Posted on 08/18/2010 4:41:10 AM PDT by Libloather
Memphis councilwoman Janis Fullilove apologizes for 'pole dancing' incident
“Yes, I was on the pole,” Fullilove says
By Amos Maki
Memphis Commercial Appeal
Updated August 17, 2010 at 10:55 p.m.
Memphis City Council member Janis Fullilove sent a letter of apology to the president of the National Black Caucus of Local Elected Officials for what she described as "over the top" behavior at a party last week.
Fullilove, regional director for NBC-LEO, said Tuesday that she engaged in dancing -- including pole dancing -- on a river cruise during the group's gathering in Memphis.
"Yes, I was on the pole," said Fullilove. "I was having a good time but I wasn't drinking.
"I went overboard because I was trying to do the Soul Train. I was dancing on the pole and I was just trying to have a good time.
"It was over the top. It was over the top and I apologize."
NBC-LEO, an organization created in 1970, held its national convention in Memphis. On Thursday night, the group, along with some local elected officials, went on a Mississippi River cruise on the Memphis Queen Line.
In an Aug. 13 letter to NBC-LEO president Audwin Samuel sent on City Council stationery, Fullilove said she was "truly sorry" for her actions.
"I never meant to offend you nor any of the elected officials and other delegates who may have been a witness to my actions last night," said Fullilove.
Samuel did not return a message seeking comment Tuesday.
City Councilman Myron Lowery, a member of NBC-LEO who worked to bring the conference to Memphis, refused to say whether Fullilove's dancing was appropriate.
"She was dancing like many other people on the boat and having a good time," said Lowery.
Fullilove has been involved in a series of high-profile driving offenses over the last two years and received a formal censure from her fellow council members.
In December, she pleaded guilty to two misdemeanors for obtaining a replacement driver's license by providing false information.
Prosecutors recommended she spend roughly 60 days in jail, but Criminal Court Judge Paula Skahan sentenced the city councilwoman to probation for 11 months and 28 days, 150 hours of community service, random drug screens, alcohol sobriety meetings and counseling.
Fullilove was convicted of drunken driving in 1995, and had two more driving-under-the-influence convictions in Mississippi -- one in June 2008 and another in February 2009.
Fullilove also was involved in a 2008 wreck in Tunica in which a 7-year-old girl was injured. No charges were filed.
Three months later, she was photographed slumped over in her parked car in a Tunica casino parking lot.
She entered a rehab program in October 2008 and in November, her council colleagues censured her.
After her license was revoked in Mississippi in February 2009 for her DUI conviction, Fullilove was filmed a month later by television crews driving at MIFA to deliver meals. She then was charged with obtaining a replacement license by providing false information.
democrate PARTY! member.
How much are these people paid?
Maybe she has a lot to party about?
I can understand women making themselves attractive-ie pleasing to the eyes- but these days even young girls present themselves as nothing more than walking vaginas, ready and willing to be used-then discarded like Kleenex. Sex has become a valueless commodity instead of what it was ordained to be. Women certainly don’t have to be “wooed and won” anymore, they present themselves as there for the taking, whether that’s what they intended or not.
“National Black Caucus of Local Elected Officials”
First sentence of the article.
Doh...
I was a little shocked when I watched television programming aimed at pre-teens. It’s all about sex. There’s incredible pressure for kids to “match up” in grade school and any girl who is worth anything MUST have a boyfriend or two. This carries right on up through high school where going to the prom with somebody, anybody is a MUST and then into young adulthood where programs like Sex in the City are somehow about “liberation”. Women really haven’t “come a long way baby” and in many ways they’ve regressed.
And somewhat related are the different cultural norms with respect to women. Since we tossed the melting pot in favor of the diversity patchwork quilt, the objectification of women in other cultures is now not to be questioned and in many cases “celebrated”.
Guilty!
Yes, everything in this culture promotes the message of “if it feels good do it” and they’re getting them younger and younger. I see it as all part of the same plan to sedate people’s consciences. The better for the state to become the “conscience” of society-hence the only sin is “intolerance”.
Of course the goal is to undermine and weaken America, and the infiltration of Islam is another tool in the eyes of the left, who seem to not realise they have a tiger by the tail in making use of Islam to weaken America. But anyway that would explain why they overlook Muslim towards women that they would never tolerate in western culture. Undermining America trumps their feminism, just as their leftism trumped it with regard to Clinton’s actions.
She *should* apologize ....... to the pole.
Guilty
Ric and Bad Dog will have a time with this.
I’m certainly not going to ascribe to a nanny state mentality and believe people need to take personal responsibility rather than legislated responsibility.
Is she black or white?
Fullilove is not a common name. I just watched an older episode of the First 48 where the Memphis PD busted a another Fullilove for beating to death some dude with the butt of a shotgun... Just saying
Its Memphis, logic/reason/sanity are on permanent holiday there.
Black... like Michael Jackson...
I’m not promoting the notion of the state being the arbiter of morality, merely pointing out where the overall culture is. That is a societal problem, not a legislative one. Our forefathers didn’t need legislation to live with common decency. I don’t subscribe to the idea of government dictating societal morality (broadly speaking-the push to undermine society by destroying the family through official recognition of “gay marriage” is another story-but it’ going to happen eventually anyway). I’m saying that this trend is weakening and will destroy this civilisation, history shows this. But that’s the trend and it will continue. As a believer in Bible prophecy, I believe it can’t be otherwise.
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