Regards, Ivan
Posted on 06/27/2004 1:00:42 AM PDT by MadIvan
IT may not be illegal for a man to ask his wife for sex in front of strangers in a nightclub with cages and whips suspended from the ceiling, but it is inadvisable if he is considering a run for the US Senate.
Jack Ryan, an improbably tall, dark and handsome candidate for a Senate seat in Illinois, twisted in the wind for days last week, unwilling to admit he had done anything wrong after the release of divorce papers in which his former wife, a steely blonde Star Trek actress, described how he had taken her to “explicit sex clubs” in New York and Paris six years ago.
Ryan finally withdrew from the race on Friday after Republican party leaders cut him loose and even his own aides told him brutally he could not go on.
When it came to allegations of dirty misdeeds, the half-human, half-machine “borg” from Star Trek: Voyager, otherwise known as Jeri Ryan, had the edge in credibility over her millionaire Ivy League husband, who walked and talked like a model American senator but was foolish enough to think he could survive a sex scandal.
“There’s no breaking of any marriage laws. There’s no breaking of the Ten Commandments,” Ryan protested.
But in the riveting divorce papers his ex-wife set out in matter-of-fact detail how he took her to the clubs in 1998 during “romantic getaways”.
“One club I refused to go in. It had mattresses in cubicles. The other he insisted I go to.”
A judge permitted many X-rated passages to be blacked out, including one describing a visit to the fleshpots of New Orleans. Choice excerpts remained, however, of Jeri Ryan’s account of a visit to a “bizarre club with cages, whips and other apparatus hanging from the ceiling” in New York.
“Respondent wanted me to have sex with him there with another couple watching. I refused,” she alleged. “Respondent asked me to perform a sexual activity upon him and he specifically asked other people to watch. I was very upset.”
They left and Ryan apologised, promising never to take her to such a place again. She claims he went back on his word in Paris: “People were having sex everywhere. I cried. I was physically ill. Respondent became upset and said it was not a turn-on for me to cry.”
At this point she decided the marriage was probably over. Jeri Ryan, 36, filed for divorce a year later after falling for another man and committing adultery, but it is her husband’s reputation that has suffered.
The lurid allegations were part of a battle for custody over their son, now 9. Ryan called the claims “ridiculous” and “smut” and said he was “faithful and loyal” to his wife throughout their marriage. He admitted at worst to taking her to an “avant-garde nightclub in Paris which was more than either of us felt comfortable with”. She nevertheless stands by her original charges.
Republicans in Ryan’s home state now face the daunting task of putting a latecomer candidate against Barack Obama, a charismatic young Democrat with a Harvard law degree and a polls lead of more than 20%. He has received national attention as the new face of black politics and has had a flattering 5,000-word profile in the New Yorker, a rare distinction for a little-known Senate contender.
A victory for Obama could help Democrats to take the Senate, where Republicans have a one-vote majority. Obama has sensibly never commented on his rival’s salacious private life.
After a week in which former President Bill Clinton admitted helping himself to Monica Lewinsky in the White House “because I could”, some Illinois voters were sympathetic to Ryan’s plight. “At least he included his wife instead of doing it behind her back,” a reader told the Chicago Tribune.
The talk show host Jay Leno added: “See, Democrats, they cheat on their wives. Republicans cheat too, but they bring their wife along. They make it a family event.”
Ryan wanted to keep his divorce papers private, claiming their release would harm his son. He did not help his case by pretending to local Republican leaders that there was nothing embarrassing in them.
Jeri Ryan did not want the papers unsealed either. “Jack is a good man, a loving father and he shares a strong bond with our son,” she said in a statement last week. But by then the courts had already granted media access to the documents.
In America political candidates have little right to privacy. And after one of Obama’s opponents for the Democrat nomination had to unseal his divorce papers after being accused of wife abuse someone was bound to ask to see Ryan’s, particularly as he was married to a glamorous actress.
The papers might never have been sealed in the first place had Jeri Ryan not been stalked by an unhinged Star Trek fan. A judge initially refused Jack Ryan’s request for privacy in 1999, but granted it a year later after the Trekkie was arrested for sending hundreds of sexually explicit e-mails to his wife and threatening violence.
It is another sobering thought for those who boldly go in search of fame or high office.
Regards, Ivan
Ping!
“Respondent wanted me to have sex with him there with another couple watching. I refused,” she alleged. “Respondent asked me to perform a sexual activity upon him and he specifically asked other people to watch. I was very upset.”"
Don't be offended that when I read this I thought of you...you've reported some of this in the past.
Mr.Hammer,meet Mr.Nailhead. A Democrat could be filmed eating a live baby and spin it as VRWC.I don't think Jeri is being totally honest,though.
7 of 9 ping!!!
Yeah. There ain't no justice. After Clinton, Republicans definitely deserve to have a Senator that had 7 of 9 in chains and harnesses in a sex club. We'd p0wn the terkkie vote.
The guy has lousy judgment and had to go.
The 41-year-old Obama, a graduate of Columbia University and Harvard Law School, believes the Bush administration has eroded basic rights and liberties of Americans. His disdain for the current administration's policies is clearly evident in this interview. He was the first of the U.S. Senate candidates to fervently oppose Bush's invasion of Iraq.
Charming.
Er, no, I have not...
Obama's FEC records sure make interesting reading. And BTW, what's with all the money coming from Vegas?
There should be an alternative in all votes to fill political seats. Illinois would be better represented by no candidate than by a candidate that did not have his states's interest in heart. Instead of a lesser of two evils, the voter should be able to select no evil via the ballot box.
Well, I'm really wondering about this Obama guy.
I live in IL. What his then wife said in divorce papers shouldn't be part of his race. His sexual activities have nothing to do with him voting solid 'R' if he was elected.
The state of the R party in IL is something that fills me with more shame. I hate to admit it, but our evil-Dem gov Blagoyevich isn't 1/2 as bad as I thought he would be, which says a lot about our IL party here.
Once again, R's come off looking like sex-obsessed ninnies (as they were portrayed with Clinton in 'it's about the sex' crap).
Let's back up a second - I am not suggesting that the fellow isn't entitled to a private life, clearly he is. However, he must have realised that the Democrats would have uncovered this and used it against him, yet he gave the Republican leadership in IL assurances that he was clean. Thus his private vices were transformed by his irresponsibility into public liabilities. And for lacking the judgement to know that this is how it would turn out, he should be criticised.
As for Blagojevich, I believe that it wouldn't be difficult to be an improvement on George Ryan. ;)
Regards, Ivan
What Jack did was not wrong guys. If I was doing Jeri I would want witnesses too cause I wouldn't believe it either.
If I were Jeri Ryan's husband, I'd keep the wild sex to myself and let the other guys' dirty minds torture them.
Ryan could probably have a political future by changing his affiliation to Democrat and running for office in Massachusetts or Arkansas.
HEH HEH HEH!
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