Reply #3: Funny how that works

[MountainLaurel]

One night back in the 90s, two friends and I went out to hear a band play. One of my friends was hit on by a guy who noted that on a lark he had decided to run for the state legislature. By the end of the evening, he had asked her to go home with him. She gave a resounding no, and we basically lied about needing to pick up a friend getting off work.

A couple weeks later, I'm driving to band practice when a commercial for him comes on the radio. It was all about what a family values kind of guy he was, blah, blah, blah. The commercial ended with his about-4-year-old daughter saying "This is Ashley Lastname. Please vote for my daddy." I nearly drove off the road, and recounted the story to my friends as soon as I got to practice. Turns out Mr. Lastname had said that he and his wife were separated.

It gets even better. We tell our story to a male friend who grew up in the area where we went to college, and he notes that Mr. Family Values did some exploration of his sexuality in high school. Which would otherwise be irrelevant except that most of the bills Mr. FV had put forth had to do with punishing gays.: preventing them from getting healthcare benefits through their partners, trying to rid the university's GLBT group of its office space in the student organization wing (he was going to give the office to the crazy feminists *sarcasm* who thought a university of 26K should have a daycare; by law, a daycare center that size could only have 0.5 children).

Well, the story ends with him getting voted out of office. A few years later, he made the news for trying to break into his estranged wife's house for a second time, while totally drunk.