What Ever Happened With the Conditt Mess

[lavender]

 

[SINthysist]

Yes, he was a victim of re-districting. He has, however, gotten the neccessary names to enter the primary and plans to do so. Gray Davis has come out against him saying he will not support him, but Gephart has said he will.

As for Chandra, no-one cares anymore. Not a word.... But she was obviously not hiding just to hurt him politically.

 

[modest mouse]

Nothing new on Levy.

Conditt is running again but the RNC has turned him down for any funds. They are hoping another Republican will run as Conditt is assured of losing, especially in the new district in which he has less support(if possible).

 

[SINthysist]

That was a confusing post. Why would the RNC fund a Democrat? With the re-districting, the Republicans are modestly hopefull that they have a shot at his (or the new) seat.

Or am I missing something?

 

[modest mouse]

I have no clue as to his political affiliation. Change the R to a D if necessary. To me he is just another useless California politician. One of many.

 

[SINthysist]

Remove the California if you like...

 

[xzchief]

Gary Condit filed for re-election 45 minutes before the deadline 10 days ago. He's a Democrat, albeit to the right of most of the House Democratic caucus. His pragmatic views fit his old district well. The California Legislature, controlled by Democrats, and Governor Gray Davis combined to gerrymander Condit's district. Condit has never represented 40 percent of the new district. The idea was that, if the new voters only knew Chandry Levy, they wouldn't care about the years of service Condit had in the Modesto area.

This was done because Democrats fear that Republicans would beat Condit in November 2002. The seat switch would badly hurt Democrats in their bid to take control of the House. They need to win a net of six Republican-held seats next year to get a 218-217 majority. Losing Condit's seat pushes that figure to seven.

Local elected officials and state legislators talked a lot about running in the Democratic primary against Condit but the actual opposition is not that strong. I predicted in June that Condit would win re-election and I stand by that prediction. An 18-month interval alone would have caused most people in Modesto to forget about Chandra Levy. Given the events of September 11, few people even care about her whereabouts now, let alone a year from now.

 

[SINthysist]

Tuesday, Dec. 25, 2001 9:51 a.m. EST
Dominick Dunne: Condit Used D.C. Prostitution Ring to 86 Levy
Those who thought Gary Condit's ex-galpal Anne Marie Smith was off the wall with her thinly veiled accounts of the congressman's kinky predilections may be in for a shock if the latest theory about what happened to missing intern Chandra Levy pans out.
Author Dominick Dunne says an eyewitness to Levy's disappearance has told a trusted source that Condit got her mixed up in a prostitution ring that serviced Middle Eastern diplomats in Washington - then set the stage to have her killed and her body dumped into the Atlantic Ocean.
The New York Post's Page Six reports that Dunne appeared on Laura Ingraham's Westwood One radio show late last week and announced that his source knows a Middle Eastern businessman who claims he saw Levy being loaded onto a plane surrounded by five men sometime after she was last seen publicly on April 30.
"She wasn't walking," this businessman observed ominously. He then explained that Condit was a frequent guest at Middle Eastern embassies in Washington where women would be brought for "nocturnal pleasures."
Shortly before Levy disappeared, Condit is said to have confided in Dunne's second-hand source that Levy was "driving me crazy" with her threats to go public with their relationship.
Dunne told Ingraham the FBI takes his information seriously and is working to identify the mystery Mideastern man.

 

[miles]

Anyone taking bets

..on how many votes he will get?????

 

[SINthysist]

It's California. My student just came back from there (the Berkley area) and he tells me things about those people on the left coast that just makes my hair curl!

Condidit will probably win in a near landslide!

 

[Problem Child]

Berkeley is not California. We have 30 million people in this state, from every political, ethnic, racial, and economic strata there is...

That's like saying Seattle is representative of rural, agricultural eastern Washington, or that Manhattan is representative of upstate New York.

Condit's district is conservative and rural, I used to live there. The only reason he got elected in the first place is because he's a conservative democrat. I seriously doubt he'll win re-election.

 

[SINthysist]

Thanks for that. In my readings (the conservative newsites) they seem to indicate that he will win.

Fearmongering to rally the troops?

 

[Problem Child]

Thanks for that. In my readings (the conservative newsites) they seem to indicate that he will win.

Fearmongering to rally the troops?

I suppose. They, and certainly I, could be wrong. It will depend on who runs against him of course.

 

[SINthysist]

In my experience, the Dems are the hardest and dirtiest fighters. Won't his greatest challenges come in the primaries since the conservatives are too nice to bring it all up?

 

[xzchief]

Being the incumbent gives Condit a lot of advantages. Franked mail, pork-barrel spending and such. The Democrat primary filing deadline has passed and the competition proved to be a lot weaker than expected. After redistricting, Condit's new district will be less conservative than his present one. The idea was that more liberal Democrats would run in the primary and beat Condit. Didn't happen. I think he'll win the nomination.

From there, Democrats will close ranks around Condit rather than let infighting give the Republicans the seat. Dems need to win six GOP seats to claim control of the House. If Condit's seat switches, the total becomes seven. If Condit is the nominee, Dems will help him win. His more liberal district--as now configured--will make it hard for a Republican to win.

 

[SINthysist]

So, now is he officially,

A Kennedy?

Xuse my spellin' por favor..

 

[xzchief]

I wouldn't say Condit is any more liberal, just his district. The Democrats wanted to beat him in the primary but I don't think that will happen so they'll be pragmatic and support his reelection. Better him than a Republican, they'll say.

 

[SINthysist]

I want to reply, but I just don't know how. After all, Reagan was a Californian....

 

[Herbie Handcock]

Condit who? LOL

First off, dito PC.

Condit is just getting a reprieve from the press due to 9/11. As soon as the campaign heats up the Grand Old Party and the press will bring Condit and his possible knowledge of Levy's dissapearance back to the surface.

 

[tigerjen]

Re: Condit who? LOL

First off, dito PC.

Condit is just getting a reprieve from the press due to 9/11. As soon as the campaign heats up the Grand Old Party and the press will bring Condit and his possible knowledge of Levy's dissapearance back to the surface.

Ever since 9/11......the whole Condit issue has been on
the backburner...I'll have to agree.....it will come back as
soon as campaigning starts up next year........watch and
see......

 

[xzchief]

Re: Re: Condit who? LOL

Ever since 9/11......the whole Condit issue has been on
the backburner...I'll have to agree.....it will come back as
soon as campaigning starts up next year........watch and
see......

If we're still talking about terrorism in 10 months, Condit will stay on the backburner. If there are no new developments in the Chandra Levy investigation within the next 10 months, people will forget about it. Whether or not Condit gets the people of greater Modesto a new factory or research dollars will be more important than Chandra Levy.

I need to emphasize that I don't like it. I'd rather Condit possessed enough dignity to resign. That said, it's already been eight months since Chandra disappeared. The outrage will not be greater a year from now.

 

[SINthysist]

I think there will be developments. The tabs have to have something to do, now don't they?

 

[SINthysist]

http://www.nypost.com/news/nationalnews/39113.htm

January 16, 2002 -- WASHINGTON - A federal grand-jury investigation into the disappearance of Chandra Levy has intensified in recent weeks - and the conduct of Rep. Gary Condit is a growing focus of the probe, The Post has learned.
Sources close to the investigation said last night that there are 12 FBI agents and Justice Department lawyers assigned to what is now listed as a "criminal" case.
The probe has expanded to all aspects of the Levy saga - from the circumstances leading up to the D.C. intern's vanishing to Condit's bizarre behavior in trying to cover up his relationship with the 24-year-old California co-ed.
No charges have been brought against the scandal-scarred married Modesto, Calif., congressman, who continues to deny wrongdoing.
Police have no solid leads as to what happened to Levy, who disappeared from her downtown Washington apartment on May 1.
But sources told The Post that federal investigators have taken over the missing-persons case that made national headlines last summer from D.C. police and are looking into whether Condit knows more than he has admitted.
Other aspects of the probe include whether he obstructed justice by throwing out a watch box given to him by another former lover hours before cops searched his apartment last July, and urging another ex-girlfriend, United Airlines flight attendant Anne Marie Smith, to sign a false affidavit denying their romance, sources said.
In November, a Superior Court grand jury subpoenaed Condit's telephone, bank and credit-card records, a move that was initially described as a routine procedure to wrap up loose ends in a probe that was quickly losing steam.
"Everybody did a good job of playing it down at the time. But it was the first sign that this grand-jury business is the real deal," one source close to the investigation said last night.
Calls to Condit's lawyers were not returned last night.
Condit has admitted he had an affair with Chandra but has denied he had anything to do with her disappearance.
Condit also has changed lawyers, replacing hard-nosed Washington insider Abbe Lowell with celebrity defense lawyer Mark Geragos, who has defended Roger Clinton and Winona Ryder.
Condit has stopped going to elaborate lengths to duck the press, which sources said had included traveling from Washington to California in August in a diesel-powered semi-trailer to avoid TV cameras staked out at airports.
Condit, a Democrat, is running for re-election. He has five challengers in the March 5 primary.

 

[TN_Vixen]

Interesting thread - I was thinking of this the other day

Glad to see the investigation is still going strong.

Is there any merit to the speculation about the Middle Eastern business? That seems pretty far fetched to me. Why haven't we heard anything about the sighting of her boarding a plane in the past?

 

[SINthysist]

Condit is a member of the Democratic Party. Most of the press, especially the ABC's, CBC's, and CNN's are dominated by Democratically oriented people. They would like to see thier party in power and soon. Hence, they will not disclose anything negative or disturbing about any Democratic Candidate until they decide to cross lines and become Republicans.

That's why many choose to get information from Fox, Drudge, Newsmax, etc.