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Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour’s wife told WLOX-TV says the thought of his running for president “horrifies me” because it would be “a huge sacrifice for a family to make.”
Marsha Barbour’s comments come after one of the Barbours’ sons, Sterling, said he’s a private person and he hopes his father doesn’t run. Both, however, said they would support him in his decision.
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The case is In re Marriage of Mendlowitz. The alleged slanders were an e-mail and a letter to the estranged wife’s business associates that seemed likely to interfere with her business relationships. They might indeed have led to a successful defamation lawsuit, and a lawsuit for interference with business relations. But a trial court judge went so far as to issue a domestic restraining order against such comments:
[Y]ou are disturbing the peace of the petitioner…. You have, by your own testimony, admitted to the defaming comments that you have made in these emails. And so therefore, the court is going to grant a restraining order for the next five years. You are not to contact [the wife], [her] employers, [her] potential employers in regard to [her] … You are not to contact any third parties in regard to [the wife], her reputation, her past acts.
This meant that any prohibited speech about his wife would be a crime. And because the order included boilerplate language ordering the estranged husband not to “harass, attack, strike, threaten, assault (sexually or otherwise), hit, follow, stalk, molest, destroy personal property, disturb the peace, keep under surveillance, or block movements,” the federal ban on gun possession by people who are the targets of restraining orders kicked in. (See PDF pp. 61–65 of my Implementing the Right to Keep and Bear Arms in Self-Defense article.)
Fortunately, the California Court of Appeal reversed the trial court’s decision, concluding that this sort of alleged defamation isn’t sufficient to justify issuing such an order. Unfortunately, for the nearly two years between the trial court decision and the appellate decision, defendant had been entirely deprived of his Second Amendment rights, and been subjected to a prior restraint in violation of his First Amendment rights.
Washington (CNN) – A politician’s wife was one of Elizabeth Taylor’s more unusual roles.
Former Sen. John Warner, who was then chairman of the nation’s bicentennial, met Taylor when Queen Elizabeth visited the United States in July 1976.
“I was invited to escort her, at the request of Her Majesty’s staff, to the small dinner party given at the British Embassy,” Warner recalled during an interview on CNN’s “Newsroom” Wednesday. “I say small, but President Ford was there, Vice President Rockefeller, Henry Kissinger. It was quite a party. And we met. And then a week or so later, she said she’d like to come down to see my farms and ride a horse, and that was the beginning.”
They married later that year.
Also that year, at the Virginia Republican convention Warner lost a bid for the party’s Senate nomination. But the winner, Richard Obenshain, died in a plane crash two months later. Warner was then picked to run for the seat.
“Hand in hand together we marched with no staff,” Warner recalled in an interview with MSNBC. “We had nine weeks to put together a campaign,” he said, adding he had “profound gratitude for this extraordinary woman” and her efforts on his behalf. He said Taylor was “my partner in what appeared to be an impossible challenge.”
“She was my ‘partner’ in laying the foundation for 30 years of public service in the U.S. Senate, representing Virginia, a state she dearly loved, as it reminded her of her heritage in England,” Warner, who was in the Senate from 1977 to 2008, recalled separately in a prepared statement.
When asked how Taylor felt about politics and Washington, Warner told CNN “She liked it, but the problems were that of any member of Congress or parliamentarian in England, the hours were erratic. We couldn’t make plans. She said, ‘Listen, you stay where you are, and I’ll go back and forth, and I’ll go back on Broadway.’ So she did.”
They divorced in 1982.
“We never had any harsh feelings…but eventually we decided we’d just remain friends and parted ways and remained friends to the end.”
Warner told MSNBC his former wife would “check on my votes” regarding her pet project – funding for research of AIDS and HIV prevention – even after they were separated. According to Warner, he would tell her when she inquired “I am with you,” because he saw how passionate and strongly she felt for the cause.
He said he and Taylor talked from time to time on the phone and said “we were always friends – to the end.”
What he will remember most about her? “I will remember her as a woman whose heart and soul were as beautiful as her classic face and her majestic eyes. That’s about all I have to say,” he said in the CNN interview. “I say that with a deep sense of humility and gratitude.”
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Washington (CNN) – Politics is serious business – but not all the time.
Et tu, honey?
Wisconsin state Sen. Randy Hopper, a Republican from Fond du Lac, is not only facing backlash from constituents angry over his support for Gov. Scott Walker’s union busting bill – but from his wife, who is now backing a recall effort against him, RawStory.com reports.
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Wisconsin state Sen. Randy Hopper’s (R) wife has signed a recall petition against him, according to New York magazine.
She also tells the Fond du Lac Reporter Hopper doesn’t even live in the district as state law requires of lawmakers. Instead, he lives with his 25-year old mistress. 
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The Department of the Treasury today designated nine additional Libyans – including Moammar Gadhafi’s wife and four of his seven sons – who are now subject to U.S. sanctions and the freezing of their assets. The move is partly motivated…
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“‘It seems to me that it was a different person who wrote the texts,’ she said, adding that she despised war and violence…”
Stateside, where insanity defenses seem to be explored quite often in jihad cases, that could have been a multiple-personality claim in the making. An update on this story. “Wife of German terror cell leader gets prison term,” by Andrew Bowen for Deutshe Presse Agentur, March 9 (thanks to Sr. Soph):
A Berlin court on Wednesday sentenced the wife of the leader of a German terrorist cell to two and a half years in prison for supporting terrorist organizations.
The German-Turkish woman was found guilty of collecting up to 2,900 euros ($ 4,000) for terrorist groups such as the Islamic Jihad Union, the German Taliban Mujahedeen and al Qaeda between November 2009 and February 2010.
She was also convicted of publishing propaganda texts on the Internet that solicited members for terrorist groups, charges which she admitted to but distanced herself from in the trial.
“It seems to me that it was a different person who wrote the texts,” she said, adding that she despised war and violence and had not realized her own radicalization.
Federal prosecutors had called for the two-and-a-half year sentence, calling the woman a “fanatical militant” who labeled “infidels” as enemies of Islam and called for their “annihilation.” Her defense attorney called for a suspended sentence, arguing that the woman had sincerely distanced herself from her previous actions.
The defendant’s husband, 29-year-old Fritz Gelowicz, was sentenced to 12 years in prison last March by a court in Dusseldorf for planning terrorist attacks against US targets in Germany.
He was arrested with two others in September 2007 in the Sauerland region in western Germany, after which the group was later named. The men were preparing 410 kilograms of explosives to detonate at the German parliament as it voted on its NATO force in Afghanistan the following month.
“… and I truly wish there would have been some alternative mechanism.” Playing the victim to the end, after one last-ditch attempt to delay the inevitable, as the prosecutor observed, by trying to switch attorneys before sentencing. An update on this story. “Hassan sentenced 25 years to life,” by Emily Lenihan for WIVB, March 9:
BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) – Wednesday morning, Muzzammil Hassan was sentenced in the beheading of his wife Aasiya.
Judge Franczyk sentenced Hassan to 25 years to life behind bars. The judge also granted an order of protection for Hassan’s children, so Hassan must avoid all contact with them.
The prosecutor said his children are so afraid of him (rightly so), they asked for protection. She also noted that Hassan has written a number of letters, expressing regret, but still immediately denying responsibility and claiming victimhood.
Before the sentencing, there Hassan requested a new attorney be allowed to represent him for the sentencing and in the future. Due to delays that would cause to the sentencing, the judge denied the request.
Both sides made brief comments before the judge spoke and sentenced Hassan….
Didn’t get your fill of radio scandals yesterday? Here’s a different one that involves an actor from “The Love Boat” (who went on to represent Iowa as a member of Congress), his wife, and their campaign against radical Islam that they say got them fired from the morning radio program they hosted on a conservative Washington, D.C., radio station.
Fred Grandy, a former Republican member of Congress who starred in the television series “The Love Boat” in the ’70s, told the conservative group Accuracy In Media that he and his wife Catherine Mann-Grandy (known on the show as Mrs. Fred) had used their WMAL program “over the last several months to warn about the spread of radical Islam at home and abroad.”
Grandy said his wife “delivered a very tough indictment against stealth jihad, and for her efforts she was told she was off the show. I then told management without Mrs. Fred at the microphone, I could not remain either and have resigned effective [Thursday] morning.”
So on Tuesday afternoon, “Mrs. Fred” took to the airwaves on Megyn Kelly’s Fox News program to warn that the country will be “lost” if people “don’t wake up soon and applaud” the hearings that Rep. Peter King (R-NY) is holding on Muslim radicalization on Thursday.
“The real problem is that none of us seem to understand there is self-jihad, civilization jihad, going on in our country every single day, 24/7,” Catherine Mann-Grandy said. “This is owned and orchestrated by the Muslim Brotherhood.”
“This is the same Muslim Brotherhood that the President invited to the speech in Cairo, that Denis McDonough, a top security advisor went out to a mosque on Sunday to reach out to the Muslim community before the Peter King hearings and say, ‘we are not blaming you all for a few bad events that have happened,’ like, I guess, Major Nadal Hassan shooting a bunch of people and the Times Square bomber and underpants bomber, and all those things.”
“Those kind of lone wolf things that we try to put together — and media cannot seem to figure out — it’s orchestrated,” Mann-Grandy said. “It’s all orchestrated by the Muslim Brotherhood.”
“If you look at the Holy Land foundation trial, you will find all of the evidence, including a five-stage plan,” Mann-Grandy said. “We’re at three now. You know what that is? It’s coerce the media. The fifth stage is total jihad.”
Video below.
Grady said while he “cannot affirmatively conclude” that the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) or other prominent Islamic organizations had something to do with his firing, he noted that CAIR was “successful in getting midmorning host Michael Graham fired for anti-Islamic statements he had made on the radio and TV” back in 2005.
Slate notes the challenge for Castilla Gingrich and other political mistresses who become political wives:
“Being a successful political wife is hard enough, but the mistress who becomes the wife in full view of voters will never be as good as the one she replaced, if only because popular culture tends to elevate wronged women to sainthood. Pundits and press accounts will inevitably deride the newest wife as a liability, reminding readers exactly how she got there (‘adultery,’ notes a piece in today’s Washington Post on Gingrich’s announcement yesterday that he is considering a run; ‘an extramarital affair,’ explained Sunday’s New York Times). But she still has to show up and clap and smile.”
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Cheri Daniels, the wife of Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels (R), is not sure whether she wants her husband to run for President, reports the Greenfield Daily Reporter.
Indiana’s First Lady wants her family to “consider how a presidential campaign might affect them over the next four to eight years and the impact it could have on the rest of their lives.”
Cheri Daniels, the wife of Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels (R), is not sure whether she wants her husband to run for President, reports the Greenfield Daily Reporter.
Indiana’s First Lady wants her family to “consider how a presidential campaign might affect them over the next four to eight years and the impact it could have on the rest of their lives.”
Cheri Daniels, the wife of Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels (R), is not sure whether she wants her husband to run for President, reports the Greenfield Daily Reporter.
Indiana’s First Lady wants her family to “consider how a presidential campaign might affect them over the next four to eight years and the impact it could have on the rest of their lives.”
Cheri Daniels, the wife of Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels (R), is not sure whether she wants her husband to run for President, reports the Greenfield Daily Reporter.
Indiana’s First Lady wants her family to “consider how a presidential campaign might affect them over the next four to eight years and the impact it could have on the rest of their lives.”
