Ain’t politics grand?Jesse Jackson’s New Staff Member
Mel Reynolds
Jesse Jackson has added former Chicago Democrat Congressman Mel Reynolds to Rainbow/PUSH Coalition’s payroll. Reynolds was among the 176 criminals excused in President Clinton’s last-minute forgiveness spree. Reynolds received a commutation of his six-and-a-half-year federal sentence for 15 convictions of wire fraud, bank fraud, and lies to the Federal Election Commission. He is more notorious, however, for concurrently serving five years for sleeping with an underage campaign volunteer.
This is a first in American politics: An ex-congressman who had sex with a subordinate…won clemency from a president who had sex with a subordinate…then was hired by a clergyman who had sex with a subordinate.
His new job?
Ready for this??
*********YOUTH COUNSELOR********
IS THIS A GREAT COUNTRY OR WHAT?
jarhead john
Mar 16, 2006 @ 16:17:21
This should come as no surprise. Jesse has made his morals, or lack of them, quite clear.
Simon Peter
Mar 16, 2006 @ 17:27:59
I’d say that was up there with the pancake breakfast for that girl run over by a bulldozer. Does anyone on the left have any brains or morals anymore?
Geno
Sep 07, 2006 @ 11:18:34
Jesse Jackson Has Hired an Ex-Con Sex Offender For His Staff…And Appointed Him a Youth Counselor-Truth! & Fiction!
Summary of eRumor
The eRumor says that the Rev. Jesse Jackson has added former Chicago Democratic Congressman Mel Reynolds to the staff of the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition. According to the eRumor, Reynolds was serving a federal sentence in prison for convictions of wire fraud, bank fraud, and lies to the Federal Election Commission. He was also serving five years for sleeping with an underage campaign volunteer. Then, Reynolds was among those given pardons by outgoing President Bill Clinton. According to the eRumor, it’s the first time that an ex-congressman who had sex with a subordinate won clemency from a president who had sex with a subordinate, then was hired by a clergyman who had sex with a subordinate. The eRumor adds that Reynolds has been hired as a youth counselor.
The Truth
The text for this eRumor is taken from an article written by Deroy Murdock, a columnist for the Scripps Howard News Service. It was published on February 9, 2001. The facts about Reynolds, his convictions, and his pardon are accurate. According to the article, it is also true that Jesse Jackson added Reynolds to the Rainbow/PUSH coalition payroll.
He was not hired as a youth counselor, however, but as a consultant on prison reform.
MorningGlory
Sep 07, 2006 @ 14:18:29
Geno, thanks for the comment, and for the information.
MG