Tenn. senator has affair with intern, resigns

[JohnWxy]

Source: AP

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – The Tennessee state senator said he was opposed to sex outside marriage, but his private life told a different story: He was having an affair with his 22-year-old intern.

When an extortion plot exposed married Republican Sen. Paul Stanley's illicit relationship, he said he would be "clearing up" misimpressions later. He's now clearing out his office, the latest politician caught in a sex scandal, this one made worse by not coming clean.

"If you can't explain what you've done to your constituents in 30 seconds or less in a way they would accept, then don't do it," said Bruce Oppenheimer, a political science professor at Vanderbilt University. "It's amazing how many elected officials violate that very important conventional wisdom."

As news of the affair broke last month, the 47-year-old Stanley dodged reporters and issued a statement calling himself a victim. The suburban Memphis lawmaker, a married father of two who taught Sunday school, said he wanted to set the record straight. But, he insisted, prosecutors had told him not to talk.

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[panader0]

1. 47 to 22?

He's probably got kids older than that.

[JayMusgrove]

2. Poor guy, can't even have an affair and get away with it... let me guess...he's a

religious "family values" guy!!!!!!!

And I bet he's a Republican, too. Poor guy, my heart bleeds.

[noiretextatique]

4. yep...preaches abstinence and opposes marriage equity

these guys are soooooo predictable :nopity:

[SpiralHawk]

6. Yuppers, Republicon Family Values strikes again

and again, and again, and again, and again.

Ptoooey on the Republicon Pharisees

[tomm2thumbs]

8. if you can't keep it in your pants then at least keep it in 'the family'

those voters in his state must be loving this

[noiretextatique]

3. hypocrite...good riddance

Moments after submitting his resignation letter, Stanley went on a talk radio show in Memphis to say that his actions did not shake his moral ideals.

In nearly a decade in the Legislature, he repeatedly cited his belief in abstinence outside marriage as he opposed gay marriage, adoption by gay couples and family planning funding for Planned Parenthood.

"Whatever I stood for and advocated, I still believe to be true," he said last week. "And just because I fell far short of what God's standard was for me and my wife it doesn't mean that that standard is reduced in the least bit."

[maglatinavi]

10. hypocrite

Really? :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[noiretextatique]

11. he failed god

but he still hates sex (for anyone else) and fags :patriot: :rofl:

[rd_kent]

5. Oh, I love the smell of hypocrisy in the afternoon.

So much for those "family values" I guess.

[tomm2thumbs]

7. do as I say, not as I do. I am a chosen one who can do as I please ya know.

I hear C-Street has an open room right now

[Third Doctor]

9. as I have said

the louder they preach the more crap they are hiding. These repubs have made themselves into jokes by pushing a moral philosphy they can't adhere to themselves. As if a citizens personal business has anything to do with politics anyway.

[Mnemosyne]

12. "calling himself a victim" - those poor repubes are always being victimized

by their penises, or is that penii?