Archive for July 27th, 2010
BREAKING: More proof obtained Lee Roupas lied about date he received complaint against "The Prophet"
Tonight we secured emails Lee Roupas sent out, from his Cook County GOP email address, that show him discussing the attempted date rape complaint lodged against the Cook County GOP employee and CYR Board Member known in Chicago circles as “The Prophet”.
These emails sent by Roupas are from July of 2009.
On Friday July 16th, 2010, Roupas sent an email to all 80 Cook County GOP Committeemen and other officials claiming he knew nothing about this complaint until some time after June 11th, 2010.
Last week, we secured an affidavit from a prominent Chicago attorney who swears under oath he telephoned Lee Roupas in July or early August 2009 to discuss the complaint. That contradicts Roupas’ 7/16/10 lie that he did not receive this complaint until the summer of 2010.
Now, we can trace Roupas’ knowledge of this complaint back to July of 2009, slightly earlier than even the affidavit attests.
Therefore, the Chair of the Cook County GOP deliberately lied to his committeemen and engaged in the coverup of this complaint…against a Cook County GOP employee who was hired by Roupas in December of 2009, after Roupas was aware of the complaint against him…a complaint that Roupas did not investigate.
Despite the serious nature of what’s brought forward in the complaint, Roupas hired this man to represent the GOP in Illinois anyway, largely due to the continued pressure of multimillionaire Chicago cougar Beth Christie, who took a shine to “The Prophet” in 2009, fell under his spell, and used her checkbook to protect him and advance his career.
It’s time the Chair of the Illinois Republican Party, Pat Brady, addressed this matter and gave Republicans in Illinois, and nationwide, an explanation for why it’s allowable for the Cook County GOP Chair to deliberately lie about when he received information.
Why did he do this?
It’s not like he could have forgotten something as memorable as a complaint describing an attempted date rape a subordinate of his was involved in, which he deliberately chose not to investigate…or even bring up in his job interview before hiring him.
We’re just going to keep digging on this and building up the timeline of what Lee Roupas knew, when he knew it, and how he chose to ignore this problem. WHY he ignored it so far mainly focuses on one Cougar telling him to protect the object of her affections at all costs…but it also involves the Republican gubernatorial and Senate campaigns as well, because men who protect Roupas and “The Prophet” are highly placed in those circles too.
What should really concern Republicans is the fact that gay guys in Boystown, and their readership, are not the only ones working on this story. Actual, paid reporters are digging. The Democrat Machine in Chicago is digging.
Roupas should be removed because of his 7/16/10 lie, if for no other reason.
Unless someone out there can offer a valid and legitimate reason why a County Party Chair should be allowed to directly lie to his committeemen and other officials and maintain his paid position with the GOP.
We’d love to hear an answer for that.
Allen West Awesomeness Report Needed
We’ve had a lot of requests from many of you to take a close look at two people who are gaining an electric amount of support these days: Cedra Crenshaw here in Illinois (a Mom, accountant, and general dragon-slayer) and Allen West in Florida (who by all accounts, is nine shades of awesome).
We asked you to chime in on Crenshaw last week, and we’re working on a write-up of just how great a candidate, person, and mom she is (and also thinking about things we can do to help send her to Springfield to take on corrupt Democrats and Republicans alike).
We’d like to do the same thing for Allen West. A good friend of ours who lives in Florida has parents that are close friends of West’s, and they tell us he’s a future US president. There’s a really good chance he’ll be our historic and unprecedent first COMPETENT and PRO-AMERICAN black president.
Please use this thread to tell us everything you can about Allen West and why you support him. If you’re in the minority around here and don’t like West for some reason, tell us why.
Explain West’s appeal to people who have never heard of him before, or who have limited knowledge of him.
West and Crenshaw are interesting candidates for a great number of reasons…not least of which is a phenomenon we’ve never seen in Republicans — the fact that people we personally know are starting to think of them as presidential choices a few election cycles in the future.
Democrats ALWAYS plan their national candidates many years in advance. Republicans don’t bother strategizing for the most part, and end up left with whomever the corrupt state and county parties rig the primaries and caucuses for.
Crenshaw and West are both very young, and are just starting their national prominence…but Althea thinks Crenshaw will end up a US Senator in 2014 (defeating Dick Durbin), and could be the Republicans’ nominee in 2024. That would possibly make her our first black female president.
Althea’s thinking MIGHTY far ahead, but she’s genuinely excited about Crenshaw — a good woman, who takes no prisoners, and is prepared to punch Springfield in the face to audit the books and get this state back into solvent shape.
Sending West to Washington would be doing largely the same thing as putting Crenshaw in Springfield.
Then, we’d have Chris Christie in New Jersey, Jan Brewer in Arizona, Michele Bachmann in Minnesota, Jim DeMint in the Senate, and Governor Sarah Palin at large.
With, hopefully plenty of mamma grizzlies on the ground coast to coast supporting them and giving them the ground teams they need to put this nation’s financial house back in order so we can end generational theft and get Big Government out of our pocketbooks, and out of our lives as much as possible.
So, tell us everything you can about West and what you want to see from him in the future.
Cook County GOP Scandal Update: Mitt Romney's people asking about what Lee Roupas knew and when he knew it
Today we were asked by someone working with the Mitt Romney 2012 campaign to provide everything we have on the Cook County GOP scandal, especially pertaining to what Lee Roupas knew and when he knew it.
If you have not been following this scandal, it involves “Romney Guy” Roupas deliberately lying about when he received a complaint filed against a fellow “Romney Guy” who is nicknamed “The Prophet” here in Chicago political circles.
Both “The Prophet” and Roupas met with Romney the last time Romney was in Chicago, which was in May or June of this year…and are afforded lots of face time with Mittens every time he comes to town.
Roupas and “The Prophet” both claim to have held high positions in Romney’s failed 2008 campaign, and both have been working towards laying the groundwork for Romney’s doomed 2012 run as well. ”The Prophet” turned the Chicago Young Republicans politically-flavored social networking club into a nascent Romney 2012 farm team, and Roupas has been using the Cook County GOP to advance Romney players in Chicago, in much the same way the DNC pushed Obama 2008 operatives into various positions in the leadup to the Democrat primaries.
Mittens is largely copying the Obama 2008 primary handbook, right down to the thugs and creeps he has representing him in the field.
When we refer to Lee Roupas and “The Prophet” as “Romney Guys”, we mean this literally. They are Romney’s guys in Chicago.
They are, also, typical of a breed of young Republican male we refer to as “Romney Guys”, or “Romney Republicans” in general. They of the blue blazer, khaki pants, do anything to advance Romney bent. You’ve seen what Romney aides have repeatedly been busted for in spreading the garbage against Sarah Palin, in an Obama-vs-Hillary backstabby way. This is going on at the city, county, and state level across the country, with “Romney Guys” largely controlling the levers and pulleys of the Republican party.
This is all part of the “It’s His Turn” rationale for Romney’s 2012 nomination.
But, there’s a deeper layer to this that we are only now understanding.
The reason Lee Roupas, “The Prophet”, and “Romney Guys” like them are so lockstep for Mittens is because they have invested their careers in him, and they stay focused on what Romney’s candidacy will bring them personally. They must know Romney would lose to Obama, and don’t really care. As long as they get to put “National Campaign Director for Illinois” on their resumes, or “Chicago Campaign Director, Operations” on their business cards, these “Romney Guys” will be happy…and will secure themselves lucrative consulting or lobbyist jobs post-Romney defeat. Should Romney actually win the election, these guys would then go to Washington and make asses of themselves like Jon Favreau and other young turks have done in the Obama Administration.
With “Romney Guys”, it’s not about what’s best for the country or the Republican Party. Instead, it’s about them having picked Romney in 2008, knowing they would lose their places in line if they’d jump ship and suddenly become “Pawlenty Pals” or “Thune Dudes” or whatever. They’d, of course, never in their lives back Sarah Palin, and quite frankly, Palin’s team would never have them.
This is all about entitlement, and the “we did our grunt work, we served our time in the field, now reward us” nonsense that keeps getting damaged Republican candidates their party’s nominations, because “it’s his turn” and “his guys” have taken control of the party’s city, county, and state operations centers…just like Obama did in 2008.
It’s shocking, but Mark Kirk’s people actually did this too, and that’s why he’s the Senate nominee. We’re stunned Miss Mary has this kind of support, from anyone, because he’s not only a closeted liar, but he’s amateurish and often quite rude in person. But, apparently Illinois GOP State Chair Pat Brady is a “Kirk Guy”, most of the Illinois Central Committee are “Kirk Guys”, and both Lee Roupas and “The Prophet” are also “Kirk Guys”.
That’s Reason Numero Uno why Lee Roupas and “The Prophet” still have their jobs with the Cook County GOP. They are “Kirk Guys”, and other “Kirk Guys” higher up are protecting the two of them, with Mark Kirk’s personal blessing. The Kirk campaign has known about the coverup and lies Roupas has been engaged in for some time, and the decision was made to just ignore this problem because no one wanted to speak out against this and risk giving an opening to a potential “Senator Giannoulias” in November.
As absolutely revolting as the concept of “Senator Giannoulias” is, we do not agree with those of you who keep writing us the bullying emails insisting we, too, stop talking about what Lee Roupas did, “for the good of the party” and to prevent Giannoulias from winning.
First of, we’re not Republicans. We’re not Democrats anymore either. We’re Americans. We want what’s best for this country, and that includes what’s best for the state of Illinois. There are days when we wonder if actually having Giannoulias as Senator would be preferable to sending blackmail candidate Mark Kirk to Washington. Because he’s closeted, and Democrats hold all of his secrets like those rainbow colored Draw Two, Skip, and Wild cards in Uno, Kirk’s going to vote the way Democrats want him to more or less as often as Giannoulias would vote how Democrats want him to. Which is, pretty much always, and Kirk proved that with his Cap & Tax vote in the House. Just like Senator Lindsey Graham, because Kirk is military reserves he can’t come out of the closet, since DADT prevents that. There’s a host of problems Democrats could cause this man should they play all the cards they have against him, so sending him to Washington means Democrats get to control another ostensibly Republican Senator whose loyalty will never be to the Republican Party or the country at large — but instead to whomever is blackmailing him that day.
But, having a Republican win Obama’s old seat would be choice. And it would put the GOP one seat closer to taking back the Senate. Even if Kirk ends up being worse than the Weird Sisters of Maine whenever push comes to shove, having the Senate majority is ideal, since it means Democrats would be less able to do anything crazy for the last two years of Obama’s term. It’s just a damn shame the “Kirk Guys” somehow took control of the state and guaranteed his nomination.
In much the same way it’s a shame the “Romney Guys”, which overlap almost exactly with the “Kirk Guys” in most cases, are working hard to secure the 2012 nomination for Mittens.
The problem Republicans seem to consistently phase is a new crop of these “Guys”, in their blazers and khakis and blind ambition, forming behind whatever current crop of them controls the city, county, and state parties. After the current crop loses or wins that last election, and moves on to big, high-paying, private sector jobs to cash in their chits, the new crop replaces them and carries on exactly the way the last crop operated. The only thing they change is the guy’s name designating which “guy” they are. If Kirk loses in the fall, some new, terrible candidate will emerge and there will be “Smith Guys” or “Jones Guys” in the future. When Romney fails, again, they’ll be “Schock Guys” or “Kazookawitcz Guys” or whatever to replace them.
Someone needs to break the cycle on all of this.
And conservatives nationwide need to look closely at the GOP and realize what keeps happening.
This “protect our guys at all costs” mentality leads to serious lapses in judgment, as Lee Roupas has proved in Cook County.
Whether Romney Central appreciates how big this problem really is, and will work to do something about Roupas in Cook County remains to be seen.
Will they protect their “guy”, or will they demand consequences for Roupas deliberately lying about when he received that complaint, engineering an attempt to silence whistle-blower Eloise Gerson, and maintaining the coverup of serious accusations against a current Cook County GOP employee because a very wealthy, youth-seeking Chicago cougar commanded his protection.
What will Mittens do, and how will this decision play into the Romney 2012 ground game and what’s left of Kirk 2010 here in Illinois?
QUESTION: When do women come forward about sexual assaults and what do they typically do about it?
Here’s another article on ManBearPig, which makes us think PIG part should be all CAPS from now on. It’s just a report on the Portland, Oregon police interviewing the Pope of the Cult of Anthropogenic Global Warming, with nothing new revealed.
The comments are very interesting though, and show a gross ignorance of what most women (and men too) go through in the aftermath of a sexual assault.
We’ve known several rape survivors in our lives, and none of them chose to prosecute the men involved, for various reasons. All of these people were date-raped, and the circumstances in their lives at the time kept them from pursuing charges with the police.
That seems to be incredibly hard for some people to grasp, but if you’ve ever dealt with the police and the justice system in this country, you’d know that the former can be intimidating and the latter maddening. In the case of the courts, a woman raped can be victimized all over again, maybe even more brutally, by the grilling she’d get by the defense team.
We mentioned a few months ago that our friend Jess testified against a shoplifter in the Chicago court system; this was an instance where she was just out shopping, minding her own business, and observed someone stealing. When he was caught, the police asked her to testify against this man, since she saw him stealing the items. The man had a long criminal record and was out on parole, so Jess’ testimony would help send him back to jail for several more years. Some of his previous crimes involved sexual assault, so Jess took the day off work and spent several hours in a scary part of town, waiting to have her turn in front of the judge to identify the shoplifter and tell the court what she saw.
The defense attorney assigned to the shoplifter was brutal to Jess, and tried to imply she was lying, incompetent, seeing things, or delusional. The case was cut-and-dry, with surveillance footage, and the police actually pulled the stolen items out of the man’s coat and bag, but still for that two minutes the defense attorney was grilling Jess, it was very intimidating for her. She’d asked us to accompany her for moral support, because just going to the court building was scary, considering the part of town it was in and how difficult it was to get there.
And this was an emotionally taxing day for someone who was just a witness to a shoplifting.
We can’t imagine how traumatic it would be to have to go through what’s needed to report and prosecute a sexual assault.
These cases seem to take years, during which the women (and men) victimized during the rape seem to feel like they are raped over and over again every time they have to relive what happened for a police report, deposition, testimony, or cross-examination. It seems like a great many people choose to internalize the event, shut it down emotionally, and take to a shell and try to heal as best they can without pressing charges.
You can judge that all you want, and we’re certainly not experts in the psychology of all this, but this is what we gather happens a good deal of the time.
The comments in the article above ask questions like “Why are these women coming forward after all this time?”. Well, one answer off the top of our heads is that perhaps these women feel safer speaking out against ManBearPIG now that they know other women out there have similar stories. When it was just them, by themselves, perhaps they were too afraid to speak out against a powerful and monstrously wealthy man…who was the pontiff of a cult on top of everything else. Beloved by the Left, protected by the Media, maybe these women felt something horrible would happen to them if they reported what Gore did.
Maybe because of his fame, these women thought no one would believe them, or that they’d be accused of just making this up to get at his vast fortune. Men have a knack for claiming women wanted whatever they got, so perhaps they thought Gore would say it was consensual, and that these women changed their minds opportunistically after the fact.
We’re sure there are some of you out there who have had much more experience dealing with this issue than we have, so we’d really appreciate you chiming in on this thread, and giving us some insight into what happens in the minds of someone who is assaulted this way. Maybe you could read the article and shoot down some of the comments you see, and explain to us just how wrong the commenters are in that thread.
Things are even more complicated when an actual assault doesn’t occur, and is only attempted. What evidence is left in the wake of that which a woman can go to the police with? It becomes just a He Said/She Said story. These masseuses are saying that ManBearPIG kept trying to force himself on them, that he wanted to have sex with them when they didn’t want to, that he tried to keep them from leaving, and that he touched them in ways they didn’t want to be touched or otherwise made them feel very uncomfortable…like something bad was going to happen if they didn’t get out of there.
What sort of evidence is left by behavior like that?
It’s easy for us to see why someone would not want to expose herself to the grilling she’d get from a high-powered AGW cult lawyer for speaking out against Gore. And we also see how others stepping forward remove some of the obstacles to coming forward, because a pattern is being established that Gore has done this more than once, and will keep doing it in the future unless authorities step in.
What think you?
BIZARRE: "Experts" can't find where the oil went in the Gulf. Did it just get Hope and Changed away?
This is truly bizarre: “experts” can’t find where the oil went in the Gulf.
Years ago, one of us freelance project managed something for the City of Chicago involving water that was mysteriously appearing and killing trees in one of the parks. He had to call in hydrologists and plant experts and the like, and one of the most interesting aspects of all of it was discovering a whole field of people who do nothing else all day but think about where water goes, and how it moves as a predictable system based on various factors they could input into their computers.
Do “experts” really not know all that much about the oceans if they can’t determine where all the oil from the Gulf deepwater leak went?
Humans have been working with oil for a fair amount of time now, and they’ve been studying the oceans for much, much longer. We remember the nuns back in Catholic School teaching us about the various currents, in the Gulf of Mexico, Atlantic, Pacific, etc. They had colorful maps and charts that illustrated where these currents went. Perhaps someone should send these to the “experts”. If any of those nuns are still around, they should be consulted on this, too, because it seemed like if we followed the currents, then something that was in the Gulf would be carried away along those currents and end up at a fairly predictable place.
Since oil is not a solid, but a liquid, like water, predicting where it ends up might be more complicated than looking for rubber ducks that were dumped off a large freighter (which happened in the 80s…and provided scientists will all sorts of data on how the currents worked and where detris in the oceans ends up). But, we just think it’s bizarre the “experts” are stumped on where all this oil is.
“It disappeared” or “something drank it” are not good enough answers.
Though, we’ve always said that eventually SOMETHING would evolve to eat petroleum products that are supposedly accumulating into a giant garbaged dump in the middle of the Pacific. We saw a special once about this place that plastics supposedly go, that traps all sorts of animals who are too stupid to get out of the way. That’s where all of those plastic rings from soda packs are strangling all sorts of things, apparently. With all of that material out there, it just seems obvious that some kind of bacteria or critter would evolve to feast on all of it as a food source in due time. That’s what seems to happen to everything else in the ecosystem. Looking at the course of life on this planet, that’s happened time and time again where some pressure forced organisms to adapt, survive, and thrive.
Some animals we have today won’t survive this or that event, but new animals will emerge that will do just fine.
Has something really slurped up all that oil?
Where’s Oprah? Did she think it was chocolate syrup? Have scientists finally found a use for that woman to equal her Media hype?
Or, are “experts” just in dire need of nuns to whip out the maps and graphs and explain ocean currents well enough to find all the oil?
What do you think is going on?
Who's on the Soggy Sandwich menu today? Why, it's Tim Pawlenty!
The top four choices the Media's putting forward for the GOP 2012 nomination (from the top): Mitt Romney, Tim Pawlenty, Mitch Daniels, John Thune
Are all of you seeing just how shameless the Leftist Media is in pushing cucumber-and-mayonnaise soggy sandwich Republicans like Tim Pawlenty, Mitt Romney, John Thune, Mitch Daniels, and the rest on this country?
Here’s Jill Lawrence over at PoliticsDaily playing waitress duty, dishing up some Tim Pawlenty, extra mayo, double the cucumbers, hold any chance in Hell of winning in 2012.
Every once in a while AceofSpades takes a hit at us for getting a lot of our political information from conversations we have in the Boystown bars, things we overhear in restaurants, or what people tell us at events (or just randomly riding on trains here in Chicago, bumping into the politically connected). Another great source of information for us is the umpteen waiters and bartenders around town, who work at places like the Union League Club or wherever, and who have great ears for picking up bits of info and passing them onto us when we, oh, wouldn’t you know, run into them in the Boystown bars and they tell us stuff. See how that works? It’s called Six Degrees of Kevyn Aucoin, and you can pretty much get anything you need to know through the network of caterers, party planners, bartenders, go-go boys, hotel staff, stylists, and waiters in any big city.
We’ve been calling the cucumbers-and-mayonnaise-grade Republicans like Pawlenty pushed by Leftists like Jill Lawrence the “Soggy Sandwich Society” for about a year now, ever since a Mitt Romney event here in Chicago where Romney kept complaining about the sandwich he was eating. A waiter friend of ours, through the tele-gay network, recounted how Goldilocks Romney was about that sandwich, sending it back, tasting the new one, sending that one back, on and on.
“My sandwich is too spicy. I don’t like spicy sandwiches. Can I get a sandwich that is not spicy? I can’t have a spicy sandwich”.
The sandwich had no spices in it. It was on white bread, with mayo, and had processed turkey and little sprouts. But, it was too spicy for Romney.
We immediately pictured all of these guys (Romney, Pawlenty, Thune, Daniels, Jon Huntsman, Newt Gingrich, Bobby Jindal, etc.) sitting around a big oak table in a gilt, wood-paneled, lavish private club conference room, munching on their soggy, mayo-heavy, bland sandwiches, complaining about how spicy they were.
“I like more cucumbers on my sandwich because then my sandwich tastes refreshing,” Pawlenty says, taking a big bite of sandwich with his ugly face. ”When I eat, I look like Droopy Dog from the cartoons, and I think that’s funny because he’s silly”.
“He is very silly, that dog. If he was eating my sandwich, he would say the sandwich is too spicy, and then I would say, ‘Hey dog, stop eating my sandwich, and you are silly because sandwiches are for people and dog food is for dogs’, that’s what I would tell that dog,” chimes in Thune, taking a big bite, before passing a giant tub of Helmanns to Jindal.
“Can you help me with my sandwich? I want to put more mayo on it, and I sent a request to Washington for permission to use this butter knife to spread lots of mayo on my sandwich so it would not be so spicy, but Washington is still waiting on that request and I don’t want to get in trouble by putting mayo on it until they say I can do it,” Jindal explained, sheepishly eyeing the Helmann’s, but too scared to proceed without federal approval.
“My Mommy cuts the crusts off my sandwich because the crust is too chewy, and I don’t like the crust. I call my wife Mommy because she is pretty and she makes good sandwiches that taste good and look nice in pictures,” offered Romney, wearing his mittens to the table because the sandwiches were so cold that he was afraid he was going to freeze his fingers off. ”She never makes spicy sandwiches like this, so I am having trouble eating my sandwich”.
“You should put more cucumbers on it,” Huntsman piped up.
“But be careful, cucumbers make me say burpy sounds, and that makes me uncomfortable,” Daniels warned.
“Slather more mayo on that sandwich to cool it down, but get permission first,” Jindal whispered.
“Dip it in skim milk and then the spices will wash off,” Gingrich advised.
People, this stuff just writes itself. Because the men at this luncheon, in their blazers, at that exclusive private club, are a bunch of wimps.
THESE are the guys the Left wants to run against in 2012. These are the guys CabaList, JournaList 2.0, or whatever new organizing tool the Left has up and running now is pushing as the Soggy Sandwich Society to take the Republican nomination…and then lose to Obama so The Lightbringer can have another four years to destroy the country. Hope! Change! Blandness!
If you don’t see this coming a mile away, then your sandwich might be too spicy too.
Best put some more mayo on it, but be sure you get permission first.
Tuesday Open Thread: July 27th, 2010
What’s on your mind this Tuesday?
What are people talking about in your part of the country?
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