TN STATE Rep. Keith Westmoreland Commits Suicide

WZTV Nashville ^ | 6/19/02 | staff

[Consort]

He must have received a call from Tom Lantos.

[VA Advogado]

Nothing is ever worth taking your own life over.

[GailA]

It is tragic and sad. He should have faced the music, he and his family would have weathered the storm of the scandal. BUT this tragic ending will make it 100 times harder on them. A truly selfish act.

The Kingsport Times is the paper local to Westmoreland's area.

Kingsport Times

Tennessean

Knox News Sentinel

Commercial Appeal

Oak Ridger

[Alabama_Wild_Man]

"...a dark secret that he believed couldn't be controlled..."

Possible - anyway, he took a 'Permanent Solution To A Temporary Problem'.

(imho) -- He took the Coward's way out. . . .

IF Guilty - this could've been worked thru - somehow - .

IF Not Guilty - Then there should've been nothing to fear (for the most part).

[inflorida]

I agree with everything you wrote. He probably felt there was no way out except for ending it all, but he was wrong.

[Bella_Bru]

At least it wasn't on TV, ala Bud Dwyer.

My condolensces to this man's family.

[TN Republican]

Come on, you're talking like he was being tortured by the KGB. I doubt he would have killed himself if these allegations were false.

[TN Republican]

With all that Nashville P*$$y slinking around the Capitol, you don't really need internet pornography to make you think about sex.