AK: crazy person at city meeting rants against LGBT rights, waves tampon

[shenmue]

Pink News article here

Her name is Kathleen Tonn. She lives in Anchorage. She ran for Senate and lost. I wonder why?

From the article - I am not making this up:

“Since one of my brethren introduced the King James Bible, since I represent the Lord Jesus Christ the great I am, I’m going to add to your public document and your public record from the public document of the great I am,” she went on.

Continuing, she read out a passage from Peter, describing the wrath unleashed by God against Sodom and Gomorrah.

[hatrack]

1. Great, so nice to meet you, and . . . Whoa, look at the time!!

Gotta go!

[shenmue]

6. Here she is speaking in tongues *in a sauna*

[Comrade Grumpy]

17. Sweet Jesus and Mary! There has to be something in the DSM V for her.

[SwissTony]

21. Well, to her credit, in the two clips I've seen of her,

she hasn't asked for money.

But, as we statisticians say, don't do statistics with n=2.

[riderinthestorm]

25. Wow, just, well...

no words!!

[shenmue]

26. Yes

Wow.

[NuclearDem]

2. I wasn't the only one who thought Palin before seeing the article, was I?

[Skittles]

3. well, I thought of Ms. Coulter

[xenoturkey]

4. I'm going to go out on a limb...

...and say one of Prevo's "flock". What a bunch of cards they are.

(He runs a big church around here that seems to attract all the RW radical xians.)

[Solly Mack]

5. A tampon is her trumpet?

It's been a long time since I've read the instructions but I'm fairly certain she's doing it wrong.

[CanadianComrade]

7. If they get an ordinance......

.....she wants an ordinance too. She wants one for those who speak in tongues. Ok, I propose that every person who does that in public, subjecting any other Alaskan to their lunacy shall be placed on the nearest iceflow and set adrift, never to scare or pester anyone ever again.

Problem solved.

[xenoturkey]

8. We would have to have to set off a lot of ice drifts. (n/t)

[csziggy]

20. It doesn't have to be one ice drift per speaker in tongues

They'd probably enjoy crowding together, speaking either in concert or in competition!

[HooptieWagon]

9. Mental illness? Nt

[RiffRandell]

10. Maybe she wants to become a marathon runner. nt

[struggle4progress]

11. Nod, smile, and move on.

[Blue_In_AK]

12. Yeah, she's rather famous here for this sort of thing.

[callous taoboy]

14. Blue, what ever happened to the crazy woman who was on the Anchorage school board-

This was back in the early 90's, she was really obnoxious and was in the news all of the time as sort of a laughing stock, was upset because she thought there was a Jewish plot against her husband which is why he couldn't pass the bar exam?

[Blue_In_AK]

16. Theresa?

I haven't seen her in quite some time, but I'm sure she's still around. I actually used to have a fair amount of contact with her at one of the law firms I used to work for. She's definitely got some mental issues, but her heart is in the right place - she's a liberal democrat politically - but she's undoubtedly hard to take when she's on a roll.

[callous taoboy]

23. Funny story

When I was moving to Anchorage in '91 I stayed the night in Tok, and the first person I saw on the Anchorage News when I tuned in that night was Theresa and her nails-on-chalkboard voice. Saw a lot more of her once I became a teacher in Anchorage.

[Blue_In_AK]

24. Yes.

I used to work for Jermain, Dunnagan & Owens who represented the school board or the school district at that time, so she was in our office quite a lot. She may have finally found the right combination of meds to calm her rather manic personality and faded into the woodwork. I haven't seen her anywhere for probably eight or nine years.

[callous taoboy]

28. Hmmm... Medical MJ?

[romanic]

13. Gurl needs to have several seats.

Actually a stadium full of seats would probably be better. :I

[icymist]

15. Did you know she ran for the US Senate?

As of Friday, Anchorage resident Kathleen Tonn informed the public, via Facebook, she is officially out of the US Senate race, posting:

I have officially removed my name from the primary ballot for Alaska US Senator, since there was little support or encouragement for my candidacy! I want it known that I do not support either Joe Miller, Mead Tredwell (sic) or Dan Sullivan in their bid for Alaska US Senator! Please don’t ask me to like your PAGE again!!! May God have mercy on the little children and babies in America in the days ahead!
http://www.alaskacommons.com/2014/02/01/kathleen-tonn-is-out-of-the-senate-race-but-her

tHE STUPID. It keeps on trying.

[Initech]

18. Let's count the number of times "I" was used in that sentence.

[Fla Dem]

19. Think she flipped the bird at them as she left the podium, LOL. nt

[smirkymonkey]

22. What a nutcase!

How does someone like this get to even run for office in the first place? She should be in a mental hospital.

[Omaha Steve]

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