocery store, the kind of cake in the white cardboard boxes with the clear plastic window, ready-made to have “Thanks for outing him, Fran” written on it in orange frosting with little flourishes and curly-qs. A cake that, when presented to Fran Eaton, lasted about as long in her possession as fish heads dropped into Oprah’s feeding pool at Harpo Studios.
After Fran Eaton exposed one of us like this, rendering him vulnerable, we were told to not make waves with Scott Brown, to stop revving people up to help him, and to no longer fundraise for him — because it was too high profile a race and the Hottie McAwesome schtick we were running was too effectively countering the attacks the Left was trying to make regarding the Cosmo centerfold Brown posed for while he was in law school.
We’ve never let bullies shut us down before, and we wanted to see Brown retake “The Kennedy Seat” for the people of Massachusetts. So, Fran Eaton, Illinois Review, “The Prophet”, and the Left be damned…we went all-in for Brown, and we’ve never once regretted that.
Some of you out there, however, are infected with the Leftist-manufactured, Media-spread Republican disease known as “purism”. One of the side effects of this debilitating illness is the inability to see how easily you are played by the Media. ”Purists” have an irrational perception of what a Republican in office should be, though this standard is never applied equally to all Republicans out there. While we find the “Weird Sisters” of Maine to be frustrating at times, we understand that Maine Republicans are different from Republicans in other more conservative states…so sometimes Senators Collins and Snowe need to vote with Democrats on certain issues to keep the Democrats in their state from using a lockstep GOP voting record against them the next time they are up for re-election. As much as we don’t like it when the Sisters do this, we like having them in the Senate more than we’d like having Democrats in their place. To keep those two Maine seats in GOP hands, compromise must be understood and accepted every now and again.
Now, we hear constant attacks made on the Weird Sisters for doing the things they do to largely cover their butts in anticipation of their next election. We very rarely, if ever, hear Republicans complain about Lindsey Graham in South Carolina, who is from a conservative state, but who votes with Democrats on issues conservatives want him to vote against. Graham does this because he is a closeted homosexual whom the Left is blackmailing into voting the way they want him to. It’s as plain as day, and Graham has the most obvious case of gay-face of any man who is not Mark Kirk or Aaron Schock.
Yet, Graham gets a free pass. The Weird Sisters don’t. And neither does Scott Brown, for having to vote the way his constituents want him to in certain areas.
The Media is very clearly driving the “purist” attacks against Brown, while making sure no rebellion against Democrat-controlled gay puppets like Graham ever forms. The Left wants Brown out of the Senate at the first available opportunity, because the Left insists that is “The Kennedy Seat” and intends to go to all-out war to take it back. On a daily basis, the Left tries to alienate Scott Brown from his support base by driving constant wedges in his constituency with every vote he casts. The man cannot win, no matter what he does.
If he votes with the GOP on an issue, he’s depicted as a radical by the Media, in hopes that will drive away moderates and independents who supported him over Martha Coakley.
If he votes with Democrats on an issue, because THAT’S WHAT HIS CONSTITUENTS WANT, he’s cast as a traitor to the conservatives who supported him nationwide, and the Media prints reams of paper with a “Toldja So!” bent, trying to convince Brown supporters they were duped and betrayed by the former centerfold.
If any of you believe a Republican Senator from Massachusetts was meant to be the most stalwart conservative in the Senate, then you need to have your medication adjusted and check yourself back into the sporks-only group home where you’ll never be allowed anything sharp again. You’ve missed your nap time, now hurry home. There are horse tranquilizers and electric shock therapies with your names on them.
Scott Brown remains Hottie McAwesome to us because he’s serving precisely the purpose we thought he’d serve: his mere existence is a psychological thorn in Democrats’ sides. The fact a Republican is now sitting in Ted Kennedy’s old chair, using his old desk, and looking out his old window every day keeps many Leftists in bed all day, moaning. It’s a wonderful, wonderful thing. We have it on good authority the Kennedy Family itself, at various events, uses language to describe Scott Brown that would make sailors blush. HRH Princess Caroline of Kennedy has thrown rocks glasses full of various beverages at walls when his name has come up. Imagining Princess losing it like this, knowing a Republican has taken back “her family’s seat”, is like Christmas coming every single day.
Scott Brown, from everything we’ve heard from people who’ve met him, is a very nice guy. He is exactly what we expected him to be, and he’s working hard in the Senate for his constituents. If you don’t live in Massachusetts, and if you aren’t communicating with him as a resident of his state, then you shouldn’t be angry with the man for working hard on behalf of the people who sent him to Washington.
If Brown votes even ONCE in a way that Martha Coakley wouldn’t have, it’s a win for everyone nationally.
His mere presence in the Senate alters the calculus for what Democrats can and can’t do. He is a monkey wrench in all of their plans. He forces them to augment all of their crazy plans, because they cannot count on an automatic YES vote from what used to be “The Kennedy Seat”.
If Republicans want to pull their “purist” obsession out, you need to direct that at guys like Lindsey Graham, who are deserving of it.
Graham has NO EXCUSE for not toeing the GOP line on every vote. He’s from a conservative state, and is never in danger of losing his seat for being conservative. And, yet, more often than not, when the Democrats need a Republican to cave on something, they look to Graham, dangle proof of his secret flaming gay life in front of him, then issue him his marching orders…which Graham happily skips to.
Why Graham gets this break from people who seem to thrive on attacking Brown is just beyond us.
Maybe you could all shed some light on this in the comments below. We’d really like a fuller explanation of this.
Friday Open Thread: July 23rd, 2010
What’s on your minds this Friday?
What are people talking about in your part of the country?
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H/t AceofSpades for this awesomeness:
