It’s Illinois day over at the Stakeholder with stupid Republican tricks (not all inclusive of Republicans) taking center stage. They cover the impending nuptuals of Jerry Weller to Genocidal Dictator’s daughter Zury Rios Sosa .
Rios Montt’s attempted comeback was aided by his daughter who runs his party in the Guatemalan Assembly. Worse, she was part of his campaign when he said the following:
Days later, after General R?os Montt’s warning that he could not contain the anger of his supporters, thousands of people travelled to the capital in vehicles reportedly belonging to or hired by the FRG to protest against the ruling. Paramilitaries and rioters armed with machetes and clubs brought the centre of Guatemala City to a standstill in what came to be known as “Black Thursday”. General R?os Montt and the FRG denied any responsibility for the riots.
In August of 2003, indigenous opponents of Rios Montt were harassed by armed men. This fits with the pattern during Rios Montt’s term as President when indigenous Mayans were slaughtered in the thousands others have just disappeared. Somewhere around 600 villages were destroyed.
Rios Montt is the worst kind of monster. He attacked campesinos for no other reason than they were inconveniently in the way. One of my guides when I was in Nicaragua was married to a Guatemalan who had been abducted and tortured and had several people close to him disappeared.
The Pantagraph reports that the Weller office is dismissing this being a problem
“This is like any other couple,” Lovelace said. “One may be from one political arena, another from another political arena. That’s all it is.”
“As Congressman Weller says, ‘Love knows no boundaries.’ So, it’s beyond politics,” Lovelace added.
Beyond politics except that Weller sits on International Affairs Western Hemisphere Subcommittee. So he can’t be unfamiliar with Rios Montt’s record of brutality nor his future wife’s complicity in those affairs. And how can he live with it? There is both a conflict of interest and a conflict of morality.
Even the Bush administration threatened sanctions if Rios Montt had won in 2003.
Til Death Do Us Part
Republicans Love Freedom! U.S. Rep. Jerry Weller’s Democratic opponent is raising questions about the congressman’s pending marriage to the daughter of a former Central American dictator. Tari Renner of Normal, who is challenging Weller in Illinois’ 11…
I’m terribly surprised.
Jerry Weller is the most obvious latent homosexual I’ve ever met.
It’s funny that he was trying to get political cover (he gets engaged every time he has a real race) and it ends up biting him in the ass.
Maybe I shouldn’t have said “ass”
Apparently, Mr. Weller has either actively or in some other manner refused to debate his competitor, Tari Renner. Imagine that. I’m one of his constituents, and just sent-off an e-mail to his local office asking about time and date(s) for debates with his competitor. Should be interesting.