Randall Terry is slapped down big time

[Erika]

Maybe sanity is coming back.

[TlalocW]

1. Took me a second...

I'm guessing he lost his bid to be a state senator or representative in Florida?

TlalocW

[Erika]

2. Yep. He lost to a moderate Republican n/t

[saltpoint]

8. Erika, thank you for bringing good tidings on the Terry defeat in FL.

That makes at least two right-wing nutcases who've lost primaries this year so far:

Terry in Florida and little Ralphie Reed in Georgia.

Hot dog!

[Erika]

13. Yep. You're welcome n/t

[Richard Steele]

3. Details! Some of us have no idea what you're talking about.

But I'm FASCINATED already! Tell me more!

[TlalocW]

4. Here ya go

http://enight.dos.state.fl.us/

And for a laugh, go to http://randallterry.com and check out that manly man's new look.

TlalocW

[Erika]

5. Thanks.

Terry was involved in Operation Rescue and the Schiavo case.

[TlalocW]

6. Yeah, I lived close to Wichita

In the early 1990s when he came there with Operation Rescue and locked up the traffic in the city. I was in high school then.

TlalocW

[longship]

9. Hi from a former Wichita resident

I was active in Dem politics in Wichita in the 80's and 90's.
Worked at BMAC (Boeing, to those not from KS).
Terry was insane then, is insane now.
Glad he lost.

[TlalocW]

14. I grew up in Clearwater, KS

A small farming community to the southwest of Wichita.

The whole Operation Rescue thing divided my family (in a somewhat humorous way). I'm pro-choice and was so back then, and one of my older sisters (14 years older than I) is anti-choice. Phil Donahue came to Wichita to do a show on the whole Operation Rescue scene, and that sister went and almost got in a fist fight (and she probably would have won) against some pro-choicers who took her seat. She also exclaimed to mom, "Do you realize your youngest son is pro-choice?" as if to get me in trouble. Mom just shrugged and said, "I raised you kids to think for yourselves. I don't know what you want me to do about it."

:)

TlalocW

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

7. does he have 2 wives on his site header photo?

who is who in this family picture?

[Tanuki]

16. I had the same reaction

but I'm guessing that the one in the front is one of the four children from his failed, 19-year first marriage. Apparently the present Mrs. Terry was a 22-year-old employee of his, when he ditched the wife and first set of kids to marry her. This type of hypocrisy seems so common these days that it is almost a cliche.

http://blogs.salon.com/0002874/2005/03/21.html
(This excerpt from the above blog deals with Terry's exploitation of the Terry Schiavo mailing list for is own personal fund-raising):

"The problem, reports World's Lynn Vincent, is that "Mr. Terry is set to close on a new $432,000 home near St. Augustine, Fla., in South Ponte Vedra Beach...
Mr. Terry's critics also say many donors who receive the fundraising letters are likely to assume that the proceeds of the Terry Family Trust benefit Mr. Terry's four oldest children, along with Cindy Terry, his wife of 19 years. Instead, the Terry Family Trust is to help Mr. Terry get back into ministry and to benefit his infant son and his second wife, the former Andrea Kollmorgan. She was 22 and served as Mr. Terry's personal assistant during his failed 1998 New York congressional campaign. In August 1999, Mr. Terry left Cindy Terry, and obtained a divorce in November 2000. He married Miss Kollmorgan seven months later.

Mr. Terry told WORLD that he wanted a home where his family will be safe and where "we could entertain people of stature, people of importance. I have a lot of important people that come through my home. And I will have more important people come through my home."

<...>

To secure the purchase, they needed $20,000 by April 30, 2002. Mr. Terry began calling potential donors, offering in exchange for cash gifts quantities of a country music CD he had recorded in Nashville. His plan worked. By April 30, "We had $20,017.... We made the deposit."

But earlier that same month, Mr. Terry had submitted an affidavit to a New York State family court on his financial condition. The court had ordered him to account for his finances in response to a petition Cindy Terry had filed earlier, saying that Mr. Terry was not paying a fair share of child support. In the affidavit, Mr. Terry wrote, "The past two years have been difficult financially for me.... I am three months behind in my rent, in addition to my numerous other debts. Since June, in order to pay necessities, we have been selling many items...."

So, Terry was asking for donations from his fellow Christians so he could buy a ritzy new house for the new wife and the new kid, while not paying his fair share of child support for the old kids. That takes gall."

[Richard Steele]

11. WOW! EVEN if I knew nothing about him, that site REEKS of desperation.

INSANE, paranoid-delusional desperation. Not kidding. The last time
I saw something that struck that same note with me, it
was a long, rambling, handwritten screed that a self-described
'important Texas politician' had taped inside a phone booth
in Shippensburg, PA.

Whoever wrote it was obviously mentally ill; it described at
some length the 'attacks by my enemies' and name-dropped some
REMARKABLE names in his own defense...

Mr. Terry's website is the internet version of that note.

And yeah, I just LOVE that new look! It answers the age-old
question, "What if James from 'Spin City' gave birth to Inspector
Odo's lovechild?"

+ =

[gr8dane_daddy]

10. didn't he disown his son for being gay?

nm

[Erika]

12. Yeah like Alan Keyes

These people think of themselves as so much holier than their own children. Truly weirdos.

[TlalocW]

15. Amazing the number of conservatives who have gay kids

Phyliss Schaffly, Alan Keyes, Dick Cheney, Randall Terry, Sonny Bono, Pete Knight, Charles Socarides (kicked out of American Psychological Association for maintaining that homosexuality is a mental illness; gay son, Richard, was a high-ranking aid in Clinton administration), etc. Then Jesse Helms and Barry Goldwater had gay grandchildre, but Goldwater was cool about it.

Anyway, I always like to use these people as a way to piss off some conservatives I know because several of the people listed are heros to them. Using their logic, I always ask, "If homosexuality isn't genetic as your side believe, then your heros have to be bad parents. Maybe if Phyliss Schaffly had followed her own advice and stayed at home more instead of gallivanting around the country giving speeches, her son wouldn't have turned out gay. And since we don't want gay couples raising children, then we also need to look at these conservatives who are turning out gay kids. They should maybe go to remedial parenting classes, and SRS might need to step in and take their current kids (like Randall Terry's) until we're sure he knows what he's doing."

I had one guy not talk to me for a month after I said something like that. I'm sure he prayed for me though.

TlalocW