[StBernard] Shades of Craig!!!?? - Joey, say it ain't so?

[Westley Annis]

Oh yes Jer, it is so.



New Pol Enters GOP Stall of Fame


Another Republican decides to step aside from the hurly-burly of politics
<http://www.first-draft.com/2007/10/another-toe-tap.html>  as public
restroom incidents hit the papers. 
Joey DiFatta <http://joeydifatta.com/aboutjoey.html> , St. Bernard Parish
Councilman and until-today candidate for state senate, had a novel approach
to getting ahead of the story. Hours before the revelations appeared
<http://blog.nola.com/times-picayune/2007/10/difatta_twice_detained_in_lewd.
html>  in the Times-Picayune, he called local reporters to announce that he
would withdraw from the senate contest because he had "been having chest
pains for a few weeks and ... might have had a minor heart attack in the
past few days."

One incident in 1996 involved watching "a man use the bathroom while peering
throguh a hole in a bathroom stall." The man subsequently detained the
sizable DiFatta until police arrived. In 2000, an effort at a foreshadowing
homage to the work of Sen. Craig was misinterpreted as an effort to engage
in public bathroom sex ...

	Jefferson Parish deputies working an undercover detail in a men's
bathroom at Dillard's at Lakeside Shopping Center in March 2000 stopped
DiFatta after he indicated a desire to engage in sex with an undercover
deputy in an adjoining bathroom stall, according to an interoffice
memorandum written by Sgt. Keith Conley, one of the deputies involved in the
investigation. 
	The report said DiFatta slid his foot into the deputy's stall and
tapped the deputy's foot. In the report, Conley noted that such activity is
common among men to indicate a willingness to participate in sex.
	The deputy inside the stall, Detective Wayne Couvillion, responded
by tapping his foot, and DiFatta reached under the partition and began to
rub the deputy's leg, the report states.
	The detective asked DiFatta, "What do you want?" according to the
report, and he replied, "I want to play with you."
	DiFatta also used a hand signal to indicate that he wanted to engage
in sex and used language that indicated the same, according to the report.
Conley, who is now the Kenner city attorney, confirmed the report's
authenticity Thursday. 

Only days ago, DiFatta was hawking the DiFatta plan
<http://joeydifatta.com/theplan.html>  to "defend our conservative values
from attacks by extreme liberal groups."
He now joins Idaho's Larry Craig
<http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/051991.php>  and Florida's Bob Allen
<http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/016257.php>  in the GOP Stall of
Fame.





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	Subject: RE: [StBernard] Shades of Craig!!!?? - Joey, say it ain't
so?
	
	Shades of Senator Larry Craig!!!
	
	I'm speechless. Where will the Ax drop next? The press is in
revelation:
	Polly Boudreaux had enough and now Joey Difatta is now alleged to
have too
	much. ;) How did this alleged act keep out of the press? The outcome
is
	going to be interesting. We suppose that the new term will have lots
of new
	faces in St. Bernard government
	
	--jer