This Tennessee Republican Nearly Died From COVID. Now He's Fighting Masks.

[Zorro]

State Rep. David Byrd needed a liver transplant after 55 days on a ventilator. Now he’s thanking the medical professionals who saved his life by battling mask and vaccine mandates.

Tennessee state Rep. David Byrd was recorded apologizing to one of two former students who accused him of molesting them when he was a girls’ high school basketball coach in the 1980s.

“I can promise you one thing, I have been so sorry for that,” he says in a recording that surfaced along with the allegations in 2018. “I’ve lived with that and you don’t know how hard it has been for me.”

A third student charged that he had attempted to molest her. But Byrd never admitted nor explicitly denied what the three alleged, saying only, “I have done nothing wrong or inappropriate during my term as state representative.”

The then speaker of the Tennessee House of Representatives, Beth Harwell, called on Byrd to resign. He refused and joined many of his fellow Republican representatives in wrongdoing of another kind when the pandemic hit.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/tennessee-republican-david-byrd-nearly-died-from-covid-now-hes-fighting-masks

[Botany]

1. Well at least he didn't have a problem w/his email server.

I can't even begin to understand all that is wrong in the O.P.. Good God in Butter he was trying to molest
under age high school girls who he was coaching?

[hibbing]

2. "you don't know how hard it has been for me"...wow n/t

[Botany]

3. "you don't know how hard it has been for me" .... the Judge Kavanaugh defense

In his hearings to be on the US Supreme Court Kavanaugh, was crying, spitting, and had snot coming
from his nose told a Democratic Senator that because of the claims of sexual assault against him
Kavanaugh that he was being hurt because parents of high school girls would not let their daughters
play on a team he coached. (BTW this happened long before he was picked for the SCOTUS)

[Hugh_Lebowski]

4. i don't want to start any blasphemous rumours but i think that god has a sick sense of humour

and when i die, i expect to find him laughing ...

[Jilly_in_VA]

5. I'd like to know

how he managed to get a liver transplant. Pretty sure he jumped the list...sorta like Cheney and his heart implant (can't call it a transplant because he didn't have one to start with). This dude is a major a-hole.