Downton Abbey in Congress
Republican Representative Aaron Schock does not want to talk about this congressional office. At all. Nope. Not talking.
Aaron Schock is real fond of showing off his six pack. I suspect that his shirt often just falls off when cameras are around, which appears to be often because if you search the internets for a picture of him, a whole bunch of them are missing a shirt. That’s oaky. He’s a real cutie pie and, Honey, he knows it.
Bless his heart, he even did a magazine cover about his body. He’s proud of that manly sucker.
His office? Not so much. It’s been described as lavish. In my mind, it’s a tad fussy for a grown man who is not wearing a powdered wig.
A Washington Post reporter got to see it. Shock’s interior decorator gave him a tour.
She introduced herself as Annie Brahler, the interior decorator whose company is called Euro Trash. She guided me to Schock’s private office, revealing another dramatic red room. This one with a drippy crystal chandelier, a table propped up by two eagles, a bust of Abraham Lincoln and massive arrangements of pheasant feathers.
I dunno. Maybe he’s a pheasant hunter. If not, he’s probably into some kinky stuff.
His office tried their darnest to kill the story.
Then, my phone rang.
It was Schock’s communications director, Benjamin Cole.
“Are you taking pictures of the office?” he asked. “Who told you you could do that? . . . Okay, stay where you are. You’ve created a bit of a crisis in the office.”
I wonder how this is going to play in Peoria, Schock’s district. That probably explains the crisis, right?
Thanks to chloe bear for the heads up.
Is he anti-gay?
1Just out of curiosity, does this office include a large closet?
2Pheasant feathers I just don’t understand. Chicken feathers, yes, but not pheasant feathers. Pheasant feathers takes kinky to perverted.
3And a possible ethics violation as well?
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2015/02/03/3618614/aaron-schock-downton-ethics/
4Bordello magenta.
5That decor is what we gay folk call “High Queen.”
6its obama’s fault the seahawks lost!
7He is the House’s counterpart to the Senate’s “confirmed bachelor” Miss Lindsey.
8Who paid for all of this? He might want to come down to earth or does he think he is royalty?
9Methinks Lord Grantham hast overstepped the line whilst sipping sherry with his decorator.
10The feather is kinky, the whole bird would be perverted.
11Um . . . red has always been a power color. OK. I get that. What this guy doesn’t get is that if he has to hit folks over the head with “power” via his office decor, he probably doesn’t have any of the real thing at all. Keep on eye on this and see how fast his office is repainted boring beige.
12Pardon my ignorance, but isn’t his congressional office a public room? Like “open records act” public? If he isn’t ready to share pictures of it, he should not have paid that much money to decorate it like that.
13Apparently he did not pay the decorator, but was offered her services for free. Thus, the ethics violation brian spoke of.
14And I do believe even some of my gay friends would say this room is just a bit over the top. Tell me this yahoo isn’t yet another guy in politics pretending he’s straight? He does have a fabulous set of pecs and abs though.Heehee..
15Well, shoot. Why can’t the decorator offer her decorating skills for free? Obviously she put there what she wanted to display. Maybe she had some tastefully done business cards in a little tray on his desk. And it probably cost a lot less than a lot of the campaign contributions (yeah right) he got from other folks.
16n the fall-and-winter catalog on page six-hundred-two,
I see this advertisement that makes me come unglued.
The picture’s got me out of sorts ’cause I don’t understand:
Are they advertising boxer shorts, or are they trying to sell the man?
(I don’t know.)
Could be trolling for boyfriends.
17Googled Aaron Schock + Men’s Health and found an image of the cover with his photo. The blurb says “America’s Fittest Congressman.” I thought Paul Ryan was the fittest man in congressman!?
18Ethics, shmethics. Congresscritters are not allowed to accept gifts with monetary value.
19@Zyxomma,
Lucky for Mr. Shock, that decor is so tacky that I’m not sure it has any monetary value. I mean, would you pay for that? As such, it doesn’t fall under ethical guidelines.
20Red is as close to pink as he dared.
This gives new meaning to “House of Ill Repute”
21Or, does it?
SusanF-there used to be a rumor that congresscritters did the people’s business which made their offices public. Now they are wholly owned subsidiaries of the koch bros and,therefore,off limits to prying eyes.
22The decorator may not be the only woman who offered him her services for free, but I bet that was the first time he accepted the offer.
23I love it! gorgeous! Is there a set fee given to the congress person to redecorate? maybe that’s one of those 14 coats of paint to get the translucence just right, paint jobs. who paid for that?? I’ll ask my female congresswoman to run over there and get me the scoop
24Republicants are such copy cats. But, Aaron boy seems to be lacking the confidence of an Anthony Weiner; all pecs and no assault rifle.
25HEADS UP! It appears it’s illegal. Click right here.
26Oh, the humoranity! Come on, sometimes a man has to do what a man has to do. Y’all are just jealous!
27gabberflasted, I believe all the light bulbs would have to be red in order to qualify for that classification.
28First, Euro Trash? He hired a lady who calls her business Euro Trash? And we wonder why his office looks looks a cheap imitation of a French Bordello?
Here’s a little secret: I know Downton Abby aka Highclere Castle because I was married there (13 years ago today, in fact!). Aaron Schock either got ripped off or got exactly what he paid for: An ugly knockoff of a beautiful and historical home.
I love that CREW caught wind of this. LOL
http://www.highclerecastle.co.uk/about-us/the-state-rooms.html
29He didn’t pay for the renovation. He used campaign funds (illegally) for the furniture. His interior decorator,whom he brought in from Illinoise decorated his other congressional office,too. Getting free stuff is a no no,unless wingnuts control the ethics committee,which they do.
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