THE lesbian daughter of Rep. Dick Gephardt (D-Mo.) is eager to rally the gay vote to get her dad elected president. Chrissy Gephardt is expected to be far more aggressive than Vice President Dick Cheney's lesbian daughter, Mary, in exhorting the lavender legions to pull the lever for her father. Roll Call reports that the Gephardt campaign is "very interested" in finding a media outlet to do an extensive interview with Chrissy, who is a social worker in the Washington, D.C., area.
Her sexuality has so far only been alluded to in a Boston Globe story about civil unions and in her biography on the Gephardt campaign Web site. Her story is now expected to be featured in an upcoming issue of People magazine. Gephardt spokesman Erik Smith said, "In a presidential campaign, a candidate's life is an open book." [So Howdy Doody wants his daughter's sexual practices to be an open book; wonder if he wants us to explore his finances quite so carefully?]
We still don't know everything about Dick's beach house. And then there's the story that Dick and brother disagree about, the lovely tale of how Dick's dad tells him, if it weren't for the union we wouldn't have a roof over our heads. Dick's brother claims he never heard his dad say anything like that. That their dad was a die hard republican who hid his face in his hands upon learning his two sons were democrats.
Hey, you golfers becareful out there!
Lightning strikes twice for golfer
A golfer has told how he completed a round despite being hit by lightning twice within 30 minutes.
Pub manager Vincenzo Frascella, 50, of Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, was struck on the 14th and 17th holes of the Orton Meadows Golf Course in Peterborough on Wednesday.
Both times bolts struck the tip of his umbrella as he sheltered during storms.
"It's one of those things where you don't know whether you're lucky to be alive or unlucky to have been hit. I actually think I was a bit unlucky," said Mr Frascella, a father of two who has a golf handicap of 25.
"The first time there was a flash and I felt it go down my arm. The second was a bit worse. It went through my shoulder blade. It was like needles going all the way from my shoulder down my arm.
"I carried on and finished the round. I didn't think too much of it to be honest. I haven't been checked out or anything and I haven't felt any ill effects.
"I won't tell you my score. It was a bad day. But I don't think that was anything to do with the lightning. I just had a stinker."
Mr Frascella said he had been told the chances of lightning striking a person twice were about three million to one.
He added: "It's certainly a day I'll remember."