Advice to a Republican awaiting his prison term.

[alfredo]

Ritchie Farmer was a basketball hero, and in Kentucky you can't be more revered. He thought because he was a "hero" and a Republican he was above the law. Oops

http://www.courier-journal.com/article/20130915/OPINION04/309150029/Prison-advice-aid-RichieMelissa

Commissioner, your pre-trial request to take a planned Cancun vacation with your girlfriend did not meet that standard. First of all, Kentucky is a state where family values still matter, and it was not in your interest to call attention to the dissolution of your marriage. Second, Kentucky is a working-class state, and most Kentuckians don’t take vacations in Cancun — especially those who are unemployed, like you. Finally, although your current girlfriend is not the same girlfriend to whom you famously awarded a $60,000/year job as your “special assistant,” highlighting a vacation with your new paramour unfortunately reminds many of the brazen hiring of your ex-girlfriend.

[rocktivity]

1. You forgot the "Not from The Onion" disclaimer

Here's the backstory: http://www.courier-journal.com/article/20130905/NEWS01/309050029/Richie-Farmer-timeline

By the way, this was written by "a former Missouri state senator who spent 2010 at the federal Correctional Institution in Manchester, Ky., as a result of charges stemming from a 2004 campaign-finance violation. He writes regularly for TheRecoveringPolitician.com and is a professor in the Milano Graduate School of International Affairs, Management and Urban Policy at The New School in New York City." So you see, Mr. Farmer, there is hope for you!


rocktivity

[alfredo]

4. If Farmer survives prison, look for him working a used car lot in some coal town like Manchester.

He could always become an evangelist and shear the "sheep." Chuck Colson did that and made a good living.

[Unrepentant Fenian]

2. Republican family values... they never fail to entertain!

[gopiscrap]

3. I love it.