And they didn’t do anything about it – from Oregon Live:
Three days before the Nov. 2 election, U.S. Rep. David Wu’s most loyal and senior staffers were so alarmed by his erratic behavior that they demanded he enter a hospital for psychiatric treatment.
Their concern had been spiking for weeks in tandem with the Oregon Democrat’s increasingly unpredictable performance on the campaign trail and in private. He was loud and sometimes angry, some of them told The Oregonian. He said kooky things to staff and — more worrisome with a tough election fast approaching — around potential voters and donors…
It is clear when you read the rest of the article that Mr. Wu is suffering some rather severe mental problems – he needs, and needed, counseling of varied types…probably psychiatric, certainly spiritual. But here’s the thing – as Mr. Wu went ever more clearly ’round the bend, his Democrat staffers never thought to inform the voters that the man they were preparing to re-elect was not fit to hold the job of Representative! In other words, winning the race and keeping power for Democrats was rated more important than the people of Mr. Wu’s district or the health of Mr. Wu!
Nothing has better illustrated the Democrats’ lust for power and willingness to set aside everything – even basic, human decency – in the pursuit of it. From what I can tell, none of this leaked to the press pre-election – not so much as a whisper, and towards the end when Mr. Wu became very erratic, they just took him off the campaign trail and apparently crossed their fingers and hoped the Democrat advantage in the district would carry them through (which, in the end, it did). This is disgusting on a lot of levels.
But it is also what we have to deal with: people who are absolutely power mad. People who will do just about anything to stay at the public trough. Keep that in mind as we head in to 2012.
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