Who is McKensie Morrison to Tennessee State Senator Paul Stanley?
TN Senator Involved in Sex Scandal, Extortion Expected to Step Down from Senate Committee Updated: Wednesday, 22 Jul 2009, 8:39 AM CDT Published : Tuesday, 21 Jul 2009, 8:30 PM CDT FOX13 Memphis Senator Paul Stanley helped TBI Investigators set up a man who is accused of blackmailing him for $10,000. According to the arrest affidavit, Joel Palmer Watts tried to extort $10,000 out of Senator Stanley in exchange for a data card containing nude pictures of a woman both men were allegedly having a relationship with. TBI says that the woman is 23 year old McKensie Morrison. Morrison is a student at Austin Peay State University and an intern for the 2009 legislative session. According to the affidavit, Watts discovered pictures that showed the young woman in compromising positions in Senator Stanley’s Nashville apartment. The TBI says Watts then began contacting Stanley wanting to exchange the memory card for money and secrecy. The senator is a married father of two, well known for his empha
The details thus far are sketchy, but two things stand out about the saga of state Senator Paul Stanley and his 22-year-old former legislative intern, McKensie Morrison: (1) The two of them seem to have had some sort of sexual relationship; and (2) explicit photographs of Morrison, apparently taken in Stanley’s Nashville apartment, were used in an attempt to blackmail the Germantown legislator. The story apparently first surfaced Tuesday in a Nashville TV station’s report on an arrest affidavit charging Morrison’s boyfriend, 28-year-old Joel Palmer Watts, with an attempt last April to extort $10,000 from Stanley, married with two children, in return for the photographs. At that point, Stanley contacted the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation and Watts’ arrest followed. What makes this story different from several others the public has grown familiar with is not necessarily that Stanley, as a legislator, has been identified with a number of family values issues — introducing a bill while
