The more things change the more they stay the same.
From Canada's premier national daily newspaper, the Globe and Mail.
Greg Davis, the Republican mayor of Southaven, Miss. was caught when state auditors requested receipts to explain 170 K in unaccounted expenses. The public only found out after 'The Commercial Appeal' (a Memphis TN newspaper) filed FOIA requests.
According to The Commercial Appeal, a newspaper in Memphis, Tenn., the receipts include thousands of dollars in liquor and lavish dinners, as well as a $67 charge at a store called Priape, which bills itself as “Canada’s premiere gay lifestyle store and sex shop.”
Hmm, Priape....derived from the word priapism perhaps. Thats when you have an erection lasting >4 hours as we've all been warned about in those viagra TV commercials. It originally derives from Priapus, a minor rustic Greek fertility god who is reported to have had a permanent oversized erection. In all, a pretty good and fairly obvious name for a gay mens sex shop.
Mr. Davis ran as a conservative, family values candidate in an unsuccessful bid for Congress in 2008. He has a wife of 19 years, Suzann, and three young daughters, who are all active members of Heartland Baptist Church, according to the city’s website.
Family values!
there's really nothing to add here. He doth protest too much.
“At this point in my life and in my career, while I have tried to maintain separation between my personal and public life, it is obvious that this can no longer remain the case,” Mr. Davis told the newspaper in an interview on Thursday afternoon from his Southaven home. “While I have performed my job as mayor, in my opinion, as a very conservative, progressive individual – and still continue to be a very conservative individual – I think that it is important that I discuss the struggles I have had over the last few years when I came to the realization that I am gay.”
I think it's cool that he is admitting his sexuality. This will be a hard time for him. But, if he weathers the immediate storm, he may actually be a better and happier person in the future.