Abstinence-Supporting GOP State Lawmaker Admits To Sex With 22-Year-Old
Intern
By Zachary Roth - July 23, 2009, 4:19PM

Paging Keith Olbermann. You can call off the search...we've found your
Worst Person in the World for tonight.

Meet Tennessee state senator Paul Stanley. He's a solid conservative
Republican and married father of two, who according to his website is "a
member of Christ United Methodist Church, where he serves as a Sunday
school teacher and board member of their day school." (Check out the
religious imagery on the site -- the sun poking through clouds, as if
manifesting God's presence -- which of course shows Stanley's deeply
pious nature.)

Stanley recently sponsored a bill designed to prevent gay couples from
adopting children. And when a Planned Parenthood official recently
sought his support for family planning services for Memphis teens,
Stanley told her, according to the official, that he "didn't believe
young people should have sex before marriage anyway, that his faith and
church are important to him, and he wants to promote abstinence."

So far, so far Republican. But you can see where this is going...

In a sworn affidavit, a Tennessee state investigator has said that
Stanley admitted to having a "sexual relationship" with a 22-year-old
female intern working in his office, and to taking nude pictures of her
in "provocative poses" in his apartment.

Things started to unravel for Stanley, it seems, in April, when he
received a text message reading:

Good morning sir, how are you this fine day? McKensie and I have
been talking and I feel that I have a video and some pictures you might
be interested in seeing. This is her boyfriend, that guy you met outside
Walgreens.

That was the start of an effort by the girl's boyfriend to blackmail
Stanley, which ultimately led to Stanley going to the cops. The
boyfriend is now charged with trying to extort $10,000 from Stanley.

Oh, bonus! Stanley works as a financial adviser for the Stanford
Financial Group, whose founder, Allen Stanford, has been charged with
orchestrating an $8 billion scam.

Wonder if Stanley stays at C Street when he's in DC.

Late Update: It gets worse. In 1994, Stanley's first wife, Judy Martin,
filed for a restraining order against him, charging that he had
physically assaulted her three times. She wrote: "He was going out the
door to leave our house and he hit me with a tremendous blow and then he
proceeded to turn and run away from me outside the garage to the
street." Stanley and Martin divorced the following year.

According to the Nashville Post, Stanley met his current wife, Kristi
Stanley, soon afterwards, while both were working for Bill Frist's U.S.
Senate office in Memphis. She was working as -- an intern.

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A wise Latina makes better decisions than a dumb elephant.