The Hole Gets Deeper For Reynolds

I’d like to stop writing about Tom Reynolds. Really, I would. But for the love of Christ, this guy just won’t quit giving me material!

AmericaBlog is reporting that not only does Reynolds look the other way when it comes to politicians with a predilection for pederaty, he also morphs into the blind man of the Republican Party when it comes to wife beaters.

Not only did Mark Foley remain in the House GOP leadership throughout the 5+ years he was known to be stalking kids, but Foley was permitted to remain the co-chair of the House committee dealing with the issue of missing and exploited children. A position in which he would attend media events in the proximity of scores of abused children. And then we learned yesterday that Foley was thinking of not running again this year, but rather retiring, until Congressman Tom Reynolds (R-NY) begged him to stay earlier this year.

And now the other shoe drops.

I was looking through the AMERICAblog archives for information on Republican Congressman Don “The Choker” Sherwood. You’ll recall that he’s the 64-year-old very-married gentleman whose 29-year-old mistress frantically called 911 two years ago saying he was trying to strangle her. She also alleged in a lawsuit, that Sherwood settled with her, that Sherwood beat her throughout their five-year affair. The police officer who arrived on the scene after her frantic 911 call took photos of the victim and said that Sherwood should have been arrested on the spot.

Well what do you think I found in our archives? An article dated 2005 from Sherwood’s local paper informing us that the National Republican Congressional Committee decided to keep Sherwood in a leadership position even after they learned of Sherwood’s alleged attempt to strangle his not-at-all-alleged mistress, a woman he allegedly beat for five years.

And who do you think heads the National Republican Congressional Committee – the committee that gave such a big vote of a confidence to an adulterer who recently had to settle a lawsuit over whether he tried to kill his mistress? None other than Rep. Tom Reynolds (R-NY).

In fact, Reynolds just canceled an appearance at a fundraiser for Rep. Sherwood, citing a “scheduling conflict”.

Not good times for Tommy…not good times at all…especially with Mr. Reliable, Bob Novak, coming in off the top rope for the kill on Reynolds’ political career.

Disgraced former Congressman Mark Foley had two excellent job offers in the private sector this year when Rep. Tom Reynolds, National Republican Congressional Committee chairman, talked him into seeking a seventh term.

Although Reynolds says Foley was merely deciding whether to run again, the talk in Republican circles on Capitol Hill was that he was ready to leave Congress. His inappropriate e-mails to a former page were known to the Republican leadership late last year. The 16th Congressional District was considered so safely Republican that any GOP candidate could carry it but now likely will be lost with Foley still on the ballot.

Novak is going to bat for his hometown boy, Denny Hastert. If Reynolds wants to keep passing the buck to Hastert on culpability, well, the party lackeys are going to come after him with their fangs bared.