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April 29, 2006

Party on, Congressman!

GOP Congressman John Sweeney (NY-20) is just a frat boy at heart:

A congressman from upstate New York found himself on the defensive Friday over a series of photographs that surfaced showing him at a college fraternity party a week earlier.

Democrats seized on the photographs in an attempt to embarrass the congressman, John E. Sweeney, a Republican from the Albany region who attended a party on April 21 at the Alpha Delta Phi house at Union College in Schenectady, N.Y.

His visit was initially reported by the Union College student newspaper, the Concordiensis, which said that witnesses described the congressman as being "inquisitive and engaging" and "acting openly intoxicated."

The clincher for this piece are the photos:

More here.

Sweeney's people are claiming he wasn't drunk and had only a half of a glass of wine at dinner. Which sounds a lot like the "Cheney defense" when Cheney shot his buddy while hunting.

Sweeney is looking awfully bleary-eyed in these photos for a guy claiming to be sober.

Posted by Carla at April 29, 2006 07:40 AM

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