Couldn’t happen to a nicer guy. I’m a lawyer from Memphis and I know him a little. He’s from the crooked scum-of-the-Earth Ford political family. They’ve been taking advantage of gullible blacks for about a hundred years.
His dad, Harold Ford Sr., was a crooked philandering Congressman who escaped prison on bribery and fraud charges by the hair of his chinny chin chin. I was in the courtroom during one of his trials. The original jury split down racial lines. Blacks wouldn’t convict him. One time, when he was still in Congress, I was at a program at the Orpheum theater and he snuck into the balcony with a white woman not his wife and they started kissing. When he saw that I noticed, he sprinted out of there. He was one of the crooked Democrats involved in the Congressional post office scam.
His uncle John Ford was a crooked state senator for three decades who dressed like a pimp and was known to drive down the interstate firing a pistol out of his sunroof. He eventually got himself caught in the Tennessee Waltz sting operation and went to prison on bribery charges. These days I see him regularly in a Chinese joint. Few politicians have been as corrupt and worthless. I saw him on the senate floor in Nashville dressed in an all white suit. He looked like Colonel Sanders.
His aunt Ophelia Ford took her brother’s seat in the senate. Dead people voted in her election and the race was certified by someone who wasn’t even in Tennessee at the time but she got in any way and made a spectacle of herself because she couldn’t lay off the booze.
His uncle Emmitt Ford served in Congress but had to quit because of a fraud conviction. He later went to prison on tax fraud charges.
There are many other skallywags and skunks in the Ford family history, those are the ones I can think of off the top of my head. I’ve always thought Jr. was a little smarter and more honest than the typical Ford, but not by much. Sorry for the rant, I’ve despised these people for decades.
Thanks for the background. I knew he was a duplicitous POS first time I saw him on TV. Glad to have it confirmed and to know the rest of the family are too.
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Thanks for the great information!
Its amazing how short the memories are, even here.
I knew the basics of that outline and I am from Kansas City, but memories are short. When he was first in the spotlight, there was all sorts of high hopes for him because the Democrats, thought he talked “white.”