Kinky Republicans
By Byron LaMasters
Score one for the Republican family values hypocrisy department. This time coming from the jerk in Illinois who hired a stalker to follow his opponent into the bathroom with a camera. The Chicago Tribune reports:
Republican U.S. Senate nominee Jack Ryan's ex-wife, TV actress Jeri Ryan, accused him of taking her to sex clubs in New York and Paris, where he tried to coerce her into having sex with him in front of strangers, according to records released Monday from the couple's California divorce file.
Jack Ryan denied the allegations when they were made in 2000, when the couple was engaged in a bitter child custody battle a year after their divorce.
The papers were released by California Judge Robert Schnider following his decision last week to unseal portions of the Ryans' divorce file.
Attorneys for the Tribune and WLS-Ch. 7 sought release of the records, but the Ryans had fought disclosure because they said it could harm their son. The Ryans decided not to appeal Schnider's ruling.
The political impact of the revelations on Jack Ryan's candidacy will play out over the next several days. One prominent Illinois Republican, U.S. Rep. Ray LaHood of Peoria, said he was "shocked" that Ryan would run for public office carrying such baggage and called on him to get out of the race.
The best part of it all is that Ryan's Democratic opponent, Barack Obama is just staying above the fray. He doesn't have to say anything about Ryan's past. Ryan can self-destruct quite well on his own. Notice how Ryan's last four press releases of spin control on the divorce records.
Posted by Byron LaMasters at June 22, 2004 10:47 AM
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Taxpayers didn't even have to spend $70 million for this juicy info!
Being an Illinois Democrat has been soooooooo much fun in the 21st century.
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Yeah Tim, I'm jealous. You'd think that Republicans would learn their lesson and stop nominating Ryan's, but they haven't seemed to have learned much from the past two cycles.
Well, we in Texas had a milder version of this. In a Republican primary for a State House Seat in Johnson County (one county south of Fort Worth), one Republican was "outed" as a cross-dresser. The other one drubbed him. Rural Republicans do not take kindly to cross-dressers.
I suppose that Ryan will get the pervert vote, but even in Illinois that is not enough to swing an election. ;)
