Yesterday the Washington Post editors wrote a scathing opinion piece against Joe Morrissey dubbing him, “Richmond’s Anthony Weiner”.
Joe Morrissey, whose name rivals Anthony Weiner’s in the American pantheon of public sleazebags, is a disgraced former state lawmaker who was drummed out of the General Assembly in Richmond for his appalling personal conduct. Before that, ethical transgressions cost him his law license in Virginia for eight years; it was restored in 2011, but he remains ineligible to practice in federal court.
He has served jail time for fistfights as well as for contributing to the delinquency of a minor — a young woman, 38 years his junior, whom he married in June. (When she was 17, and working as a receptionist at his law office, he saw fit to send a nude photograph of her to a friend, along with boasting of his sexual relations with her; hence the criminal conviction, for which he served three months behind bars.)
The Post continues by describing Morrissey’s latest problems with an ex girlfriend to whom he sent lewd text messages. Â The editors call Morrissey a con man,
but his con — a gift for banter and the common touch — is effective enough that it appeals to segments of Richmond’s electorate. Polls suggest he is headed toward an easy victory in a crowded field of nonpartisan candidates.
The Post calls Richmond “ethically clueless” if they elect Morrissey mayor.
Read the entire editorial here.Â
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No, Morrissey is getting kicked into office, Wiener got kicked out. The more sleaze and dirt the establishment throws on Joe, the more Richmonders will vote for him.
However, take an establishment hack like McDonnell, the more polishing the media did, the more dirt Richmonders threw on him.
I wonder if Joe and Bob used to go to Catholic mass together?
Trump will be in Leesburg tomorrow at 9:30 pm. It would be so nice to see VA turn Red again.
If any entity would know about laughing stock public officials, it should be the Washington Post.
Morrissey isn’t in the same league as DC
I have to agree. The Clintons are now involved with orgy island and pedophilia if reports are to be believed. Wikileaks has done it again.
I have been reading that as well, if they are going to “dump” that news they are pretty much out of time for it to matter. Morrissey has been doing his own pedophilia thing.
Thanks for letting us know! I have a post in the microblog with details.
You are welcome. Hope you can go, it is worth the work and effort.
He may not be in the same league, but he is every bit as dirty. Like the Beast, one must ask why is this criminal allowed to run? POTUS or Mayor, they are still criminals.
The bigger issue is what it says about a clueless segment of the Richmond electorate, whose own standards of decency are non existent.