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California Students May Be Expelled for ‘Sexting’

California Students May Be Expelled for Sexting“Sexting” — sending graphic messages via phone — has become a major issue impacting young people across the country. In California, lawmakers are considering a possible law that would punish students for engaging in the act. The Huffington Post has more:

The California State Senate has passed a bill that makes “sexting” an expellable offense in the state. The bill, SB919, was passed unanimously this Tuesday. The bill will have to be approved in the Assembly and signed by Jerry Brown to enter into law.

According to SB919, sexting is defined as “sending or receiving sexually explicit pictures or video by means of an electronic act.” California law lets school districts discipline students for their actions while on school property, coming and going from school, during lunch breaks, and when traveling to school-sponsored events.

While supporters claim that the bill would help put a stop to cyber bullying and other damaging trends, critics see the proposal as a potential waste of time. They believe there are more efficient preventative methods for putting a stop to sexting. Watch below to see the debate unfold:

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  • Freedom_wins
    Posted on June 11, 2011 at 11:25am

    Just maybe parents should be responsible in raising their children. Parents today need to relearn how to say no. This is an issue that parents need to be enforcing not the schools. Perhaps the answer is to forward any sexual related texts to the childrens parents.

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  • auburntaylors96
    Posted on June 11, 2011 at 11:22am

    maybe ALL politicians should be working to clean up their own houses before worrying about what is transpiring in schools between teenagers…..you know?….lead by example, like anthony wiener. weed out the wierdos and skeezy pervs from your own ranks before trying to parent others’ children.

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  • concealled9mms
    Posted on June 11, 2011 at 10:42am

    How in the hell can this be when weiner does it on the taxpayers dime all the time these double standards must stop are elected officals are real sick slime the next hijacked airplane can run right in the congress front door for all i care maybe thats the only way to clean house

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  • fortruss
    Posted on June 11, 2011 at 10:19am

    Add your comments

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  • Gonzo
    Posted on June 11, 2011 at 8:25am

    So, you get kicked out of school for it but, not congress…great system we have here.

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    • teddrunk
      Posted on June 11, 2011 at 8:30am

      Kids and sex shots, they all sound like good little Democrat Weiner supporters.

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  • teddrunk
    Posted on June 11, 2011 at 7:51am

    Here’s an idea. Get rid of cell phones.

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    • rockstone
      Posted on June 11, 2011 at 10:12am

      It’s not the cellphones. For decades kids have had the capability to exchange lewd pictures. In the 70′s we had polaroid cameras that would have done the trick. You could have put photos in a locker, stuck them on somebody’s car, orjust handed them out personally…etc. You wouldn’t have needed a smart phone.

      We just never considered it.We were lucky enough to have lived in a differrent country. A country that respected youth. Remember, this is part of the Clinton/Monica/BJ generation with an NEA education, 24 hour graphic cable, condoms on a banana, a hit TV show that promotes teen sexuality and parents who… who…. Hey! Just where are the parents? I can imagine the wrath my father would have delivered had I sent someone a Weiner photo of myself. That thought alone would have stopped me. Thank you Mom and Dad.
      And you don’t need a new law. This couldn’t have been legal back in the day. Of course, if I would have sent a lewd photo to the girl down the street, I would have been the one who needed the police. Between her father and my father…. sheeesh..

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  • psst
    Posted on June 11, 2011 at 7:44am

    The marxist state of kal-y-4-nya should be really angry about this.
    If it’s good enough for the Congressmen in “Their” marxist political party to do It should also be good for them.

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  • Molaki
    Posted on June 11, 2011 at 7:03am

    Here‘s ’s a concept…….make sure phones are turned-off and put in a student’s locker upon arriving to school. they can retrieve them at the end of the day.

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  • Merlin
    Posted on June 11, 2011 at 6:36am

    And this is considered wrong and a punishable offense because?
    If you want my humble opinion, this Smacks of religious persecution by the tiny minded self deluded self appointed policing agency typical busy body Do-Gooder, the kind that has themselves convinced only they know best what everyone should be doing every moment and is self appointed, self empowered to force everyone to their way of thinking, and of course also in charge of deciding how to punish all those that don’t, won’t, that just plain refuse comply with their demands.

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  • Mapache
    Posted on June 11, 2011 at 6:31am

    WHat about if they say it’s ART? Is a naked picture art or porn? hmmmm? Of course teachers can show students all sorts of things under the guise of educating them. It is going going to create some interesting course cases.

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  • destinykiera
    Posted on June 11, 2011 at 4:47am

    Posted on June 11, 2011 at 4:35am
    Everyday, it gets crazier and crazier. I don’t know what to believe anymore. Oh to go off topic, on Thursday June 9th, Glenn Beck‘s guest on his show was his chummy ’friend’ Jim Rogers. Does anyone here, think it is odd that Glenn would interview someone directly involved with GEORGE SOROS? Does that just pique a little interest within you? I find it odd that our only hope, as stated in his interview was to invest offshore for the upcoming financial crisis to have little impact on us. Just as Glenn Beck alledges he is doing, I am just seeking the truth. Thanks, much love to you all.

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  • Arc
    Posted on June 11, 2011 at 1:29am

    Might be a good idea to ask the school board just how will they enforce this? Ahhhh, monitoring cell phone traffic huh ? Isn’t that a violation of The Patriot Act? Oh, I see now, another WAIVERABLE act exempting school authorities but you will not issue WAIVERS to the Defense Dept. A regulation exempting a regulation. This Cass Sunstein is a brilliant scholar. This is the epitome of stupidity asking for a ” do-over “.

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  • TH30PH1LUS
    Posted on June 11, 2011 at 1:16am

    Wait! What about the education of California’s next generation of Congressmen? Where’s the love?

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  • Trollroll
    Posted on June 11, 2011 at 12:43am

    The bill itself isn’t a big thing to me, it’s just that it will not stop anything. I see nothing wrong with them trying to lay out a solid ground for punishment doing something that they shouldn’t do in the first place. But here’s a simple suggestion, if you don’t want your kids sending photos, then cut off the data plan for their line. That is one of the many solutions, but this would require the PARENTS to do something…and God forbid we make the parents responsible.

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    • jb.kibs
      Posted on June 11, 2011 at 1:36am

      then the bill should be a big thing to you..
      it’s not the governements job to make that descision. it’s the parents.

      to these people that support these kinds of “raise your children for you’ bills…
      if parents don’t care today, and let their kids do it, they don’t check their cell phones, they don’t check the bills, they get them a data plan knowing full well what that means.. then that’s their choice, not yours to make. stop controlling other peoples lives. worry about YOUR children, OH? you can’t have any? WELL TOUGH …. you can’t have mine either… pathetic control freaks…

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    • tower7femacamp
      Posted on June 11, 2011 at 7:19am

      http://www.myspace.com/430058334/blog/530142857

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  • Johari
    Posted on June 11, 2011 at 12:08am

    They‘re lucky they aren’t going to have to register as sex offenders.

    Coming soon…

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  • wordweaver
    Posted on June 10, 2011 at 11:55pm

    So all we have to do to make sure our kids turn out great is to subject them to random drug testing and testing for STDs, confiscate their phones periodically and see what’s stored there, and oh, maybe check their plates every meal and make sure that each of the new FDA food group quadrants are covered. Problem is, once they are eventually out on their own and no one is monitoring them, they so south in a heartbeat. Make the law if you like, CA, but it is unenforcible. As several have pointed out, solving this problem involves parents taking the responsibility early on by instructing their children in moral behavior. Sadly, many parents today are ill-equipped for the task.

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  • candcantiques
    Posted on June 10, 2011 at 11:28pm

    Question for EVERYONE here. If you grab hold of a cat and squeeze and squeeze and squeeze tighter and tighter and tighter, what’s the cat gonna do???? People do the same eventually.

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  • mrmikejohnson
    Posted on June 10, 2011 at 11:10pm

    Technically, high school students under the age of 18 sending naked pictures constitutes child porn. Getting expelled is a lot less severe than child porn charges.

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    • candcantiques
      Posted on June 10, 2011 at 11:17pm

      Ok so two under age kids saying “i’ll show you mine if you show me yours ” should be guilt of child molestation then? C’mon kids will always be kids. As long as all parties are under age punish them but not expulsion or criminal charges. This world is getting rediculous !

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    • Chet Hempstead
      Posted on June 11, 2011 at 5:09am

      Most states have the sense to write their sex crime laws so that a kid will not end up with a rape rap following him for his whole life for having sex with a girl his own age, we need to rewrite kiddie pron laws to the same end. I don’t mean to trivialize the dangers of sexting or underage sex, but criminal prosecution can’t be the first and only tool to fight them.

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  • nomercy63
    Posted on June 10, 2011 at 11:09pm

    So big brother in our lives again shocking!!!!!!

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  • Mr. Oshawott
    Posted on June 10, 2011 at 11:08pm

    I understand where the supporters of SB919 are getting at, particular in light of Anthony Weiner’s sexual fallout: this sexting stuff is really getting problematic and it has to end. However, I have to side with the critics on this one – all this law would be doing is creating the cell phone police that’ll snatch cell phones from their owners, all in the name of “combating sexting.” Why don’t the parents simply have a look at where their small fries are cruising through the Internet and install parental blocks that prevent the user from entering certain, unpalatable websites?

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    • Mr. Oshawott
      Posted on June 11, 2011 at 9:07am

      Hm? Now, that’s strange. Why was the word “s-n-a-t-c-h” censored from my comment? Last time I heard, “s-n-a-t-c-h” isn’t a curse word

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  • Zcat
    Posted on June 10, 2011 at 11:04pm

    Hey….Congress can do it legally! If congress can do it, so can California!

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    • LindaTea
      Posted on June 10, 2011 at 11:16pm

      Exactly!!!! another do as I say not as I do moment….

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    • Rational Man
      Posted on June 11, 2011 at 12:22am

      OOOH!……That’s a really good point!……..Can you say Oscar Meyer _______?

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  • jeckelmyhyde
    Posted on June 10, 2011 at 11:02pm

    How are you going to enforce that stupid law? To fix the problem put as cell transmission jammer in all the schools.

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    • cheezwhiz
      Posted on June 10, 2011 at 11:10pm

      How about kids in school having a cell phone which is just a cell phone.
      Just a cell phone and nothing else

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  • oriondma05
    Posted on June 10, 2011 at 10:56pm

    But yet telling third graders that you can be a boy, a girl, both or neither is okay.

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    • LindaTea
      Posted on June 10, 2011 at 11:15pm

      Exactly!!!

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    • jb.kibs
      Posted on June 11, 2011 at 1:41am

      lol.. yeah that is pathetic. there are 2 genders. you can be both.. i mean.. that does happen.. but you are still BOTH genders.. male AND female. there are only 2 genders in human beings.

      so the school is SO liberal that they now loosly interpret biology? LOL.. wastoids…

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  • Determined American
    Posted on June 10, 2011 at 10:51pm

    Ok???? Well, then? This made the news. Must be slow today?

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    • cheezwhiz
      Posted on June 10, 2011 at 11:00pm

      Slow news ? Maybe thats why Greta is on FOX kinda sorta defending Weener !
      Whats up with FOX today ?

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    • Rational Man
      Posted on June 11, 2011 at 12:18am

      FOX was un-watchable today. Even ‘America Live’ was hosted by Gretchen Wilson. Yuk!
      I didn‘t make it passed the intro on Greta’s thing in Beck’s time slot.
      I didn’t even bother to turn on The Factor and check it out to see if it was worth watching.

      As far as posters whinning about this story and wise cracking about a slow news day, heck, I‘d rather read this than hear anymore about Weener or Casy Anthony trial or loser Newt or just about anything else that’s on the TV ‘news’ today…………….

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    • cheezwhiz
      Posted on June 11, 2011 at 1:06am

      @ Rational Man
      When Beck said something about Greta having a special in place of his show on Friday, I couldn’t believe it. What bombshell could FOX and Greta have that required an hour of that time-slot ?
      And then that squealy kitten comes on , showing news-clips as if she was scooping a grand expose.
      Such cr@p from FOX . They are swirling , ready to be flushed down anytime.
      I think IF elections happen in 2012, FOX will be on par with MsNBC and CNN in their left wing jack@$$ry.

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    • Robert-CA
      Posted on June 11, 2011 at 1:37am

      Yeah what was that with the sex show on FOX .
      That was a special ? talking about corrupted pervert politicians ?
      I only watched Bill O .

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    • cheezwhiz
      Posted on June 11, 2011 at 1:41am

      @ Robert-CA
      Did BOR defend Weener too ?
      It seems to be shaping up as the official FOX policy now.
      I wonder if that bin Talal guy is protecting a fellow moozie–Weenie’s moozie wife ?

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    • riseandshine
      Posted on June 11, 2011 at 2:20am

      I don’t watch cable news or network news of any kind anymore……ah, how peaceful.

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  • Tomfang
    Posted on June 10, 2011 at 10:51pm

    Receiving? Is it your fault if someone sends it to you uninvited?

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    • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
      Posted on June 10, 2011 at 10:58pm

      It is one more example of the liberal progressive mindset; even if you had nothing to do with an event or something sent to you, the fact is then you are guilty by association even if innocent.

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    • cheezwhiz
      Posted on June 10, 2011 at 10:58pm

      They believe there are more efficient preventative methods for putting a stop to sexting.
      —–
      Like what ?

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    • tower7femacamp
      Posted on June 10, 2011 at 11:11pm

      especially if it’s with Wiener

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    • Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
      Posted on June 10, 2011 at 11:20pm

      Something I always told my troops. If it is something you wouldn’t want to send to the commander, don’t send it.

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    • Taquoshi
      Posted on June 10, 2011 at 11:52pm

      People frequently hit “Send All” on their computers and send out emails to people who they never intended to. One good way to get someone expelled would be to send a sexually explicit message or picture to someone and then report it. Like zero tolerance, it will backfire.

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    • Rational Man
      Posted on June 11, 2011 at 12:07am

      @Taquoshi

      Only if you use someone elses cell to do it. Otherwise, you get expelled too!
      Pretty funny! Wonder how long it will take before that happens…………

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    • 408 CheyTac
      Posted on June 11, 2011 at 12:37am

      If only the dumbocraps in congress got suspended for the same offensive behaviour

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    • Restored One
      Posted on June 11, 2011 at 12:38am

      Social media is killing our kids (and some of our stupid adults too.) Kids cannot communicate these days eye to eye. They have no idea how to actually have a conversation. It is sick. I guess sexting is the modern day birth control? I guess girls can now be social sluts? Friends with texti-benefits? It seems to be a trend.

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    • WhiteFang
      Posted on June 11, 2011 at 12:51am

      Kids under 18 do not need cell phones. I know that is a shocker but it’s true.
      Take them all away from them and maybe they will be more focused on their school work.
      Why do all these kids need cell phones with Internet, facebook and such?
      For that matter, why do adults need them? When we think about it, we don’t.

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    • jb.kibs
      Posted on June 11, 2011 at 1:22am

      You are correct.. receiving… that’s messed up…
      The WHOLE california senate has no logic. THIS PROVES mental instability in leaders. look.
      you get EXPELLED BY LAW… (which, that is messed up).. for receiving a message you may or may not have even wanted. you know.. like the 1 billion forwards people send every day.

      really?
      what’s stopping someone from sending all of your children nasty images and videos untill they are expelled.. GG.

      as a matter of fact.. what’s stopping someone from creating a virus that auto texts nasty images to cell phones all day long?

      as a matter of fact.. what’s stopping anyone from creating a virus that states threatning stuff all day to .. lets say the white house..

      stop creating stupid laws and regulations. THEY ARE ALL SCAMS AND MENTAL SLAVERY.

      … “the best thing anyone can do for anyone else is NOTHING”. – me, just now.

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    • Showtime
      Posted on June 11, 2011 at 1:51am

      Fine example Anthony Weiner is setting for America’s children!

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    • Blacktooth
      Posted on June 11, 2011 at 2:09am

      jb.kibs,

      If a kid is going to be receiving messages, make sure they have decent friends. Your received messages reflect who your friends are.

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    • 101
      Posted on June 11, 2011 at 3:03am

      .
      SB919 excludes (rep) Weiner…
      who’s free to do whatever he wants under the “corrupt government act”

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    • OLDBIKEFIXER
      Posted on June 11, 2011 at 5:34am

      Everyone seems to be missing the big picture here — if they can pass a bill against “sexting”, then it’ll just be a small step to take it to the next level… the governments “right” to monitor ANY communications between people. Where is the ACLU on this one?

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    • Jediusetheforce
      Posted on June 11, 2011 at 5:39am

      Yeah, since computers everyone…well 9 out of 10 guys/girls that act like guys are addicted to PORN!!!! Its a repeat of the 80s only alot worse.

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    • On The Bayou
      Posted on June 11, 2011 at 5:47am

      Who`s job is it to monitor sexting?

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    • tower7femacamp
      Posted on June 11, 2011 at 7:14am

      I wish we were as hard on our Congressmen
      Major cover-up suspected in GOP’s “Pagegate” now rocking Capitol Hill. Capitol Hill sources report that the congressional page sex scandal that has barraged the Republican leadership weeks before the general election is a re-flash of a similar scandal in the late 1980s. In June 1989, openly gay Massachusetts Rep. Barney Frank, two months before he admitted that his aide was using his Capitol Hill home for prostitution purposes, threatened to expose the identities of a number of closeted gay Republican members of Congress after a Republican National Committee surfaced that suggested then-House Speaker Thomas Foley was gay. The Republican leadership went into immediate crisis mode and wanted to sweep the matter aside. However, the story of Republican lobbyists and members of Congress procuring the services of underage male prostitutes soon hit the newspapers.
      http://www.rense.com/general73/page.htm

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    • tower7femacamp
      Posted on June 11, 2011 at 7:16am

      Throw these kids in prison now ! Who do they think they are ?
      Do they think they are in Congress or something ?
      The scandal surrounding GOP congressmen having sex with minors first burst onto the headlines in October 1980 when Maryland conservative Republican Rep. Bob Bauman resigned after his arrest for having sex with a 16-year old male prostitute. In 1983, Massachusetts Democratic Rep. Gerry Studds was censured by the House for inappropriate sexual contact with a 17-year old male page. The Republicans clearly pulled their punches amid calls for Studds to be expelled by the House. However, after Studds’ admission he was gay, he was re-elected in 1984.

      Although Studds was the first House member to admit his homosexuality, the GOP was worried about starting a trend of self-disclosure. They had their own skeletons to be concerned about. In 1989, the Barney Frank-male prostitute aide scandal broke. However, Frank cooperated with the House Ethics Committee in its investigation and he quickly fired the aide involved. The year 1989 would also introduce the American public to the underground sordid world of GOP underage male prostitution rings — a story that emanated from a scandal involving male congressional pages that culminated in headlines in The Washington Times beginning in June 1989 that reported underage male prostitutes had been given midnight tours of the White House. As WMR reported yesterday, these tours involved the private quarters of the White House.

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    • tower7femacamp
      Posted on June 11, 2011 at 7:17am

      With the scandal surrounding Florida Republican Rep. Mark Foley’s sordid e-mail and Instant Message exchanges with 16-year old male pages, including one who was sponsored by Lousiana Republican Rep. Rodney Alexander, those familiar with the 1989 scandals are taking a closer look at House Speaker Dennis Hastert.

      Congressional sources told WMR that Hastert, while working from 1964 to 1980 as a popular history/government teacher and wrestling coach at Yorktown High School, in Yorktown, Illinois — a suburb of Chicago — was the subject of persistent rumors about inappropriate contact with male members of his high school wrestling team. The culture of the times usually resulted in such alleged behavior being covered up by public and parochial school authorities. However, the rumors were enough for his Yorktown constituency to reject him when he ran for an open seat in the Illinois House of Representatives in 1980. However, Hastert lucked out when another sitting Republican House member who represented the three-seat district had a stroke and declined to run for re-election. The GOP machine bosses selected Hastert as the replacement candidate.

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    • drbage
      Posted on June 11, 2011 at 7:38am

      Too bad Weiner doesn’t represent California!

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    • TomFerrari
      Posted on June 11, 2011 at 9:33am

      Hmmm…
      Gotta agree on the RECEIVING part.
      But, I gotta give kudos to my wacko-socialist democrat lib state of CALI for “TRYING”.

      Why are “kids” sexting anyway?

      Didn’t Karl Rove or somebody start a company that sends parents identical copies of all phone messages sent by the kids phones? (seriously, I think he did)

      PROVERBS 22:6 – “Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.”

      Need better parents. Need to restore our values. Need to teach ETHICS, not HUMANISM ! ! !

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    • click_name_4_impeachment
      Posted on June 11, 2011 at 9:42am

      Come on really??? This is a product of the times, when will they learn regulating does not do any good. It does not change their desire to sext. We need values….not regulations…..

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    • fortruss
      Posted on June 11, 2011 at 10:18am

      it is not your fault if you recieve a sextext. but if you pass it on or do not report it, it become your fault.

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    • American Soldier (Separated)
      Posted on June 11, 2011 at 10:36am

      It’s so easy to spoof your messages into thinking it got sent from somewhere else, either a random number of a specific number, getting two people you dislike expelled.

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    • LibertariansUnite
      Posted on June 11, 2011 at 10:51am

      lol@PoliceState

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    • Rightsofman
      Posted on June 11, 2011 at 11:32am

      CA must be starting to chew its own leg off. They must be getting confused from all the medicinal maryjane they inhale out there.

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    • Obama Bin Lying
      Posted on June 11, 2011 at 1:10pm

      For kids in school they get thrown out, but someone responsible for running the counry and making laws, he is left where he is. Wake up liberals…will you?

      Can’t any of you see how Idiotic you are acting?

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    • Lesbian Packing Hollow Points
      Posted on June 11, 2011 at 7:29pm

      That definition of sexting would encapsulate college boys web surfing for porn. There won’t be another male in college anywhere in America.

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