Monday, August 10, 2009
Politics / Woods Ramsey Responds to Blogger Criticism: 'I Wear It as a Badge of Honor'
Posted by Jeff Woods on Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 7:31 AM
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Lt. Gov. Ron Ramsey reads the blogs. Who knew? He tells his buddy Hank Hayes he knows "Democrat bloggers" have been criticizing his handling of the Paul Stanley sex scandal. We think he's talking about Mark Brown. He can't be talking about Pith, can he? Anyway, Ramsey said he likes it when bloggers come after him. It means we're afraid of him.
"I thought we handled it very well," Ramsey said of Stanley's resignation at his Sullivan County Courthouse campaign rally on Thursday. "No matter what I'm going to do, I'm not going to make Democrat bloggers happy. Let's be honest, I wear it as a badge of honor. If they want to attack me, that means they are afraid of me when that happens, in my opinion. I'm the only one they are attacking right now, so I consider that a compliment."Ramsey went on to explain again how he's all for new ethics rules to stop lawmakers from sending their interns out for their dry cleaning but against any prohibition against lawmakers having sex with their interns.
"Paul was using his intern to go get dry cleaning, to run errands. That's not a proper use of interns. ... (But) it's got to be from your heart that you shouldn't have an affair with your intern. ... That should never, ever have gone on."In Brown's latest, he hit the speaker for having Sen. Mike Faulk introduce him at his big campaign rally last week. Faulk is one of three of the Senate's "family values" conservatives who have been caught having extra-marital affairs under Ramsey's leadership, Brown points out.
It is becoming increasingly clear that he either condones members of the Senate Republican Caucus having extra-marital affairs or that he will sacrifice his personal beliefs at the alter of his ambition. After all, he has publicly said that adultery is nothing more than "a little bump in the road." As for his members having sexual relationships with their legislative interns, Ramsey can only muster outrage over the fact that disgraced Sen. Paul Stanley had his mistress/intern pick up his dry cleaning. "That's not a proper use of interns," says the Senate speaker in high dudgeon.Somehow, we don't think Brown's afraid of Ramsey.
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