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12-03-2004, 12:55 PM
http://www.bluelemur.com/index.php?p=469
New York Times and Salon.com journalist Petra Bartosiewicz blows the whistle on the sleazy underbelly that belied the public facade of the Republican Party’s family-values oriented convention in today’s Hustler, RAW STORY has found.
Hustler gave this site permission to reprint detailed excerpts. The full article is only available in their print edition.
The piece, titled “THE GOP DOES GOTHAM,” tracks a seamy Texas energy lobbyist from one Republican gala to another, noting his drunken passes all the while.
“Harold B. Green was swaying drunk by the time I arrived at the party. He took one look at me and immediately fell into a sulk,” Bartosiewicz pens. “I told you, no bra, no panties,” he said, only through his wine-thickened Texas drawl it came out more like, “Aah told-d-d you-u-u, no braw, no pa-a-anties.”
Bartosiewicz, she asserts, is the quintessential Republican.
“Here was their archetype, the sweaty, fat-nosed lobbyist Harold Green, who long ago absorbed the lessons of crony capitalism and understood to his core that the Republican National Convention was about sex, power and nothing else,” she says.
“Harold told me he had a family, and claimed he’d slept with 50 “young” women in the past five years,” she adds later. “(Just the kind of family man championed by his buddy Tom DeLay, the born-again Christian who once said, ‘A woman can take care of the family. It takes a man to provide structure—to provide stability.’)”
The clamor of parties, booze and buffets, Bartosiewicz says, made her sick – a group that made “a perfect living joke of “family values” (though faithfully attending prayer breakfasts in the morning).”
Though congressmen and elected officials are mostly absent, the parties she visits are a ribald display of prurient excess.
“At a bowling party for [closeted] California Congressman David Dreier… a blonde in a fishnet body stocking hung from the ceiling on a turquoise scarf, twirling and contorting,” she notes. “Two nights later, at a honky-tonk salute to Texas Congressman Joe Barton, chairman of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce… a little girl rode an electric bucking bull in an inflatable farm pen, and 20-foot black cowboy boots decorated in purple and gold stood over the room.”
And such soirees – Barton’s hosted by the Nuclear Energy Institute, the National Mining Association and the Edison Electric Institute, which allegedly chipped in a
$20,000 to foot the bill – pay off, she states.
“Such generosity pays off: In 1999 Barton floated a bill to deregulate the entire $220-billion U.S. electrical industry, laying the groundwork—on a national scale—for the piracy of the 2001 California energy crisis.”
To read the rest of Bartosiewicz’s adventures, and their piece chronicling the secret gay life of GOP Rep. David Dreier, you’ll have to opt for some debauchery yourself – and pick up February’s Hustler, which hits newsstands today.
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New York Times and Salon.com journalist Petra Bartosiewicz blows the whistle on the sleazy underbelly that belied the public facade of the Republican Party’s family-values oriented convention in today’s Hustler, RAW STORY has found.
Hustler gave this site permission to reprint detailed excerpts. The full article is only available in their print edition.
The piece, titled “THE GOP DOES GOTHAM,” tracks a seamy Texas energy lobbyist from one Republican gala to another, noting his drunken passes all the while.
“Harold B. Green was swaying drunk by the time I arrived at the party. He took one look at me and immediately fell into a sulk,” Bartosiewicz pens. “I told you, no bra, no panties,” he said, only through his wine-thickened Texas drawl it came out more like, “Aah told-d-d you-u-u, no braw, no pa-a-anties.”
Bartosiewicz, she asserts, is the quintessential Republican.
“Here was their archetype, the sweaty, fat-nosed lobbyist Harold Green, who long ago absorbed the lessons of crony capitalism and understood to his core that the Republican National Convention was about sex, power and nothing else,” she says.
“Harold told me he had a family, and claimed he’d slept with 50 “young” women in the past five years,” she adds later. “(Just the kind of family man championed by his buddy Tom DeLay, the born-again Christian who once said, ‘A woman can take care of the family. It takes a man to provide structure—to provide stability.’)”
The clamor of parties, booze and buffets, Bartosiewicz says, made her sick – a group that made “a perfect living joke of “family values” (though faithfully attending prayer breakfasts in the morning).”
Though congressmen and elected officials are mostly absent, the parties she visits are a ribald display of prurient excess.
“At a bowling party for [closeted] California Congressman David Dreier… a blonde in a fishnet body stocking hung from the ceiling on a turquoise scarf, twirling and contorting,” she notes. “Two nights later, at a honky-tonk salute to Texas Congressman Joe Barton, chairman of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce… a little girl rode an electric bucking bull in an inflatable farm pen, and 20-foot black cowboy boots decorated in purple and gold stood over the room.”
And such soirees – Barton’s hosted by the Nuclear Energy Institute, the National Mining Association and the Edison Electric Institute, which allegedly chipped in a
$20,000 to foot the bill – pay off, she states.
“Such generosity pays off: In 1999 Barton floated a bill to deregulate the entire $220-billion U.S. electrical industry, laying the groundwork—on a national scale—for the piracy of the 2001 California energy crisis.”
To read the rest of Bartosiewicz’s adventures, and their piece chronicling the secret gay life of GOP Rep. David Dreier, you’ll have to opt for some debauchery yourself – and pick up February’s Hustler, which hits newsstands today.
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