Rachel Maddow: Third GOP Congressman Having an Affair While Living at C-Street
By Heather Friday Jul 17, 2009 4:30am
Another day, another Republican sex scandal at the C-Street House. Rachel Maddow reports that former Mississippi Congressman Chip Pickering's wife has filed a lawsuit against his mistress, Elizabeth Creekmore-Byrd for alienation of affection.
TPM has more-- Another C Street Vet Falls To An Extramarital Affair:
Former Congressman and C Street resident Chip Pickering's estranged wife has filed a lawsuit against Pickering's alleged mistress. Leisha Pickering is suing Elizabeth Creekmore-Byrd for alienation of affection.
Rep. Pickering, a Republican from Mississippi, allegedly continued seeing his college sweetheart while they were both married. According to the suit, some of the "wrongful conduct" occurred at the C Street facility for Christian congressmen -- the same one where Sen. John Ensign (R-NV) and Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) have lived, and where Gov. Mark Sanford (R-SC) has recently sought counseling.
Suit: Pickering Chose Mistress Over Senate Seat:
Former Rep. Chip Pickering (R-MS) and erstwhile C Street resident turned down Trent Lott's old Senate seat so he could be with his mistress, according to the lawsuit filed by his estranged wife this week.
The suit alleges that when Trent Lott resigned in 2007, Gov. Haley Barbour offered Rep. Pickering the seat. But the congressman turned it down after his girlfriend, Elizabeth Creekmore-Byrd, "insisted" that their relationship could not continue if he accepted the seat, as he would have to stay married for public appearances. She allegedly gave him an ultimatum, and he chose her.
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Other gems from the suit, which Leisha Pickering filed against Creekmore-Byrd for alienation of affection:
Creekmore-Byrd is allegedly on the board of Telepak, her family's Internet company, which employs the lobbyist organization Capitol Resources. Pickering claims the mistress got her husband a job with the lobbyists. (A visit to the company's web site shows he does work in their Mississippi office.)
The suit alleges that Creekmore-Byrd aimed "to entice and tortuously interfere" with the Pickerings' marriage, with the help of seven unnamed defendants. It also says the alleged mistress's actions would "evoke outrage and disgust in civilized society."
Pickering alleges that Creekmore-Byrd showed up at a family ski vacation intending to cause a marriage-ending rift.
More of these wonderful family values hypocrite Republicans. At least this one is not in the Congress any more, unlike his fellow C-Street residents in the Senate, Ensign and Sanford.
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How do you sue someone because somebody else got the hots for you?
If I were in her shoes, I'd be pissed at him. He made me the promise, not the other woman.
...suing people who DON'T return your affection. "Your Honor, the defendant, Sally-Mae, did clearly alienate my affection by not dating me. I demand restitution!"
Not to change the subject, but I had this thrown at me years ago. A woman decided I was going to turn straight, fall in love with her, and d*mn well be grateful, (and "we can go shopping!", they always throw that in...), and was furious when I didn't. She had several lawyers in the family, and actually threw the "alienation of affection" at me. She didn't actually do anything, but yeah, others have had the same idea.
Mike
Everyone is blaming things on the aliens in our nation.
Alien Nation of Affection, could anyone point it out on the map and name its capitol?
a Chastity Beltway.
show in the late 80's about aliens with bad complexions takin over the US?
Sonny Corleone.
It's really disappointing when your husband steps out of the shower revealing a bruise on each hip in the shape of a handprint with thumb and four fingers clearly visible. You know YOU didn't put it there and then it hits you that no other woman would have the strength to make a mark like that either. Believe me, Mike K, you did that lady a BIG favor but it would have been delightful if she could have sued you for all you're worth.
who are strong enough to leave handprints...
She can bruise me anyday! But she won't :(
I know, I'll sue her for alienating my affection!
Great idea!
that's one woman I wouldn't mind gettin bruised by either.
That's attractive.
You can sue the person your spouse cheated with? Fill up every court docket til the end of time!
Also, this C-Street place, am I to understand it is some kind of fraternity house?
There is a legal basis rarely used anymore, alienation of affection:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdCx6wYslho&fe...
whether they were affectionate or not.
We kept the affectionate ones, like Ricky Ricardo.
You got some 'splainin' to do.
Marriage is a legal contract between two people. If a spouse doesn't have the right to sue an interfering third party, why must said spouse pay legal fees to greedy lawyers for a divorce? Because the men made the rules -- that's why -- and the rules need to be changed.
Where do the box turtles fit in?
Use your imagination
hammers and turtles again?
kinda a belt and suspenders issue. pretty kinky, huh.
kilt too...otherwise, the turtle just won't be as into it.
http://www.utilikilts.com/?p=156
Glad you brought up kilts LMN. I was at the kilt store in downtown Seattle last month and was seriously considering buying one. Trying to get myself to make the plunge.
just wouldn't do it justice.
That, and it's illegal to walk around with a claymore these days...
what's a claymore?
with the slightest touch.
Easy now!
That happens to every guy once in awhile...dunnit?
I just tell her she has to wait five minutes before she touches it again.
http://www.a2armory.com/bravsworando.html
But I already have an awesome sword to go with my kilt.
Oh. THAT kind of sword.
Nicely done!
... or claidheamhor is a Scottish greatsword.
... it's also an antipersonnel frag mine that got popular use in Vietnam. It's a small, curved casing with two stakes so you can place it. They're marked 'this side towards enemy' because the VietCong had this nasty habit of sneaking up, turning the things around, then making noise so you'd hit the trigger and frag your own position.
... would that be the Utilikilt store?
Got one of those, very nice.
Yes I was in Seattle for my cousin's wedding. Stayed at the hotel between the stadiums.
and comes home all beat up, sore and grinning, you feel that third party owes you money? Are you a pimp?
It's more like a brothel for Christianist politicians, it seems.
Do they receive tax-exempt status for being a "church," I wonder? If so, it sounds like the IRS should have something to say about this.
With all the affairs going on around (and now, allegedly, IN) this place, I also have to wonder if money is changing hands. Seems as though Pickering did end up scoring a job from his mistress's family-run company. Hmmm......
Next, they'll all be jumping in the Tidal Basin and having breakfast at Bob's Big Boy.
but,but,but Clinton. Stupid sheep!
This "C Street" sounds like a swinging place!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNMwRH5UGYY
And their MSM brown-nosers. Aren't they great for political discourse. When's the next tea party? Things are getting boring already.
... custody hearings for Michael Jackson's kids.
... toxicology report for Michael Jackson (delayed 2 weeks).
that toxicology report will probably be thrown out like an empty Starbucks cup from the next Space Shuttle.
Lawsuits like this have been done before. ...nothing new in it!
Wow, do they hand out viagra to all the guys at the C-street house? These guys seem to be getting a whole lot of action. I bet there is a line of guys waiting to get in there and a line of lawyers waiting to represent them after they do.
Is anyone keeping a list of all these moralizing hypocrites?
and I'm betting the repukes are ahead of the dems now.
HA!
..membership list of the GOP.
sex scandals are more fun than the furtive blow jobs of Craig and Clinton.
Craigs was turgid, HA!
There just wasn't a sink in Larry's stall.
his stance was so wide...it was hard to tell
Larry Craig tops my list!!
Imagine that putz, "esteemed senator", sittng there in the stall fondling himself, hoping some wayward boy would come strolling in, and he gets nabbed by a cop. (Try to "be there" mentally.) He's such a spaz, a tuh-duh head.
Nabbed!
I wouldn't care one bit for his secret boy-on-boy proclivities: I can even understand not wanting to chow-down on his wife, (and even feel for the guy), but such hypocrisy, and such wankery!!!
Newt Gingrich--check.
John McCain--check.
John Ensign--check.
David Vitter--check (the diaper).
Rush Porkpie--no affair...just drug possession.
Mitt Romney????? Gotta wonder...he sure loves his hair.
the dog really enjoyed it!
The old modus operandi in DC was to take your "date" up in a plane not only to escape the cameras of enterprising reporters, but theoretically speaking you get a free pass on breaking any marital bonds because your vows were on the ground, not in the airspace above.
These Repug clowns today lack the imagination of their elders.
Not only is it 'family values' hypocrisy, but Pickering allegedly met with his mistress at the C-Street digs?
It's all coming unglued for these guys. The racism oozing out, and now the louder these guys sing the 'faith' song, the more it sounds cheesy and out-of-key.
Keep this up, and both the GOP and the Religious Right will be circling the drain.
The C-street house seems to be where they circled the wagons amongst other things done in circles.
You mean circular reasoning?.............oh wait, oh.....I see.......hmmm, so which one receives the "privalege of kneeling in the center......oh wait, TMI.....sorry....sorry.
to gain stroke?
you're just reaching around for some sort of sexual pun.
You sure this wasn't posted by your evil twin Spanky?
it was my poor attempt at humor. I guess the joke just came through the backdoor.
both of them... ha ha ha ha!
in GREAT detail. ;)
..they're being flushed even as we type!
... but this has been a dump of such colossal proportions that the stink will remain for some time.
this one's gonna take more than one flush.
The GOP and ESPECIALLY the religious right have done enough damage to this country already.
.............all the screaming you hear is PUKIES just because they are circling the drain.
So you don't have tooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
is the fact that Chip (another reason not to name your kid that) is now a lobbyist for the company owned by his mistress' family.
Wow. Just wow.
These men truly have no shame.
They have no need for shame. Remember, they're the chosen ones. Whatever the fuck that means.
The question: What is a Republican politician?
This is JEOPARDY!
Hmm, wonderin' 'bout them C-streeters.
Dopey,Sneezy, Grumpy, Doc et.al.
Hidden camera video just in from the C-Street House:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wM12FBykJa4
I wonder what the "C" stands for?
Cock, crony...take your pick or put them together Cock Cronies.
n/t
Hmmm...
coochie
cooze
cum
...or worse.
It could easily stand for concupiscent
Cocaine?
I'm bettin that's what the "C" stands for!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ng8k0z17my8&fe...
Concupiscence?
That's a good one, Ys.
When male Iridomyrmex Dolichoderinae pay to keep women they're called concupissants.
Considering the level of hypocrisy present in the house, I'm thinking the "C" stands for chastity.
Creative
"I wonder what the "C" stands for?"
Curtilingus?
I wonder if some day that building will be made into a memorial honoring wife cheating republicans.
Just turn it into an honest business and put a red light on the front porch.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3kG-7I_Y6k
Seems like there is some moles on "C" Street. Obviously a few gerbils too. This new "family values" guy a toe tapper or a thigh slapper ?
Are you suggesting the dinner where Larry Craig sat next to David Brooks?
...I hope Rachel does some more investigative reporting on this disingenuous fellowship and their tax free compound and or domicile. "Birds of a feather"...nesting together. ;)
I'd like to see how this boardinghouse/church accounts for its tenant(s) and how the tenants... account for their home away from home?
The expense(s) must be arbitrary; whose payin for what? I can think of the tax savings bestowed upon the compound, the rest would be interesting... even from a zoning regulation(s) perspective. ;)
...the IRS would be interested in this?
Besides being a religious cult, it seems that "C" street or "The Family" or "The Children of God", which ever name they want to call themselves, is a bit of a sex club.
The scuttlebutt on that group was that they engaged in group sex and a practice known as "flirty fishing" which involved female members witnessing their faith via sexual contact, etc.
Check out David Berg, one of the founders and leaders of the group.
"In 1976, David proposed an unprecedented corollary to the Law of Love: he contended that, in certain circumstances, it would be acceptable for a Christain to have sexual relations with someone in an effort to demonstrate a tangible manifestation of God's Love, thereby helping them to come to a saving knowledge of Jesus Christ. This doctrine became known as Flirty Fishing." a term that David adapted from Jesus' admonition to His disciples to "follow Me, and I will make you fishers of men." It was practiced by many Family members until 1987, when it was discounted."
http://www.davidberg.org/mission/flirty-fishing
http://www.davidberg.org/flirty-fishing
http://www.davidberg.org/mission
Could our government representatives be involved in some kind of religious sexual cult. If they did not practice Flirty Fishing, it would seem likely that the cult either encouraged or was all right with its members/government representatives spreading love and cheating on their families/wives.
The Family are also big in South America and Argentina.
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/200...
http://www.usnews.com/blogs/god-and-country/2...
http://www.portlandphoenix.com/features/top/t...
All so weird and definately not something we want our government representatives to be part of. Talk about being out of the mainstream. Sanford, Ensign, Coburn and Pickering are all freaks. There is a good chance these guys are using religion as their excuse to get laid. It was way to weird that when Sanford was trying to explain himself he made religious references and talked about King David. These guys are nuts and they should be exposed.
I don't know why this is not a bigger story. This is likely a very big scandal with the sex and cheating part of it only the small part. This stuff potentially makes Larry Craig, Mark Foley, Eliot Spitzer, and David Vitter look like amateurs.
Fairly fu*king freaky this flirty fishing.
... Culbertson needs to be investigated, personally.
Here's a guy who 'advised' the Sanfords, and that not only included a couples retreat, it included a 'farewell' meeting between Mark Sanford and his Argentinian mistress ... that wasn't, as it turned out, the final farewell. So whatever he preached at his little seminar, he doesn't practice.
Furthermore, he knew Sanford had continued to see Chapur and said nothing. Sound spiritual advice there, yessirree. And then he comes up singing this 'King David' horsepucky.
Thanks for the extra info!!
Sexual hypocrisy totally aside, I find the more compelling issue to be one of servitude. These guys made a vow to their constituents to represent them while all the time finding them totally irrelevant. They serve each other and voters deserve to know about The Family's agenda.
I have thought the word "cult" from the beginning although some of the more colorful descriptors above have also crossed my mind. But I have thought the piggies were a cult ever since the raygun "11th commandment" of "thou shall never speak ill of a fellow republican." That sunk them, along with a lot of other stuff.
It's very interesting and disturbing too.
On Wednesday I bought the Kindle edition of the new book on The Family by Jeff Sharlet. Looks I'd better start reading it tonight!
Charged:
Rev. Patrick Dunne, 63, White Plains, NY: pleaded not guilty to second degree grand larceny when accused of stealing $432,000 from a Katrina relief fund. The money was used to feed a gambling addiction. Dunne has been the pastor of Our Lady of Sorrows Church in White Plains since 1991.
Source: Newsday, 6/4/09
Fa. Joseph Ndagijlmana, Kabgayi, Rwanda: charged for his alleged role in the 1994 genocide in which close to 1 million people were exterminated. The priest who has been in prison for more than 10 years is accused of having helped organize killing of ethnic Tutsis. The Catholic priest's colleague. Fa. Josaphat Hitimana was convicted for his role in the genocide, and has been on the run since May 12. √ (C-St.?) ;)
Source: Catholic information Services, 5/26/09
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Convicted:
Fa. James Janssen, 85, Davenport, IA: pleaded guilty to hiding assets from his nephew, whom he sexually abused as a child. The nephew has collected about half of the $1.4 mil. Settlement. The defrocked priests falsely testified that he had not transferred assets to family members. In fact, Janssen transferred over $700,000 in bonds to his sister. Janssen also testified that he did not know about $80,000 in savings bonds.
Source: Quad City Times, 5/14/09
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Sentenced:
Five years probation: Rev. Samuel Pettagrue, Birmingham, AL, was sentenced on charges relating to a corruption scheme. A federal judge ruled Pettagrue must spend 1 year in home detention, 4 more years of probation and pay over $300,000 in restitution. Pettagrue's extremely fragile medical condition played a major role in sentencing, as he suffers from need for dialysis, and from shingles, which requires a sterile environment to treat, and takes 17 medications. Pettagrue was prosecuted in connection with former Ala. State Sen. E.B. McClain, who was found guilty in a scheme to secure public funds for Pettagrue's community programs for which Pettagrue was to provide a kickback. The two were convicted on 47 counts of conspiracy, mail fraud, bribery and money laundering. McClain is serving a 6-year sentence, marking the end of a 14-year political career.
Source: The Birmingham News, 5/22/09
Ya gotta love these Repiglicans! What a fine example they set for all of us, demonstrating how their "family values", honesty and wide stances should govern our lives and behaviour.
Maybe some tar and feathers would be appropriate at this juncture.
...waiting for ysb to cue up Dolly Parton...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZlgDQbvo9I
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZlgDQbvo9I
Chip, Scooter, Dusty, Sneezy, Lumpy and The Beav.
gets elected married to a woman named Leisha?
WHO actually owns this "church?" WE need to see the names on the title, AND they need to pay all back taxes on any and all exemptions they screwed we, the taxpayers, out of. Like the comment above said.............IT'S A WHOREHOUSE.
Any doubt about the evil of these horrid people, who use GOD AS A TOOL, has now uncovered. DANGEROUS SOCIOPATHS, one and all.
Let's get off the spin cycle already.
Or wash and rinse whichever it is.
Laundry cycle
has been demonstrated.
These individuals campaigned on "family values" and "morality" platforms. Most of them are on the record as having publicly condemned (and called for the resignation of) at least one well-known politician from their rival party for having committed an act that they, now, have also been found to have committed. That's newsworthy.
They belong to a secret society/organization, one which may be receiving tax-exempt status--in other words YOU and I are paying for it. That secret society espouses that its members, who survive ON THE PUBLIC DIME, are greater than the public they represent because they are "chosen by God." That is newsworthy.
But further, that secret society condones and excuses its members' acts of hypocrisy in the name of Christianity (and, as Maddow and others have pointed out, it theoretically excuses acts much worse than philandering if need be). It is essentially the parallel of the Nazis taking the Buddhist swastika and turning it backwards to suit their own twisted purposes. I don't know about you, but I know quite a few Christians who would be absolutely appalled at this interpretation of their religion (regardless of what anyone here might think of it, generally). That's newsworthy.
I say, dig, Rachel, dig! Follow the money. What else hasn't been uncovered yet? Extra-marital affairs are probably the tip of the iceberg.
The place must have a 1000 watt red bulb for a porch light.
I did. She filed the alienation of affection as a strategic move for her upcoming divorce. That's what I took from it anyway.
There are some daily journals belonging to Chip that Leisha (the wife) gave to her attorney. Her atty, Bettie Ruth Johnson, has been ordered to return the journals/diaries to Chip, or his atty.
Leisha is afraid that if he gets his hands on them again he will destroy them and ruin her chances at getting the upper hand in the divorce proceedings.
The details are all very interesting and tawdry... kind of like a daytime soap or a prime time reality show.
I've had a disdain for religion for as long as I can remember but I might go ahead and join the ranks of christianity. I could still fornicate all I want but with the addition of the "holier than thou" attitude. Brilliant, just brilliant.
"George said, 'Hey, I can be saved and keep Laura and the girls!'"
-- A friend attesting to George's spiritual conversion.
Sound familiar?
the infamous "heh heh heh" he uses at the end of ever thing he ever says.
... a friend, so the heh-heh-heh and head-bobble wasn't included.
I thought that was:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3BN4YWX8Co&fe...
At the risk of sounding all Parallax View-y, what better way to gain control over politicians than to be their brothel? Heck, even the fictional character of Michael Corleone knew that.
These "Family" Freaks(tm) need to be watched. Closely.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sALWUsvL4X4&fe...
Anyone remember Pickering's appearance in the 2005 movie, "Borat?" There he was in full Pentecostal splendor, speaking in tongues and all. (I bet his mistress could elaborate!)
It's funny how a British comedian could see him for the big phony he is way better than his Mississippi constituents. What a hypocrite!
Yes, the Pentecostals working for the oil companies in Houston love to get out the family photos. You see a picture of a couple. The man has his arm around the woman. "Is that your Dad"? "Yes, it is". "And you're mother"? "No, that's the neighbor lady".
"No, that's the neighbor's daughter."
so perhaps some young enterprising investigative reporter would like to peek into the backgrounds and habits of the other residents. Sharlot can't do it because since his book (The Family) he has obviously been outed, but someone else could. Senators Grassley and Coburn live there. Who else? Just because they don't tell on each other doesn't mean that there isn't a trail. I think their self serving theology-justify anything, is far more dangerous than their cheating labidos.
Libido
...bu.., bu.., but Thomas Jefferson!
And here they are now making Clinton look like a choir boy with the GOP's growing list of Perverts, Closet Homosexuals and "Christian" adulterers, rapists.
Ahh, Clinton's revenge.
C-Street republican congressman see more action than a busy interstate truck stop. You think they also have a condom dispenser in their men's room?
Gophers? They are not hansome they are not brave, they are not honorable, they are just greedy. Could it be that the women are there for the money?
republicanism is a mental illness!
There is no record of him living at C Street during his four years in Congress, but he was always in on the action.
http://www.cosmicbazaar.com/cbwebsite/cbpics/...
There is a name for a dominant woman who likes infantile partners but infantile beauty queens who are attracted to infantile partners are a class unto themselves.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nTzsqz41gw&fe...
But enough about Sotomayor.
Republican marriage is between a man and a woman and his mistress.
Ah yes , the family values moral majority party . It is an absolute mind blower that so many in this country are so completely ignorant and so completely stupid as to still be supporting the Republican party .
they were all living in a cat house.
Those of you under 40 can look it up on the internets.
This book will answer many questions.
"The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power" (Hardcover)
http://www.amazon.com/Family-Secret-Fundament...
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