Abstinence-Supporting GOP State Lawmaker Admits To Sex With 22-Year-Old Intern

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Another hypocrite politician bites the dust:

http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/07/abstinence-supporting_gop_state_lawmaker_admits_to.php

"There are only three things of value: younger women, faster airplanes, and bigger crocodiles" - Arthur Jones.

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Another hypocrite politician bites the dust:

http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/07/abstinence-supporting_gop_state_lawmaker_admits_to.php

Provided he wasn't using my tax dollars to do it, I don't care who he's banging.

So what's your point?

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The Senator believes young people shouldn't have sex until marriage... unless it's with him.

I would like to point out the Senator is the victim in this case as it does appear to me this intern and her boyfriend set out to extort the Senator.

www.FourWheelerHB.com

[justinb138 0]

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The Senator believes young people shouldn't have sex until marriage... unless it's with him.

Ah, so it's the "Do as I say and not as I do" people in Washington.

We really need to clean house....

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The Senator believes young people shouldn't have sex until marriage... unless it's with him.

Ah, so it's the "Do as I say and not as I do" people in Washington.

We really need to clean house....

I agree we need to clean house but not because we try to teach our children not to do something that we do ourselves. That happens all the time and IF that's the worst thing the Dem's can find on the Reps then maybe we, Americans, are doing ok with our selections.

It is nice to know the Senator would rather fall on his sword than pay $10k as extortability is a huge security risk when it comes to politicians who have access to national secrets.

www.FourWheelerHB.com

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Another hypocrite politician bites the dust:

http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/07/abstinence-supporting_gop_state_lawmaker_admits_to.php

What the hell is the matter with you. This guy must have studied under Bill Clinton!!!

"America will never be destroyed from the outside,
if we falter and lose our freedoms,
it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
Abraham Lincoln

[rushmc 23]

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The Senator believes young people shouldn't have sex until marriage... unless it's with him.

Ah, so it's the "Do as I say and not as I do" people in Washington.

We really need to clean house....

I agree we need to clean house but not because we try to teach our children not to do something that we do ourselves. That happens all the time and IF that's the worst thing the Dem's can find on the Reps then maybe we, Americans, are doing ok with our selections.

It is nice to know the Senator would rather fall on his sword than pay $10k as extortability is a huge security risk when it comes to politicians who have access to national secrets.

Agreed. and I think 22 is legal age in most states

"America will never be destroyed from the outside,
if we falter and lose our freedoms,
it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
Abraham Lincoln

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Another hypocrite politician bites the dust:

http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/07/abstinence-supporting_gop_state_lawmaker_admits_to.php

What the hell is the matter with you. This guy must have studied under Bill Clinton!!!

Try again! Looks like he was way ahead of Clinton!:

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Shortly after the incident described above transpired the couple divorced. Stanley shortly thereafter met his current wife while working for Bill Frist’s U.S. Senate office in Memphis.
Kristi Stanley also worked in Frist’s Memphis office — as an intern.

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Another hypocrite politician bites the dust:

http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/07/abstinence-supporting_gop_state_lawmaker_admits_to.php

What the hell is the matter with you. This guy must have studied under Bill Clinton!!!

Try again! Looks like he was way ahead of Clinton!:

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Shortly after the incident described above transpired the couple divorced. Stanley shortly thereafter met his current wife while working for Bill Frist’s U.S. Senate office in Memphis.
Kristi Stanley also worked in Frist’s Memphis office — as an intern.

Then he was Clintons mentor???

"America will never be destroyed from the outside,
if we falter and lose our freedoms,
it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
Abraham Lincoln

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Try again! Looks like he was way ahead of Clinton!:

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Shortly after the incident described above transpired the couple divorced. Stanley shortly thereafter met his current wife while working for Bill Frist’s U.S. Senate office in Memphis.
Kristi Stanley also worked in Frist’s Memphis office — as an intern.

What, he actually got divorced instead of using the Shaggy Defense?

(you know, that rap song - It Wasn't Me)

Mike
I love you, Shannon and Jim.
POPS 9708 , SCR 14706

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(you know, that rap song - It Wasn't Me)

Ummm … actually, no, I don't know that song. Perhaps we just listen to different music.

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(you know, that rap song - It Wasn't Me)

Ummm … actually, no, I don't know that song. Perhaps we just listen to different music.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQ4axo9rmJY

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(you know, that rap song - It Wasn't Me)

Ummm … actually, no, I don't know that song. Perhaps we just listen to different music.

By choice, rap wouldn't be in my top 5...but my co-workers enjoy it, so it gets played.

Mike
I love you, Shannon and Jim.
POPS 9708 , SCR 14706

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You know, you just can't trust scandals to be the same anymore. A Republican banging away is not news any more than would be Democrats in, say, New Jersey being swept up for corruption, bribery and money laundering for shady real estate deals using rabbis and non-profits (Although such a thing, if ever uncovered, may be newsworthy for no other reason than being sufficiently stereotypical so as to be the subject of a South Park episode wherein Cartman is victimized by Jews and City Hall).

But this one IS newsworthy because:
He banged a woman.
She was not a hooker.
She was of legal age.
He has not yet suggested that he will go to rehab.

My goodness! What's the world coming to? A republican in a sex scandal that does not include homosexuality, pedophilia or prostitutes?

My wife is hotter than your wife.

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The Senator believes young people shouldn't have sex until marriage... unless it's with him.

I would like to point out the Senator is the victim in this case as it does appear to me this intern and her boyfriend set out to extort the Senator.

True, but the citizens who voted for him, and who he essentially defrauded through his conduct, are victims, too. Nobody held a gun to his head to force him to take his dick out of his pants. He made his own choice.

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True, but the citizens who voted for him, and who he essentially defrauded through his conduct, are victims, too.

I haven't read the linked article, so forgive me if this was answered, but how did he defraud his constituents?

-- Tom Aiello

Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com
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[Andy9o8 2]

I'm referring to ethical/moral fraud - betrayal, if you will. Sorry if my post was abiguous about that.

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I'm referring to ethical/moral fraud - betrayal, if you will. Sorry if my post was abiguous about that.

He's a representative, not a priest.

His ethical/moral responsibility to his constituents is to do his job. Had he used his office / taxpayer money / etc... to cover it up I'd agree with you.

Why should anyone other than his friends/family care who he's sleeping with?

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I'm referring to ethical/moral fraud - betrayal, if you will. Sorry if my post was abiguous about that.

He's a representative, not a priest.

His ethical/moral responsibility to his constituents is to do his job. Had he used his office / taxpayer money / etc... to cover it up I'd agree with you.

Why should anyone other than his friends/family care who he's sleeping with?

Because the Dems can't get any mileage out of it that way...

Mike
I love you, Shannon and Jim.
POPS 9708 , SCR 14706

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I'm referring to ethical/moral fraud - betrayal, if you will. Sorry if my post was abiguous about that.

He's a representative, not a priest.

His ethical/moral responsibility to his constituents is to do his job. Had he used his office / taxpayer money / etc... to cover it up I'd agree with you.

Why should anyone other than his friends/family care who he's sleeping with?

Because he specifically holds himself out to his constituents - the ones who vote him into office - as promoting conservative sexual morality. From the article in the OP:

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Stanley recently sponsored a bill designed to prevent gay couples from adopting children. And when a Planned Parenthood official recently sought his support for family planning services for Memphis teens, Stanley told her, according to the official, that he "didn't believe young people should have sex before marriage anyway, that his faith and church are important to him, and he wants to promote abstinence."

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I'm referring to ethical/moral fraud - betrayal, if you will. Sorry if my post was abiguous about that.

So, basically that he sold himself to the voters as one thing, when in fact he was another?

Isn't that essentially what all politicians do?

Don't get me wrong, I think the guys a douchebag, but he's less of a douchebag than (for example) a guy (or girl) who gets elected on a "peace" platform and then votes for a war.

-- Tom Aiello

Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com
SnakeRiverBASE.com

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I'm referring to ethical/moral fraud - betrayal, if you will. Sorry if my post was abiguous about that.

So, basically that he sold himself to the voters as one thing, when in fact he was another?

Isn't that essentially what all politicians do?

Don't get me wrong, I think the guys a douchebag, but he's less of a douchebag than (for example) a guy (or girl) who gets elected on a "peace" platform and then votes for a war.

Are there really gradations of douchebaggery?

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Don't get me wrong, I think the guys a douchebag, but he's less of a douchebag than (for example) a guy (or girl) who gets elected on a "peace" platform and then votes for a war.

Are there really gradations of douchebaggery?

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He may be a hypocrite, but it doesn't necessarily mean he betrayed his constituents. I'm sure it will weigh heavily on any re-election chances though.

Honestly I have more respect for this guy than most of congress - he willingly put himself in this situation by going to the police as opposed to trying to buy his way out of it or cover it up as many politicians have in the past.

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Don't get me wrong, I think the guys a douchebag, but he's less of a douchebag than (for example) a guy (or girl) who gets elected on a "peace" platform and then votes for a war.

Are there really gradations of douchebaggery?

Sure there are. The one guy didn't take any taxpayer money by his deception. The other guy not only spends billions of taxpayer dollars, but he sends the taxpayers themselves (and their children) off to die.

We'll say the first guy is a simple "douchebag" and the second is a "major douchebag."