The politics in this city make me want to laugh my ass off or cry & flea the city, state &/or region as fast as I can. (depends on my mood i guess)
link here....TN Senator Stud
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Tennessee Senator Stud
©*2005*WorldNetDaily.com
You know what I love about the news business?
Every day is different. Every day there's something new something you never saw before.
Who says there's nothing new under the sun? Clearly not a newsman.
One story that broke over a week ago still has me scratching my head. I can't get it out of my mind. I keep thinking: How could the American people be so stupid to elect fops like Tennessee state Sen. John Ford?
Maybe you missed the story. It didn't get much play. It was perceived by most of the establishment media elite as a local or regional story at best. I see it as a sign of the times.
It made the Associated Press national wire under the category of "strange news." I think it's more than "strange." It's full of irony, audacity, hypocrisy maybe even a kind of 2005-style of hedonistic self-absorption and vanity heretofore unknown even among the political class.
It seems the Honorable Sen. Ford found himself testifying in a juvenile court hearing recently that he keeps two homes, living with two different women whose five children he has fathered.
This information was not dragged out of the Honorable Sen. Ford. It was offered willingly in his own defense in a child-support case.
The Honorable Sen. Ford said he sometimes stays with one family and other times he stays with the second. Since he pays nearly all the bills for both families in homes he owns, he wanted to make it clear to the referee in the case that he can't afford to pay any more court ordered support for a third woman, the mother of another 10-year-old girl he fathered.
The demands on him are even more outrageous, the Honorable Sen. Ford said, because one of his two gal pals is pregnant yet again with another of his future offspring.
If it wasn't so tragic, it would be hysterically funny. It would be the stuff of a new Fox reality show.
But it gets worse much worse.
You see, the Honorable Sen. Ford heads the Senate committee that guides Tennessee's child welfare policies, and, for the past year, he has tried to make use of a law he authored that keeps court-ordered support lower when a father is financially responsible for other children.
Some days he shacks up with ex-wife Tamara Mitchell-Ford and the three children they had together. On others, he stays with his longtime girlfriend, Connie Mathews, and their two children.
Ford and Mitchell-Ford divorced in 2002, but not before the ex plowed her car through Mathews' home. If you're keeping score, it's the ex who is six months pregnant with the 62-year-old's latest sperm donation.
Are you still with me?
Oh, by the way, neither of these two homes in which the Honorable Sen. Ford lives is in the senatorial district he represents.
"You have two homes?" Refereee Felicia Hogan asked incredulously during a November hearing. "Well, that's unusual."
"Not necessarily," the Honorable Sen. Ford shot back. "I know people who got five." (Don't blame me. That's the way he said it, according to the transcript of the tape-recorded hearing.)
Hogan responded: "For child-support purposes that's unusual, let me put it that way then."
The Honorable Sen. Ford is battling a child-support suit by Dana Smith, mother of his 10-year-old daughter, who is a former employee when he served as General Sessions Clerk. She won a 1996 sexual harassment verdict against him. He contends that any increase in support for Smith and her daughter should be weighed against his obligations to his other five minor children.
There's even more grainy detail to this incredible story, but I'll wrap it up here with a few rhetorical moral questions about this 15-term member of the Tennessee Senate: Why do Americans elect and re-elect men of such objectively poor character, such clowns, such disgraces, such pathetic miscreants? Are there no standards any more? Is there no behavior that would bar a politician from claiming office in these United States? Why do the people of the 29th Senate district of Tennessee continue to support a conniving, carpet-bagging, three-timing reprobate?
link here....TN Senator Stud
for the lazy...
Tennessee Senator Stud
©*2005*WorldNetDaily.com
You know what I love about the news business?
Every day is different. Every day there's something new something you never saw before.
Who says there's nothing new under the sun? Clearly not a newsman.
One story that broke over a week ago still has me scratching my head. I can't get it out of my mind. I keep thinking: How could the American people be so stupid to elect fops like Tennessee state Sen. John Ford?
Maybe you missed the story. It didn't get much play. It was perceived by most of the establishment media elite as a local or regional story at best. I see it as a sign of the times.
It made the Associated Press national wire under the category of "strange news." I think it's more than "strange." It's full of irony, audacity, hypocrisy maybe even a kind of 2005-style of hedonistic self-absorption and vanity heretofore unknown even among the political class.
It seems the Honorable Sen. Ford found himself testifying in a juvenile court hearing recently that he keeps two homes, living with two different women whose five children he has fathered.
This information was not dragged out of the Honorable Sen. Ford. It was offered willingly in his own defense in a child-support case.
The Honorable Sen. Ford said he sometimes stays with one family and other times he stays with the second. Since he pays nearly all the bills for both families in homes he owns, he wanted to make it clear to the referee in the case that he can't afford to pay any more court ordered support for a third woman, the mother of another 10-year-old girl he fathered.
The demands on him are even more outrageous, the Honorable Sen. Ford said, because one of his two gal pals is pregnant yet again with another of his future offspring.
If it wasn't so tragic, it would be hysterically funny. It would be the stuff of a new Fox reality show.
But it gets worse much worse.
You see, the Honorable Sen. Ford heads the Senate committee that guides Tennessee's child welfare policies, and, for the past year, he has tried to make use of a law he authored that keeps court-ordered support lower when a father is financially responsible for other children.
Some days he shacks up with ex-wife Tamara Mitchell-Ford and the three children they had together. On others, he stays with his longtime girlfriend, Connie Mathews, and their two children.
Ford and Mitchell-Ford divorced in 2002, but not before the ex plowed her car through Mathews' home. If you're keeping score, it's the ex who is six months pregnant with the 62-year-old's latest sperm donation.
Are you still with me?
Oh, by the way, neither of these two homes in which the Honorable Sen. Ford lives is in the senatorial district he represents.
"You have two homes?" Refereee Felicia Hogan asked incredulously during a November hearing. "Well, that's unusual."
"Not necessarily," the Honorable Sen. Ford shot back. "I know people who got five." (Don't blame me. That's the way he said it, according to the transcript of the tape-recorded hearing.)
Hogan responded: "For child-support purposes that's unusual, let me put it that way then."
The Honorable Sen. Ford is battling a child-support suit by Dana Smith, mother of his 10-year-old daughter, who is a former employee when he served as General Sessions Clerk. She won a 1996 sexual harassment verdict against him. He contends that any increase in support for Smith and her daughter should be weighed against his obligations to his other five minor children.
There's even more grainy detail to this incredible story, but I'll wrap it up here with a few rhetorical moral questions about this 15-term member of the Tennessee Senate: Why do Americans elect and re-elect men of such objectively poor character, such clowns, such disgraces, such pathetic miscreants? Are there no standards any more? Is there no behavior that would bar a politician from claiming office in these United States? Why do the people of the 29th Senate district of Tennessee continue to support a conniving, carpet-bagging, three-timing reprobate?
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