Wednesday, January 09, 2008

Rosenthal - How did that porn get in my emails?


The Houston Chronicle, which barely mentions the really good stuff:
"It's time for Chuck Rosenthal to pack his bags and leave," said county GOP Chairman Jared Woodfill.

Rosenthal declined to comment late Tuesday.

Among e-mails that concerned Woodfill were video clips of nudity and sex acts and a racist joke forwarded by Rosenthal that compares former President Bill Clinton to a black man.

The e-mail says Clinton played the saxophone, smoked marijuana and gets a check from the government each month.

Also included within the e-mails is heavy traffic between Rosenthal and Sam Siegler, Rosenthal's physician and the husband of Kelly Siegler, who is running for district attorney.

In one e-mail from Sam Siegler to Rosenthal, an attached video shows women having their breasts exposed after men forcibly pulled down their blouses in public. The video called the act "sharking."
As someone who receives over 10,000 items of spam a month the story provides too little information to determine if all the porn was simply spam. I hear it wasn't. He was receiving porn from friends but not forwarding it.

Rosenthal was using his tax-payer-funded computer inappropriately for campaign purposes, which the GOP head in Harris County dismisses as "everyone does it." Of course, the GOP went after Al Gore as Vice President for doing it.

Kelly Siegler, a new GOP candidate for Harris County Attorney, perhaps should be asked why she hasn't investigated her husband for sending email porn.

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