Posted on 09/29/2018 3:32:05 PM PDT by StAnDeliver
Brit Hume said on Friday that he knew both Kavanaugh's father and Blasey-Ford's father. Easy to understand how Hume would have known Kavanaugh's father (attorney and trade executive Everett Edward Kavanaugh, Jr.) and mother (Judge Martha Kavanaugh).
But Blasey-Ford's father? Ralph Blasey? At first one would think, well maybe through academia, or maybe another mid- to high-level functionary in the federal government.
Nope.
Ralph Blasey is a Republican's Republican. A GOP old boy described by the Washington Post as an éminence grise at Burning Tree Country Club, where Blasey was elevated over decades from legacy member to finally President of the all-male Burning Tree from 2004 to 2006.
Men-only Burning Tree Country Club has been a bastion of reclusiveness as one of the most-favored DC golf retreats for Presidents up until Ford.
Burning Tree has been in the news time to time for the Club's discriminatory practices against women.
Just earlier this year, Vox sub-sub-site The Ringer managed to work in Burning Tree in a remembrance of Augusta's Hootie Johnson squaring off against Martha Burk:
"In the case of a purely private institution, there was nothing to be done. If an all-male club like Burning Tree, near Washington, D.C., wanted to discriminate, and it stayed private year-round, it could do whatever it wanted with constitutional protection..."
But there was a far more revealing expose about Burning Tree in '03, just one year before Blasey-Ford's father Ralph was President of Burning Tree Country Club (excerpts by fair use):
"The Club opened in 1923 after, the story goes, a male foursome from the Chevy Chase Country Club was stuck behind a slow-playing group of female golfers.During its salad days in the 1940s, '50s and '60s, Burning Tree reeked of political power. Presidents were extended honorary membership: Roosevelt, Eisenhower, JFK, LBJ, later Nixon, Ford and George Herbert Walker Bush (along with his impressive 11-handicap).
Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren Burger played at Burning Tree, as did House Speaker Tip O'Neill.
Today ('03), easing into its 81st season, Burning Tree Club is a timeless place. That is to say, the past is omnipresent. There is a faded, sepia-tinged tone to the grounds; the antique clubs of famous men are displayed on the walls. The attitudes and prevailing world view are of a different time as well.
Burning Tree, you see, is an all-male organism, the classic old-boy, blue-blood men's club. The initiation fee is $75,000 and membership -- capped around 600, including honorariums and golfers past their playing days -- is by invitation only. The membership list never has been made public. But if you are a woman with the financial goods and the game, forget about it.
When Sandra Day O'Connor became the first woman ever appointed to the Supreme Court in 1981, she ended a streak at Burning Tree; previously, Supreme Court justices had always been extended honorary memberships to the club. Despite her polished 12-handicap, cultivated on the challenging layouts in Scottsdale, Ariz., O'Connor never crossed the threshold.
Among those that pass for the club's high-profile members...CBS newsman Robert Schieffer...and [the late] Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia.
Most of the members are more anonymous lawyers, lobbyists and businessmen. The club, not surprisingly, tends to attract more Republicans than Democrats.
Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.) was still amped. Winding into her seventh (or eighth) paragraph about the insidious nature of all-men's clubs, a reporter tried to wedge in a word edgewise.
"I haven't finished my thought," Maloney continued last week from her Washington office. "I think it is wrong. Some of our colleagues are members of these clubs and they should be pushing to change their policies. If the major national leaders of this country don't understand that belonging to these clubs is wrong … it sends the wrong message about values of discrimination and fairness."
While the press conference, attended by the now notorious Martha Burk of the National Council of Women's Organizations, was aimed at Augusta National and this week's Masters golf tournament, the House resolution introduced by Maloney and 14 co-sponsors also applies closer to home: Burning Tree Club in Bethesda, Md.
The non-binding resolution calls on top federal employees -- those in Congress as well as the executive and judicial branches -- not to join private clubs that discriminate on the basis of race or gender. Neither Augusta National nor Burning Tree were named in the wording of the resolution but it is well known that Amo Houghton (R-N.Y.) [was] a member at Augusta National and Senators John Warner (R-Va.) and Don Nickles (R-Oklahoma) [were] members at Burning Tree.
There are no women's facilities at the club. Female taxi drivers are not allowed inside the gate. When a woman flying a small plane crashed near the 18th hole in the 1950s, Burning Tree employees quickly secured an area around the pilot and wreckage until the police arrived, when she was removed from the barbwire-protected grounds. When a female Secret Service agent announced herself at the gate in the mid-1980s -- she was working a security detail for the visiting Australian prime minister -- she, too, was turned away.
Each December, however, wives of members are permitted to visit the pro shop -- so that they might select gifts for their husbands. The hours are 9 to 11 a.m. on weekdays, by appointment only. There are cashmere sweaters, with the imperial Burning Tree crest, golf equipment and Christmas figurines.
Jane Vieth, wife of member G. Duane Vieth, a Washington lawyer, told the newspaper's Style section, "I don't know what wives would do without it. It's such a great day-care center. It's simply wonderful for them to have a place to go, even if they can't play golf any more. There are a lot of them who've gotten sort of decrepit. They go to have lunch, visit with their friends and play gin rummy."
It is said the action at the cribbage table is sometimes more lively than on the course itself, which is neither long nor a particularly challenging par-71. The active local golfers, according to reports, constitute about half of the total members. There is no employee charged with making tee times; even on a Saturday morning in the spring, there are no lines. Members simply warm up and walk to the first tee.
The estrogen-free atmosphere comes at a dear price -- something approaching $1 million a year.
Back in 1983, Maryland's Attorney General, Stephen H. Sachs, filed a lawsuit against Burning Tree Club, claiming that its policy of excluding women was "arbitrary, invidious and irrational." The suit called for the Montgomery Country Circuit Court to revoke the real estate tax abatement granted in exchange for preserving open space. The state's complaint essentially argued that the tax break made the government a partner in sex discrimination, a violation of Maryland's constitution.
Before a woman judge ruled six years later against the club, Burning Tree paid only $13,000 of $186,000. After the judgment, members -- who declined to change the membership policy -- picked up the considerable tab which has reportedly risen to nearly $1 million per year for the property that is assessed in excess of $20 million."
Now in the present. There have been unsourced reports that Blasey is concerned that he would lose his Board position with another country club -- Columbia Country Club in Maryland.
In a statement to the Washington Post, Blasey-Ford's mother-in-law said she had "no idea" why the Blaseys have not shown public support for Christine.
But her blockhead husband couldn't keep his mouth shut:
"She didn’t always get along with her parents because of differing political views," Russell Ford said. "It was a very male-dominated environment. Everyone was interested in what’s going on with the men, and the women are sidelined, and she didn’t get the attention or respect she felt she deserved."
Wow.
My question is why are there so few images of Christine Blasey-Ford on the web? Being the Lefty she is, you would expect photos of her in every women’s lib rally giving Trump the middle finger. Methinks there has been a good scrubbing—something these women’s libbers should be doing on their kitchen floor.
It’s interesting that Ingham Keyser, the female friend of CBF, was a star golfer who started the first eoman’s Golf program at Georgetown U.
If Joe DiGenova is to be believed, CBF is also an accomplished golfer who knew a lot of PGA golfers.
Perhaps there was significant resentment at being excluded from the all male club. From what I understand, the Columbia Country Club is quite exclusive as well, and it sounds as if that was CBF’s teenage hangout. Not too shabby, that.
Daddy needs to be interviewed. I bet she’s been making “stuff” up her whole life.
Because she and her democrat handlers spent weeks scrubbing her from the web before "leaking" her claim.
Supposedly, the differing political views and male dominances was why she moved to CA. Other stories claim it was to “reinvent” herself. Others is was to “move on” from the trauma of Kavanaugh’s advances. Take your pick.
Since the Blaseys have not been front and center to support her (neither has her husband) then I’m going to guess it’s because she’s always been the black sheep or wild child who didn’t fit in. Notice she didn’t go to her lawyers bothers to get advice on how to proceed with these allegations but went with Fineswine’s hand picked Clinton lawyer. Smells like the Blasey family is hoping they can lay low through all this.
Ping-a-ling!
Do you happen to know the brothers ages and which High Schools the brothers attended?
When the hearing ended an older man came up behind her & bent down to kiss her. I wondered if that was her father?
This is evidence of the coordination involved with Left's attack on America. There should be an FBI investigation into the Left's effort to subvert our government. It was done when the Soviets worked to subvert our government.
You nailed it
thank you
IF she is breaking the 4th Commandment give by God to Moses, HONOR THY FATHER and MOTHER...it won’t go well for her.
exactly.....every single detail not remembered but she knew it was K....had she ever met him before?...how did she know it was K that was making out with her...
As a college prof, one would think there would be lectures, presentations and workshops of her on youtube. Nope. Not a one. Wiped clean with a cloth.
Her strained family situation may be the answer to why she got a hotel room for her granny’s funeral rather than sleep in her old room at home. It’s my understanding she’s been in the DC/Delaware/Maryland area without Mr. Ford since the kids are still in school. IIRC, it was Mr. Ford who mentioned getting security for the boys either at school or driving them. Maybe someone can set up a gofundme for that, huh.
Another version of the story - https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/christine-blasey-ford-wanted-to-flee-the-us-to-avoid-brett-kavanaugh-now-she-may-testify-against-him/2018/09/22/db942340-bdb1-11e8-8792-78719177250f_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.731317c59cea
Her husband's family knew. Her family didn't.
questions for locals: what was the policy on children using the pool? Certain days? Any summer day? What was the pool depth? Did it have a high board? Was it deep enough for diving practice? What was the cut-off age for female teens in 1982/3? 13? 14? 18?
This is actually Russian SVR propaganda!!!
Abortion.
Both brothers went to Landon I believe. I think one graduated ‘81 the other ‘79. I may be off a year.
Neither here nor there...but my fam belonged to a club with the same name in a conservative area in the 60’s-70’s. Women were allowed to golf. My GM used to drag me around on the green in the heat of summer. (Gawd, was I bored as h3ll.)
Very interesting....and I think you are on to something.
“Daddy issues”? May have been looking for a “replacement”?
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