Wife of ex-GOP Rep. Pickering claims he had affair

[TacticalPeek]

Source: AP

Wife of ex-GOP Rep. Pickering claims he had affair

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS (AP) – 31 minutes ago

JACKSON, Miss. — The estranged wife of former U.S. Rep. Chip Pickering claims in a lawsuit that the Mississippi Republican had an affair that ruined their marriage and derailed his political career.

Leisha Pickering seeks unspecified damages in the alienation of affection lawsuit she filed this week against Elizabeth Creekmore Byrd of Jackson. The Pickerings filed for divorce in June 2008, but the divorce is not complete.

The lawsuit says Chip Pickering and Creekmore Byrd dated in college, reconnected and began having an affair while Pickering was in Congress and living in a Christian building for lawmakers on C Street, near the U.S. Capitol.

Pickering, 45, was elected to Congress in 1996, retired in January and is now a lobbyist in Washington for Cellular South, the company Byrd's family owns. The lawsuit does not say when the affair started.



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The complaint
http://www.scribd.com/doc/17412565/Pickering-Complaint

Local blog
http://ipseblogit.blogspot.com/

[hlthe2b]

1. Ahh, the C-street Brothel, once again

:eyes:

[Tikki]

2. I wonder if it has theme rooms!?......

The Red Room...for very, very special quests...


Tikki

[hlthe2b]

5. Oh, Heavens... That looks just like a crappy motel room

I stayed in driving though Kansas--Salina, I think... That much red is really traumatic, I think...;)

[murielm99]

18. Dang, that's ugly!

I'd go blind in there.

[curiousdemo]

9. So family value of them to cheat on their wives.....

O8) or :evilfrown: I say :evilfrown:

[Amos Moses]

3. The House That Hypocrisy Built

Right Wing Christian hypocrisy, that is. It's becoming clear that it's a flophouse for cheating pukes.

[PassingFair]

6. The "rules" do not apply to the rulers....

No hypocrisy there at all.

If GAWD didn't intend for them
to have affairs, he wouldn't have
supplied them with money, power
and plenty of free time.

[Amos Moses]

7. They have God's love in their hearts.

And their dicks in... places they shouldn't be.

[bear425]

4. Should be called Cuckquean Street

Cuckquean


cuckquean (plural cuckqueans)

A woman who has an unfaithful husband.

[NoQuarter]

8. It's starting to look like

The C Street frat house is simply a boarding house for guys who want a built-in alibi while philandering with impunity.

[Edith Ann]

10. Law suit

This is what Elizabeth Edwards needs to do to John and as Bill Mahr(?) put it, his "road kill".

[Spazito]

11. Wow, the C Street house is sounding more and more like...

the Mustang Ranch in Nevada only not as legitimate!

[starroute]

12. Chip Pickering is the son of Judge Charles W. Pickering, Sr.

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Charles_W._Pickering%2C_Sr.

On January 16, 2004, President George W. Bush "used the Congressional recess to install Charles W. Pickering, Sr. in a federal appeals court seat from which he had been blocked twice by the Senate because of Democratic opposition. . . .

"The debate over the nomination had centered on Judge Pickering's civil rights record as a Mississippi lawyer, state lawmaker and federal judge over the course of decades. Democrats, including several presidential candidates, have portrayed him as insensitive to racial issues, and were quick to charge on Friday that the recess appointment, only three days before the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday, demonstrated Mr. Bush's own indifference to civil rights.

"'By circumventing the Senate to recess-appoint Charles Pickering,' said the Senate Democratic leader, Tom Daschle, 'the president has confirmed that he has no interest in working in a bipartisan manner to appoint moderate judges who will uphold the law.' ... Mr. Daschle added that 'by taking this step on the eve of the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, the president has shown a shocking disregard for the spirit of the holiday and has betrayed his own words of tolerance.' . . .

"Judge Pickering was nominated to the appeals court soon after Mr. Bush took office. Senate Democrats argued that he did not deserve elevation because he had written an article as a young man recommending ways to strengthen Mississippi's anti-miscegenation laws, left the Democratic Party in 1964 when the national party tried to integrate the state delegation to the national convention and, more recently, presided over a 1994 trial in which he took extraordinary steps to reduce the sentence of a man convicted in a cross-burning incident."

[checks-n-balances]

14. Good Lord, they're all either flaming hypocrites, despicable racists, or

heartless, greedy oligarchs.

Sometimes all three.

And I guess it usually runs in the family.

Thank you, Rachel, for having the guts to expose these low-lifes posing as Christians. I hope the careers of each one of them is destroyed in flames. That still wouldn't make up for what they're doing to this country.

[NewAgeThinker]

13. RepubliSex

What else do you expect from these war-mongerers?

[LastDemocratInSC]

15. He's in "Borat" ... speaks at the Pentacostal "revival service"

[question everything]

16. I was thinking that it was time for a new "family values'

hypocrite Republican to surface.

[Boddingham]

17. Wait a minute.

Do you mean to tell me that a married person had sex with someone other than his or her spouse? I DON'T BELIEVE IT! THIS COULD NEVER HAPPEN! TELL ME IT AIN'T SO. THIS IS UNHEARD OF.

Who really gives a shit? Really.

[sutz12]

19. That's the point....They say that THEY care...

and then they go out and do it anyway. Hypocrisy should always be exposed. Always.

[murielm99]

20. We only give a shit when they are hypocritical

and judging others harshly for doing what they are doing in secret.

So many of the republicans who are being caught these days were the loudest denouncers of Clinton for his relationship with Lewinsky. Clinton should have been reprimanded or censured, and then left alone to govern the country and work things out with his wife.

These guys expect us to ignore their behavior because they have an R after their names.

In short: it's the hypocrisy, not the adultery.

[agentS]

21. Watch the Rachel maddow segments

This is clearly a pattern of "I'm holier than thou so I doth do-ith who I want-ith!" at this wingnut hotel. These lunatics exercise a lot of CYA and now the skeletons are coming out. Expect a dead girl or a live boy to pop out soon, best believe that.