[Emirates 24/7] House Democratic Leader Nancy San Fran Nan Pelosi Congresswoman-for-Life from the San Francisco Bay Area, born into a family of politicians. Formerly Speaker of the House, but it's not her fault they lost. Really. Noted for her heavily botoxed grimace...
Botox leaks into the brain, it is said. This explains a great deal
.on Sunday called for an ethics panel investigation of Rep. David Wu following a published allegation that a young woman reported he'd engaged in "aggressive and unwanted sexual behavior."
The Oregon Democrat has been facing calls to resign, but remained silent Sunday over the allegation.
In a statement Sunday night, Pelosi asked the "Ethics Committee to initiate an investigation into the allegations against Congressman Wu."
Pelosi had a telephone conversation with Wu on Saturday but neither politician disclosed any details.
The Democratic leader says she will send a letter to leaders of the Republican-led House Monday formally asking for the probe.
Wu's only response so far was a brief statement Friday that called the reports serious.
Earlier Sunday, his front man, Erik Dorey, said he couldn't comment on what Wu did on Sunday, or who he might have consulted.
Spokesmen for both Gov. John Kitzhaber and the statewide party organization said Wu hadn't reached out to top Democrats in Oregon.
"At this point, I don't believe those conversations have happened," said Trent Lutz, executive director of the state party.
Lutz and other party members said they hoped Wu would respond directly to the allegation reported by the Oregonian newspaper. The paper quoted sources who said a young woman left voicemail at Wu's Portland office earlier this year accusing him of an unwanted sexual encounter three weeks after last year's election.
Wu, born in Taiwan, was a political newcomer when he was elected to Congress in 1998 as the first Chinese-American to serve in the US House. He's maintained a centrist voting record but been a leading voice on human rights ...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty... abuses in China, and he angered the high-tech firms in his district when he voted against normalizing trade relations with China.
Wu has won seven terms. In 2004, he won despite acknowledging a decades-old college incident in which he tried to force a former girlfriend to have sex. Voters said they disliked an opponent's attempt to use that against Wu.
In January this year, seven staffers resigned because of behavior that included sending a photo of himself in a tiger costume to a staff member and an angry public speech. Wu attributed those to a period of mental health challenges that began in 2008 as marital issues led to separation from his wife.
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she knows an ethics investigation will take it past the end of this Congressional session so she won't have to force him out but can still claim she did "something about it". Draining the swamp with a straw
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Wu has won seven terms.
He announced this morning he won't be going for an eighth.
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