Former Ky. lawmaker Steve Nunn arrested; ex-fiancée found murdered

[Roland99]

Source: Louisville Courier-Journal

Hours after his ex-fiancée was found murdered in Lexington, former Republican gubernatorial candidate and lawmaker Steve Nunn was in state custody Friday morning after authorities say he had slit his wrists near his parents’ graves.
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Kentucky state police say Nunn has been charged with six counts of wanton endangerment of police officers for pointing or “at least brandishing” a gun at officers who found him at the Cosby Church Cemetery in Hart County. He will be jailed on the charges once he is released from the medical center, they said.

Nunn's ex-fiancée, Amanda Ross, 29, was pronounced dead Friday morning at Lexington's University of Kentucky Medical Center after she was shot in a parking lot at 541 W. Short St., just before 6:30 a.m. Friday morning, according to Lexington police and the Fayette County coroner.

The Lexington/Fayette County Metro Police Department contacted state police in Bowling Green to look for Nunn, “a subject whom they wanted to question concerning an earlier homicide this date in Lexington,” according to a statement from state police.

Read more: http://www.courier-journal.com/article/20090911/NEWS01/909110346/Former+Ky.+lawmaker+Steve+Nunn+arrested++ex-fianc%C3%A9e+found+murdered

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He had recently resigned from Gov. Beshear's administration after a domestic-violence incident with Ross.

[David Zephyr]

1. GOP Family Values.

It's the story that never stops giving. Jackals.

[polichick]

3. I immediately thought the same thing. nt

[Roland99]

7. He was a much more moderate Republican.

Some in the KY GOP didn't think he was near conservative enough to run for Governor when he tried.

Nunn has worked with quite a few Democrats and has a somewhat decent social record.


Too bad he's just another violent asshat.

[Danascot]

21. Putting uppity women in their place

should boost his republican cred.

[valerief]

10. Took the words right out of my mouth. nt

[polichick]

2. Another family values guy I suppose. nt

[Faygo Kid]

4. Does Kentucky have the death penalty?

Just askin'. Republicans seem to love it so.

[Roland99]

5. Ayup.

http://www.lexingtonprosecutor.com/death_row.htm

[Vinnie From Indy]

6. Those family values Republicans are the most dangerous kind!

It is almost a rule that to join the club, you must be crazy.

[geckosfeet]

8. Speechless.

Emotionally unstable morans.

Wouldn't be at all surprised if the police eventually filed murder charges.

[xchrom]

9. conservative family values reaching their ultimate conclusion? nt

[DeSwiss]

11. Dupe

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x4055237

[George II]

12. Anyone surprised?

[sabrina 1]

13. Very sad, he doesn't sound like a typical

Republican. But his father was a Republican governor and seems to have tried to pretty much run his life. He split with his father when he decided to not to live on the family farm with his wife and children.

From what I read, he seems to have been a guy who suffered from being around too many Republicans, (he was an intern in Nixon's WH) and probably was conflicted since his own views appear to have been 'almost liberal'.

http://www.courier-journal.com/article/20090911/NEWS01/909110375/Highly-regarded-legislator-lost-bid-to-follow-in-his-father-s-footsteps-as-governor

In 2000 he sponsored a bill to create a commission to assess the needs of the mentally retarded and develop policies to address those needs. At the same time he successfully pushed for funding of a program that allows people with mental retardation to live in community settings.

In 2001 he sponsored a batch of health and social issues bills that became law.

He ran for governor in 2003 against the advice of most powers within the party, who said he was too liberal to win the support of Kentucky Republicans. That was reflected in part in 1998, when Nunn was the only House Republican to vote against a bill that said Kentucky would not recognize same-sex marriages performed in other states.

A Republican in Kentucky who wanted to recognize same-sex marriage, braver than Clinton was in 1998! Sounds like he was definitely at odds ideologically with his whole background

Sad all the way around. For the family of the woman who is dead especially. If people had not been oblivious to all the signs he exhibited over the years, that he was troubled, maybe she would be alive today.

He has three children, sad for them too.

[proteus_lives]

15. I had heard that he was better than your average repug too.

Sounds like love gone wrong to me. A human tragedy that knows no political alignment.

[sabrina 1]

17. Yes, I agree ~

'love gone wrong' and it appears he had an alcohol problem also and his father's name to live up to, which he believed he had not done.

[proteus_lives]

18. "Father's name"

Ouch.

That's another eternally reoccurring human tragedy that breaks many a man.

[sabrina 1]

19. Yes, it is.

[Roland99]

24. Strict Father model?

http://www.alternet.org/story/17643/

[fascisthunter]

14. messed up folks usually preach strict guidelines

because they mistakenly believe everyone else is as fucked up as they are, or has that potential.

An easier way of explaining this: An alcoholic assumes everyone else is an alcoholic so they work to ban that substance.

[Nostradammit]

20. Um, one of your statements is bullshit. No offense.

"An alcoholic assumes everyone else is an alcoholic so they work to ban that substance."


No.

[fascisthunter]

22. I gave an example of "an" alcoholic... and I am an alcoholic

there are those who do feel this way... I'm not one who does feel this way, but there are.

yes.

[blue sky at night]

16. like how he shoots her....

but doesn't have the balls or the brains to off himself....what an ass. Say what you will, I couldn't care less if he had succeeded.

[JitterbugPerfume]

23. This is very sad

because family values types set unattainable standards of "morality" and break under the pressure .That poor girl paid the price.

The really bad thing about it is that they expect everyone else to be as "moral" as they are.