My new found respect for Star Trek: Voyager...

[JCR]

From the popbitch.com email:

"Rent Star Trek Voyager DVDs in honour of Jeri Ryan. Jeri revealed her ex-husband Jack Ryan, Republican family values' Senate candidate in Illinois, took her to sex clubs. "Jack wanted me to have sex with him there, with another couple watching. I refused," said Jeri. "[He] became very upset with me and said it was not a 'turn on' for me to cry." Jack Ryan's website says, "As an elected leader, my interest will be in promoting laws and educating people about the fundamental importance of the traditional family unit...defending traditional marriage..." www.jackryan2004.com

HA HA HA. I love this shit. The truth is irrelevant, as the borg would no doubt say.

Source: http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/06/22/ryan.divorce/

[Fisting Ackbar]

He just HAD to disgrace the name Jack Ryan :rolleyes: :mad:

[BubbaStrangelove]

Originally posted by Fisting Ackbar
He just HAD to disgrace the name Jack Ryan :rolleyes: :mad:



WTF?

I say Jack Ryan disgraced Jack Ryan.

Why are you defending this guy? This would be like Clinton, if Clinton told people not to get blowjobs.

[Adornado]

Originally posted by BubbaStrangelove
WTF?

I say Jack Ryan disgraced Jack Ryan.

Why are you defending this guy? This would be like Clinton, if Clinton told people not to get blowjobs.

Maybe he's talking about the Tom Clany hero, Jack Ryan.

[Grebdron]

Originally posted by BubbaStrangelove
WTF?

I say Jack Ryan disgraced Jack Ryan.

Why are you defending this guy? This would be like Clinton, if Clinton told people not to get blowjobs.

I don't think he's defending him, Bubba.

I think it's about Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan. You know, Baldwin, Harrison Ford, and Ben Affleck?

[JCR]

Methinks FA is talking about Jack Ryan the hero of the tom clancy novels and movies being disgraced by this ;) (edit: beaten to the punch again. Damn my slow typing.)

Anyway the surprise is the guy is still standing. The republicans appear to expect people to vote for the family values guy who likes public group sex? That is illogical, captain.

[Fisting Ackbar]

Looks like Adornado, Grebdon and JCR already answered for me :cool:

[Tweek]

Heh, what a douche bag that guy is if that's all true.

Defending traditional marriage?!

What was he smoking when he made that mission statement?

"Hmmm...My goal will be to defend traditional marriage... Come on Baby, let's go have sex in PUBLIC! And don't you dare cry!"

[Fisting Ackbar]

http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/06/25/il.ryan/index.html

Buffeted by allegations of sex club forays, Republican candidate Jack Ryan on Friday dropped out of the Senate race in Illinois.

Ryan released a written statement announcing his withdrawal from the race. In the statement, as reported by the Associated Press, Ryan blames the news media for the controversy and said he wanted to avoid a "brutal, scorched-earth campaign."

Ryan's fall came fast. On Thursday, an aide said Ryan was "assessing his options" about whether to continue his election bid amid allegations that he visited sex clubs with his then-wife, actress Jeri Ryan.

Ryan abruptly canceled a planned Thursday trip to Capitol Hill, where Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tennessee, expressed his disappointment in the allegations and pointedly declined to offer words of support for Ryan.

And the Illinois congressional delegation has been largely silent about Ryan, leaving him to fend for himself.

In Washington, House Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Illinois, released a statement, saying the state GOP party would find a replacement for Ryan.

"Jack Ryan made the right decision," Hastert said. "I know it must have been a difficult one."

Ryan, 44, a wealthy former investment banker, is running against Democrat Barack Obama for the seat being vacated by retiring GOP Sen. Peter Fitzgerald -- a potentially key contest in the battle for control of the evenly divided Senate.

Even before the lurid allegations, Obama held a lead over Ryan in various polls.

The four-year-old allegations were contained in court papers unsealed this week. In them, Jeri Ryan states her ex-husband took her to sex clubs and asked her to engage in sexual activity in front of other patrons.

Ryan denied the allegations, which were contained in court papers filed in a visitation dispute over the couple's son. Monday, he called the account "ridiculous" and insisted then that he had no plans to drop out.

Rumors about allegations in the divorce documents swirled during the state's Republican primary, but Ryan steadfastly refused to release the records.

Jeri Ryan, who starred in the TV shows "Boston Public" and "Star Trek: Voyager," said in a written statement that she now considers her ex-husband "a friend" and has "no doubt that he will make an excellent senator." But she has not disavowed the account she gave in court papers.

Frist called the allegations "disappointing" Thursday.

Frist called Ryan "a committed public servant" for his work with disadvantaged children and teaching in inner-city public schools. "He expressed to me his deep commitment to be able to take that commitment and apply it at a statewide and a national level," said Frist, who met Ryan four years ago.

But the majority leader added, "The recent allegations are disappointing to me and I think disappointing to him and disappointing to his supporters. I have not talked to him since last Thursday before all of this was made public, so I don't know what his intentions are at this point, and I will let him make whatever decisions he has to make at this juncture."

Jeri Ryan said her then-husband took her on three "surprise trips" in the spring of 1998 to New Orleans, New York and Paris, during which he took her to sex clubs. She said she refused to go in the first and went into the second at his insistence.

In his legal response to her allegations, Jack Ryan said while he did arrange "romantic getaways" for the couple, they "did not include the type of activities she describes."

"We did go to one avant-garde nightclub in Paris, which was more than either one of us felt comfortable with. We left and vowed never to return," he said.

Both Ryans had objected to the release of details in the documents, but they opted not to appeal Monday's ruling from a judge in Los Angeles, where their divorce was filed.

[JCR]

"romantic getaways"? "romantic getaways"??? LOL, as I said, I love this shit- hypocrisy is my favourite political sin.

[BubbaStrangelove]

Originally posted by Adornado
Maybe he's talking about the Tom Clany hero, Jack Ryan.

http://www.gocontinental.com/photos2/basil_tony2a.jpg

[Saruman]

Yet another reason why Star Trek, and the people involved with it, rule! (this coming from the Star Wars moderator!)