{TN State Sen. Ophelia } Ford taken to hospital day after hearing rant

Memphis Commercial Appeal ^ | 5/17/7

[Xenalyte]

Yeah, a breakfast with a proof label on it does tend to help the pounds melt away.

[GailA]

Fleming said she was recently hospitalized under a FAKE name for unknown reasons. Did she OD on something???

[fieldmarshaldj]

One wonders how she’d have time for a drug habit in between guzzling her favorite adult beverages. We all know what kind of coverage this would get if it were State Sen. Mae Beavers.

[NCC-1701]

If you want a good laugh, go to this link: http://www.wmctv.com and click the “click here to listen to entire interview” done by Donna Davis. I could swear she was drinking during that interview. This would be laughable under other circumstances. However, we are talking about Ophelia Ford afterall.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Gail, did you see on Thaddeus Matthews’ blog http://www.thaddeusmatthews.com/ that he has the transcript of the 911 call ? She was falling down drunk in the bar. I don’t know if you’ve been to Nashville, but the legislators don’t have far to walk to get to the Sheraton, which is at the south end of Legislative Plaza.

[Lancey Howard]

"What you're talking about ain't hitting on nothing with me as a certified funeral service practitioner. What you're saying ain't hitting on nothing! And you guys need to get better and you need to get more educated," Ford said angrily.

You can't make this stuff up.
She is the perfect "face of the Democrat party".

[fieldmarshaldj]

And what a face it is... *shudder*

[Liberty Valance]

She looks like a tweeker.

[dighton]

Ford taken to hospital day after hearing rant

That must have been quite a rant she heard.

Oh . . .

[GailA]

Has any one heard that when she was taken to the hospital it was from collapsing at a bar?

[GailA]

Ford was taken on a stretcher from the 24th floor lounge of the Sheraton Hotel in downtown Nashville, where she stays when the legislature is in session. The lounge, which serves drinks

[Shortstop7]

Yeah, it was on news tonight. She fell off her barstool and was too drunk for them to determine whether she really needed medical help or not.

Don’t you just love those Fords?

[GailA]

I have the ill luck of having her as my senator...BUT since she represents nothing I value, my former senator, Mark Norris continues to be my senator of choice.

http://www.tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070519/NEWS01/70519023

She admits to drinking wine.

[fieldmarshaldj]

The news gingerly tiptoed around the “collapsing drunk at the bar.” They made it sound like she had the vapors from not eating or “anemia” (although it’s probably technically correct that she hasn’t been eating much, what with all that Sterno in her belly).

[fieldmarshaldj]

I’m stuck in an urban Black district myself (despite not having moved anywhere, but my district has been shopped about, gerrymandered, and any and all manner and sort of rodent contortions to keep it rodent), represented by the “Mad Hatter”, Thelma Harper. While Harper doesn’t drink like Auntie, she does overdose on her own ego.

[GailA]

I’m in Millington, traditionally GOP, it is being split up to give the dems a toe hold.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Presuming we can retain control of the Senate, we should be able to redraw the lines next time around. The question is to what degree will they be shifted. It’s the House that is a damnable mess with disenfranching gerrymandering.