Downton Abbey in Congress

February 03, 2015 By: Juanita Jean Herownself Category: Uncategorized

Republican Representative Aaron Schock does not want to talk about this congressional office.  At all.  Nope.  Not talking.

UnknownAaron 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.

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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.

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0 Comments to “Downton Abbey in Congress”


  1. Is he anti-gay?

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  2. Just out of curiosity, does this office include a large closet?

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  3. Pheasant feathers I just don’t understand. Chicken feathers, yes, but not pheasant feathers. Pheasant feathers takes kinky to perverted.

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  4. Bordello magenta.

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  5. That decor is what we gay folk call “High Queen.”

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  6. its obama’s fault the seahawks lost!

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  7. He is the House’s counterpart to the Senate’s “confirmed bachelor” Miss Lindsey.

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  8. Who paid for all of this? He might want to come down to earth or does he think he is royalty?

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  9. Methinks Lord Grantham hast overstepped the line whilst sipping sherry with his decorator.

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  10. The feather is kinky, the whole bird would be perverted.

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  11. Um . . . 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.

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  12. Pardon 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.

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  13. Apparently he did not pay the decorator, but was offered her services for free. Thus, the ethics violation brian spoke of.

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  14. And 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..

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  15. Marge Wood says:

    Well, 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.

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  16. e platypus onion says:

    n 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.

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  17. austinhatlady says:

    Googled 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!?

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  18. Ethics, shmethics. Congresscritters are not allowed to accept gifts with monetary value.

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  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.

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  20. gabberflasted says:

    Red is as close to pink as he dared.

    This gives new meaning to “House of Ill Repute”
    Or, does it?

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  21. e platypus onion says:

    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.

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  22. The 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.

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  23. I 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

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  24. Polite Kool Marxist says:

    Republicants are such copy cats. But, Aaron boy seems to be lacking the confidence of an Anthony Weiner; all pecs and no assault rifle.

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  25. Juanita Jean says:

    HEADS UP! It appears it’s illegal. Click right here.

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  26. Mark Schlemmer says:

    Oh, the humoranity! Come on, sometimes a man has to do what a man has to do. Y’all are just jealous!

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  27. gabberflasted, I believe all the light bulbs would have to be red in order to qualify for that classification.

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  28. Lorraine in Spring says:

    First, 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

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  29. e platypus onion says:

    He 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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