OR Congressman Gets Smashed, Puts on Tiger Suit

[Jim Demintia]

I'm not sure what makes this more furry, the tiger suit or the uncontrolled alcoholism:

Whether the photo depicted a staged or real event is uncertain. Someone who appears to be Wu is in the full-body tiger costume. He is face-down on a made bed with his arms at his side, as if asleep or passed out.

[MazelTovCocktail]

I remember somebody bringing up closet furry politicians here awhile back.

Well, there we have it (maybe).

[Jim Demintia]

So the House Democratic leadership finally gave in to requests for an investigation into this nutjob, and within three days of that starting he resigned. Primarily because a new detail has come out: Wu, 56, is alleged to have had a sexual "encounter" - some articles characterize the situation as an "advance", implying that it didn't go too, um, far - with an 18-year-old girl. She says it was "unwanted", he of course says it was consensual. How that figures in with the tiger suit picture that accompanies literally every article about this guy, I don't know.

I'll bet Nancy Pelosi was thrilled with this bullshit, right after the Anthony Wiener debacle and right in the middle of the debt-ceiling catastrofuck.

[ISleepNow]

Quote from:J  im Demintia on July 26, 2011, 06:26:16 pm

How that figures in with the tiger suit picture that accompanies literally every article about this guy, I don't know.

Good job in pointing this article out to begin with.  If you read the article regarding his previous behavior it seems totally consistent:

The emails do not offer a definitive account of why Wu’s aides fled the congressman’s office in significant numbers just after his sixth successful re-election campaign. They do reveal that Wu’s staffers apparently had confronted the congressman about his drinking. They also suggest Wu faced accusations of harassment from his employees—and that Wu wasn’t eager to listen to any of the advice. Wu, through a spokesman, wouldn't respond to specific questions about the written content of the emails.

At 1:03 am PST on Saturday, Oct. 30, an email from Wu’s Congressional BlackBerry landed in the inbox of a female staffer. The congressman—who splits his time between Washington, D.C., and Oregon—was then in Portland.

There was no message attached to the email, only a single image. That photo, copied above, showed Wu in a plush tiger suit with orange- and black-striped mittens over his hands, a hood with pointy ears pulled over his head and a white circle split by a zipper stretched over his stomach. A seemingly red-faced Wu is sitting on a bench in what appears to be a bedroom, with his hands held in the air. A spokesman, Erik Dorey, today called the photo a private moment between family members. He further described the photo as "David Wu joshing around with his kids the day before Halloween."

Nineteen minutes later, at 1:22 am PST, a second email from Wu’s official email address went to multiple Wu staffers under the subject line “not funny.”

The email read as if it had come from one of Wu’s two children; the name of his middle-school-age daughter appeared at the end of it as a signature. But it’s not clear whether she sent the email in the wee hours of the morning or did so at the request of her father. Another possibility—the one that apparently disturbed staffers—is that Wu sent the email on his own, pretending to be his child. In any case, the email suggests Wu had been sparring with his staff.

“You’re the best, but my Dad made me say that, even though you threatened to shut down his campaign.”

Ten minutes later a third email went to two female staffers. This time, it contained another photo and a similar “you’re the best” message. The name of Wu’s son appeared at the bottom of that email.

Whether the photo depicted a staged or real event is uncertain. Someone who appears to be Wu is in the full-body tiger costume. He is face-down on a made bed with his arms at his side, as if asleep or passed out.

A wallet and headphones are strewn next to him on the bed. Behind him, a child who appears to be Wu’s 13-year-old son stands beside the bed dressed in a T-shirt and khaki pants with his hands on Wu’s shoulders. It is not evident whether the boy is trying to wake his father, give him a back rub or play along with a joke.

Six minutes later, at 1:38 am, a fourth email arrived in staffers’ inboxes. The content related to Wu’s drinking. The subject line contained one word: “wasted.”

The email, with Wu’s son’s name at the end, said: “My Dad said you said he was wasted Wednesday night after just three sips of wine. It’s just that he hasn’t had a drink since July 1. Cut him some slack, man. What he does when he’s wasted is send emails, not harass people he works with He works SO hard for you … Cut the dude some slack, man. Just kidding.”

The gist of it is he repeatedly sent out these emails specifically to female staffers who apparently weren't particularly amused.  Not that any of them were really offensive, not from a furry standpoint certainly