I suppose we’ll be hearing the Congressman’s views on cunnilingus next.
I love how evidently we are all supposed to allow cocaine and crack cocaine use if you are also an alcoholic. I mean, nobody can be blamed for forming a cocaine addiction when in a drunken stupor right? Poor guy. We should all feel sorry for him and vote for his reelection. I mean, if we send him packing, it’ll probably just force him into a gay prostitution habit to make money to fund his crack habit.
Well, it’s not like he voted for a tax increase.
Well, it’s been said once or twice that it’s a helluva drug. 
Well, he pleaded guilty. Apparently he tried to buy some from an undercover officer whom he met in a restaurant, then invited the UO back to his apartment so they could snort together.
Some points/questions here:
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He bought 3.5 grams. Now I have very little experience with cocaine, but… isn’t that a lot? As in, more than what you would usually get if you were just “experimenting”? How much would this cost in DC? (Back in my college days (late 80s) cocaine would go for $80-100/gram.)
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He lead the FBI back to his apartment, and pulled out another vial of cocaine. WTF?
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How do you meet some random stranger in the sort of restaurant one would think a US Congressmen would frequent and ask them for cocaine? How does this work? And how did it work that he just asked an undercover cop who was able to fake-sell 3-4 packets of “cocaine” to the guy? Are sting operations like this something that occurs often at this restaurant? ETA: Maybe it was a pre-arranged meet. Didn’t occur to me at all, but that was likely it.
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Assuming he actually brought the guy to his apartment… anyone else think we missed yet another “Repub found to be gay!” news story here?
I don’t have the link at hand, but this morning I read an article noting that he is not a big supporter of the War on Drugs, and even (IIRC) supported decriminalizing marijuana. So I can’t pin that hypocrite label on him. Plus he may be in favor of people not having to be drug tested if they’re ostensibly working for that government check, versus those who are underemployed/unemployed.
One year probation.
Maybe the FBI guy was pretneding to be a DEA guy. 
It’s a disease, okay?!
If you won’t, I will:
Trey Radel, Busted On Cocaine Charge, Voted For Drug Testing Food Stamp Recipients
Oh, I already noted that upthread. I was just saying, perhaps he doesn’t think government money should be used for drugs unless you’re working for that check.
More specifically, he’s not lock-step with the usual conservative War on Drugs policies that make every little thing (except tobacco) Very Bad and highly penalized.
Good thing he’s a rich white guy. He’d be spending a year+ in PMITA prison otherwise.
No, it’s too bad he’s not poor, because then he would have never would have had to struggle with the disease of alcoholism and the part where it makes you use cocaine somehow, because it’s wrong for poor people to use drugs and he’s better than that.
Based on Congress’s preformance the last 4 years, he is not even meeting that standard. 
True, I put the weasel-word “ostensibly” in my previous post.
Has Fux Noize referred to him using the “D” label?