Wednesday, August 5, 2009

Who's Screwed Harder in Sex Scandals? Ramsey or Wamp?

Posted by Jeff Woods on Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 5:31 AM

click to enlarge The glassy eyed Bobbie Patray: our next governor?
  • The glassy eyed Bobbie Patray: our next governor?
In this steamy summer of political sex scandal, we offer this question for debate, Pith Nation: Who has been screwed harder in the governor's race? Ron Ramsey or Zach Wamp? That's a tough one, isn't it? On the one hand, Ramsey definitely damaged his candidacy with missteps after the public learned of Paul Stanley's little mess. First, he said nothing. Then, after it became apparent that was a stupid idea, he told reporters he forced the senator to resign as Commerce Committee chair but really couldn't make him quit the Senate itself. Then after Senate GOP leader Mark Norris and Shelby County GOP chair Lang Wiseman stepped forward into the leadership vacuum to publicly call for Stanley's resignation, Ramsey insisted he'd been demanding Stanley's resignation privately all along. Now, Ramsey is really getting into the swing of things. At last report, he was denouncing the senator for sending McKensie Morrison to pick up his dry cleaning. And does anyone believe Ramsey didn't know what Stanley was doing in his love shack, as Phil Williams calls it? Ramsey has an apartment in the same complex. Stanley's roomie is the Christian wingnut Dewayne Bunch. No one knew a thing? Mark Brown scoffs:
No one has been damaged more by this scandal than Ramsey. His leadership has been called into question. His honesty is suspect. That's not a good combination for a gubernatorial candidate.
Wamp has been trapped in another scandal, this one involving his association with the secretive Christian society known as the Family. Wamp lives in the Family's C Street House in Washington. Three philandering politicians--Nevada Sen. John Ensign, former South Carolina Mississippi Rep. Chip Pickering and South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford--have ties to the Family and the C Street house. What did Wamp know about any of this and when did he know it? He's not saying. His silence has become an issue. The Metro Pulse's Frank Carlson writes:
Of course, as every 8-year-old boy knows, avoiding answering questions about what goes on in your secret clubhouse is why you have a secret clubhouse in the first place. But when it comes to the particulars of a stew that contains elected officials, religious extremism, secretive financial backers, allegations of aspiring to undemocratic power structures, and involvement in three sex scandals, the public is going to have some questions and deserves some answers.
All of this must be tough for Christian conservatives to stomach. Sadly, both their candidates have been sullied by sex scandal and morally compromised. Life is so unfair. Pith is here to offer the solution. It's not too late for a dynamic new entry into the campaign. We're talking about the stern grande dame of the Christian Right, our very own Phyllis Schlafly, the president of the Tennessee Eagle Forum: Yes, Bobbie Patray for governor! It's time.

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Bobee Patray, Joe "Cap'n" Kirkpatrick, and big, hairy Carnack in the same race????
Could we take that much car-a-zee????

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Posted by Stacee Campfeeled on August 5, 2009 at 7:18 AM

Why did the 2010 Tennessee GOPer gubernatorial candidate force out reported adulterer Senator Paul Stanley (2009) and campaigned hard for TNGA Senate candidate Mike Faulk (2008; Ramsey was quoted about the Faulk affair with a young married woman from Hawkins County in the news reports at that time as merely being "...a bump in the road.":
YouTube: Mike Faulk for State Senate
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-jLF8ANs9U
Faulk expresses "deep regrets" but won't say whether he had affair
http://www.timesnews.net/article.php?id=9008115
By Hank Hayes
Published September 12th, 2008
Tennessee 4th Senatorial District GOP challenger Mike Faulk said Friday he has “deep regrets” about his connection to Rogersville teacher Kelli Walker, but would not confirm whether or not he had an extramarital affair with her.
The Associated Press broke the story about Faulk’s relationship with Walker based on a letter she composed in late August.
In that letter, which has since been posted on the Internet, she tendered her resignation as the chair of the Hawkins County Young Republicans, saying her job has been “tainted due to my inappropriate, extramarital relationship with state Senate candidate Mike Faulk.”
Faulk said in a prepared statement that Walker is going through some serious personal problems.
“I have deep regrets for whatever part her association with me and my campaign may have played in those problems,” Faulk told the Times-News. “I wish her nothing but the best. She is a very special person to me. The chairman of the Hawkins County Young Republicans has not resigned, and I have the continued support of both that organization and her.”
When asked if the affair happened, Faulk responded: “My statement is as I just read it.”
In the letter, Walker said she couldn’t ask her group to support Faulk “who ... refuses to take responsibility for his part in the tragedy I now find myself.”
... (more at hyperlink)

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Posted by Elmer Gantry on August 5, 2009 at 8:28 AM

I am speculating that Lt. Gov. Ron Ramsey forced out Senator Stanley from both his TNGA Senate seat and Commerce Committee chairmanship in order to lessen the influence of West Tennessee GOPers in the legislative process and to place more of his "good ole boys" from the Northeast into more committee leadership positions.
And from above, Rogersville teacher Kelli Walker was at the time of the news report a young married mother with small children...so much for Lt. Gov. Ron Ramsey protecting traditional family values and Tennessee families!

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Posted by Elmer Gantry on August 5, 2009 at 8:34 AM

Just a slight correction: Chip Pickering was a U.S. Rep. from Mississippi, not South Carolina.
Also, June Griffin of Dayton, Tenn. is running for governor. Check her out.

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