Allred's ugly day
The rascally Jake Spoon of Larry McMurtry's "Lonesome Dove" offered one of my favorite parting lines after his old Texas Ranger buddies caught him riding with outlaws (paraphrasing):
"Hell, boys, I'd rather be hung by my friends than a bunch of strangers."
Cary Allred might appreciate that.
This report containing the statements of several N.C. House of Representatives colleagues, many of them fellow Republicans, threatens to string him up for very bad behavior.
It was Monday, April 27, when the House was meeting for an evening session.
He admitted to drinking a "chelada" (tomato.juice, clam juice, salt, lime, and beer) before leaving his home in Burlington.
That's disgusting right there.
Then he was pulled for driving 102 mph on I-40 but let go when he showed the trooper his legislative ID.
Finally joining the legislative session, he was quarrelsome with Speaker Joe Hackney but overly affectionate with a 17-year-old page, embracing her in one or more bear hugs variously described as inappropriate, gruesome, prolonged, full body, lingering and never-ending. Then kissing her.
With all these witness accounts, the evidence would be enough to hang Allred as a disgrace to his office.
The trouble is, the page and her parents are family friends of Allred's. He calls his relationship with the girl "grandfatherly." And her family concurs.
So Allred probably slips the noose. But he at least deserves tarring and feathering -- a legislative censure -- for conduct detrimental to the reputation of the House, or something like that.
I'm sure he'd rather be flayed by his friends than a bunch of strangers.
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He admitted to drinking a "chelada" (tomato.juice, clam juice, salt, lime, and beer) before leaving his home in Burlington.
That's disgusting right there.* Doug
What is disgusting about the old Goat taking a drink in his home? It's his constitutional right to do whatever to his body as long he does not harm any other individual. Frankly, he should ungrade his drinking menu from early Mexican take out to a civilze wine menu that does not excite redneck racing habits to Raleigh in the name of political Republican corruption.
Posted on May 21, 2009 2:05 PM
He admitted to drinking a "chelada" (tomato.juice, clam juice, salt, lime, and beer) before leaving his home in Burlington.
That's disgusting right there.* Doug
What is disgusting about the old Goat taking a drink in his home? It's his constitutional right to do whatever to his body as long he does not harm any other individual. Frankly, he should ungrade his drinking menu from early Mexican take out to a civilze wine menu that does not excite redneck racing habits to Raleigh in the name of political Republican corruption.
Posted on May 21, 2009 2:05 PM