http://www.cnn.com/2005/ALLPOLITICS/01/24/lawmaker.children.ap/index.html

TN state senator lives "most days" with his ex-wife (circa 2002), with whom he has 3 children plus she's 6mo pg (by him, she says), and "some days" with a girlfriend and THEIR 2 children, PLUS he's being sued for more support for a 10yo by a 3rd woman.

Wow.

That is just sickening

TELL ME ABOUT IT!! I live in Memphis and most people here hate this man and we wonder how he keeps getting elected. He makes Southerners look awful. I hate to say it, but those women are just plain crazy to put up with him, and the fact that his ex-wife is pregnant AGAIN is just pathetic...
these women must have zero self-esteem (or they enjoy taking advantage of his wealth)
how insane <img border="0" title="" alt="[Eek!]" src="images/icons/shocked.gif" />

A Disgrace! Those poor children. And worse of all these women keep right on reproducing with this sub-human. I don't know who is worse??..The women in this situation or this creep. Unbelieveable. It just proves, they come from all walks of life! Scary isn't it??

These are professional people...very very scary! <img border="0" title="" alt="[Eek!]" src="images/icons/shocked.gif" />

<small>[ January 24, 2005, 03:29 PM: Message edited by: wizard ]</small>

I think this guy belongs in a mental hospital.
He should have to pay for all his children.

Ford contends that any increase for Smith should be tempered by his financial obligations to his five other minor children. None of those children is subject to child support orders.

What I don't understamd is how the children with his ex-wife are not under a current child support order. I understand that that the GF may not have pursued orders since he was technically staying with her but I would think the wife would have a CS order already established.

Oh great, makes me SO happy to be a fellow TNean?! <img border="0" title="" alt="[Frown]" src="images/icons/frown.gif" /> <img border="0" title="" alt="[Eek!]" src="images/icons/shocked.gif" />

Ford is battling a lawsuit filed by Dana Smith, who is trying to increase his court-ordered support of their 10-year-old daughter. Smith, a former employee under Ford, won a 1996 sexual harassment verdict against him.

As IF it wasn't interesting enough already! <img border="0" title="" alt="[Frown]" src="images/icons/frown.gif" />
So this third 'woman' produces a child from him & then LATER files a sexual harrassment suit against him as well?

This entire thing is just DISGUSTING! Are ANY of these so called adults SANE?

What a tangled web we weave......

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">Originally posted by wizard:
<strong> A Disgrace! Those poor children. And worse of all these women keep right on reproducing with this sub-human. I don't know who is worse??..The women in this situation or this creep. Unbelieveable. It just proves, they come from all walks of life! Scary isn't it??

These are professional people...very very scary! <img border="0" title="" alt="[Eek!]" src="images/icons/shocked.gif" /> </strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">I could not have said it better myself. This is a council man who respresents a state and is suppose to be a leader..........OH MY GAWD, he is trying to screw one of his kids out of cs and in public! What a D*ck! These woman (if telling the truth) are just as nuts. I agree with you Wiz. UGH....people like this just P*ss me off. I just want to scream at them all and put them all on one island and keep them there away from our children. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Eek!]" src="images/icons/shocked.gif" />

Three thoughts--

Ditto-Maybe these women are just after his $?

I don't have op. on his ch-support b/c I do think the amounts required are SOMETIMES too high (but ditto Q why doesn't the ex have an amount in her decree?!?!)...

And I wondered if "keep away from my kids" is the reaction I would get from people now that we have contact w/OC... The difference being that we have good boundaries w/xow vs. TN is an on-going MESS, but there it is, people having to live around them, having to answer questions from their kids...

Jenny - I was thinking the same thing (about these women wanting his money) but still the exW getting pregnant again?!?! Ridiculous...and just plain crazy. This man is NOT the only man in Memphis who makes money and is good in bed (sex and money would be the only semi-non-insane reasons that women would deal with this trash heap of a man.)
Anyways - and we wonder why some northerners think southerners are backwards...
<img border="0" title="" alt="[Roll Eyes]" src="images/icons/rolleyes.gif" />

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">Originally posted by Wondering what to do:
<strong> TELL ME ABOUT IT!! I live in Memphis and most people here hate this man and we wonder how he keeps getting elected. He makes Southerners look awful. I hate to say it, but those women are just plain crazy to put up with him, and the fact that his ex-wife is pregnant AGAIN is just pathetic...
these women must have zero self-esteem (or they enjoy taking advantage of his wealth)
how insane <img border="0" title="" alt="[Eek!]" src="images/icons/shocked.gif" /> </strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">There's a saying that riff-raff comes in all packages, and this guy is proof positive of that sentiment!

As for his harem, all I can say is that these women should enjoy the "low life" while they can. Evidently, they don't think they deserve better.