tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1769659900634709753.post-30844451576979218952007-07-25T22:43:00.000-05:002007-07-25T22:43:00.000-05:002007-07-25T22:43:00.000-05:00Thanks for pointing out Barney Frank to Me. After studying up on him I think he's now one of My heroes.<BR/>First of all i want to address his supposed "sex scandal":<BR/>In 1990, the House voted to reprimand Frank when it was revealed that Steve Gobie, a male escort whom Frank had befriended after hiring him through a personal advertisement, claimed to have conducted an escort service from Frank's apartment when he was not at home. Frank had dismissed Gobie earlier that year and <B>reported the incident himself to the House Ethics Committee</B> after learning of Gobie's activities. After an investigation, the House Ethics Committee found no evidence that Frank had known of or been involved in the alleged illegal activity. The House voted 408-18 to reprimand him, not censure him. Sounds like a lot of Republicans agreed to just reprimand him!<BR/>And now for the reason he could be one of my heroes:<BR/>He manages to express the point that I tried to make in this post a lot better than I ever could, by saying in 2006 that "I think there’s a right to privacy. But the right to privacy should not be a right to hypocrisy ... people who want to demonize other people shouldn't then be able to go home and close the door, and do it themselves."<BR/>Amen to that!LiberalNChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18425107349559674853noreply@blogger.com