Family concerned about Sen.(Ophelia) Ford (she is missing get out the milk cartons)

The Commercial Appeal ^ | 5/25/07 | Trey Heath

[GailA]

After failing to hear from state Sen. Ophelai Ford by late Saturday afternoon, concerned family members were planning to head to Nashville to bring her home, said Shelby County Commissioner Joe Ford.

We know that she checked out of the Holiday Inn in Nashville but we don't know what other hotel she checked into," Ford said of his sister. "But we will be going to Nashville to get her."

Ophelia Ford has blamed a string of bizarre episodes in Nashville on 'chronic anemia." She has flatly denied any suggestion that she has a drug or alcohol problem.

Joe Ford Said he hopes to be in Nashville by today with a niece to bring his sister back to Memphis, but that depends on their ability to reach her by cell phone. She has repeatedly ignored his calls, Joe Ford said.

"We just hope she will answer her cell phone and tell us what hotel she is at," he said.

[GailA]

First she gives an incoherent rant in the senate, then she falls off a bar stool, then she assaults a cabbie after a round at the Wild Horse Saloon...now it seems we need to get out the milk cartons as she is apparently in hiding from her family and constitutents.

[jiggyboy]

It’s been something every day for about a week now. When they find her this time it’s gotta be straight to the hospital under lock and key.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Junior Ford’s drunken Auntie has flown the coop.

*ping*

[Redcloak]

No political party given, so I’m guessing that she didn’t vote for Dubya the last time around.

[GailA]

Unless she commits herself there is little that her family or we her constitutents. I don't think there is any way we can get her removed either.

Sounds like the pressure has caused her to go on a bender.

[GailA]

You have that right, she’s a Dem...auntie of former US Rep Harold Ford JR...I wonder why FNC hasn’t picked up on her antics...or are they sheilding JUNIOR?

[SmithL]

Involuntary confinement at the family business until she sobers up?

[Liberty Valance]

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[Fiddlstix]

First she gives an incoherent rant in the senate......

This one?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hr65cTyxxkk

[kcvl]

"Ms. Ophelia Ford is going to be here and there is nothing you can say or do to take me away. I don't care what the media says," Ford said in an interview in her Nashville office. "I will be here in the Senate and I will be here until my four years is up. I've got a long time to decide" about whether to run for re-election in 2010, she said.

She said a Nashville hotel employee was "absolutely wrong" when he told ambulance dispatchers last week, after she fell from a stool in a concierge lounge, that she was "very intoxicated." "I had not been drinking. I do take medication. They were absolutely wrong and it was misinterpreted." She said that her symptoms might have caused hotels workers to think otherwise.

Ford, 56, blamed her frequent absences from legislative sessions this year on the "chronic anemia" that she says doctors diagnosed last summer during a two-week hospital stay.

[kcvl]

“I was a little anemic when I had my daughter. She’s 34 now. “

[Atchafalaya]

The Lost Weekend.

[Clintonfatigued]

The Ford family’s saga gets stranger every day.

[kcvl]

A Nashville cab driver has accused state Sen. Ophelia Ford of tearing off his shirt button during a drunken altercation in his taxi — the latest in a string of bizarre incidents involving the Memphis Democrat that have led some to publicly question her health and sobriety.

Ford, 56, declined a request Thursday by The Tennessean to discuss the incident but told The Associated Press that she was not drunk and would not have grabbed the driver intentionally.

“If I did, it was to hold on,” Ford said. “I’m not strong enough to do that,” referring to being weak from a chronic illness.

The driver, Habib Hashi, told police he picked up Ford and an unidentified woman from the Wildhorse Saloon in downtown Nashville on Tuesday.

Ford, Hashi said, was intoxicated and brought out to the cab under a blanket to keep the public from seeing her.

“She said ‘Take me to my (expletive) hotel, (expletive),’” Hashi said, during an interview Thursday. “She kept saying, ‘I will fire a lot of people tomorrow.’ I didn’t know who she was talking about.”

During the ride, Hashi said, Ford grabbed the collar of his shirt from behind and pulled it back, tearing a button off.

[REDWOOD99]

Geez, I hope she didn’t accept a ride from Teddy.

[hometoroost]

Anemic? She needs more blood in her alcohol system. Have they checked with the Middle Tennessee Treatment Center?

[toddlintown]

Check the Betty Ford Clinic.

[fieldmarshaldj]

The reason why she flew the coop is because she doesn’t WANT to go back to the dry-out clinic again. It didn’t take the first go-around. She loves the bottle more than she loves herself or her family.

[acoulterfan]

And this:
http://tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070525/NEWS0201/705250412

[lonestar]

I thought she was in jail.