Like father like son: Jesse Jackson Jr admits extramarital affair

Jesse Jackson SR's history includes paying his mistress non-profit money from his Rainbow Push Coalition to travel with him on a perpetual booty call while his wife and family were left home. The apple, as they say, often doesn't fall far from the tree. From NBC: Jesse's Girl?

Jesse Jackson Jr. doesn't deny involvement with a Washington D.C. based restaurant hostess who was named this morning in a Sun-Times story about his alleged attempt to buy an appointment to President Obama's former Senate seat.

Before the above sentence was entered into the computer, Stacy McCain posted pics of Giovana Huidobro (via Instapundit): As If I Actually Needed an Excuse to Post This Picture of a Blonde in a Bikini

Of course, Jr took a page from Sr in the 'explanation:'

"The reference to a social acquaintance is a personal and private matter between me and my wife that was handled some time ago." Jackson Jr. said in a statement. "I ask that you respect our privacy."

If memory serves, Sr also included God in the list. But there's more. Other than having an affair, he also really did pay to get Obama's Senate seat, something that he denied. It's the Chicago way. From the Sun Times:

...the congressman vowed to stay in office in the wake of a Chicago Sun-Times report that a major political fund-raiser has told federal authorities that Jackson directed him to offer former Gov. Rod Blagojevich millions of dollars in campaign cash in return for an appointment for Jackson to the U.S. Senate, to succeed President Obama.

The allegation by Oak Brook businessman Raghuveer Nayak regarding fund-raising runs counter to public statements Jackson has made as recently as last week that he never authorized any deal to attempt to trade campaign cash for the Senate appointment, which ultimately went not to Jackson but to Sen. Roland Burris.

"The allegations about fund-raising and the Senate seat are not new," Jackson said in a written statement. "I've already talked with the authorities about these claims, told them they were false, and no charges have been brought against me.

...The Sun-Times reported on Tuesday that sources said Nayak told authorities that on Oct. 8, 2008, Jackson directed him to offer Blagojevich $6 million in exchange for the Senate appointment.

A chip off the old block that Jr.

http://theblogprof.blogspot.com/2010/09/like-father-like-son-jesse-jackson-jr.html

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