Comments on: Swalwell quits the House; Gonzales quits the House https://thenewneo.com/2026/04/14/swalwell-quits-the-house-gonzales-quits-the-house/ A blog about political change, among other things Thu, 16 Apr 2026 09:31:53 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.1 By: Richard Aubrey https://thenewneo.com/2026/04/14/swalwell-quits-the-house-gonzales-quits-the-house/#comment-2848191 Thu, 16 Apr 2026 09:31:53 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=148590#comment-2848191 R2L
The perps in this case or these cases are not the run-of-the-mill criminals. They’re elected officials. What pressure could be brought, or perhaps merely predicted, is immense.

Who killed Seth Richards? Anybody know? Anybody bother to look? Do the fibbies still have his computer? This could be a simply unsolved murder. But it is Out There and maybe a casual mention…..

]]> By: R2L https://thenewneo.com/2026/04/14/swalwell-quits-the-house-gonzales-quits-the-house/#comment-2848175 Thu, 16 Apr 2026 03:30:00 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=148590#comment-2848175 Kate on April 15, 2026 at 8:02 am:
“I cannot imagine being drugged and brutally assaulted and NOT going to the police.”
That is also the question many men are asking when these stories become public.
The public attitude has become much more understanding of a viewpoint that “she was not asking for it — or at least for That!” etc. Then again, some of the statistics seem to end up being unbelievably high (as in 20% on college campuses, etc.).

And also; do these women not have fathers, uncles, husbands/boy friends, brothers, nephews, male cousins and friends that could help rearrange the mind and body of the guy who assaulted her?

]]> By: AesopFan https://thenewneo.com/2026/04/14/swalwell-quits-the-house-gonzales-quits-the-house/#comment-2848168 Thu, 16 Apr 2026 02:25:44 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=148590#comment-2848168 I had a knee-jerk reply to BrooklynBoy (who speaks for me on the Fang Fang situation), that being the maxim we see often on the internet:
That tells you all you need to know about the Democrat Party.

Then I wondered: Is there any analog among Republicans where a Congressman or woman was revealed to have similar blackmail exposure, and yet was retained in a sensitive National Security committee assignment (never mind getting not run out of the Congress).

PS Diane Feinstein had a Chinese chauffeur for decades, IIRC, and no one in the Democrat Party even censured her when that was revealed.

PPS Kind of makes you think about those charges the naive young Representative Madison Cawthorn made.

He had a lot of problems (Wikipedia is biased of course, but the basic facts are there), but this claim has a lot more credibility lately: “In a March 2022 interview, Cawthorn talked about “the sexual perversion that goes on in Washington” and said he had been invited to an orgy by an unnamed lawmaker. He also claimed that prominent Washington figures had used cocaine in front of him.”

]]> By: BrooklynBoy https://thenewneo.com/2026/04/14/swalwell-quits-the-house-gonzales-quits-the-house/#comment-2848100 Wed, 15 Apr 2026 14:37:30 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=148590#comment-2848100 Eric Swalwell should have been forced to quit after his affair with that Chinese agent Christine Fang (Fang Fang) was revealed.

]]> By: Miguel cervantes https://thenewneo.com/2026/04/14/swalwell-quits-the-house-gonzales-quits-the-house/#comment-2848088 Wed, 15 Apr 2026 12:49:01 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=148590#comment-2848088 Apparently there were receipts from the montrose hotel billed to the campaign

He is a slithy tove

Now we didnt have someone quite as deranged as tony gonzalez but we had david rivera who was quite dodgy

In his finances his personal relations et al (most recently he tried to lobby for the venezuelan govt

]]> By: Kate https://thenewneo.com/2026/04/14/swalwell-quits-the-house-gonzales-quits-the-house/#comment-2848085 Wed, 15 Apr 2026 12:02:06 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=148590#comment-2848085 Yes, HC68. We have only this woman’s belated statements. However, Swalwell’s withdrawal from the gubernatorial race and resignation from Congress indicate that at least some of the stories are true, or have evidence to support them.

I cannot imagine being drugged and brutally assaulted and NOT going to the police.

]]> By: HC68 https://thenewneo.com/2026/04/14/swalwell-quits-the-house-gonzales-quits-the-house/#comment-2848047 Wed, 15 Apr 2026 05:42:16 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=148590#comment-2848047

AppleBetty, on that woman’s rape story: After this appalling attack she didn’t file a police report. Politics, or fear of consequences, overwhelmed common sense and civic duty. The creep was left free to perhaps do this to some other woman.

— Kate

Or, a possibility that we should keep in mind, the real story might be more complicated or not as bad as it’s being portrayed.

]]> By: Selfy https://thenewneo.com/2026/04/14/swalwell-quits-the-house-gonzales-quits-the-house/#comment-2848046 Wed, 15 Apr 2026 05:41:37 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=148590#comment-2848046 I hope the Republicants have this dual resignation deal (assuming there was a deal) under control, and Swalwell can’t renege after Gonzales resigns. I suppose whoever replaces Swalwell will be another principle-less Party man (or woman). But it will be nice to flush the Swalwell creep, if he resigns as promised.

]]> By: Kate https://thenewneo.com/2026/04/14/swalwell-quits-the-house-gonzales-quits-the-house/#comment-2848023 Wed, 15 Apr 2026 01:00:52 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=148590#comment-2848023 AppleBetty, on that woman’s rape story: After this appalling attack she didn’t file a police report. Politics, or fear of consequences, overwhelmed common sense and civic duty. The creep was left free to perhaps do this to some other woman.

]]> By: steve walsh https://thenewneo.com/2026/04/14/swalwell-quits-the-house-gonzales-quits-the-house/#comment-2848015 Wed, 15 Apr 2026 00:26:46 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=148590#comment-2848015 One hopes that these scum are anomalies, all while it would seem to be unlikely.

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