Well, Lookie Here
Back on September 2nd, I told you about two Republican lawmakers in Minnesota who got caught making out in a car by local police.
They were married. To other people.
They denied it ever happened. Both Tim Kelly and Tara Mack claimed the park ranger was lying and the information about the ticket going public was a political vendetta.
They lied. .
The sheriff kept detailed notes of conversation he had with Tara Mack over the incident.
“She did not comment other than to say this is very salacious and that she is married to a minister and her career could be ruined. I said I understood that but if you are choosing to say that the park ranger lied … I have a big problem.”
Oh dear.
House Democrats pressured the pair to apologize to the park ranger for calling him a liar.
Mack wrote –
“Since becoming a State Representative in 2009, I have been a strong supporter of our men and women in law enforcement. I understand that the Park Ranger was trying to do his job. I have the utmost respect for the work law enforcement does to keep Minnesotans safe and I apologize for offending these great men and women.”
The Republican Party of Minnesota response? Both of them were removed from the Legislative Ethics Committee.
Whoop-te-damn-do.
Thanks to Rick for the heads up.
If she’s married to a minister then she damned well ought to know what the Bible says about adultery and about bearing false witness.
1The two love bird wingnuts in Michigan-let me see,the guy was allowed to resign and the woman was kicked out of the lege. Hypocrisy,thy name be wingnuts.
2More trash out the door…..
3Zombies wouldn’t even eat these brains!
4They’re “forgiven” …. whether by her minister hubbie is another question.
5Body cameras for Park Rangers would solve this kind of “he said-she said-the other guy said” dilemma.
The Freedom of Information Act could even turn it into a Minnesota After Dark Video Series: “There are 10,000 stories in the naked lakes, this is one of them.”
6I find it soul satisfying that our President and his family have yet to be embroiled in scandal of any kind (except the made-up variety) since they have occupied the White House.
It doesn’t look like there will be that kind of integrity coming from anybody on the other side any time soon.
7As sorry as this situation is, I would rather have all the Republicans doing each other all over the woods and the parks and the streets and the middle of the shopping mall, than the job they are doing on the country.
8Gramiam, I saw a photo of Obama and Biden having lunch that was captioned with Obama mentioning several GOPs who had recently been caught Getting Some and wondered why he couldn’t get any of that action. Biden “replied”: “Because your wife can kick your ***.”
9Rhea, I busted a gut on that one!
10@epo
I’m not sure yet how my opinion falls on these horny legislators. On the one hand I’d like to see them ejected from their respective leges, but like as not an equally Re-thuglican pair would replace them, so that’s no improvement. Maybe they should stay in the lege, stripped of any chairmanships and power. Then stand for re-election on their “record”s, which would likely consist only of a vote on various measures and serial adultery. I just don’t know which would work out better for the voters in the end.
11It’s all fine. They took the Hypocritic Oath y’know.
12Rick,
Your riff on the old B/W teevee series “The Naked City” is hilarious.
“There are 10,000 stories in the naked lakes, this is one of them.” vs. the intro sig line for the teevee series: “There are eight million stories in The Naked City, this is one of them.”
Just watched it last night/this morning. MeTV has gutted their viewing lineup in favor of sitcoms. and pushed the two best dramatic series (TNC and Route 66 an hour deeper into the AM (Monday 0200h/0300h CDT).
They don’t make them that good anymore.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naked_City_(TV_series)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Route_66_(TV_series)
PS: A number of Route 66 episodes were filmed in Texas (TNC was of course all NYC).
I highly recommend watching them both for the view of a long bygone landscape.
For me the ones filmed in ~1960 at Corpus Christi and Port Aransas were ‘memorable’, bringing back memories.
There were about eight other Texas locales used. See the “episode list” at the link to see filming locations used across the early ’60’s USA.
The opening shot of Todd and Buzz driving that classic Corvette across the brand-new Harbor Bridge (on the very highway just out my back door a ways, heh), with a mostly one story downtown Corpus in the background is incredible. The PortA ferry shots too, that tank and building are still there, but the ferry boats are much bigger now, as is PortA.
Dang, I didn’t wander too far off track, eh?
13The KKKristian right sees no evil, hears no evil, but sure does a heck of a lot of evil. It comes from not believing all the crap they spew.
14Why do I think her apology was wordsmith by hired politicos? It has all the sincerity and credibility of “Flop, flop, fiz, fix oh what a relief it is.”
15“The Republican Party of Minnesota response? Both of them were removed from the Legislative Ethics Committee.”
So, we’re they removed for lying, or for later telling the truth?
16That “apology” was a new low in the field of non-apology apologies. She apologized for offending the great men and women of law enforcement in general.
I sincerely apologize to the entire human race for offending them with the existence of people like Tara Mack.
17The difference between this incident and the travesty in Michigan is that there is abundant evidence in Michigan that the lawmakers there misused state resources in carrying on their affair and in trying to cover it up. The Michigan House expelled one and would have expelled the second if he hadn’t cut and run away by resigning.
Looks like Tim Kelly and Tara Mack in Minnesota did their groping on their own time and dime. Good. Let them stay in office unless their constituents decide otherwise. They can keep on sitting there in the Minnesota House as an ongoing joke and embarrassment to themselves and their party. Sorry for their families who have become “collateral damage.”
18Minnesota Republican legislative politics must be a powerful aphrodisiac, because another episode a few years ago puts this most recent one to shame. A leak in the ranks of rival Republicans put an end to the political career of the Senate Majority Leader, Amy Koch, who had an affair with one Michael Brodkorb, who was the Senate GOP communications chief. Apparently they wanted to take their intercourse to a whole new level.
It’s a gory story of misdeeds and betrayal and Republicans stabbing their brethren in the back with news media leaks.
http://www.startribune.com/amy-koch-affair-gave-gop-foes-an-opportunity/188505541/
It appears that Minnesota Republican legislators don’t learn their lesson very quickly, or the cold weather causes their hormones to outrun their brains.
19How nice of the GOP to offer up such sterling examples of Personal Responsibility for all of us to emulate.
20RA, do you not understand the Repukelican motto?
Do as I say, not as I do. Also, too: morality for thee, not for me.
21RA: The party of family values and fiscal responsibility.
Stop laughing, dammit.
FWIW, the local GOP (the MN IR party) is also a deadbeat renter, last I heard, owing $2M to the landlord of their MN facilities, with insufficient assets to cover it. That was a year or so ago, so they’ve likely got it sorted out by now, as I haven’t heard they’ve been evicted.
22They apologized to law enforcement in general for calling the specific park cop a liar. They did not apologize to that specific cop. They did not apologize for being adulteters. They still deny the were screwing around. They were just “talking” about legislative matters. Uh-huh. And I have a desert island in the Mississippi River as it courses through Minneapolis that I’d like to sell.
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