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One of the persons who I have worked with at the Texas Democratic Party is a truly interesting person named Glen Maxey. Glen Maxey was the first openly gay member of the Texas legislature. Glen claims to have the record for the most naked voters registered between midnight and 6 AM and so far no one has dared to dispute this claim. Glen is a member of the DNC and was in charge of the Texas delegation at Philadelphia (he got my youngest a guest pass for the first night of the convention).
Back in 2011 when Rick Perry aka Governor Goodhair was running for the nomination, Glen researched the rumors about Goodhair being bisexual. There have been rumors about Goodhair being caught in bed with the male secretary of state back in 2004 and Kay Bailey Hutchinson attempted (poorly) to use these rumors against Goodhair in the 2010 GOP primary for governor. These rumors had no effect on the primary between KBH and Goodhair and Goodhair fell apart before these rumors were used in the 2016 race. My daughter is LGBT and I personally do not care about Goodhair's sleeping partners.
Just before the Oops comment in the GOP debate, Glen had come out with a book documenting Goodhair's "dates" with a number of gay prostitutes. https://www.amazon.com/Head-Figure-Search-Hidden-Perry/dp/1468025988/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1483039707&sr=8-1&keywords=glen%20maxey%C2%A0&tag=viglink20248-20
One of my daughters is LGBT and I personally do not care about Goodhair's sleeping partners. I wonder if this book will come up in the confirmation hearings for Goodhair?
Glen is a true character, You cannot say that Texas politics are boring.
jehop61
(1,735 posts)Only proves he's guilty of hypocrisy. Not disqualifying. This isn't 1956
Volaris
(10,274 posts)And that will be enough for DJ 'Augustus' to pull the plug on his appointment. Don't want to disappoint Vlad the Enabler, who would NOT approve.
Uggwearingdad
(78 posts)This is beneath anyone with common decency regardless of the target....."....and I personally do not care about Goodhair's sleeping partners."
Then why post it?
Gothmog
(145,554 posts)You can take this up with Glen maxey if you want.
Uggwearingdad
(78 posts)Pure supposition excuses it esquire....because a Gay Legislator says something?
Yeah that covers you(nope)....Goth....beneath even you.
hunter
(38,326 posts)They are all crooks, so the only way they can trust one another is if they can destroy anyone who gets out of line.
The guys with the biggest skeletons rise to the top. They blackmail one another to high office.
Unfortunately for Republican cohesiveness, homosexuality isn't that big of a skeleton these days. Blatant hypocrisy about it rates a zero. Every Republican office holder is a hypocrite.
To be, say, Speaker of the House like Dennis Hastert was, or President Elect like Donald Trump, you've got to have raped a few minors.
I don't even want to imagine what Pence has in his closet, he's such a knob.
Ilsa
(61,698 posts)Him crushed by his own party as they react to rumors. Perry wouldn't lift a finger to help anyone but his cronies as he demonstrated by using the budget surplus for crony capitalism instead of restoring public education, teacher salaries, etc. Screw him. If this is what it takes to keep him out of Washington, I'm fine with it.
Skittles
(153,193 posts)what I care about is he is a repuke asshole and dumber than a bag of hammers