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Here's the link from the Nashville newspaper (liberal rag) this morning: http://www.tennessean.com/loca l/archives/02/06/18987028.shtm l?Element_ID=18987028

Haven't really heard anything new except something along the lines as fury about the "pressure" of being a legislator. Gee the guys was ALSO a pervert.

Thank you vanna.

Haven't really heard anything new except something along the lines as fury about the "pressure" of being a legislator. Gee the guys was ALSO a pervert.

He was also the chief deputy for the Sullivan County Sheriffs Department from 1976-86, and it likely would not have gone well for him in prison.

A few misdemeanor public indecency charges should not have generated much concern on his part about that possibility, however, so it appears that his pals helped him cover up more serious difficulties than exposing himself to teenage girls.

Rape? Child molestation? From one of our trusted public servants? I'm shocked, I tell you, shocked!

Keith Westmoreland

LAWMAKER FACING EXPOSURE CHARGE FOUND DEAD AT HOME

The death of Tennessee Representative Keith Westmoreland is sending shock waves across the state tonight.

Authorities say the 55-year-old Republican apparently took his own life at his home in Kingsport. Police Chief Mark Addington said he was found by family members around eight pm in a bathroom with a gunshot wound to the chest.

Addington told reporters Westmoreland had talked on the phone an hour earlier, the last time someone had heard from him. The chief said a note was left for family members.

The death comes a week after Westmoreland was arrested in Florida on seven counts of indecent exposure. And earlier today, Nashville police revealed other incidents of alleged behavior by the lawmaker.

Westmoreland, however, declined comment about the charges as he entered the House earlier today when the Legislature returned to session.

Lawmakers and others who knew Westmoreland are mourning his loss.

House Speaker Jimmy Naifeh described him as a "hard working, conscientious legislator."

And Governor Sundquist said in a statement that Westmoreland was, "an excellent legislator and a good friend who did so much for his constituents and his state."

6/20/2002 3:30:30 PM
Reporter: Associated Press Copyright
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The death of Tennessee Representative Keith Westmoreland is sending shock waves across the state tonight.

Authorities say the 55-year-old Republican apparently took his own life at his home in Kingsport. Police Chief Mark Addington said he was found by family members around eight pm in a bathroom with a gunshot wound to the chest.

Addington told reporters Westmoreland had talked on the phone an hour earlier, the last time someone had heard from him. The chief said a note was left for family members.

The death comes a week after Westmoreland was arrested in Florida on seven counts of indecent exposure. And earlier today, Nashville police revealed other incidents of alleged behavior by the lawmaker.

Westmoreland, however, declined comment about the charges as he entered the House earlier today when the Legislature returned to session.

Lawmakers and others who knew Westmoreland are mourning his loss.

House Speaker Jimmy Naifeh described him as a "hard working, conscientious legislator."

And Governor Sundquist said in a statement that Westmoreland was, "an excellent legislator and a good friend who did so much for his constituents and his state."

6/20/2002 3:30:30 PM
Reporter: Associated Press Copyright
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