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I played poker with Allen when he was in Law School
I am a 54 old registered nurse, widow of a former faculty member here at the University of Virginia, grandmother of 2....not some hired gun for the Dems.....and here's what I know. My boyfriend and I used to have penny ante poker games back in the 1974-5 here in Charlottesville several times a week. Several UVa basketball players used to come over as we were friends and play. On a couple of occasions, George Allen came with some of these guys. He seemed to be an okay guy at first and was, of course, an object of curiosity since we all knew his dad was a famous football coach. He was loud, obnoxious and dropped the "N" word every five minutes. Whenever he'd get a "black" card that he didn't like he would refer to it as a "nigger card" he needed to get rid of. It was so bad that after his second visit to our home we had to ask mutual friends not to bring him again. It was just awful. On a couple of other occasions we were visiting some friends on the UVA swim team and he and some football buddies (all white) were visiting a third roommate and they were all drinking heavily....again, he was "N" this and "N" that. And mind you, Allen was in LAW SCHOOL at the time......so one cannot chalk this up to being young and immature.
As for those former teammates out there denying that they ever heard him say that......they are complete liars. Trust me, racial slurs rolled off his tongue quite naturally. It wasn't something he tried to hide or be quiet about. It was part of his everyday speech.
sally
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What George Allen's Sister said about him 5 years ago..a bully
Senator George Allen’s racial remark to a 20 year old Indian man last week, has re-highlighted accusations that the Senator is a bully and a bigot. Senator Allen’s sister, Jennifer Allen, documents many cases of her brother’s bullying in her book Fifth Quarter: The Scrimmage of a Football Coach's Daughter. Read the excerpts below.
Explaining why she is scared of heights, Ms. Allen writes that “Ever since my brother George held me over the railing at Niagara Falls, I’ve had a fear of heights.” [Fifth Quarter: The Scrimmage of a Football Coach's Daughter, page 43]
Referring to George’s relationship with one of her boyfriends: “My brother George welcomed him by slamming a pool cue against his head.” [Fifth Quarter: The Scrimmage of a Football Coach's Daughter, page 178]
Referring to George’s early leadership skills, Jennifer wrote: “We all obeyed George. If we didn't, we knew he would kill us. Once, when Bruce refused to go to bed, George hurled him through a sliding glass door. Another time, when Gregory refused to go to bed, George tackled him and broke his collarbone. Another time, when I refused to go to bed, George dragged me up the stairs by my hair.” [Fifth Quarter: The Scrimmage of a Football Coach's Daughter, page 22]
Referring to George’s early career aspirations, Jennifer wrote “George hoped someday to become a dentist. George said he saw dentistry as a perfect profession - getting paid to make people suffer.” [Fifth Quarter: The Scrimmage of a Football Coach's Daughter, page 22]
Referring to George’s habit of terrorizing a Green Bay Packer fan in their neighborhood, Jennifer wrote that the fan’s mailbox often “lay smashed in the street, a casualty of my brothers' drive-by to school in the morning. George would swerve his Mach II Mustang while Gregory held a baseball bat out the window to clear the mailbox off its post. . . . Lately, the Packers fan had resorted to stapling a Kleenex box to the mailbox post to receive his mail. George's red Mustang screeched up beside us, the Packers fan's Kleenex mailbox speared on the antenna.” [Fifth Quarter: The Scrimmage of a Football Coach's Daughter, page 16]
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Who was Geroge Allen's first wife and why did he ditch her?
Anne Patrice Rubel was Allen's first wife. They parted ways when he got serious about politics. Was it because he intended to hide his Jewish heritage? Is Rubel a Jewish name? Could be. Why doesn't someone find out. If she was Jewish then how could he have not known...this guy never, ever tells the truth.
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Little Shop of Horror, Republikan Style
Family values, ah those family values. Looks like the Allen family and the Addams family were kin, with George the Thug playing Lurch. His sister's stories are perhaps even more chilling than his klan wannabe tendencies. Bigots and bullies, all welcome under that big fascist tent. Crackers, anyone?
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irony alert
1001 random lies killed Al Gore. Michael Dukakis had an exaggerated Willy Horton scandal to deal with.
The point: Republicans beat Democrats ALL THE TIME by trumping-up graphic charges.
The first person to float the Willy Horton charge was not a Republican. It was AL GORE in the 1988 primary races against Dukakis and other Dem hopefuls.
Bzzzt. You lose!
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still waiting
I'm still waiting for all the oh-so-concerned libs and Salon types to show a smidgeon of outrage over Jim Webb's encouragement of sexual harrasment at the Naval Academy.
The silence is deafening.
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RE: still waiting
Webb is a Democrat. They don't do bad things.
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Where's Ernie?
Is is true you sock puppets are gay, Bert? No one has claimed Democrats lack failings. They've been remarkably limp as the "loyal opposition", and Webb has a poor track record when it comes to being a women's rights champion. All that said, Allen's still a cracker, a bully, and unfit for office. How about orifice, there Bert 'n Ernie? go play with people your own age.
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george allen
I posted this at Polipundit:
So lame? Get over it? Eff u! I wager that 3/4ths of the Republicans in Congress use “nigger” to this day when they think they are in safe company. Why don’t one of you crafty GOP bloggers ask Richard Burr about an annual frat party he attended in college at a party called “Five Screaming Niggers"? I know why. You don’t want to know! You know why you don’t want to know? You don’t care! You are now, always have been, and always will be the party of bigots. You just dress in polo shirts and tell your nigger jokes at your clubs except when your token puppet nigger is there with you.