Posted on 10/04/2006 9:16:24 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
A state Senator said he is evaluating whether to continue his bid for a second term after a Charleston television station aired revealing pictures of him last week.
"My family has urged me not to withdraw from the election and I will work with them to make a decision in the immediate future," State Sen. Randy White, a Webster County Democrat, said in a letter to newspapers in his district.
An apologetic White also wrote that he was "shocked" and "horribly embarrassed" after WCHS-TV aired photos depicting him and at least two other men wearing only body paint.
"The pictures were taken approximately two years ago in private and were stolen from my personal computer," said White, 51, a married father of three. "I am not sure why they were given to the media, but I must assume for obvious political reasons."
WCHS said it received the photos anonymously on a compact disc. The various photos, censored by the station, were shown for about 80 seconds during a 5-minute news segment alleging White was the apparent victim of a blackmail plot. The station aired the segment during several newscasts last week.
White did not mention extortion during a brief Monday interview with The Associated Press or in Tuesday's letter. White wrote that he had been working with his family to overcome a "personal identification situation" and to overcome depression for which he has been treated through medication for over a year.
"I am a religious person and have been for some months praying to God to help my family and me through this tragic and troubling episode in my life," the letter said.
In its news segment, WCHS said it had reported the disc and its contents to the FBI.
White served three terms in the House of Delegates before winning his seat in the 11th Senate District in 2002.
Republican Harold "Pete" Sigler is challenging White in the November election. Sigler did not immediately respond to messages requesting comment Tuesday.
Nonsense. We're in a killing fight for civilization - and we need to use whatever we can to destroy the Party of Treason.
I, for one, say - let's open all of the Democrats' closets now. What was it that Brownback got in trouble for saying?
Oh yes: "You shall know them by their fruits."
Truer words, my dear friends.
Thank heavens it isn't Byrd!
No skeletion is safe in the closet now.
Both sides are now fireing the Neuclear weapons.
Theres many more bones to hit in Liberal closets, so let em rip!!!! Full speed ahead!!!
Pelosi should resign!
None of this really matters unless it's someone in a national race.
Nakid and ugly?
If you took all the girls guys I knew when I was single
And brought them all together for one night
I know they'd never match my sweet imagination
And everything looks worse in black and white
Kodachrome .... they give us those nice bright colors ...
Why must they be stolen? One of the other men were taking pictures of him, right? Maybe they also had copies. He may have ticked one of them off.
Tune: Men of Harlech
What's the use of wearing braces?
Vests and pants and boots with laces?
Spats and hats you buy in places
Down on Brompton Road?
What's the use of shirts of cotton?
Studs that always get forgotten?
These affairs are simply rotten,
Better far is woad.
Woad's the stuff to show men.
Woad to scare your foemen.
Boil it to a brilliant hue
And rub it on your back and your abdomen.
Ancient Briton never hit on
Anything as good as woad to fit on
Neck or knees or where you sit on.
Tailors be you blowed!
Romans came across the channel
All dressed up in tin and flannel
Half a pint of woad per man'll
Clothe us more than these.
Saxons you can waste your stitches
Building beds for bugs in britches
We have woad to clothe us which is
Not a nest for fleas.
Romans keep your armor.
Saxons your pajamas.
Hairy coats were made for goats,
Gorillas, yaks, retriever dogs, and llamas.
March on Snowdon with your woad on,
Never mind if you get rained or blowed on.
Never need a button sewed on.
Bottoms up with woad!
Maybe if you go the whole hog they might play like a pro team? =)
I don't get the point of the paint, either. I GET the naked part but the part I saw just looks stupid. Is that a turn on? It just looks like a birthmark to me.
I thought the picture would be him at some football game showing his team spirit.
That's the picture...it was plastered all over the evening news on all three channels in the Huntington-Charleston WV market the other night.
If that were me, I'd be sooo embarassed, I'd change my name and move to Alaska.
Ahhh! I love the smell of political napalm in the morning. What goes around comes around.
Don't forget to include the sob story of being molested by a family member/priest/teacher/scout leader, etc. Can't have one without the other.
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