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Frank Jimenez not Jessica Cutler's "F"?

According to Wonkette, Frank Jimenez is not Jessica Cutler’s “F.” Allegedly he is single, and he is no longer the Chief of Staff at HUD.

Wonkette also claims that Ms. Cutler never heard of Frank Jimenez. “Washingtonienne has no clue who Frank Jimenez is.” I don’t buy that part of the story. Surely Jessica Googled herself to see what people are writing about her. She would have found my blog, or one of the other blogs, that speculated that Frank Jimenez was “F”.

Wonkette also has a picture of Frank Jimenez posing in front of one of the buildings at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania (from which I hold a BS degree in Economics—I know, what a waste of an Ivy League education to be sitting in my apartment on a beautiful cicada-filled Tuesday afternoon speculating about who's having sex with whom).

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So now, the prime suspect is John Flaherty, the Chief of Staff at the Department of Transportation. In many ways, Flaherty is the more likely candidate. In my previous post speculating about the identity of “F”, I wondered why a smart guy like Frank Jimenez, who has a law degree from Yale, would be paying $400 for sex. I also wondered how he might have so much money to spend, because it looks like most of his career was in the low paying public sector, although I didn’t put those doubts in writing.

John Flaherty went to the University of San Francisco School of Law. This is a bottom of the barrel type of law school. People go there if they are too dumb to get into a better school. By better, I don’t mean Yale; I mean even most state schools are better than the University of San Francisco. At U.S. News, it’s ranked below lousy law schools like St Johns and Seton Hall.

Frank Jimenez is sort of young and good looking. John Flaherty is older, and thus is less likely to get sex from twenty-something girls unless he pays something in return.

In between working in public sector jobs, John Flaherty worked at “Washington public affairs firms,” which means he was a lobbyist. It is probably working as a lobbyist where he made the money necessary to afford Jessica’s services.

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Apologies to Frank Jimenez, who was probably one of the few smart and honest people in Washington.

posted Tuesday, May 25, 2004