Facing harassment claim, Ky. governor (Patton - D)tearfully admits affair

Court TV ^ | some AP hack

[eureka!]

"Birchtree Healthcare has filed for bankruptcy and is the subject of a foreclosure suit. The Cabinet for Health Services pulled Medicare and Medicaid payments from the nursing home in July."

Hell hath no fury like a predating Rat in power scorned.

How very Clintonian......

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

He denied he used his influence to assist or damage her business, a nursing home, as she has alleged.

Related to the Terrorist Pardoner?

[martin_fierro]

From what little I saw on FOX, the guy made his Tearful Apology, then did a mosh pit dive into his family's waiting arms for the cameras' benefit. Yuck.

[visagoth]

I didn't read the whole article, but when did Clinton become the Governor of Kentucky?

[ikka]

Patton, 65, a Democrat and chairman of the National Governors Association

Was it not the case that Roy Romer was also NGA chairman, also Democrat, and also caught in similar lies? In Roamer's case he had an assistant named, appropriately enough, BJ (I am not making this up).

He had a press conference where his wife ALSO stood by his side.

[kezekiel]

"If the governor is admitting this, I'm happy about that," Conner told WHAS-TV of Louisville on Friday. "But that doesn't make things right. He's used his position to hurt me, my business and the residents" of the nursing home.

Just part of the bitter fruits of sexual immorality. Next time, you two behave and keep your marriage vows.

[aristeides]

LOL!

[Real Cynic No More]

Notice that it didn't state his party affiliation by saying "Democratic Governor Patton" as it would have if he had been a Republican. Only by reading further down into the article would the reader know he's one of "them".

Another example of just what Ann Coulter discussed at length in Slander.

[ValerieUSA]

Her nursing home is in the town of CLINTON!

[connectthedots]

Now if Patton would only tearfully RESIGN!!!

[lelio]

"It's not easy for me to discuss private failures in a public forum
Its easier for me to discuss them in a hotel room surrounded by cops paid for with your tax dollars.

[southernnorthcarolina]

Poll running on the Louisville Courier-Journal website...

In light of Gov. Patton's admission of infidelity, do you think he should resign?

Yes 93%

No 6%

3271 visitors have posted their opinion on this topic

[Tacis]

An amusing story. Begore the DNC finances any democrat candidate for the governor of any state or makes available the secret bank accounts or long lists of dead voters, it insists on interviewing the souse and having the spouse sign an agreement.

When a democrat governor is caught cheating on a spouse or criminal activity is found (unlikely, of course because of media bias) and the democrat uses "sex" as a diversionary excuse, the souse has already agreed to "stand by" the governor. Well, the woman the DNC asked to have sign the Reno agreement was willing but wanted more. She wanted in return to have the ability to murder a small number of innocent Christian children. The DNC immediately agreed. Now, it looks like that provision will never be used.

Does this mean that Kentucky will launch missles against some innocent folks in Sudan? Has McKinney pointed out that it is only about sex yet?

[07055]

Patton, whose wife Judi, stood by his side at a news conference Wednesday

When is this loser up for re-election?

Will the voters reward his long-suffering wife with a US Senate seat as a consolation prize for putting up with the guy?

[Political Junkie Too]

So, let me see if I'm scoring this right -- Hutchinson (R) in Arkansas may lose his Senate seat because he divorced his wife and married a staffer, but the governor of Kentucky has an affair and allegedly kicks-back assistance to her business and then sics regulators on her when she ends the affair, but he'll get to keep his job because he's a Democrat.

Okay, got it.

-PJ

[07055]

"I have now apologized to the people of Kentucky and asked for your forgiveness," the married governor said. "I do believe that now I am on the right path. "It's not easy for me to discuss private failures in a public forum but I do so because I want to be honest with the people of Kentucky and try to earn their trust and respect again."

"So, can't we just move on so I can get back to doing the work the people of Kentucky elected me to do? There are lots more women I need to sexually harrass before I leave office and you reporters are getting in my way."

[07055]

The woman, Tina Conner, alleged that she had a two-year affair with Patton and that the governor turned state inspectors loose on her nursing home in western Kentucky after she ended the relationship. Patton denied it. "Under no circumstances have I or anyone under my direct control tried to punish Mrs. Conner," he said. "I hope she will go forward with her life as I am going to try to go forward with mine."

[southernnorthcarolina]

When is this loser up for re-election?

Patton was elected narrowly in 1995, and re-elected easily in 1999 when the a bizarre candidate won the GOP primary; GOP Senator Mitch McConnell endorsed Patton.

He's not eligible to run again in 1993. Prior to this scandal, he had been thought likely to challenge Senator Jim Bunting in 2004. Can't imagine that happening now.

[07055]

In 1991, the RATS told us that sexual harrassment was the most significant danger to the women of the country---and that it could consist of something as minor as making a comment about a pubic hair on a Coke can.

In 2002, the RATS tell us that using the power of the state to destroy a woman's business because she broke off a sexual affair is nothing of public concern--as long as the perp is a fellow RAT. Its simply his "private life" and we have no right to even question him about it.