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MindPilot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-02-06 12:19 PM
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Yet another "family values" republican: bigamy & abuse

Republican Jim Galley, who is running for Congress as a “pro-traditional family” candidate, was married to two women at the same time, defaulted on his child support payments and has been accused of abuse by one of his ex-wives.

The San Diego Union-Tribune discovered the personal history in making public-records checks on Galley, who is making his fourth run for elective office in four years. These checks are part of the newspaper's election reporting process.

Galley married his second wife, Beth, in 1982 when, unbeknownst to her, he was still married to his first wife, Terry. Beth and Galley divorced in 1990 after she sought a restraining order alleging abuse.

full story at: http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/politics/20060602-9999-7m2galley.html
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One_of_8 Donating Member (289 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-02-06 12:24 PM
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1. Did you get a gander at this guy?
Very creepy looking. Sounds like a real piece of work.
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MindPilot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-02-06 12:30 PM
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3. Yeah he really does look like the uncle you don't let your kids near. eom
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central scrutinizer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-02-06 02:40 PM
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24. I'll drink to that
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Sarah Ibarruri Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-02-06 09:51 PM
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38. ewwwwwwwwwwww! Scary GOPer!
by the way, his e-mail is jim@jimgalley.com
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Initech Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-02-06 12:26 PM
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2. What the hell is pro-family exactly?
I've never, NEVER, been able to figure this one out!
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Tony_Illinois Donating Member (590 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-02-06 12:36 PM
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6. Apparently, it means loving family life so much, just one is not enough
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Doctor_J Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-02-06 01:24 PM
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14. That's Limpballs' and Gingrinch's "pro-marriage" stance
they believe so strongly in one-man, one-woman marriage that

1. they've each had three, and
2. They're able to comment expertly on the CLintons'
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louis-t Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-02-06 01:53 PM
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18. pro-family =
one is good, two is better.
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Mountainman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-02-06 02:25 PM
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21. Pro family is a line of horse shit used sell fundies and freepers on the
idea of voting for you.
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Initech Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-02-06 03:12 PM
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28. That seems about right!
Of course, Freeperville - where logic takes a holiday and science is irrelevant!
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Raksha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-02-06 04:26 PM
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34. I think you nailed it! n/t
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chelsea0011 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-02-06 03:42 PM
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30. It's a lot like pro food.
Repukes love to hijack meaningless terms to use against a group. It seems to me the term became popular when schools began to become inclusive towards gays, whether it was by formation of school groups or teachings in the classrooms.
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Ian David Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-02-06 12:34 PM
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4. Interesting looking dude...
Edited on Fri Jun-02-06 12:34 PM by IanDB1
John Holmes


Plus


John Cleese

Equals


Jim Galley
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MindPilot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-02-06 01:11 PM
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11. Very nice IanDB1!! My g/f had this to say about that:
"John Holmes and John Cleese?? That combo's too cool for this nimrod." :toast:
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FuzzyDicePHL Donating Member (698 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-02-06 02:10 PM
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19. Can't find a pic, but
Edited on Fri Jun-02-06 02:14 PM by FuzzyDicePHL
he reminded me of the guy who played Robbie, Ruth's coworker at the flower shop, in "Six Feet Under."

Edited to add that they guy's name is Joel Brooks.
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Maestro Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-03-06 12:36 PM
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42. OMG!
I don't know how you saw that! Actually, let's take Cleese out of it. He simply looks like a creepier and older John Holmes.
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Lars39 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-02-06 12:36 PM
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5. Well, he's proven he can't keep track of legal details.
The Dem *should* be a shoe-in.
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MindPilot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-02-06 12:51 PM
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9. The "didn't know I was still married" excuse reminds me of
the guy on COPS who can't explain to the officer who owns the vehicle he's driving.
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987654321 Donating Member (341 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-02-06 12:42 PM
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7. He values families!
So much so that he had to have more than one at the same time!
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Rose Siding Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-02-06 12:51 PM
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8. Ha! He's endorsed by Bilbray who's running in the Fightin' Fiftieth
Edited on Fri Jun-02-06 12:51 PM by Rose Siding
:rofl:
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Mist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-02-06 01:06 PM
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10. It's like a "V-8 Juice moment" : (slaps head):"Wow! That's right!
I'm already married!" He looks creepy, all right, like one of those people who hold it all in until, one day, they don't.
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yellowcanine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-02-06 01:13 PM
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12. Failure to pay child support also. It is a good thing he is a member of
the "responsibility party" otherwise we might think he is irresponsible for marrying two women at the same time and not paying child support.:sarcasm:
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Doctor_J Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-02-06 01:22 PM
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13. If he were running in IL against a Dem, the Trib would still endorse him
In 2000 they went through 3 paragraphs of contrasts between Gore and Smirk, giving the edge to Gore in almost all categories, then endorsed * anyway.
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MindPilot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-02-06 03:12 PM
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29. The San Diego Union-Tribune did the same thing
Article after article on how badly BushCo had screwed everything up, but endorsed him anyway.
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wordpix Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-02-06 01:33 PM
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15. "I thought I was divorced but whoops, I was still married to #1 when I
Edited on Fri Jun-02-06 01:34 PM by wordpix
married #2." :crazy: If you're a repuke, you might actually believe this liar.

snip: Galley said the contemporaneous marriages were a mistake because he thought his first divorce had been completed. He said the child support default was only for a few months and that the abuse allegation was made only to get him out of the house. :crazy:

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ElboRuum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-02-06 01:50 PM
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16. He IS a pro-traditional family candidate...
You know, from back in the day where women were encouraged to make their marriages "work" rather than report abuse.
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Ganja Ninja Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-02-06 01:51 PM
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17. Two divorces too.
tisk tisk tisk!
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monarch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-02-06 02:20 PM
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20. Hope this provides an incentive for
newspapers do similar checks on local candidates. Unfortunately, they'll probably only check the records of Democrats, and, when they find nothing incriminating, they'll do an article explaining why they couldn't find anything even though they're just sure that the candidate must be hiding something.
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lolly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-02-06 02:25 PM
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22. Well, yeah. Duh.
Wasn't that the essence of the entire "Clinton Scandals" playbook?

If we spend 75 million dollars and find nothing, it just means he's such a good criminal that he MANAGED TO HIDE EVERYTHING FROM US SO WELL THAT WE COULDN'T FIND IT!

So that makes him even worse!
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MADem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-02-06 02:27 PM
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23. "Big Love" Jim!!! Star of "I Wed THREE Wives!!!"
So this is 'traditional family values?' WHO KNEW???



Creepy looking little pecker!!!

Gotta love the way they claim ignorance...I mean, come on, how can one not know one is not divorced?? He marries wife number two EIGHT YEARS before he divorces wife number one, and then tries to play dumb?

And this bit is hysterical!!!

Galley is married to his third wife, Carol.




But the best bit, buried in the piece, is his 'war hero' Vietnam bullshit--he's clearly trying to paint himself as a veteran in that theater:

During interviews, Galley has touted his military service as an advantage over other candidates in the congressional race, saying he was drafted by the Navy during the Vietnam War. His Web site states, “I was drafted it (sic) to the Navy, serviced my time,” and then later joined the Army.

Galley's military records, obtained by the Union-Tribune through a Freedom of Information Act request, show he started his Navy service April 29, 1974, and was discharged less than six weeks later, while in “recruit training.”


Hell, boy scouts endure more hardship!

The whole article is a laugh-riot!
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LSK Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-02-06 02:42 PM
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25. Franken just mentioned it on his show
Which was on CSPAN today. :bounce:
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pacalo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-02-06 02:46 PM
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26. The "family values/strong military" geek puffed up his military record,too
Galley has touted his military service as an advantage over other candidates in the congressional race, saying he was drafted by the Navy during the Vietnam War. His Web site states, “I was drafted it (sic) to the Navy, serviced my time,” and then later joined the Army.

Galley's military records, obtained by the Union-Tribune through a Freedom of Information Act request, show he started his Navy service April 29, 1974, and was discharged less than six weeks later, while in “recruit training.”

Navy spokesman Lt. William Marks said the Navy stopped the draft July 1, 1973, nine months before Galley started his Navy service.

When asked about the discrepancy, Galley insisted that he was drafted, saying he was notified partway through training camp that the Navy had a “reduction in force” and no longer needed him.


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MindPilot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-02-06 03:09 PM
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27. I could be wrong, but I was always under the impression that
the Vietnam-era draft only took people into the Army; Navy, Air Force and Marines had already gone all-volunteer. I joined the Navy to avoid being drafted into the Army.

And yes there was a personnel cut-down after the peace treaty was signed in May, 1973, but I really think this guy is streeeeeeeeeetching the truth--a lot.
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The Wizard Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-02-06 04:09 PM
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32. the Marines
also drafted, but not nearly in the numbers the Army did. I have a couple of buddies who were drafted into the Marines.
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BrklynLiberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-02-06 03:58 PM
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31. This idiot deservs to be kicked in the butt
:kick:
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ktowntennesseedem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-02-06 04:17 PM
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33. Thank God he didn't accept free tickets to boxing matches!!!
Then he'd really be in trouble!!!
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redqueen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-02-06 04:31 PM
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35. How do republican voters get so gullible?
How in the world do they buy this crap over and over again?

Idiots.
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RedEarth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-02-06 04:47 PM
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36. lol......
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NativeTexan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-02-06 05:10 PM
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37. Those ARE "pro-traditional right-wing" family values!!!
Conservative just doesn't mean what it used to.....

Of course then you have the child molesters in their midst.

GOP=Good Ole Pedophiles...these days!!
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MaraJade Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-03-06 12:16 AM
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39. Nothing new. . .Randall Terry, the Operation Rescue nutter
cheated on his wife and failed to pay child support.

Imagine that! Brutally against abortion, but also brutally against supporting the children
he sired. So very typical of the misogynist culture of the Right Wing.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randall_Terry

So it isn't at all surprising that this Galley also had no respect for women or children.

Those qualities seem to be typical of Wingnuts.
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orleans Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-03-06 02:26 AM
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40. my god! don't these freakin people make us all so fucking sick?
aren't we sick to death of all their hypocritical bullshit???

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E-Z-B Donating Member (438 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-03-06 10:25 AM
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41. I smell a candidate on next week's Top Ten Conservative Idiots' list
As next week's "family values" star.
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ComerPerro Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-03-06 12:44 PM
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43. Guy looks like a sexual predator. And his website is really amateurish
is this the FReeper who is running for congress?
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