It’s no doubt just a coincidence, but am I the only one who’s noticed that House Republicans have had an awful year with regards to violence against women?
Rep. John Sweeney [R-N.Y.] got into an early-morning fracas with his wife that became so frightening she called 911 for help, the Daily News has learned.
Gayle (Gaia) Sweeney told the 911 dispatcher that her husband was “knocking her around the house,” according to a December 2005 state police report obtained by The News…. She later told a state trooper who came to their suburban Albany residence that she and her husband had a “verbal argument that turned a little physical by her being grabbed by the neck and pushed around the house,” according to the report.
While representing the good people of the 10th District, the married congressman [Republican Rep. Don Sherwood] shacked up in Washington with a Peruvian immigrant more than three decades his junior. During one assignation in 2004, the woman, who says Sherwood was striking her and trying to strangle her, locked herself in a bathroom and called 911; Sherwood told police he was giving her a back rub.
And in Nevada:
A single mother and a Nevada congressman running for governor gave vastly different accounts of a night of drinking that ended in three calls to 911, a police investigation and a battery complaint that was later withdrawn, police reports show.
Chrissy Mazzeo made three calls to 911 in which she told operators she had been assaulted by Rep. Jim Gibbons [R-Nev.], according to investigative reports released by police Wednesday. Mazzeo, 32, told police that Gibbons grabbed her arms and tried to force himself on her late Friday in a parking garage near a restaurant where she had been drinking with a friend, the congressman and his top adviser.
It seems like a lot for one party in one chamber in one year, doesn’t it?