Me And Jenna Jameson, Steve King And Dog Fighting

At several points in my life, all many years ago, I suddenly found myself a bachelor again for one reason or another. I tended to do foolish things. Thank God I never bought a convertible red Ferrari or something like that. But during one of my bachelorhood periods I dated a top high fashion model, a nice guy but... what a lifestyle! That was a disaster. And then I started going out with a marine just back from Iraq. I just realized I can't remember his name. He was my boyfriend for the better part of a year. I'm bad with name. I have great pictures of him but I can't use them here because he lives a straight lifestyle. In fact, everything about him was "straight"-- except one thing.

Look, I never talk about sex on this blog but do have one thing to say about it-- which is why I brought up that marine. He was a really strange guy. Terrible eating habits too-- all cheap fast food for every meal, for example. I once brought him to a neighborhood Italian restaurant and he told a friend who called that he was at a health food restaurant. Maybe that's because there were tables and chairs. But the strangest thing about him was that he always wanted Jenna Jameson DVDs playing while we were... well, you know. Every. Single. Time. Seven months. I had only ever seen one porn video in my life-- in 1966. I didn't especially like it and never watched one again-- until my Jenna Jameson phase. I didn't break up with the marine because of Jenna. I broke up with him because he had 20 girlfriends. It didn't bother me at all that he was married and living with his wife. I just felt it was too dangerous that he had so many girlfriends and that he wasn't all that fussy about health issues. I still have half a dozen Jenna Jameson DVDs in a pile somewhere; I've never watched them again. But I feel some kind of a bizarre connection to her. So, whenever she comes up in the news-- like when she was arrested for drunk driving or when Jim Cramer, being inducted into the Unsexiest Men in America hall of fame (along with Rush Limbaugh, George Bush, Eric Cantor, John Boehner and Kid Rock) was deemed "the Jenna Jameson of financial reporting: the more the economy took it in the rear, the louder his screams of ecstasy became"-- I feel compelled to write about her.

Her latest bout with fame, though, has nothing to do with taking it in the rear or DUIs. This week Jenna Jameson endorsed Mitt Romney.

"I'm very looking forward to a Republican being back in office," Jameson said while sipping champagne in a VIP room at Gold Club in the city's South of Market neighborhood. "When you're rich, you want a Republican in office."

Jameson made the comments exclusively to a CBS SF staffer who was attending an event marking the 8th anniversary of the gentlemen's club.

The Mitt Romney endorsement appears to be a departure from previous political leanings displayed by Jameson. The 38-year-old entrepreneur has previously appeared in People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals campaigns, and was a Hillary Clinton supporter in 2008, according to published reports.

If she's still interested in the work being done by the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, perhaps she needs to meet Romney supported, Iowa Congressman Steve King (R), who is running for reelection now on a platform that includes legalizing dog fighting.

In June the Senate approved the Vitter amendment, by a vote of 88 to 11. The Vitter amendment prohibits attendance at organized animal fights and imposes additional penalties for bringing a child to these bloody and illegal spectacles.

Congressman Steve King (R-IA) had this to say about Vitter during a tele-townhall last month, King stated “It’s wrong to rate animals above human beings,” he told a questioner. King went on to argue “there’s something wrong with society to make it a federal crime to watch animals fight, but it’s not a federal crime to induce somebody to watch people fighting there’s something wrong with the priorities of people that think like that.”

King went on to state, “Animals have more rights than fetuses,” and suggests that “liberals have so devalued life, that a man can rape a young girl, kidnap her, force her to undergo an abortion across state lines, and then drop her off at the swing set and that’s not against the law in the United States of America.”

King always votes against animal protection in the House. If you are wondering if this guy is really a Member of Congress and if he is insane, the answer is YES to both. And, by the way, the 11 Members of the Senate who voted against Vitter's amendment to ban dog fighting are: Lamar Alexander (R-TN), Jeff Bingaman (D-NM), Richard Burr (R-NC), Tom Coburn (R-OK), Jim DeMint (R-SC), Lindsay Graham (R-SC), Jim Inhofe (R-OK), Mike Lee (R-UT), Rand Paul (R-KY), Marco Rubio (R-FL), and Jeff Sessions (KKK-AL).

Another Mangy Blue Dog Bites The Dust

I first came across South Carolina state Rep. Ted Vick when I was investigating right-wing Democrats who joined the Koch brother's and Murdoch's shady anti-democracy outfit ALEC. Vick was one of his state's ALEC leaders. I guess I wasn't the only one looking. The Blue Dogs found him too and backed his bid for Congress. Aside from endorsing him and getting "ex"-Blue Dog Steve Israel to add his race to the DCCC Red-to-Blue page-- a signal to wealthy donors who can't think for themselves that the DCCC wants contributions to flow in certain directions-- the Blue Dogs started sending him cash. Their corporately funded PAC sent two $5,000 checks on December 20. Individual Blue Dogs sent checks as well, like Heath Shuler who sent $1,000 on March 28. Even though there are far, far, far more fertile districts for the DCCC to contest in November, Israel went along with his Blue Dog buddies and added SC-7 to the Red-to-Blue "Emerging Districts" list. There's just something about a Blue Dog man that Steve Israel just can't ignore.

When I complained to the DCCC that Vick is an anti-Choice, anti-gay, ALEC reactionary, I was told he had just quit ALEC. And he had-- after years of loyal service. Why is the DCCC backing candidates with records like Vick's? Can you imagine them going to wealthy donors in California and New York are saying, "Look at these wonderful right-wing candidates we have for you to finance. They're as anti-Choice as any Republican. And they hate the LGBT community with the same fervor. And look at these voting records! No one will ever be able to say they're any less conservative than a Republican! Chip in." No, of course the DCCC doesn't do that. They just lard up their Red-to-Blue page with people who fit that description. It's almost come to the point where if someone is added to the Red-to-Blue list, you have to double check and triple check and see what's wrong with them.

Now in Vick's case, you don't have to check too far. They don't make Democrats much worse-- although the corrupt New Dems managed to connect to San Diego crook Juan Vargas-- than ole Ted, who calls himself a "pastor," by the way. And Pastor Ted, as pastors do, got caught in a scandal with a young woman this week. Friday morning-- damage control having failed-- he quit his race for Congress. The Blue Dog was arrested, driving drunk with a 21 year old drunken woman he had picked up in a bar in his car. No, I'm not talking about Ken Calvert; Calvert admits he's a Republican so, of course he behaves this way.

Democratic state representative and 7th Congressional District candidate Ted Vick was arrested Wednesday night in Columbia and faces multiple charges.

According to the Alivin S.Glenn Detention Center’s website Vick, D-Chesterfield, is charged with speeding, DUI, and a weapons charge.

A young woman, a student at USC who had several drinks with Vick, was also in the car at the time, according to a police report obtained by WLTX-TV.

That police report said Vick, who is listed as a pastor on his website, was taking the intoxicated 21-year-old woman home.

The two met at a Five Points bar, according to reports.

An employee with the Alvin S. Glenn Detention Center says Vick is out of jail. The employee was not able to release bond information.

“I very much regret any embarrassment I’ve caused for my family, friends and supporters. My family comes first to me and I’m going to spend time with them and consult with my pastor. Politics will have to wait,” Vick said in a statement issued by his campaign manager Lachlan McIntosh.
 
Vick's website touts him as a married family man and a pastor and recently released a television advertisement highlighting his family values.

Well who ever heard of a political sex scandal that didn't involve some hypocrite championing "family values" (right-wing short hand for homophobia)? We haven't heard from Mrs. Vick yet but Pastor Ted has pulled his campaign ads off the air, withdrawn from the race and... issued a statement about his innocence. (Apparently he's still running for reelection as a state rep., which he was doing simultaneously with the congressional run. No word if he's rejoined ALEC yet.)

“After spending time with my family, my pastor and my friends, I have decided to end my campaign for the United States Congress.” Vick had apologized for his actions Thursday.

“I will humbly seek re-election to the State House in November,” his statement on Friday said. “If re-elected I will continue to work across party aisles to seek consensus and progress.”

Vick had been the Democrat’s fund-raising leader in the campaign for the largely coastal, Republican-leaning district.

...Vick is slated to run unopposed for S.C. House District 53 in the Democratic primary, after challenger Phil Powell was among candidates removed by the S.C. Supreme Court following a statewide ballot controversy.

Republican Richie Yow will appear on the ballot in November as the GOP House 53 nominee.

Vick, 39, was stopped by Columbia police at 1:12 a.m. Thursday on Devine Street in Columbia for driving 44 mph in a 30-mph zone, a police report shows.

The officer smelled alcohol, but Vick declined to take a field sobriety test or a breath analysis, the report states.

When Vick was taken to the county jail, a corrections officer discovered a Kel-Tec .380-caliber pistol in a front pants pocket.

Vick did not tell the arresting officer or the corrections officer that he was carrying a firearm. A state concealed weapons permit Vick had in his wallet had expired in 2007 – five years ago.

He is charged with DUI, speeding and unlawful possession of a firearm.

Great work, Steve Israel... the man who will go down in history as an even worse DCCC head than Rahm Emanuel, who planted the seeds for the John Boehner speakership. Time to send the DC Dems a message?

Coincidentally, porn star Jenna Jameson was also arrested for driving drunk. She's never been a member of ALEC and hasn't been embraced by the Blue Dogs or DCCC and isn't a family values hypocrite. She's not running for office either-- but I'd vote for her before I'd even consider someone like Ted Vick.

REPUBLICAN SEX PREDATOR AND FLORIDA REP, BOB ALLEN, HAS BLAMED BLACKS FOR HIS TROUBLES AND NOW IS ATTACKING CUBANS-- DUMB THING TO DO IN FLORIDA

Today's Miami Herald brings us up to date on the sad, sad saga of another Republican sex maniac caught in the act. The Republican House Speaker, Marco Rubio, stripped Bob Allen of all power and all committee positions yesterday. Allen, you'll recall, was arrested last month on a charge that he offered to perform oral sex on an undercover police officer and pay him $20. He later claimed he did it because he was afraid of Black people. Republicans, embarrassed, especially because Allen is a notorious and loudmouthed homophobe, are trying to pressure him to resign and disappear before the election so that their party won't be tarred with yet another hypocritical sex deviant.

Instead of resigning, Allen lashed out at Rubio and seems to have attacked Cuban-Americans, a dominant force in the Florida GOP. "In Cuba, that's where you are charged by police, wrapped up and sent off as guilty without a trial. That's a Cuba thing, something Fidel Castro does." Rubio, "of course," is Cuban-American. But Allen said he meant any totalitarian regime, "Cuba is just the closest one."

Allen, who was McCain's Florida co-chair, says he is planning on running for a Florida Senate seat. After all, he is the author of Florida's Sexual Predator Elimination Act, the act under which he is likely to be charged himself. (He authored it before he was busted for prowling in public toilets offering, it has been alleged, to pay men to do them.

And speaking of wild allegations about gay Republicans, it looks like someone knocked up Jenna Bush and she found some Rove flunky to marry her. Wonkette's gossip blog has hilarious details in the comments section and asks the question, is she fat or pregnant?