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{Ophelia, TN State} Sen. Ford unleashes off-topic rant
Memphis Commercial Appeal ^ | 5/16/7 | Richard Locker

Posted on 05/16/2007 7:48:42 AM PDT by SmithL

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1 posted on 05/16/2007 7:48:44 AM PDT by SmithL
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To: GailA
With her voice rising, Ford at one point called the officials' remarks "absolutely dumb" and said they "make no sense." She repeatedly told them, "What you're talkin' about ain't hittin' on nothin' with me."

What a class act. Memphis must be so pleased with itself for sending this one to Nashville.

2 posted on 05/16/2007 7:50:15 AM PDT by SmithL (si vis pacem, para bellum)
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To: SmithL
I thought Ophelia Ford was found guilty of election felonies, and therefore removed from office. What's up with this, that she's still around?

Congressman Billybob

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3 posted on 05/16/2007 8:01:49 AM PDT by Congressman Billybob (Please visit www.ArmorforCongress.com)
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She was not found guilty of anything. Without placing blame, the State voided the election due to irregularities (too many dead voters), and she was out of office until the very next election. This time, the dead were more discreet in their balloting, and Ophelia is back in the official Ford Family seat in Nashville.


4 posted on 05/16/2007 8:07:43 AM PDT by SmithL (si vis pacem, para bellum)
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To: SmithL

They showed quite a bit of this on the news the other day. It was a stunning performance. The dead silence in the room after she finished her rant was telling. One might have thought she was “impaired” in some way.


5 posted on 05/16/2007 8:10:50 AM PDT by Grammy ("Ms Pelosi is a very difficult person to embarrass." Fred Thompson, 4/11/07)
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To: SmithL
What you're sayin' ain't hittin' on nothin'! ... you need to get more educated.

What. A. Nimrod.

6 posted on 05/16/2007 8:12:31 AM PDT by agere_contra
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To: Grammy
One might have thought she was “impaired” in some way.

One might have often thought that.
; )

7 posted on 05/16/2007 8:13:55 AM PDT by SmithL (si vis pacem, para bellum)
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To: SmithL

When people say things like that to me outside of work, I ask them to repeat it in English. It draws a mixed reaction.


8 posted on 05/16/2007 8:32:55 AM PDT by Starwolf
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To: SmithL
Her first name seems apropos.
9 posted on 05/16/2007 8:34:56 AM PDT by LIConFem (Thompson 2008. Lifetime ACU Rating: 86 -- Hunter 2008 (VP) Lifetime ACU Rating: 92)
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To: SmithL
" . . . You need to get better knowledged about it."

That nap**-head** h* got unknowledged.

10 posted on 05/16/2007 8:44:21 AM PDT by leadpenny
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To: SmithL

Ophelia actually showed up for work?

She has AWOL for almost all of the session!


11 posted on 05/16/2007 9:32:43 AM PDT by Coldwater Creek
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To: SmithL

“If you ain’t knowledged in Ebonics you ain’t knowledged ‘bout nuffin.”


12 posted on 05/16/2007 9:44:44 AM PDT by Inwoodian
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To: SmithL; GailA; NewRomeTacitus; JohnnyZ; Kuksool; AuH2ORepublican; cva66snipe; Clemenza; ...

You guys have GOT to see this on video. She’s obviously a raging alcoholic.

http://www.wkrn.com/nashville/news/senator-ophelia-ford-rants-on-child-deaths-at-audit-hearing/95553.htm


13 posted on 05/16/2007 11:03:34 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Would you vote for President a guy who married his cousin? Me, neither. Accept no RINOs. Fred in '08)
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Damn...she is clearly out of it


14 posted on 05/16/2007 12:03:27 PM PDT by Starwolf
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To: Starwolf

That’s about as lucid as she gets (just be glad the video didn’t show a close-up of her — she has a seriously botched facelift (picture Katherine Helmond in “Brazil”) and other Michael Jacksonesque plastic surgery, she looks frightening — not to mention the swollen cheeks of a chronic alkie).

Not written in the article (at least I didn’t see it), which I got from a State Rep, was that she continued her drunken tirade off the floor and into the backrooms. The TN Dem Senate Caucus would be better off telling her not to return for the rest of the session, and go get her ass to Betty Ford. It would be hillarious if it weren’t so sad and pathetic.


15 posted on 05/16/2007 12:29:55 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Would you vote for President a guy who married his cousin? Me, neither. Accept no RINOs. Fred in '08)
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To: SmithL

She was drunk as Hell


16 posted on 05/16/2007 12:32:44 PM PDT by AppyPappy (If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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To: SmithL

She got the info on what the hearing was the day before it was held, now she’s ranting on death certificates which was not being discussed...guess she wants her brother’s funeral home to get them for FREE??????????


17 posted on 05/16/2007 3:22:28 PM PDT by GailA (Proud to admit I'm a quilt-a-holic.)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

Bookmarked for home viewing.


18 posted on 05/17/2007 7:45:28 AM PDT by Tennessee_Bob ("Those who "abjure" violence can only do so because others are committing violence on their behalf.")
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To: fieldmarshaldj

OMG. That is a by-the-book drunk taking time out from a bender.


19 posted on 05/17/2007 7:54:03 AM PDT by Xenalyte (You have to defile a mummy completely, or they come back to life. You know that.)
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To: Xenalyte

She had to go to the hospital not long after that rant.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1835114/posts


20 posted on 05/17/2007 12:33:45 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Would you vote for President a guy who married his cousin? Me, neither. Accept no RINOs. Fred in '08)
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