Why is Senator Paul Stanley being mention in a scandal?
Tenn. senator has affair with intern, resigns By ERIK SCHELZIG (AP) – 21 hours ago NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The Tennessee state senator said he was opposed to sex outside marriage, but his private life told a different story: He was having an affair with his 22-year-old intern. When an extortion plot exposed married Republican Sen. Paul Stanley’s illicit relationship, he said he would be “clearing up” misimpressions later. He’s now clearing out his office, the latest politician caught in a sex scandal, this one made worse by not coming clean. “If you can’t explain what you’ve done to your constituents in 30 seconds or less in a way they would accept, then don’t do it,” said Bruce Oppenheimer, a political science professor at Vanderbilt University. “It’s amazing how many elected officials violate that very important conventional wisdom.” As news of the affair broke last month, the 47-year-old Stanley dodged reporters and issued a statement calling himself a victim. The suburban Memphis lawmak
What began as a government internship for a one-time honors student with a questionable past has become a full-blown sex scandal that ensnared a married Tennessee state senator and led him to resign. Republican Sen. Paul Stanley had maintained a low profile until his announcement late Tuesday that he was resigning from the state Senate effective Aug. 10, after his affair with a 22-year-old intern and a subsequent extortion attempt was revealed to the public. Stanley, a 47-year-old evangelical Christian with two children, said in his resignation letter that he has “decided to focus my full attention on my family.” “Whatever I stood for and advocated, I still believe to be true,” he told Memphis radio station WREC-AM Tuesday. “And just because I fell far short of what God’s standard was for me and my wife, doesn’t mean that that standard is reduced in the least bit.” He had been engaged in a sexual relationship with intern McKensie Morrison when her boyfriend, Joel Watts, contacted him,
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