Hastert may be at western Wisconsin home

[47of74]

After being indicted some believe former House Speaker Denny Hastert went to a home he owns in western Wisconsin.

Some believe he went to his country home in Eastman, Wisconsin. That’s about 12 miles northeast of Prairie du Chien in Crawford County.

A neighbor said Hastert does spend time at the residence. He also said the allegations are hard to believe.

“Somebody made a mistake. I don’t think he’s the bad guy, I think he’s the top of the world. I wish him good luck and if it’s a trumped up charge, which I think it probably could be, I hope it passes,” said Sherwood Matti.

The allegations are from when Hastert was a teacher and wrestling coach in Illinois decades ago, before he entered politics.

A) I'm guessing this neighbor has his nose buried in Walker's ass.
B) Yeah somebody made a mistake alright, namely Hastert.

[bluesbassman]

1. Nobody forks over $3.5 million for a "mistake".

[47of74]

7. Excellent point

This is hush money. Which means he did something.

[Skittles]

12. must REALLY suck to pony up that much money

and it STILL comes out

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

13. What are the allegations beyound the payoff, trying to hide the amount of money withdrawn and lying

to the FBI?

Is there a blue dress someplace?

[bluesbassman]

14. Good question.

Although at this point there is only the SARS issue, my guess is that this is going to be a catalyst for others to come forward. The statistics are not favorable that it was one isolated occurrence if it turns out to really be pedophilia.

[47of74]

15. Ok, that just caused some mental images to appear

Mental images of Hastert in a blue dress.

And now, if you'll excuse me....

[Wellstone ruled]

2. Denial denial.

Common amongst codependent types..

[RKP5637]

3. Yep! Exactly!!! Denial, we see it all the time. n/t

[Wellstone ruled]

5. People get all Star Gazey

and love to drop the F---ers name. Grew up in small hick resort town,know the line that many of the neighbors use,anything to impress. There will be more guys coming out of the woodwork on this turd.

[HereSince1628]

4. Crawford Co, went for Burke not Walker

It's part of one of the three national anomalies of rural dem strength which might be called "Granger Dems" and who have been anti-corporate anti-1% since the 1880's

Lots of people think WI dems only live in Milw and Dane Co. but that's not the case.

[47of74]

8. I know there's plenty of Dems in southwest Wisconsin too

I know Grant County went for fuckstick last time around but only by a few percentage points. Only several hundred more voted for him than Burke.

[lpbk2713]

6. Um ... it goes beyond "made a mistake"

And I have to wonder if "I don't think he's the bad guy is an attempt at victim blaming.

[47of74]

9. Uh, yeah.

Like I said earlier, since ol' Denny is a Republican he can probably do no wrong in the eyes of this neighbor.

[nadinbrzezinski]

10. Neighbor is typical

nobody believes their neighbor is a bad person... and we hear this shock and dismay often.

[Skittles]

11. yes, because people hide from trumped-up charges