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Shays: Page Scandal Isn't Chappaquiddick
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| Last Edited | Servo Oct 11, 2006 12:41pm |
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| Media | Newspaper - Guardian |
| News Date | Wednesday, October 11, 2006 06:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Republican Rep. Christopher Shays defended the House speaker's handling of a congressional page scandal, saying no one died like at Chappaquiddick in 1969 when Democratic Sen. Ted Kennedy was involved.
``I know the speaker didn't go over a bridge and leave a young person in the water, and then have a press conference the next day,'' the embattled Connecticut congressman told The Hartford Courant in remarks published Wednesday.
``Dennis Hastert didn't kill anybody,'' he added.
Shays' comments recalled the Chappaquiddick incident, when Kennedy's car ran off a Massachusetts bridge, killing his passenger, Mary Jo Kopechne. Kennedy did not immediately report the tragedy, and later pleaded guilty to leaving the scene of an accident. |
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