US abstinence-only education czar quits over hooker scandal

[Vay]

(Married) Deputy Secretary of State Randall L. Tobias submitted his resignation Friday, one day after confirming to ABC News that he had been a customer of a Washington, D.C. escort service whose owner has been charged by federal prosecutors with running a prostitution operation. Tobias, 65, Director of U.S. Foreign Assistance and administrator of the US Agency for International Development (USAID), had previously served as the Ambassador for the President’s Emergency Fund for AIDS Relief.

Ironically, Tobias had criticized the promotion of condom use as opposed to the abstinence-only or monogamy programs the Bush administration favored:

“Statistics show that condoms really have not been very effective,” Tobias said, adding, “It’s been the principal prevention device for the last 20 years, and I think one needs only to look at what’s happening with the infection rates in the world to recognize that has not been working.”

Full story and related links here:

Bush official who promoted abstinence and denounced condoms resigns – after admitting he used “D.C. Madam’s” escort service

On a related topic:

$87 billion a year down the drain – Bush administration quietly releases study on impact of abstinence-only programs

[Jaboney]

Gee, who would have guessed: sex happens.

[twocs]

In that position, I’d quit, too. Why doesn’t Gonzales do the same?

[Vay]

Oh, this just gets better and better…

Former U.S. AID director Randall Tobias, who resigned yesterday upon admitting that he frequented a Washington escort service, oversaw a controversial policy advocated by the religious right that required any US-based group receiving anti-AIDS funds to take an anti-prostitution “loyalty oath.”

thinkprogress.org/2007/04/28/tob … stitution/?

Fred, you’d recently complained about some of us making slanderous mis-representations about Republicans. Does this thread count?

[jwbrunken]

To quote John Stewart, “Isn’t there anything that this administration can do that isn’t ironic?”

[Jack_Burton]

[quote=“Vay”]Oh, this just gets better and better…

Former U.S. AID director Randall Tobias, who resigned yesterday upon admitting that he frequented a Washington escort service, oversaw a controversial policy advocated by the religious right that required any US-based group receiving anti-AIDS funds to take an anti-prostitution “loyalty oath.”

thinkprogress.org/2007/04/28/tob … stitution/?

Fred, you’d recently complained about some of us making slanderous mis-representations about Republicans. Does this thread count?[/quote]

Fred’s busy at the KTV. Please call back another time.