MSNBC just reported that Hastert, Fordham, and

[Skidmore]

that other staffer of his (having a mental block on the name) are not just coworkers but roommates. First time I've heard this mentioned anywhere but this board.

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. I haven't even got my breakfast yet

that was not the mental I wanted to start the day with!

Denny haster... EEEEEWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Kurovski]

49. " Keep that damn robe closed, Denny!",

I can hear his roomies say.

[Whoa_Nelly]

2. ...and Palmer

It's been in the news for many days now. Hastert shares a place with Palmer in DC.

[MorningGlow]

3. Ewwwwwwwwww

And like those guy$ need roommates to make the rent. More homohypocrisy, perhaps?

[npincus]

4. Fordham is gay, isn't he?

Not disparaging gays, folks.

It is PEEE-culiar that The leader of the Gay-Marriage-denying House is rooming with a person whose rights he would like to curtail.

politics makes strange BED-fellows, doesn't it?

[Subdivisions]

6. Yes he is

[Subdivisions]

9. delete

[roguevalley]

25. an article I read on DU mentioned that Dennis Hastert was plagued

by rumors that he had inappropriate (amazing descriptor, that one) with students when he was a high school teacher/coach and that it cost him his first election.

[warrens]

31. Nekkid rasslin' with the gym doors locked, I hear

Actually, I made that up, but what the hell. The GOP does this 300 times before breakfast.

[gully]

46. You're kidding?! The Franklin Scandal is sounding far to "recent."

Wow

[Kagemusha]

10. DeLay sure knows how to pick people he holds something over.

Like I said in my previous reply to the first post, I'll wait for confirmation but.. man, if this is why DeLay was OK with Hastert's ascension and didn't want the man to leave... what a sick institution. And I mean the blackmail, not the sexual orientation issues.

[confludemocrat]

16. Denny Hastert lives apart from his gym teacher wife, who lives back in IL

what did most of us believe as kids about female gym teachers? Is his another kind of gay marriage, a kind that is legal?

[David__77]

30. Hastert has a gay roommate!

The Republican house speaker has lives with a gay man! Shout it from the rooftops!

[grizmaster]

34. not rooming with him (see post #33)

[sofa king]

38. The other housemate is Scott Palmer.

Don't know if he's gay or not, but he is Denny's Chief of Staff. That same article which mentions that Palmer and Hastert are housemates states that Palmer is "more powerful than all but a few House members."

David Corn claimed to have seen "The List" of gay Republican staffers and claims that there are currently 9 gay Republican Chiefs of Staff on Capitol Hill. So there is a small statistical chance that this guy is one of those guys.

[The Backlash Cometh]

45. So where will these Lincoln Republicans go once they get booted

out of their party?

[Skidmore]

47. Okay, that makes sense now.

Kris Jansing had been talking about Fordham and Hastert's chief of staff (no name). Then she mentioned Hastert and went on to say something about these men not being ordinary coworkers but roommates too. I had remembered an article somewhere late last week about Hastert living with someone other than his wife and for some reason remembered him as having 2 male roommates. There's something I'm missing about how many and who lives where, but I thought it was interesting that Hastert's living arrangements were being mentioned at all on a cable outlet.

[Kagemusha]

5. Wait, Fordham TOO? The openly homosexual ex Foley chief of staff?

I wanna get this story right before dropping my jaw too far open but, er, that's not going to look good to the religious right...

[grizmaster]

7. Fordham is Reynolds (former) chief of staff not Hastert's

I believe you have that name wrong

[eleny]

18. I thought Fordham was once Hastert's chief of staff

[mzteris]

21. Fordham was also FOLEY's

Chief of staff....... before Reynolds

[eleny]

23. Thanks - then it was Foley & Reynolds - not Hastert

I appreciate the clarifications!

[grizmaster]

32. Foley's staff for many years, and Reynold's over the last few

[KoKo]

39. Isn't Reynold's also gay? I'm having a hard time keeping track... Maybe

someone could do a chart on this. :eyes:

[Captain Hilts]

8. Hastert, Fordham and Palmer, oh my!!! Haster, Fordham and Palmer..oh my!

[npincus]

13. Someone... I want to go home!

[grizmaster]

36. The OP got the names wrong

It's Palmer and Stokke

http://www.suntimes.com/news/sweet/89009,CST-NWS-sweet09.article

On the housing front: Hastert owns a town house in Washington, and when he is in the city, he lives there with chief of staff Scott Palmer -- at the center of a dispute of what he knew and when -- and deputy chief of staff Mike Stokke. Hastert's 2005 financial disclosure statement shows rental income of between $5,001 and $15,000 from the town house.

I wrote about Hastert's roommates in the Sun-Times last year and put it this way in a September 2002 article in the magazine Illinois Issues:

"Hastert's inner circle consists of a small, trusted group of aides, mostly all white and all male. Stokke, his political adviser, and Scott Palmer, his chief of staff, have worked with Hastert for years. They know Illinois politics as well as the national scene. While in Washington, the three room together in a town house Hastert owns, where none of them has cooked a meal since 1986. Says Hastert, 'I made tea once.' His sons also have bunked at the town house."

[Subdivisions]

11. Ladies and Gentleman. We have a gay House majority!

[aquart]

12. O'Donnell of the NYT wrote it up over the weekend or just before.

He uses language that practically screams that Palmer and Hastert are lovers, talks all weekend about closeted gay Republicans and will the MSM won't the MSM talk about what they know. Then BlogActive names two closeted staffers, one in Hastert's office, and it is NOT Palmer. What a frickin' letdown.

[Skidmore]

15. If this is true, please someone,

out Hastert.

[Marnieworld]

41. link please?

I heard o'donnell mention this vaguely on some shows but he didn't go this far. I want to read this.

[aquart]

60. Here. Huffpo.

<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lawrence-odonnell/who-is-scott-palmer_b_31171.html>

[formercia]

14. a song, maestro....

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - Love The One You're With Lyrics

There's a Rose

In a fisted Glove

And the eagle flies with the dove

And if you can't be with the one you love

It's alright

Go ahead and love the one, love the one, love the one your
with

Love the one, love the one, love the one your with

If your guy can't come to you

And you don't remember who your talking to

Your concentration slips away

Because your baby, she is so so far away

Chorus: And there's a rose in a fisted glove

And the eagle flies with the dove

And if you cant be with the one you love

Love the one your with

Don't be angry

Don't be sad

Don't sit cryin' for good times you had

There's a girl right next to you

And she's waiting for something to do

Chorus

[Clark2008]

27. Yeah - that's a good way to get "your baby" mad at you, too

I always thought that song was just weird. LOL.

[TomInTib]

17. I read it in NYTimes yesterday.

It was just kind of tossed out toward the end of an article.

Seems as tho these fuckers spend every day together. And they fly back to Illinois together every weekend.

And they all knew about Foley individually but the topic never surfaced when they were together.

Yeah, right.

[SpiralHawk]

19. Not that there is anything wrong with that

[Clark2008]

29. We are not amused.

:rofl:

[madrchsod]

20. huffington site had this up last week

but not about the other guy...

[ContraBass Black]

22. I live with men in a place close to work while my family is at home in

A different town too. What does that mean?

[Atman]

28. How old are you?

Are you a kid starting out, with a couple of roomies to help share the costs, or are you a married millionaire?

[Name removed]

24. Deleted message

Message removed by moderator. Click here to review the message board rules.

[Atman]

26. Steph Miller jokes about it frequently

She was talking about it this morning. Apparently, Hastert is married, but his wife doesn't even stay at his apartment when she comes to town, she checks into a hotel.

.

[grizmaster]

33. NOT Hastert and Fordham (let's get the names right folks)

Hastert's two roommates are Palmer (his chief of staff) and Stokke (his deputy chief of staff).



http://www.suntimes.com/news/sweet/89009,CST-NWS-sweet09.article

On the housing front: Hastert owns a town house in Washington, and when he is in the city, he lives there with chief of staff Scott Palmer -- at the center of a dispute of what he knew and when -- and deputy chief of staff Mike Stokke. Hastert's 2005 financial disclosure statement shows rental income of between $5,001 and $15,000 from the town house.

I wrote about Hastert's roommates in the Sun-Times last year and put it this way in a September 2002 article in the magazine Illinois Issues:

"Hastert's inner circle consists of a small, trusted group of aides, mostly all white and all male. Stokke, his political adviser, and Scott Palmer, his chief of staff, have worked with Hastert for years. They know Illinois politics as well as the national scene. While in Washington, the three room together in a town house Hastert owns, where none of them has cooked a meal since 1986. Says Hastert, 'I made tea once.' His sons also have bunked at the town house."

[spanone]

35. Yep, as I posted days ago, this ain't Ozzie & Hariett

They're bunk mates. ahem. Sleepover pals.

[donheld]

37. Do you have a link?

I'd like to read more.

[Kurovski]

51. Maybe you can find out more

at "Hunkhunters Haunts" :evilgrin:

Look under "bears" "daddys" or "older men".

[MagickMuffin]

40. I found this about Haestert's other Roommate:

Just ran into Jean Hastert, the wife of House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) in the hallway outside the speakers' Capitol office suite. She just dropped in on her husband.

It's a rare D.C. appearence for Mrs. Hastert. She was here a few weeks ago for President Bush's State of the Union address. She was off to an afternoon tea, at an ambassador's residence, sponsored by some international group.

When in Washington, the speaker lives in a group house with his chief of staff, Scott Palmer and top deputy, Mike Stokke.

I asked her if she is bunking with the guys.
She is not. She stays in a hotel.

http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2006/02/just_ran_into_jean_hastert_wif.html

Verrrrrry Interesting!!!!

[K8-EEE]

44. If I Was Mrs. Hastert You Bet I'd Be Staying In A Hotel!

AND NOT EVER THE SAME ONE AS DENNY EITHER...

[The Backlash Cometh]

42. kinky.

It's like a Greek orgy.

[Kurovski]

52. Or a Roman one, the kind where you go to the

Vomitorium. :puke:

[K8-EEE]

43. Does one of their mothers live there too?

This is sounding kinda Liberace...I'm just sayin'.

[greeneyedboy]

48. who cares?

sure would be sweet to out as many anti-gay GOP hypocrites as possible, but i honestly don't give a rat's ass who Hastert rooms with or sleeps with. even if he's celibate, he's screwed all of us over and he must go.

[SlavesandBulldozers]

50. most Republicans do care though.

moreso than 3000 dead troops or 100's of thousands of dead Iraqis, even more than Nascar, the Republicans care deeply about this issue.

[Kurovski]

53. That's correct, we're doing this for our Republican friends.

We can no longer tolerate that they are being lied to.

It hurts us so to see. :rofl:

[Mind_your_head]

55. Yep

"Bring it on....."

What a lyin bunch of pompous, hypocritical, fat gasbags

re:puke:

[SlavesandBulldozers]

57. yep.

the pain is. . . i don't know how to describe it. . .it cuts deep though. . . sniffle sniffle.

[Kurovski]

58. Here, let me hold you.

:hug:

Hmmm, now where's that wallet of yours? :-)

[SlavesandBulldozers]

66. lol!

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[BuyingThyme]

54. It only matters to the extent which they try to distance themselves

from each other.

[Oleladylib]

56. anyway you look at it..it's not a pretty sight

[Kurovski]

59. Lucky for them that love is blind, but what about the rest of us?

[Leopolds Ghost]

61. As long as no pics of Hastert & "asian boy-toy", we won't go blind. nt

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

62. I need an organizing chart of names - this is getting too complicated

[spanone]

63. Do the boys hang around in their boxers eating Cheetos watching ball games

I don't get this arrangement it seems a bit odd for the old family values gang.

[The Count]

64. Impossible! W said Hastert is a good uncle and loves kids. Case closed.

What are you implying here? :shrug:

[ChiciB1]

65. O'Donnell Mentioned Last Week That There Are Going To Be So

many names coming out of the wood-work by Wednesday of this week. Said it on Hard Ball I think! I think he knows a lot more and is only talking a "little" for now!

New meaning to "strange bedfellows" for the Repukes. Personally as a white hetero female being Gay or Lesbian isn't something that bothers me What BOTHERS me is that you lie, cheat, hide and use the fact to denigrate others because of it. ESPECIALLY, if YOU BE ONE Yourself!!

Oh, the HYPOCRISY!!