Federal prosecutors in Arizona have opened a preliminary investigation of a camping trip Congressman Jim Kolbe, R-Ariz., took 10 years ago that included two teenage congressional pages, a Justice Department spokesman told NBC News. NBC News first reported on the camping and rafting trip on Tuesday...
...As NBC News first reported, Kolbe took a tour down the Grand Canyon in July 1996 with a group that included two 17-year-old males who had recently left the congressional page program.
National Park Service employees also were on the three-day trip, along with several Kolbe staffers and the congressman's sister. Kolbe, the only openly gay Republican legislator in both houses of Congress, had not acknowledged his homosexuality publicly at the time...
Posted to Politics at October 13, 2006 03:59 PM
The Reps will be routed this November, as they so richly deserve. The scandals, the border, spending, Iraq--the only problem is that we will then spend the next two years in impeachment hearings and drawing up surrender plans for Iraq. The Dems are even worse, if that can be possible.
Posted by: Pat at October 14, 2006 08:06 AM
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