The story of Brett Kavanaugh has been fascinating and terrible for many, many reasons. I feel strongly that he’s a sexual assailant and a drunk, and I also feel strongly that those two things are connected. I think it’s more than possible that he’s a Dr. Jekel-Mr. Hyde type of drunk – when sober, he probably comes across as a reasonable, normal person. But when he’s full of his beloved beer? Well, then you see the monster lurking within. That being said, it’s also pretty clear that Kavanaugh wasn’t black-out drunk throughout his high school and college years – he remembers a lot of the awful sh-t he did back then, which is why he was already contacting Yale classmates about Debbie Ramirez… before she even told her story publicly. Which means he was lying about that too, quelle surprise. But was Kavanaugh blackout drunk when he attended a UB40 concert at Yale and then got into a violent altercation?
Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh was accused of starting an altercation while he was a student at Yale, according to a 1985 police report obtained by CNN, after police responded “in regards to an assault.” In the New Haven, Connecticut, police department report, a man named Dom Cozzolino said Kavanaugh had thrown ice on him and Kavanaugh’s friend Chris Dudley had thrown a glass that hit him in the ear.
“The argument between the two started when Mr. Cozzolino stated that Brett Kavanaugh threw ice at him for some unknown reason and he then got hit in the ear with a glass,” the report says. Dudley denied the allegations, according to the report, “and Mr. Kavanaugh didn’t (want) to say if he threw the ice or not. ”
The police report does not indicate whether anyone was arrested, and New Haven’s police chief, Anthony Campbell, told CNN there are no other records he is aware of involving Kavanaugh. The New York Times first reported the incident.
Cozzolino “was bleeding from the right ear,” according to the report, and he was later treated at a local hospital. The incident reportedly occurred at a bar called Demery’s after a UB40 concert.
Many think that this was the same incident which Charles Ludington referenced in his statement over the weekend, that he personally witnessed Kavanaugh drinking to excess and becoming an angry, violent drunk. Speaking of, Ludington gave a little press conference yesterday, where he talked about how often he saw Kavanaugh “quite drunk.”
Brett Kavanaugh’s former college classmate Chad Ludington “unequivocally” says that Kavanaugh “has not told the truth” in denying the possibility that he blacked out from drinking: “I never saw him passed out but I saw him quite drunk” https://t.co/uIZOd5Jlef pic.twitter.com/48ghixwaoi
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) October 1, 2018
As for the UB40 concert…well, maybe Kavanaugh likes red, red wine as well as BEER?
Photos courtesy of Avalon Red.
It’s true that people can turn themselves around, and the mistakes of our youth don’t have to define us forever.
But that requires hard introspection, a commitment to change, and resulting actions. It requires constant active and passive work.
Kavanaugh has done none of this. He has shown us that the belligerent, entitled frat boy he was is who he is now — let’s believe him.
Exactly. His demeanor at his hearing showed he has zero coping mechanisms — other than beer — because he’s never been called out on his behavior (at least publicly) and never had to face his demons.
Yes to all of the above!
Perfectly said.
Bingo.
Sexual assault or gang r*pe won’t take this man down, being an abusive alcoholic will.
If the man who was attacked by Brett comes forward then game over for the Republicans.
Those Senators Flake, Collins etc cannot vote yes to his confirmation as more and more evidence of perjury is coming out.
Avanetti hasn’t released his receipts yet and already Brett is in trouble.
I expect more victims to come out soon and that too with indisputable evidence..
They better come out soon because McConnell is he!! bent on voting on this nomination this week.
Is he?? How can he do that if he FBI investigation isn’t supposed to wrap up until Friday? And then I’m assuming they’ll have to have time to go over it? Or is that just too logical for McConnell?
The Rs are hellbent b/c the evangelicals who really run this country have told them that if they don’t get K through, they are going to urge their parishioners NOT to vote in Nov. Mitch & Company don’t appear to have any conscience in this matter b/c the Bible-thumpers have place a gun to their heads. (Not an excuse, just an explanation.)
It’s just bluster. If the FBI tells the WH they need more time, they will get it, and the swing senators will demand that.
Yes, Rump wants Drunky McRaperson to protect him, but what he really needs is the support of the House and Senate. He has to put more effort into that, so he campaigns and winds up his base.
I read a report recently that described how his campaign crazies believe his story about a red wave, and do not feel a sense of urgency to vote. It’s beautiful.
It’s not game over though. There is proof that he has already lied under oath. Senator Collins is not reliable nor is Flake. They can very well see all of this damning evidence from thiz restricted FBI investi and conclude that he is still fit to serve and be confirmed. Shamful.
I don’t know why but this time is different with those 4 swing voters.
Democrats have enough evidence to impeach Brett even if he gets confirmed.
Those who voted yes did him will be finished once Democrats gets both houses.
I cannot see how those yes voters can talk their way out of this one. Especially the two women will be crusified and crushed in the next local elections.
As with the president, the House could impeach but the Senate needs a 2/3 vote to remove, and the Senate is still more likely to stay in Republican hands. So Kavanaugh could be ‘impeached’ as a judge but stay on the court, and would be likely to do just that.
Maya, absolute best case scenario for 2018 elections in the Senate is that the Dems bump up to 54 seats (if they win all the really close races, and Texas, AND then manage to repeat the Doug Jones miracle and pick up a seat in the Mississippi special election). That’s not enough to uphold an impeachment and remove.
It’s possible that if the Democrats have an incredibly good year with the Senate that they could then position themselves to get up to 60 votes in 2020, but that is still not 2/3rds. If they manage to keep Kavanaugh as an issue for that long perhaps they can pull some Republicans on board but….honestly I don’t see that happening. The “moderate” Republicans are either quitting the party/retiriing (Flake) or will be getting replaced by Democrats (see the huge amount of money that is already being pledged to defeat Collins if she votes yes). To get Kavanaugh removed, Democrats are going to have to make phenomenal gains in the Senate in 2018, 2020, and 2022.
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Of course he was a drunk mess and violent. Anyone who listened to this guy, or heard about his associates in college could tell you he was/is likely a violent predator with a drinking problem.
+1
Uhhhggg. Can we all just accept he’s a very problematic nominee and switch him out for someone less problematic?
Isn’t it funny that the GOP hasn’t done this already? Isn’t it interesting that apparently there are no better candidates for the Supreme Court than a lying black-out drunk with a long history of sexual predation and assault?
Or at least, that is the current message the GOP is sending.
The fact that they are not withdrawing his name and nominating someone else is very telling. There are a number of very conservative, anti- choice judges they could pick from who would be much less problematic that Kavanaugh and could sail through a confirmation. But they want HIM.
It could also be that they know if they were to start all over again at this stage s/he (let’s face it HE) would not be confirmed before the mid-terms. They cannot risk having a democratic majority voting on their pick.
Trump wants him, and will probably need him. Kavanaugh has written his opinion that a President is basically above the law. He says that a President cannot be indicted for any criminal offense. That’s why Bigly wants him so badly. If he ends up on the SCOTUS, he’ll protect Trump.
Susan Collins has said she is worried about the others behind him….in that they will overturn RVW. SMH in she isn’t understanding Kavanaugh wild the same.
Even if you don’t #BelieveHer (and I do!), Kavanaugh has shown himself to be a vengeful partisan who has zero problem lying about all kinds of things while under oath, and that’s just from his televised hearing ALONE. How can anyone argue with that?
It’s willful partisanship. If he was a Democratic nominee , none of the people supporting him would be supporting him at all. This is what so infuriating about the whole thing. The people (especially women) hating on Dr. Ford would immediately believe a woman who accused a Democrat.
i completely agree. His behavior at the hearing alone totally disqualified him. If you lie under oath, you can’t be a SCOTUS judge (according to my standards, anyway!).
While the public need to know this it won’t matter as GOP under orders from their Dear Leader will ram his nom through – they don’t care that they have put an unfit drunk on the SC as long as he does what they tell him to do.
Trump even threw him under the bus yesterday when he said that he knew that Kav had problems with drinking as a teenager – something Kav denied under oath. I suspect that Trump might dump his drunk ass before the end of the week.
Kav will never withdraw as he thinks its his god given right to be on the SC. The FBI investigation in the sexual assault allegations is just for show, the Dems should also be pushing for another FBI investigation into Kav lying repeatedly under oath – he’s perjured himself.
Republicans like Flake have already gone on record saying that they won’t vote for him if it turns out he lied. They knew an investigation would uncover more sh*t, which is why they didn’t want to it. Lindsey Graham must be having an apoplexy at this point. By the time this week is over there’s gonna be way too many sketchy stories for them to approve him. They’ll do the vote and he’ll get tanked. But he’ll keep his job and not go to jail for perjury, so he still wins.
But his name will be mud. He is reaping what he sowed, Karma I love you!
Digital Unicorn- true, but I’d love to see his smug, belligerent ass in jail.
Do you really think he won’t be confirmed? I’m still not convinced. I mean Flake says “IF” he’s found to have lied then he’ll vote no, but he has already lied out loud at his hearing, and then at his testimony last week. He HAS lied, he HAS perjured himself. You don’t need the FBI investigation to show you that.
I just can’t get it out of my head that they all know he’s guilty. They all know he’s a belligerent, sexual assaulting drunken mess, but they don’t care. They just don’t care.
I’m with you, Louisa. They don’t care and they will confirm.
Rapunzel, your comment about Graham having an apoplexy just made me LOL. Thanks! I needed that 🙂
Loved the Red, Red Wine reference, Kaiser. I loved that song at the time.
Love the song also. But had no idea who UB40 was until that reference!
Oh, they are amazing. They don’t deserve to be dragged into this Kavanaugh mess. Always will have a soft spot in my heart for their cover of Can’t Help Falling in Love.
Me, too, it brings back such great memories. I’m a few years younger than Kavanaugh and was lucky to see so much great music that truly embodied that era — Depeche Mode, Tears for Fears, REM, Til Tuesday, The Police, Duran Duran and more.
My high school friends — male and female –and I loved going to concerts — for the MUSIC. You know Kavanaugh and his bros only went as an excuse to drink. Sigh.
Don’t know why, but I always thought red, red wine was a euphemism for weed 🙂
I hope more witnesses keep coming forward. It might have been after a UB40 concert, but Brett himself said he likes beer, he never mentioned any other alcohol. I hate wine, and the song Red Red Wine
My mother’s favourite snack was hard Cheezies dipped in blue cheese dressing and washed down with red wine. It used to hurt the back of my jaws watching her indulge.
can something happen to him after blatantly lying under oath?
The way Kavanaugh conducted himself at the hearings should be an automatic NO in my eyes. How to do put someone, anyone, in a position of power that cannot control his anger??
Now that Harvard Law School has booted Beerman off campus, it’s now easier to get a lifetime SC position than to get a part-time teaching gig.
The world is upside down.
I read that he quit Harvard. But yeah the world is indeed upside down.
The students at Harvard were making quite a bit of noise about Kavanaugh being on the payroll even for one course. Letting Kavanaugh quit was an easy out for both him and Harvard. Otherwise I think he would have waited until he was definitely confirmed before quitting.
He is going to have plenty of trouble just going back to his old job as a judge. His behavior at the hearing was enough to disqualify him for the Supreme Court and really for the lesser court, but I think they will let him stay at his old job even though he has lost the respect of many colleagues and lawyers. And the Republicans might decide to confirm anyway, drunken lying pervert though he is.
He could be disbarred for perjury if people decide to press it. Former FBI Director Comey said that lying about even a lot of little things is a big red flag to any FBI investigator. So he won’t have an easy time of it in interviews.
jwoolman, thanks for all the info. So much info to sort through on a daily basis and as always I appreciate your thoughtful and thorough takes.
What’s sad about this whole situation (and there is a lot to be sad about) is that he is going to get the boot for the lying instead of the fact that he sexually assaulted or sexually harassed at least three women that we know of….disgusting.
In the unlikely event that he doesn’t get the nomination someone as equally conservative will.
Rescue:
Not before the midterms!
And no one is as partisan as Beerman who is being placed on the SC so he can rule for EZ when Mueller’s team swarms the Oval Office.
Yeah if he doesn’t get confirmed, and the Rs hold the Senate (which they likely will, lets be honest/realistic), someone possible even more conservative will be nominated.
But to me this isn’t about stopping a conservative justice from being appointed. That’s just a side benefit. This is about stopping a rapist from being appointed.
Someone equally conservative will absolutely get confirmed. We lost the Supreme Court when we lost the 2016 election, that’s just the situation, and we now need to focus on voting more progressives into office (all the way up and down the ballot) and protesting in order to prevent the dystopian future the GOD seems hellbent on forcing us into.
My issue with Kavanaugh has never been that he’s conservative. The GOP has the power right now, and their Supreme Court nominees will reflect their political stances. My issue is that people who sexually assault others shouldn’t get to sit on the Supreme Court. Women make up half the country, and we are human beings who deserve to be treated with respect. People who sexually assault women don’t respect women (as a group), and they’ve got no business making legal rulings about us.
One way to disrupt the Amimal House Frat Boy culture might be to grant alcohol licenses to sorority houses. They should lobby for this. The discrepancy seems archaic and young women would then be able to host on their own terms.
Or to allow sorority houses. My university did not allow sorority houses (there was a cluster of town homes that housed the 4 senior officers) but you can bet your ass there were a dozen large fraternity houses.
I’m more of the mindset of shutting he entire greek system down but agree that sororities aren’t really the problem so maybe that is a possible solution.
Man, I was (for my sins) in a sorority a lifetime ago – and the shit that went down was, in hindsight, extremely extremely embarrassing bordering on vile. Initiated and encouraged by both, the men and women involved. I don’t think allowing sororities more access is the answer, at all.
Agree with Esmom that the greek system it self is the problem. Some of my ‘sisters’ are my family for life…but jesus christ if any of us ran for office…there would be..problems.
Yeah I think its worth repeating that people aren’t mad because he drank a lot of beer in college (or even high school). People are upset because 1) he definitely seems to have lied about his alcohol use, 2) his alcohol use/abuse fits in with Dr. Ford’s story, and the stories of the other victims, 3) he still seems like that angry drunk frat boy, and 4) he revealed himself to be nakedly partisan with an anti-Democrat agenda.
I see a lot of comments about how “do you want what you did in college to haunt you” and I’m like….sure, I drank a lot of beer in college. You know what I didn’t do? assault anyone. Get arrested for getting into a fight after a concert. My husband drank a lot in college. You know what he didn’t do? Assault anyone. Get arrested. Etc. And if he had…..he would not lie about those things under oath.
The stories of drunk Kavanaugh just give more credibility to his accusers, and that’s why those stories are so important.
Exactly this, Becks1. I did lots of stuff in college (while drinking beer) that I’m not exactly proud of. But I never assaulted someone, or got arrested (I know the Kavanaugh supporters will say he was only questioned by police).
And if someone was questioning me now about that past behavior, I would say, yes, I made some bad decisions. Because as an adult, that’s what you do-look at your past behavior, take responsibility for it, and make changes if they’re needed. Not rant, rave, and throw a tantrum in front of a Senate committee.
Exactly. He hasn’t shown even a tiny glimmer of humility. That’s apparently the GOP way now.
Preach
I totally agree, Becks1. Great points.
Whichever reporter asked him to repeat his first sentence and then “your first couple of sentences” was a right wing outlet. What they were doing was incredibly obvious.
It’s all horrific, but the UB40 detail is cracking me up.
I’m tired of putting everything on these 3 or 4 senators..EVERY senator who votes for him should be asked ‘so you think Dr Ford is lying’, and when they try to wiggle out by saying ‘I don’t know what happened’ should be TOLD clearly that if they believe her they know exactly what happened, minute by minute. Obviously, lying under oath is fine for them, and potential witness tampering. Forget the beer..it’s the pattern of behavior and perjury.
Ludington was on Chris Cuomo last night and it is that incident he references. He also said they were drinking mixed drinks, hence the ice. Not BEER BEER BEER.
I wonder what happened to magnolia rose.
Yes, I really liked her comments.
Me too.
Just watch. Now that it’s out that he attacked another MAN, it’ll be taken more seriously. I can’t even.
I do believe people can change and grow, and that issues from our youth shouldn’t be held against us forever. But that’s only if we, you know, change and grow from that point in our lives. And he obviously hasn’t done that, based on his angry, over-the-top, defiant behavior last week.
PLease please please continue to call on the fence Senators. I feel like perhaps, just perhaps this still could end like it should. The sexual assault won’t make a difference – and that’s something I’m still coming to terms with – but these peope know he did it, they know he lied, and they just DON’T CARE. Maybe, just maybe being a unstable drunk will.
Have any of you read the “comments” written in his yearbook? I won’t reference them here but they are sickening – horrible, filthy, misogynistic braggadocio from a group of like-minded douche-bro frat boys who still haven’t grown up beyond early adolescence.
Another rape allegation has come to light, something the senators apparently discussed with Rapey FratBro before Dr. Ford’s story was made public. The details of this alleged assault are HORRIFIC, but there are similarities to Dr. Ford’s attack. Two men were involved, Kavanaugh and another man the victim didn’t know (I’ll wager it was Mark Judge). They confined her to a car and one held a hand over her mouth to keep her from screaming. There is a lot more to the allegation, DO NOT google it unless you are prepared for a detailed description.
I’ve been in a constant state of anger and WTAF for two years, but that hearing really put me over the edge. I expected Dr. Ford’s testimony to be triggering, but his seething anger and entitlement was so far over the top, I was not prepared for it. I hear his whiney-ragey voice in my head and I can’t concentrate on work because I am compelled to check the news every hour or so. His performance at the hearing was a verbal and emotional assault on every woman in this country. I am just sick, almost literally and ugh, when will this END?
I tried to look it up just because I like the torture I guess and all I got was right wing crap sites like Ny Post saying the rape claims have been withdrawn.
Not sure if the link will work here… it starts on page 13. An anonymous woman wrote a letter to Senator Harris.
https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/09.26.18%20BMK%20Interview%20Transcript%20(Redacted).pdf
It’s come out that Chris Dudley was arrested. Makes his statements about his friend Brett not drinking very much seem not quite so plausible.
UB40. I would argue they are the greatest cover band of all time. Who else made a career out of singing nothing but covers?
Red red wine ya know I’m filthy swine
That’s the whitest fratboyist headline I’ve ever read.
Kaiser, I literally thought the same thing. I revisited the words in my head and changed them around…
Red, red eyyyesss…makes me forget everything…
He has the face of my former father-in-law who thinks having a good boat load of scotch every day, night, helps him “relax”…A rich Republican who hates everyone that’s not him or his “type”. One can essentially copy and paste this kind of personality.
I wish everyone this Dyck assaulted came forward. Even if he’s pushed through, the umbrella hanging over his head from now on will always be weak enough to make him drenched in shame. He will never escape it.
Still, the idea that he is a part of making decisions on the Supreme Court is enough to make me drink way too much Red Red Wine on my own behalf.