Documents Show Congressman David Wu's Staff “Threatened to Shut Down His Campaign”

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http://www.wweek.com/portland/blog-26539-documents_show_congressman_david_wus_staff_%E2%80%9Cthreatened_to_shut_down_his_campaign%E2%80%9D.html



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U.S. Rep. David Wu’s behavior grew so erratic in the final weeks before his re-election last November that the Oregon Democrat’s closest political advisers staged two of what some of them termed “interventions” to urge him to seek psychiatric help, WW (Willamette Week) has learned.

Wu played down their concerns. Several staffers and consultants left his employ after the confrontations. Wu responded to written questions for this story on Feb. 14 and today answered more detailed written questions based on further reporting only through a spokesman.

Documents obtained by WW—emails and photographs sent from Wu’s federally issued BlackBerry in the early-morning hours of Saturday, Oct. 30, 2010—reveal a bizarre portrait of Wu in the days right before the Nov. 2 general election.

Wu’s increasingly odd behavior and communication typified by this set of emails so troubled staff that sources say the employees deliberately hid him from public view during the last three days of Wu’s campaign even as his Republican opponent furiously fought for votes across Oregon’s 1st Congressional District.

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Much more at link.

Wu's gone off the deep end, I'm afraid.

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1. Hmmm - read the whole article and it seems to be MAAN

Much Ado About Nothing.

Wu put on a tiger costume for Halloween: OMFG!
Wu's staff was scared shitless this would cost him the election because it was SO CLOSE (Wu won 55-42.) LOONEY TUNES!
Emails were sent on Wu's blackberry, some of them might have been from his two kids: GET THE FUCKING NET!
Wu had a drink and might have gotten DRUNK! INTERVENTION RIGHT FUCKING NOW!!!!!

I declare Affair Wu: Absolut Bullshit.