I thought it a bit strange, when I first heard it, that DJ was resigning from the House and from being the Majority Leader – after all, the session was just about over. Really, it was “dude, why bother, ya gotta run for re-election anyways”. Family? I knew that he was going to marrying Shannon Schutts soon, but it didn’t register is was REAL soon – like this week, so I kinda went “huh?” over the hackneyed phrase ” to spend more time with his family,” (a saying that is generally used in business when one has lost a position due to a corporate merger or political upheaval – or poor results come out) but decided, ok – a bit of a stretch, but it passes muster. And even though Grokster Tim writes here, I didn’t know that DJ was to be the Exec Dir. of the NHLRF (the new job bit). Then the real shoe dropped about the faked reports for the law internship at Brandon Guida’s office in order to graduate from UNH Law).
Sidenote: I do have to side with Guida in this and NOT just because that ‘silence is complicity’ would have put him at risk – cover ups are wrong for any reason and anyone (and not just someone of ‘high’ stature or any ideology)
A sad story indeed. No, it is not my point nor my deal to add gas to a fire he lit himself. All of us, at one time or another, have done stupid things and some of those have risen to the level of REAL stupid. I certainly have and I can commiserate with some of the torment that he is now putting himself through (“did I really think I could skate by?”) – and that of those around them (having been there around those whose actions got me involved as collateral damage). He may have blown up in actually getting that law degree and a shot at the bar, his political career here in NH may be in tatters
Sidenote: why does it seem that Dems who do similar things always seem to come back but Repubs aren’t allowed to (at the least, not for a LONG time)?
and he may have lost other things of much more value of a personal nature as well.
