POSTED December 8, 2011 - If you've been following today's news, you may have already heard the disturbing news coming out of Congressman Rick Larsen's Washington D.C. office. In case you haven't, I'm providing you links to some of the dozens of breaking news articles regarding the scandal.  

It is obvious that Larsen has made some some very poor hiring decisions, and that he has lost the respect and control of his staff.

Please read on and see if you don't agree with me that six terms is enough for Congressman Rick Larsen...and please consider sending a generous donation today to help John Koster defeat Larsen in 2012 and restore integrity and oversight to the U.S. House of Representatives!

Larry Stickney, Campaign Manager

PS. Please note that the NW Daily Marker (a journal of current events and culture based in Bothell, Washington) broke the story that set off a national media chain reaction. 

NW Pub Reports: Larsen Aides Booze it Up at Work - FishbowlDC

mediabistro.com - 3 hours ago

Rick Larsen's (D-Wash.) Washington office is nothing short of classic Washington scandal: Boozing at work. Cussing. Tweeting. Calling their boss a p-y and an idiot on Twitter. This story has it all. And yes, the aides have all been canned. ...

 Rick Larsen fires 3 staffers over drunken, insulting tweets

The Seattle Times - 4 hours ago

Rick Larsen, D-Lake Stevens, sacked three young legislative aides Thursday, barely an hour after learning of the trio's stream of indiscreet tweets filled with references to hangovers, idling on the job and, not least, their "idiot boss. ...

 

Rep. Rick Larsen fires three staffers over crass tweets

Washington Post (blog) - 1 hour ago

Rick Larsen on Capitol Hill earlier this year. (Linda Davidson/The Washington Post) Kids these days! Three young staffers in the office of Rep. Rick Larsen (D-Wash.) were fired Thursday after a political blog printed a series of messages they'd ...

 

Rep. Rick Larsen fires 3 for drinking on the job

HeraldNet - 1 hour ago

Rick Larsen's staff reportedly drank at their desks, dissed their boss and shared it all via Twitter. And Thursday, the Democratic congressman found out and fired them. Larsen, a Lake Stevens resident, terminated the aides within an hour of learning of ...

 

Rep. Larsen fires staffers for drinking on the job

The Associated Press - 1 hour ago

Rick Larsen fired three staffers who apparently chronicled their on-the-job drinking exploits, including taking shots of Jack Daniels at their desks, via Twitter. Larsen, a Democrat, dismissed the trio Thursday, about an hour after learning of their ...

 

Hill staffers fired for off-color tweets

Politico - 4 hours ago

Rick Larsen. Eight days into it, and a series of ill-advised tweets later, three staffers for the Washington Democrat were fired Thursday after a local website detailed a pattern of wildly unprofessional behavior-including drinking on the job and ...

 

Rep. Larsen fires 3 aides over tweets about office drinking

Seattle Post Intelligencer - 1 hour ago

Rick Larsen has fired three legislative aides after they tweeted about drinking Jack Daniels at their desks in Washington, DC, and insulted their boss. The tweets were reported by the NW Marker, a political blog. One tweet says "my coworker just took a ...

 

Three congressional staffers canned after tweets reveal in-office partying

The Hill (blog) - 3 hours ago

Rick Larsen (D-Wash.) were fired Thursday after a series of tweets insulting the congressman, complaining about their work, and revealing that they drank on the job were discovered by a website covering Washington state and Oregon politics. ...

 

Larsen Staffers Learn Twitter Sees All

National Journal (blog) - 2 hours ago

Rick Larsen, D-Wash., that were published on a center-right news website have prompted their firing, the congressman's spokesman confirmed Thursday afternoon. NW Daily Marker published a story which included tweets from two of Larsen's legislative ...

 

When Working in Congress, Don't Drink and Tweet

The Atlantic Wire - 2 hours ago

Rick Larsen have learned today that it's a pretty terrible idea to tweet about being drunk on the job if you work on Capitol Hill. The two legislative assistants and one legislative correspondent tweeted for several days about their plans to have a ...

 

Congressman fires staffers over indiscreet tweets

Reuters - 2 hours ago

Democratic Representative Rick Larsen fired the youthful trio -- Seth Burroughs, Elizabeth Robbee and Ben Byers -- shortly after a report by the online NW Daily Marker outlined their Twitter feeds from August to early December. ...

 

Larsen staffers drink, tweet and get fired

Washington Examiner (blog) - 3 hours ago

Rick Larsen, D-Wash., do some stellar stand-up comedy (he's often a contestant at DC's Funniest Celebrity), but he didn't find it too funny when three of his DC-based staffers were called out by the NW Daily Marker for drinking and tweeting on the job. ...

 

Hill staffers tweet of partying, 'idiot boss'

Washington Times (blog) - 5 hours ago

Rick Larsen boasted over Twitter that they were drinking and otherwise goofing off on the job, according to a story in the NW Daily Marker. The website said the tweets gave off the impression of "a staffers-gone-wild bash" in the Washington Democrat's ...

 

Congressional Staffers Fired For Bragging About Wasting Time, Getting Drunk At ...

Ology - 3 hours ago

Rick Larsen (D-WA). Larsen's office sent out a release on Thursday saying that they had let the staffers go. The screen shots and report first surfaced on the Northwest Daily Marker, and many more tweets can be found there. It is simply unbelievable. ...

 

Staffers fired for drinking, insulting lawmaker

CBS News - 1 hour ago

Rick Larsen has fired three staffers who apparently chronicled their on-the-job drinking exploits, including taking shots of Jack Daniels at their desks, via Twitter. "We became aware of the issue through a tweet referencing an article about the ...

 

Drunken Congressional Staffers Use Twitter To Detail Office Party, Bash Boss

WebProNews - 2 hours ago

All of this should have been covered in "Working for a US Representative 101," but was apparently lost on a few staffers working for House member Rick Larsen. Tweets from the personal accounts of three legislative assistants to Larsen paint a picture ...

 

In Vino, Veritas?

Sound Politics - 2 hours ago

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