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Related: About this forumVirginia. Only in Virginia.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2015/05/21/a-relationship-first-denied-then-confirmed-antebellum-style/Lets dissect this, shall we?
To the right stands former Virginia delegate Joe Morrissey, 57, a Democrat running for a Virginia state Senate seat as an Independent after Democratic Party officials rejected his attempt to seek office. Joining Morrissey are his 19-year-old receptionist, Myrna Pride, and their 9-week-old son Chase, a child Morrissey publicly acknowledged as his son for the first time Wednesday.
The image shows Morrissey, who is white, and Pride, who is black, in what some reporters have described as period dress without mention of the fact that said period would appear to be the antebellum South or that said photo was taken in Virginia Beach, a city that sits about two hours from Richmond, the onetime capital of the Confederacy.
The picture also depicts Pride seated with Chase in her arms, gazing up at Morrissey. Morrissey returns Prides gaze from several feet above, with a hand planted firmly on Prides shoulder.
While a biracial family's antebellum-themed photo may raise eyebrows under any circumstances, this one carries additional meaning. On Wednesday, Morrissey told a Richmond radio show audience that Chase was conceived when Pride was 18. Last year, Morrissey pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of contributing to the delinquency of a minor in connection with his relationship with Pride while she was 17 but denied the original charges. Prosecutors initially charged Morrissey with multiple felonies, alleging that he had sex with Pride while a minor and shared nude photos of her.
In December, Morrissey agreed to a plea deal on a misdemeanor charge in which he admitted no guilt and avoided conviction on the felony charges.
He agreed to serve a six-month jail term that was reduced to a 90-day work-release sentence. Morrissey resigned from the House as a Democrat and later declared himself an independent candidate for his old seat. After easily winning back his seat, he left office this year to run for state Senate.
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Virginia. Only in Virginia. (Original Post)
kwassa
May 2015
OP
This photo is so cringe-worthy that the first time I saw it I simply couldn't believe
Nay
May 2015
#3
arcane1
(38,613 posts)1. I left Virginia for California, expecting it to be the weird place.
I don't know WTF this is.
JustAnotherGen
(31,879 posts)2. No words on this - wait
No.
Just -
There is ten kinds of f*cked up in everything about this story.
Nay
(12,051 posts)3. This photo is so cringe-worthy that the first time I saw it I simply couldn't believe
it really existed. Morrissey has always been an asshole and a showboater (yeah, I live in VA ), but this thing seems too horrible even for him. God help that poor baby. I hope Mom is a good mom, because dad is a real piece of work.
Number23
(24,544 posts)4. That girl has no idea what she's signed herself up for. And by the time she's figured it out, she'll
curse her younger self.
That man is ten types of crazy and fifty types of clueless.
JustAnotherGen
(31,879 posts)5. I co-sign this post
Didn't explain it to The Gio - just showed him the pic.
Two raised eyebrows and an - okaaaaaay.