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...minister told the Modesto Bee that when news of Levy's disappearance first broke, and Condit, through staff, expressed concern about his "good friend," Jennifer Thomas had shouted at the television, "That's a lie!" Her father also claimed that he had received an anonymous phone call warning him not to talk. When reporters showed up at the family doorstep the day his story went public, they were greeted with a handwritten note: "I never met that Congressman who's involved in all this...I don't even know how both me and my father got mixed up in this...
...precautions Condit is said to have taken, and despite the wholesome image he projected at home in Modesto, the Congressman's behavior has always been the subject of gossip among his legislative colleagues - first at the state capital, Sacramento, and later in Washington. "A flamboyant party boy who uses his prestige as an assemblyman to fuel a busy social life," California Journal had written in 1988. The pattern continued when he reached Congress. "His looks and clothes are so important to him," says a friend. "He so desperately wants to stay young...
...Condit is a retail guy in his home district, so sensitive to his constituents' needs that he helps them find apartments in D.C. Unable to say no, he had as many as 10 interns on staff one summer. A workhorse on the Agriculture Committee, he serves the farmers of Modesto, a town of pickups and soda fountains where American Graffiti was filmed, and does it so well he routinely wins re-election by close to 70%--and was considering a run for statewide office. His district is conservative but hasn't balked at a lifestyle that's surprising...
...Condit is a retail guy in his home district, so sensitive to his constituents' needs that he helps them find apartments in D.C. Unable to say no, he had as many as 10 interns on staff one summer. A workhorse on the Agriculture Committee, he serves the farmers of Modesto, a town of pickups and soda fountains where American Graffiti was filmed, and does it so well he routinely wins re-election by close to 70%--and was considering a run for statewide office. His district is conservative but hasn't balked at a lifestyle that's surprising...
Condit's hometown (and generally friendly) paper, the Modesto Bee, editorialized on June 8 that "five weeks of silence is enough." Condit "has a duty to publicly clarify his relationship with Levy," the paper said. During a meeting last Thursday, former Democratic Representative Vic Fazio urged Condit to answer questions from the local press...