Ex-Governor (McDonnell-R) Points the Finger at His Wife in a Virginia Trial

[KamaAina]

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/21/us/politics/mcdonnells-trial-turns-from-state-of-finances-to-state-of-mind.html

Almost immediately, a politician who always campaigned as a devoted family man and conservative Roman Catholic turned the spotlight on his embattled wife. On the day after his Nov. 3, 2009, election as governor, he said, his elation was not matched by hers. He recalled her yelling at him as his phone rang, with President Obama on the line with congratulations.

“She clearly exhibited stress about her pending role as first lady,” he testified, saying he tried to calm her down before taking the president’s call.

Defense lawyers have portrayed the couple as incapable of conspiring with Mr. Williams, who gave the couple and a family business $120,000 in low-interest loans, paid for much of their daughter’s wedding, took Ms. McDonnell on lavish spending sprees, bought a Rolex for the governor, footed the bill for golf outings and made his Ferrari available to them.

The defense painted Ms. McDonnell as a vitamin-obsessed “nutbag” smitten with Mr. Williams, and Mr. McDonnell, once considered a contender for the G.O.P. presidential nomination, as at once a naïve Boy Scout and an accomplished governor too busy to notice Mr. Williams’s entreaties.

[Faux pas]

1. What a

puss. That is all.

[underpants]

2. Beeep beeep Bob is personally backing up the bus on Maureen today

^^Actual text I sent to my wife.
Oh the soap opera

They aren't living together any more. Bob is living with his Pastor.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025423661

[COLGATE4]

6. They aren't living together any more. Bob is living with his Pastor.

They should make a lovely couple.

[hobbit709]

3. I can't wait for what she says about him.

[catbyte]

4. And who said that chivalry was dead?!?

What a hero!

What class!


What a dirt bag.

[shraby]

5. Luv those famous family values..makes me want to go right out and

buy some. What a back-stabber he turned out to be...or maybe always was.
He didn't really really enjoy that Rolex or fancy car. He didn't really like the opulence of his daughter's wedding that everyone thought he provided for her. It was his wife's fault..all of it...he just basked in the goodies golden light. Had nothing to do with obtaining it.

[DefenseLawyer]

7. Take my wife....

Please!!!!!

[Thinkingabout]

8. He is lying with ease, he does mot have any shame in doing so over and over.

[KamaAina]

10. How can you tell?

Are his lips moving?

[jehop61]

9. The McDonnell trial

Otherwise known as " the taming of the shrew" hasn't told us who sent their sons to the golf club where they bought out the pro shop, all on Jonnie.