Randy "Duke" Cunningham holds the dubious honor of receiving the
longest prison sentence ever given to a member of Congress - eight
years and four months, to be exact.

Last week, TPM Muckraker received an advance copy of a new book
entitled The Wrong Stuff: The Extraordinary Saga of Randy "Duke"
Cunningham, the Most Corrupt Congressman Ever Caught, which apparently
contains everything you ever wanted to know about the former
Congressman - and quite a bit that I'm sure you never wanted to know.

Like this: http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/003262.php


...even Wilkes drew a line on what he would do for the congressman.

For one thing, Wilkes was totally disgusted by the hot tub Cunningham
put on the boat's deck during the autumn and winter.

What repelled Wilkes -- and others invited to the parties -- was both
the water Cunningham put in the hot tub and the congressman's penchant
for using it while naked, even if everybody else at the party was
clothed.

Cunningham used water siphoned directly from the polluted Potomac
River and never changed it out during the season.

"Wilkes thought it was unbelievably dirty and joked if you got in
there it would leave a dark water line on your chest," said one person
familiar with the parties.

"The water was so gross that very few people were willing to get into
the hot tub other than Duke and his paramour."


Hmm.

When Nancy Pelosi said that Democrats would "drain the swamp" after
last year's elections, I had no idea that she was specifically
referring to Duke Cunningham's hot tub.

(Although... given last week's capitulation to Bush on Iraq, it kinda
makes sense. And that's all I'm going to say about that this week.)


By EarlG
Democratic Underground
http://www.democraticunderground.com/

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