Ramsey On Stanley
Posted on July 26, 2009 at 12:40 amFrom NewsChannel5:
“Should he step down from his Senate seat,” Williams asked.
“You know that’s something we’re going to be debating in the upcoming days,” Ramsey replied.
Stanley, who made a name as a family-values crusader, is married with two children.
While Ramsey can’t force him to resign, he made it clear he’s not happy with him.
“Does he have your full support?” Williams asked him.
“Well, obviously, when you have friends like this in the legislature, you are going to be as supportive as you can as human being, BUT what he did was wrong,” Ramsey said. “What he did was reprehensible. I wouldn’t do something like that. It sheds a bad light on all of us. So, obviously, I’m upset.”
Senate Speaker Ron Ramsey, a Blountville auctioneer who is seeking the GOP gubernatorial nomination, told reporters Saturday that Stanley had told him several weeks ago that he was separating from his wife, but that he didn’t find out about the allegations until this week.
“It caught me completely off guard,” Ramsey said.
Ramsey said he immediately told Stanley to resign his position as chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee. He added that he can’t control whether Stanley should resign from the Legislature.
“He’s obviously a friend of mine … but what he did is unconscionable, and he should not have done that,” Ramsey said. “Whether you like it or not, it does reflect on all of us.”
From Andy Sher:
“It’s sufficient (action) right now,” Lt. Gov. Ramsey said of the move. “And I’m not going to say that resignation from the Senate is going to be out of order, let’s put it that way. But you know, I obviously am taking it one step at a time, and I think that’s significant now until Paul kind of gets his life back in order.”
But Lt. Gov. Ramsey said what ultimately happens “is really between him and his constituents more or less. I don’t appoint him as senator. I do appoint him as committee chair. That’s the only thing I have control over so I asked him to step down.”
From Tom Humphrey:
Lt. Gov. Ron Ramsey said revelations about the sexual relationship “caught me completely off guard,” even though an emotionally upset Stanley had told him privately in early June he and his wife, Kristi Stanley, “were going to be separated.”
“I told him I’d be praying for him,” said Ramsey.
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10 Responses to “Ramsey On Stanley”
Too late too late - trying to take claim for Stanley’s resignation a week late ands not anywhere near as forceful as he should have been regarding legislation to keep things like this from happening again.
Ol’ Paul Stanley’s guilty of grinnin’ and sinnin’, but y’all need to simmer down.
That finely-combed Ronnie Ramsey just ain’t got time to insist on other GOP senators bein’ all ethical, ’specially while he’s busy settin’ in the Speaker chair AND runnin’ fer Governor.
Besides, Ron Ramsey already announced his views on “ethics” last September, when GOP Senate candidate Mike Faulk got exposed big time as a philanderin’ adulterer who was messin’ around with the young married teacher who headed up the Hawkins County Young Republicans.
Remember? Ronnie plainly said that Mike Faulk’s breakin’ of the 7th Commandment weren’t no big deal, just “a bump in the road,” as Ronnie put it for the newspapers.
Yep, Ron Ramsey set his ethical standards mighty low for Mike Faulk, so it just ain’t fair to expect ol’ Ronnie to go all postal-ethical on Paul Stanley.
But I reckon maybe even Ronnie will admit, this is quite a bump in the road.
Forgot all about that … Ron’s right in step with Wamp and C-Streeters leaders - that is, let’s get past the ‘bumps in the road’ and keep our mouths shut, and ‘hold counsel’ - the ‘librul media’ will forget all about it soon enough.
Obviously he doesn’t live on C-Street. Or then again does he?
You know, no one despises the GOP hypocrites more than I do, but I think Ramsey is right about this. Stanley will be held accountable by his constituents. Whether or not he resigns now is up to him. The Speaker’s position seems reasonable to me.
If not out of the Senate, then out of the Republican Party. What he did reflects on all Republicans.
Back to back family values flameouts for the GOP on top of the negative press on race. The TN GOP’s building a national reputation.
Ramsey may be waffling, but at least we now can figure out exactly how Rep. Debbie Maggart feels about Bill Clinton’s past “situation”.
Just take Maggart’s recent quote on Paul Stanley’s mess and substitute President Clinton for Senator Stanley:
“It certainly is a distraction, but as long as we all continue to pray for him and the young lady, and [President Clinton]’s wife and his child[ren], I think (that’s) the best we can all do.”
My, my — how times and GOP tones have changed.
Dems will have ZERO net gains in leg races in 2010. Regardless of GOP scandal, they prove year after year they are too incompetent to win races: Keith Tally, Mark Brown, Addison Pate, Chip Forrester - this is the group you think can win seats? Hardee har har.
Tennessee Grand Old Perverts…