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left-of-center2012

(34,195 posts)
Tue Jun 26, 2018, 01:10 PM Jun 2018

Mayor and his husband had a bloody brawl -- over who was drunker ...

Mayor and his husband had a bloody brawl — over who was drunker at a pride parade

At first, Elmwood Place Mayor William Wilson and his husband William Smith argued about when they should leave the Cincinnati Pride Parade and Festival, police told WCPO. A woman who attended the parade with the couple wanted to leave early, police say, but Wilson and Smith couldn't agree on when they should head out.

That unidentified woman said she eventually got into a car with the pair, police told ABC13, but she exited the vehicle after Smith struck Wilson. She told police that Wilson and Smith were debating about who was drunker and who should drive home.

Wilson called police to his house at 8 p.m. that evening, according to WCPO. Officers say they found the mayor with a swollen shut eye — and Smith with a bloody face and bloody elbow. According to police, Smith also had glass shards on his back that "appeared to be the result of being smacked in the back with a picture frame."

There was evidence that both men sustained injuries from rolling on broken glass as they fought, police told Fox19. A police report indicates that broken glass was strewn about the couple's house.

Full story at:
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/national/article213837559.html



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Mayor and his husband had a bloody brawl -- over who was drunker ... (Original Post) left-of-center2012 Jun 2018 OP
Idiots. Vinca Jun 2018 #1
Why promote Fox 19? saidsimplesimon Jun 2018 #2
What is "Fox 19"? TIA nt NCTraveler Jun 2018 #4
No clue, mentioned in the OP saidsimplesimon Jun 2018 #6
FOX 19 SoCalNative Jun 2018 #8
thanks for the clarification saidsimplesimon Jun 2018 #9
The article is from the Miami Herald left-of-center2012 Jun 2018 #10
The guy on the right appears to be strangely satisfied. nt NCTraveler Jun 2018 #3
I am happy that Ellwood elected a gay mayor and treestar Jun 2018 #5
Well within their population zipplewrath Jun 2018 #13
Our former mayor and his son had a bloody brawl in the middle of our Main Street! bettyellen Jun 2018 #7
I am not sure this is clear...The father got the son's girfriend pregant? Stuart G Jun 2018 #11
Al true, except that I have no idea what happened to the woman. The mayor remained married bettyellen Jun 2018 #14
Thank you for the follow up. And it really proves an idea...Some true things are so way out that Stuart G Jun 2018 #15
Soap opera material there. treestar Jun 2018 #17
Damned fools. nt Blue_true Jun 2018 #12
Ah, alcohol. Codeine Jun 2018 #16

saidsimplesimon

(7,888 posts)
6. No clue, mentioned in the OP
Tue Jun 26, 2018, 01:31 PM
Jun 2018

If the source is faux news, I am not interested in promoting. Sorry, TIA, brain fart, lol....

SoCalNative

(4,613 posts)
8. FOX 19
Tue Jun 26, 2018, 01:42 PM
Jun 2018

is a local Fox Broadcasting company affiliate serving Cincinnati and parts of Kentucky. Not part of Faux News cable news

treestar

(82,383 posts)
5. I am happy that Ellwood elected a gay mayor and
Tue Jun 26, 2018, 01:24 PM
Jun 2018

that is a good thing, but then this particular couple proves equality in that gay couples can also end up with domestic violence going on, which though a negative, shows that they are indeed no different from straight couples. Then again, I am pleased that both were concerned about DUI and drunken driving and sought to have the least drunk member of the couple drive, and the disagreement was about that. The woman is an interesting character; was she sober? She could have driven in that case.

zipplewrath

(16,646 posts)
13. Well within their population
Tue Jun 26, 2018, 02:23 PM
Jun 2018

Spouse works in a domestic violence program. The population of gay people coming in for services is about aligned with their local percentage of the population. Domestic Violence knows no boundaries.

 

bettyellen

(47,209 posts)
7. Our former mayor and his son had a bloody brawl in the middle of our Main Street!
Tue Jun 26, 2018, 01:35 PM
Jun 2018

He’d gotten his sons girlfriend pregnant, after getting her a “job” at City Hall. Mayor was sporting a shiner for a while after that. His son has forgiven him and is sadly, my councilman.

Stuart G

(38,458 posts)
11. I am not sure this is clear...The father got the son's girfriend pregant?
Tue Jun 26, 2018, 01:54 PM
Jun 2018

That is .....the girl's child is the former mayor's child. and is the son still seeing the so called girlfriend?
Now......this is not made up. This really happened. Not to question your truth telling, but that is an amazing story that could be made into some kind of movie....thanks for this one.

 

bettyellen

(47,209 posts)
14. Al true, except that I have no idea what happened to the woman. The mayor remained married
Tue Jun 26, 2018, 02:24 PM
Jun 2018

And the son has a wife and kids- I imagine with someone else now? The father was a corrupt piece of shit who greenlit an extraordinary amount of development and pocketed bribes, while his wife got brokers fees for thousands of apartments being sold, while both lived in very nice subsidized housing.
The mayor later went to jail, got brain cancer, and somehow has survived all of it, 25 years later. (He also followed me home and threatened my building might burn down if I didn’t take a job with him). The funny thing was that the fight was literally the middle of a very busy intersection where the all night Daily News store was and everyone was talking about it the next day. And the town had a big event a day or two later where they’d do a practice blow up of the Macy’s balloons on a football field in town... and there he is, sporting a huge shiner! Shameless people. But yeah, I’ve never heard what happened to the woman and kid.

Stuart G

(38,458 posts)
15. Thank you for the follow up. And it really proves an idea...Some true things are so way out that
Tue Jun 26, 2018, 03:49 PM
Jun 2018

they seem like they couldn't be true. ........... BUT THEY ARE TRUE...LOOK AT TRUMP?..!!!!!
..........But, after watching some of the nonsense in this country for a long time I have come to this conclusion:
If you can think of it, and it is way out there, then it could happen in a country of 320 million people with what is probably the most diverse population ever imagined. and ..by diverse I mean all kinds of diversity...
...a movie was named.."The Good, The Bad and The Ugly"

..........this is more diversity than that. Let us add, smart, very smart, stupid, very stupid, kind, mean, people who just hate, people who would never hate....People who go out of their way to help others, people who do the opposite ...go out of their way to hurt others..It varies how they learn these views. Sometimes we don't know, other times these ideas come from their parents, or family, or friends, or media, or they just thought of these ideas themselves. Most times, what happens is totally indifferent. Hurts no on, helps no one.......

Can I add one more idea?...When you think you have heard it all, there is a new twist that changes it all to something new....So, in literature..they call it "variation on a theme"...and your story is just to show in that population of 320 million (I think 3rd in world population)...we got them all....

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