Wonkette
Fancy dancer, kidney transplant recipient, and “America’s Mayor” Marion Barry was arrested for allegedly stalking an ex-ladyfriend. But then the ex said that he hadn’t been stalking her at all, or something? Basically, he met up with this gal for lunch (says Barry’s spokeswoman) and then he ran into her later on in the day, and that is when the cops intervened.
The police said that the ex-girlfriend complained that he was “bothering her,” although she says she didn’t complain about anything. What the hell?
Money quote:
Schlosser [a Park Police spokesman] said the officer who arrested Barry was a New York native who did not know that Barry was a prominent D.C. Council member. He said Barry was “very cooperative” during the booking process.
So, Marion Barry spent the Fourth of July in police custody, celebrating Freedom.
The Charge Against Barry: Stalking His Ex-Girlfriend [Washington Post]
Bitch set him up! Or not.
She seems classy.
http://www.cnn.com/2006/HEALTH/01/31/new.you.brighthaupt/index.html
Cicada: damn- I wanted to say that!
That’s no way to treat the guy who took a bullet in the *first* Muslin terrorist attack in the Nation’s Capital. Hero for life!!!
Barry does bear more than a passing resemblance to the homeless guy I used to drag bodily out of the doorway of Harvey’s . (On West 18th).
Today we are all woodcutters. Who eat at Fuddruckers.
Crack does a real number on the molars. Also.
Knowing Barry’s history he was just looking for some crack. Or some crack.
Sorry for that crack, it slipped through the crack.
ph7: I remember that pretty well-I had friends who were in the Bnai Brith building.
Barry’s in the White House
Barry’s in jail
The bitch set him up
for an epic fail
So many similarities
wherever could we start
It’s Barry Barry Barry hard to tell the two apart.
O.K., just forget I wrote that.
We only have so much time during our brief span on this spinning marble. You have to hit as many notes as possible to have a symphony by the end of it all.
Honestly, to catch old Marion at an illegal activity, all you have to do is follow him around for about an hour. There is absolutely no challenge to it at all.
Ms. Watts-Brighthaupt says of their relationship:
“It was a wonderful, insightful, history-telling experience,” she said of their time together.
i.e. he’s old and doesn’t stop talking about the damn sixties.
finallyhappy: You will, Happy, you will.
completely off topic, but the punchline at 3:25 or so is well worth it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IzNPEGWNos&feature=related
Prevailing Community Standards, as defined by the Supremes, make any bust unfair in DC. He was re-elected mayor after his crack bust, after all.
“I think we oughta make everything legal; that way we wouldn’t have no crime.” - Brother Dave Gardner
You know why Barry does all this stuff? He just really misses the police escort he used have 24/7 when he was a bigshot mayor. It’s kind of touching, really.
snoidoid: Cracking me up man…
Speaking as someone who actually stayed in the hotel room (later) where Mayor for life was busted… well, some things never change, as teh froggies are wont to say.
The same thing happens at my house; we meet for breakfast, then after dinner, I do the dishes and my wife calls the cops.
Advocatus_Diaboli: Hahahahahaha!
Maybe the “smoky treat” Watts-Brighthaupt told CNN she enjoys after a workout is the same one MayorforLife likes and maybe she likes to enjoy it where he does, in public parks. Where there is smoke there is fire. Just sayin.
Country Club Jihadi: She was classy enough to break up with him, no?
What does this have to do with Sarah Palin again?
She’s lucky she wasn’t breaking up with Steve McNair.
Hizzoner once again violated Algren’s Principles:
“Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom’s. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own.”
The woman is obviously even more crazy than the MFL.
As for the case, she’s a liar. He’s a liar. And so is the cop, if he’s saying he’s a cop in DC and didn’t know who the Mayor for Life is. It’s great to be alive in these wonderful times.
Stalking does not make you high–the man is innocent.
This coming from the man who declared “I am a politician who’s moral,” as part of his opposition to DC recognizing valid same sex marriages.
As I stated earlier, obviously Barry’s woman friend was thinking of getting gay married, and he was just organizing an intervention.
snarkistani refugee: He wanted to stalk the GILF, but the bitch won’t leave Wasilla, so he found the nearest chick to harass.
Ah, back in the headlines again. I remember back in the day when he went banging on a stripper’s door at 4 am so her kid could “meet the mayor”. Good times.
Really, it was just a PR move for his movie
How much more will the people take from this guy?? there is a related post at http://iamsoannoyed.com/?p=2060
Washington Redskins? How would you like it if they were called Blackskins, Barry?
Obviously she misconstrued his offer for her to smoke a little pipe.