{"id":366,"date":"2006-10-01T19:51:09","date_gmt":"2006-10-02T00:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/366"},"modified":"2006-10-01T19:51:09","modified_gmt":"2006-10-02T00:51:09","slug":"the-open-sewer-that-wants-to-remake-america-in-its-imagecontinued","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/366","title":{"rendered":"The Open Sewer That Wants To Remake America In Its Image&#8230;(Continued)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via Atrios&#8230;&nbsp; The True Blue Patriotic Christian Americans responsible for covering up Mark Foley&#8217;s behavior with teenagers (that would be House Majority Leader John Boehner and House Speaker Dennis Hastert) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thetimes-tribune.com\/site\/index.cfm?newsid=17256220&amp;BRD=2185&amp;PAG=461&amp;dept_id=415898&amp;rfi=8\">are planning a fundraiser for U.S. Rep. Don Sherwood<\/a>, who by the way, recently settled a multimillion dollar lawsuit with a young mistress who accused him of abuse.&nbsp; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pamspaulding.com\/weblog\/2005\/11\/rep-don-sherwood-pig-pays-up-for.html\">Pam&#8217;s House Blend had the details<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Rep. Don Sherwood reached a settlement Tuesday with a former mistress who accused him of abuse in a $5.5 million lawsuit, according to his lawyer.<\/p>\n<p>Terms of the settlement between Sherwood, R-Pa., and Cynthia Ore, with whom he acknowledged a five-year affair, will remain confidential, said Paul Clark, a spokesman for Sherwood&#8217;s attorney, Bobby Burchfield.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Attorneys for Cynthia Ore and Congressman Don Sherwood announced today that their clients have resolved their differences, and the lawsuit will be dismissed,&quot; Clark said, reading from a statement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;Sherwood, a fourth-term congressman, is married with three daughters. He issued a statement this summer apologizing for the affair but denying he physically hurt Ore. He also said she never lived with him, which she had claimed in her lawsuit.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Let&#8217;s hear it for Family Values&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Atrios&#8230;&nbsp; The True Blue Patriotic Christian Americans responsible for covering up Mark Foley&#8217;s behavior with teenagers (that would be House Majority Leader John Boehner and House Speaker Dennis Hastert) are planning a fundraiser for U.S. Rep. Don Sherwood, who by the way, recently settled a multimillion dollar lawsuit with a young mistress who accused [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[20,6],"class_list":["post-366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-the-american-gutter","tag-the-right-wing-mindset"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}