Tennesee State senator John Ford resigned after being arrested in an FBI sting against corruption. It's not the first brush with controversy in his 30-year career. "During his tenure in the state Senate, John Ford has lost paternity lawsuits, given a political job to a girlfriend, used campaign money[$15,000] for his daughter's wedding and been successfully sued for sexual harassment. " Beyond that is his involvement in the TennCare and the Senate Ethics Committee investigations. The man was virtually swimming in dirty money.
Then there's the two households. One with his pregant-by-him ex-wife and their three children and the other with his girlfriend and their two children, a third child with another woman. In 1996 he lost a sexual harassment case, the court ruled he was the father of her young daughter. In 1997 he pulled a shotgun on utility workers who had parked near his driveway. In 2001, his wife was charged with ramming her car into his girlfriend's residence.
There is, apparently, no end to the hypocrisy. Ford sponsored a law to give noncustodial parents relief from child support in his exact circumstances.
There's more here including a not-to-be-missed video. And that's just the beginning of corruption in Tennessee. And another reason not to vote Democrat. Oh, you didn't know he was Democrat? Maybe because the Washington Post story of his resignation failed to mention it at all, except for a side picture. The New York Times story of his resignation forgot it too. And never once mentioned his D designation here either, although they did for other suspects and noted "The indictments were a blow to Democrats in Memphis,.."
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