Sergeant at Arms on Allred
The House Sergeant at Arms staff just issued its report on Rep. Cary Allred's really bad day, during which he was pulled for speeding and accused of acting inappropriately on the House floor.
Click here for a PDF of the report. (This link is updated if you had trouble with an earlier version of the file.)
The document contains both a report from Robert Samuels, the Sergeant at Arms himself, as well as written reports from members.
Not a-typical, although more colorfully written than many of the accounts, is this from Rep. Mitch Setzer:
"However, the most disturbing thing I witnessed on the evening of April 27, 2009 involved an inappropriate interaction between Representative Cary Allred and a House Page. Very close to the end of the Session, I turned in my chair to conduct a conversation with Representative Mark Hilton and directly in my line of sight, at a point on the East wall near the Brass Doors, Representative Allred had a female House Page in what seemed to be a never-ending embrace that resembled a gruesome bear hug. I personally found the scene distasteful and highly disturbing."
Allred is a Republican and interestingly enough, most of the written reports in this document come from Republicans.
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Does it really qualify as "interesting enough" that Republicans would report what they witnessed in a fellow Republican? I can see where this might be shocking behavior in Democrats, but why adopt their standard as the norm?
Posted on May 25, 2009 4:57 AM