Posted on 04/08/2014 10:45:52 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
April 08, 2014, 12:54 pm Husband of woman McAllister kissed: 'He has wrecked my life'
By Rebecca Shabad
The husband of the woman who was caught kissing Rep. Vance McAllister (R-La.) in a video that surfaced Monday says the congressman has destroyed his life and marriage.
“I’m just freaking devastated by the whole deal, man. I loved my wife so much. I cannot believe this. I cannot freaking believe it. I feel like I’m going to wake up here in a minute, and this is all going to be a bad nightmare,” Heath Peacock told CNN on Tuesday.
Peacock told CNN he wasn’t aware of what happened until his wife, Melissa Peacock, 33, called him a few hours before the news broke.
“He has wrecked my life,” Peacock said of McAllister on CNN. “We’re headed for divorce.”
The couple has been married for six years, and they have a 6-year-old son.
“It was just a kiss; that was all it was, but it embarrassed me and my family,” Peacock said. “This guy has turned my life upside down.”
His wife was seen kissing McAllister in surveillance footage that went viral on Monday. The Ouachita Citizen said it obtained the video clip from an anonymous source. It was recorded on Dec. 23, a month after McAllister was sworn into office.
Melissa Peacock was the congressman’s district scheduler, and was taken off payroll as of Monday night.
McAllister, meanwhile, says he doesn’t plan to resign and has asked God, his family and his constituents for forgiveness.
The congressman said he told his wife of 16 years about the encounter earlier this year, and they are working through it.
McAllister was elected to replace Rep. Rodney Alexander (R-La.) in a special election last fall. He ran ads touting his Christian faith, but Peacock told CNN he believed that was just a ploy for votes.
"I know his beliefs. When he ran one of his commercials, he said ‘I need your prayers,’ and I asked, ‘When did you get religious?’ He said, ‘When I needed votes,’ ” Peacock said. “He broke out the religious card, and he’s about the most nonreligious person I know.”
Modern security systems record the video stream from each camera on disk and can play it back at will. More than likely, he saw the kiss in real time, decided it was too damaging to pass up, then went back and replayed it for his phone to record and upload to YouTube.
It’s a security cam video. For some reason the quality is always horrible.
Not any more.
Of course, this video is second generation. A more sophisticated leaker would have pulled the video directly off the security system's disk, and it would have been of better quality with no jerkiness.
Sexual harassment is defined as unwelcome behavior of a sexual nature. The video itself would be a good start on a defense against the claim of “unwelcome” behavior.
I’ve been on the receiving end of some of those bogus charges. Its amazing what people will do.
That’s because you always know your kids are yours, once a man catches his wife fooling around, he can never be sure.
Good advice. Many years ago, I had a job that required me to conduct lengthy conversations in my office with many company employees, some of who were attractive young women. On such occasions, my secretary would make certain that the office door was open and that she was at her desk just outside the office. I didn't fully appreciate her routine at the time, but I certainly do now.
I wonder if Gloria Allred chases...er, um, I mean... accepts male clients?
As long as the checks clear, she don’t care......................
And Heath Peacock is coincidentally scheduled for IRS audit and investigation by child protective services.
I am female and I had to sit in on a lot of verbal discussions between my male management co-workers and female employees and most of them (the women) get furious when they find out that there will be a female witness to anything that is said or done.
There was one woman that worked for me that bragged that she was going to get my supervisor for sexual harassment because he wasn't giving in to her demands. She could turn on the tears on demand and was such a con artist that if you didn't know her, you would believe everything she said. I warned him because she had a reputation for this kind of thing. He was kind of trusting so I told him to NEVER go into his office with her without a witness and to NEVER close his office door with her in there. He said "she can't get me for something if I don't do something" and I let him know she could if there were no witnesses. He wanted to know how and I let him know that it would be her word against his and if he couldn't prove he didn't, she would get the benefit of the doubt and he would be gone. He realized I was right when he thought about the other male supervisors that had been fired over bogus sexual harassment charges by women like her.
I couldn't believe she was stupid enough to say what she said in my presence but she did. None of the managers would allow her in their offices without a third party after that, or most of the other women either.
Stupid comment. She is the same as him.
If a person has consensual sexual relations with an underling who answers to him or HER, it’s considered sexual harrassment if the underling wants to file charges or a lawsuit. Clinton signed it into law at about the same time he was getting BJs from Monica. Laws for thee but not for me.
You notice his shirt is not tucked in.
Hope she used mouthwash before the kiss.
Yeah.
Let’s go back to the good old times when men nailed their secretaries.
I despise women like that. Most are young, good looking, and have learned exactly how to get what they want and don’t care whose life they destroy to get it. I’m not saying that men don’t occasionally sexually harass women because they do, but I would bet that 95% of the time these charges are brought they are bogus. I have had men make advances to me on the job and didn’t need to complain to management. None of them were ever my manager, rather they were just men on the production floor. I made sure to make sure they knew they’d better not do it again and never had to drag management into it. I got my point across and left no doubts in their minds. These laws are good for when women ARE harassed but they do set a lot of men up for bogus claims, especially since the woman doesn’t really even have to prove her side in most cases. Companies are so afraid of lawsuits for sexual harassment that it’s easier to fire the man than to deal with it.
I don’t know why your post sparked this, but the whole thing got me wondering, should people be able to expect a LEGAL sense of privacy regarding the contents of security cameras?
I mean, can either of these people sue whoever made this information public?
I’ve never understood how any kind of sexual harrassment charge could possibly be taken seriously when the evidence was “he said, she said”. It makes no sense whatsoever.
“Why in the world would she do such a thing?”
Groan...
It’s called a honey pot. The motive is extortion and/or blackmail. McAllister has money and is facing an election in Nov.
I had a boss who hired based on looks. Then he quit, leaving a barely functional team of 14 mostly attractive women. I was tasked with training them and getting them functional.
I had one woman walk up stick out her chest and ask if she needed a boob job. Another flashed my Sharon Stone style. The last straw was one walked into the Sr VPs office and said I was telling people she was having whore parties at her house.
None of it stuck but after the last one I said to heck with it and found a different job. It was quite an eye opener to say the least.
HR’s job is to protect the company, not to protect individuals. The man has to prove himself innocent.
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