-Caveat Lector-
Hmmmmm...is this the work of the Firth Column as associated with Chuck
Hayes?
Hilary
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-----Original Message-----
From: Alamaine Ratliff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Saturday, December 19, 1998 8:53 AM
Subject: [CTRL] Mettle?
> -Caveat Lector-
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>>From Wash (DC) Post (via Drudge):
>
>Livingston Won't Serve as Speaker
>
>Saturday, December 19, 1998; 9:53 a.m. EST
>
>WASHINGTON (AP) -- Rep. Bob Livingston said today he would not serve as the
>next House speaker and will leave Congress next year. He apologized for
>having engaged in extramarital affairs.
>
>``I must set the example that I hope President Clinton will follow. ... I
>will not stand for speaker of the House on January 6 but rather will remain
>as backbencher in this House I love so much,'' Livingston said as the House
>fell silent. He said would quit Congress after six months.
>
>``I was prepared to lead our narrow majority as speaker and I believe I had
>.. to do a fine job, but I cannot do that job.''
>
>Livingston began his speech by calling on Clinton to resign after being
>impeached, but then said he could not do so unless he, too, resigned.
>
>Livingston, 55, was nominated without opposition to succeed Newt Gingrich
>as speaker on Nov. 18. Gingrich had stunned the House with his resignation
>on Nov. 7.
>
>The first indications that Livingston's quest to lead the House may face
>new hurdles arose as the House impeachment debate unfolded.
>
>The Thursday night revelation by Livingston, R-La., that he had ``on
>occasion strayed from my marriage'' was only hinted at on the House floor
>during the day-long debate.
>
>``We are now at the height of a cycle of the politics of negative attacks,
>character assassination, personal smears of good people,'' said House
>Minority Leader Dick Gephardt, D-Mo.
>
>But as rumors hurtled around the Capitol about details of the affairs,
>Livingston met with several conservatives who were rethinking their support
>of the 55-year-old Louisianan,
>
>``We ought to ask questions ... rather than circle the wagons for one of
>our tribe,'' Rep. Mark Sanford, R-S.C., said in an interview. He said he
>would spend Christmas ``struggling'' over whether to support Livingston.
>
>Rep. Spencer Bachus, R-Ala., also said Republicans should re-examine
>Livingston's fitness to be speaker.
>
>``You can't criticize the president's behavior as being unacceptable and
>then not consider this as material, just ignore this and brush it aside,''
>he said
>
>Several other conservatives, speaking on condition of anonymity, said once
>the House impeachment debate is over, they will think about whether
>Livingston should take over when the 106th Congress is sworn in on Jan. 6.
>
>Livingston's problem is intensified by the narrow GOP margin in the next
>House: just 223-211, plus one independent who usually votes with Democrats.
>If just six Republicans refuse to support him for speaker, he would lack
>the 218 votes needed to be elected -- assuming the Democrats and
>independent vote against him.
>
>Outside the chamber, many Republicans -- and some Democrats -- said
>Livingston's infidelities were a personal matter and he remained qualified
>to become speaker. Livingston said Thursday night his wife of 33 years,
>Bonnie, and his four grown children have forgiven him.
>
>``His stature, because of the way he handled himself, was enhanced,'' said
>Rep. John Sununu, R-N.H.
>
>``I think they're none of our business,'' Rep. David Obey, D-Wis., a
>Livingston friend, said of the infidelities. ``Anybody who knows Bob
>Livingston and Bonnie knows they are two first-rate human beings.''
>
>Other Democrats, however, said the episode showed Republican inconsistency
>in judging Clinton and Livingston.
>
>``It shows their partisan rancor, where they're quick to forgive and forget
>Mr. Livingston's infidelities yet seem hellbent for going after the
>president,'' said Rep. Patrick Kennedy, D-R.I.
>
>Livingston allies said they detected no deterioration of support.
>
>But some Republicans worried the episode could hurt Livingston if he does
>become speaker.
>
>Bachus said Republicans must learn when and to what extent Livingston
>engaged in extramarital affairs. He said he also wants to know why
>Livingston did not disclose this when he began running for speaker last
>month, knowing that the House soon would be considering impeachment.
>
>Livingston revealed the affairs after Hustler magazine asked him for
>comment about claims by at least four women that they had had liaisons with
>him, said Larry Flynt, the periodical's publisher. The women called the
>magazine after it offered a reward to anyone who could prove an affair with
>a members of Congress, he said.
>
>A bomb squad rushed to Livingston's district office in Metairie, La., on
>Friday to inspect a suspicious package that turned out to contain a rock
>and a note referring to his adultery.
>
>
>
>© Copyright 1998 The Associated Press
>
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