Deputy Secretary of State Randall L. Tobias submitted his resignation Friday, one day after confirming to ABC News that he had been a customer of a Washington, D.C. escort service whose owner has been charged by federal prosecutors with running a prostitution operation.Tobias, 65, director of U.S. Foreign Assistance and administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), had previously served as the ambassador for the President's Emergency Fund for AIDS Relief.
A State Department press release late Friday afternoon said only he was leaving for "personal reasons."
On Thursday, Tobias told ABC News he had several times called the "Pamela Martin and Associates" escort service "to have gals come over to the condo to give me a massage." Tobias, who is married, said there had been "no sex," and that recently he had been using another service "with Central Americans" to provide massages.
Because we all know, Central Americans give the best massages.
Funniest of all:
As the Bush administration's so-called "AIDS czar," Tobias was criticized for emphasizing faithfulness and abstinence over condom use to prevent the spread of AIDS.
Look, it's common knowledge that horny does make you stupid, but this looks like maybe the other way around.
Again, one has to ask, is there any limit to the Republican party's capacity for shameless hypocrisy?
2 comments:
Bud, he was doing his job as head of USAID: creating jobs for Central Americans.
Question: when he goes to prison, which do you think he'll be "emphasizing":
1) faithfulness, or
2) abstinence, or
3) condom use?
-m
Unfortunately, he probably won't end up in one of those prisons where it might be emphasized for him...
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