I thought the Lounge might enjoy this humorous LBN involving Randall Terry

[norml]

Political Candidate Accuses Senator Of Frequenting Strip Club

POSTED: 3:27 pm EDT July 27, 2006
UPDATED: 9:42 pm EDT July 27, 2006

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- More than a month before the start of the Florida primary, Election 2006 has begun to heat up.

The race to watch is the battle for the Republican nomination for Jacksonville's Senate seat, which has candidate Randall Terry accusing incumbent Jim King of having the backing of a bikini bar.


Video: Former Bikini Bar Employees Say They Saw Senator In Club

Terry, 46, who has lived in Ponte Vedra Beach for three years, will run against King in the heavily Republican district that stretches from Duval County to northern Volusia County.


Randall Terry

In a move Terry called disappointing and sad, Gov. Jeb Bush publicly announced Wednesday that he is endorsing King.


Sen. Jim King

King has served in the Legislature since 1986, which was the last time he had a primary opponent. He was Senate president in 2003 and 2004.


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http://www.news4jax.com/news/9586720/detail.html

[1monster]

1. About the only time I can agree with Jebby. King is okay, despite

the fact that he is a Republican.

But I'd vote for a yellow dog, a blue dog, and even a Republican, if the only other choice were Randall Terry.

I've seen two signs up for him in my neighborhood and it has taken a lot of will power not to get a huge permanent marker and put the null and void slashed circle on those two signs.

But I'll be good and do no vandalism.

They do have the right to be idiots under the Constitution...

[norml]

4. Forget it, 1monster. It's Jacksonville.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=%22forget+it%2C+jake.+it%27s+chinatown%22&btnG=Search

[1monster]

5. Not just Jacksonville, but parts of St. Johns County, Flagler County,

Putnam County, and Volusia County.

Those places pretty much balance each other out in elections. It is anyone's game, not necessarily "family-values-I-disowned-two-of-my-evil-kids Terry.

[grannylib]

2. For some reason, every time Randall Terry in mentioned, I think

Randall Flagg...

Just as evil. Wish he were just as fictional.

[underpants]

3. Wow! Strip club vs. aiding abbetting and supporting a murderer

Who is Randall Terry?

Additional evidence suggests that actions by Terry and Operation Rescue may have provoked violence at abortion clinics. As the New York Times reported on July 20, 2001, "One of his most avid followers in Binghamton was James E. Kopp, now charged in the 1998 murder of a doctor who performed abortions in Buffalo ." Kopp was convicted of second-degree murder and sentenced to 25 years to life in prison. A November 6, 1998, Times report further detailed Terry's connection to Kopp:

In July 1988, when Randall Terry drove through the night from his home in Binghamton, N.Y., to Atlanta to start the series of anti-abortion protests that would finally put his new hard-line group, Operation Rescue, onto America's front pages, James Charles Kopp was in the van riding alongside him, said former leaders of Operation Rescue.

And when Mr. Terry was arrested on the first day of Operation Rescue's "Siege of Atlanta," Mr. Kopp followed him into jail, said the leaders, who spoke on the condition of anonymity. Along with more than 100 other Operation Rescue members, according to some people who were there, Mr. Kopp remained in jail for 40 days and adhered to Mr. Terry's orders not to give a real name to the police or courts.

After his release, Mr. Kopp returned to Operation Rescue's Binghamton headquarters, and was there working alongside Mr. Terry as the group's power and influence in the anti-abortion movement surged in late 1988 and 1989, according to the former leaders of Operation Rescue.

As CNN noted on March 4, 1998, Terry was named in a lawsuit -- seeking to "force anti-abortion leaders to pay for damages caused in clinic attacks" -- which was filed by the National Organization for Women (NOW) under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act, and Terry settled with NOW out of court. The New York Times reported on November 8, 1998, that Terry "filed for bankruptcy last week in an effort to avoid paying massive debts owed to women's groups and abortion clinics that have sued him." As the Los Angeles Times reported on February 28, Terry's use of bankruptcy law to avoid paying for the judgments against him helped prompt Senator Charles E. Schumer (D-NY) to propose an amendment to the bankruptcy bill recently passed by Congress that "specifically would prevent abortion opponents from using the bankruptcy code to escape paying court fines," although it was not included in the final version of the bill. Versions of that amendment appeared in earlier versions of the bankruptcy bill, which stalled action on it in 2002 and 2003 when "a core of House Republicans balked" at the provision, the Los Angeles Times noted.

http://mediamatters.org/items/200503220001

[Strawman]

6. Sounds like the plot for a Cinemax late night flick