Scott DesJarlais Hit With Ethics Complaint For Sex With Patient

[DonRedwood]

Source: Huff Po

WASHINGTON -- The anti-abortion Tennessee congressman and doctor who admitted last week to an affair with a patient was hit with an ethics complaint Monday.

The Huffington Post revealed the relationship between Republican Rep. Scott DesJarlais and the patient last week, printing details from a transcript of a phone call from 2000 in which he pressured the woman to get an abortion.

Desjarlais admitted to the x-rated doctor-patient romps in an email to supporters, but denied the woman had gotten pregnant, in spite of a long conversation in which the two bicker over whether or not he should accompany her to an abortion clinic in Atlanta. The woman would have been about four months pregnant at the time, according to the email DesJarlais sent defending his actions in the affair.

DesJarlais, who now casts himself as a family-values Republican, also said the relationship was entirely consensual and that he had an open relationship with his then-wife, Susan. The two had been trying to fix their faltering marriage at the time, according to court records, and the reconciliation collapsed shortly after the abortion discussion was recorded. A judge declared DesJarlais' indiscretions had started the marriage down the path to dissolution, beginning in 1998 when his wife alleged improper marital conduct by her spouse. DesJarlais admitted to four affairs in court papers.

Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/15/scott-desjarlais-ethics-complaint_n_1967184.html

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This is one RED seat that I hope turns BLUE!!!

How can the people of Tennessee vote for a man like DesJarlais?!

[Betsy Ross]

1. I find these right-wingers so disgusting

I can't image having an affair with one.

[Angry Dragon]

2. Satan is strong in this man

[antigone382]

3. You would think so, but a news report last week just absolutely disgusted me.

(FYI, this guy is currently my "representative" though I shudder to call him that)

They interviewed a couple of women at what looked to me like the Kimball Wal-Mart shopping complex (granted, this is one of the more right-wing corners of a district that has elected a lot of blue dogs), and they were falling all over themselves to talk about "mistakes" and "forgiveness" and a whole bunch of rubbish. They would literally vote for a man they consider by their own definitions to be a murderer, so long as he has an "R" by his name.

Of course my hope is the report, coming out of a Chattanooga news station, was heavily biased, and that the rest of the district isn't so blind.

[DonRedwood]

5. wow... he's your rep!?

That's gotta hurt. Is he a shoe in or is there a chance he could lose?

[antigone382]

6. Well, I'm not in the state at present so I haven't been following the news too closely.

DesJarlais has about five times the amount of money that Stewart has. Stewart got elected easily to a state level position, and he's pretty popular among the people I hang around with. I actually had a bad experience with him as a lawyer for one of my family members (but he sure never pressured any of them to have an abortion while he cheated on his wife!); as an elected official he is pretty progressive for Tennessee, and I would like to see him at the national level.

[antigone382]

30. I actually need to apologize to Eric Stewart.

He never did anything to my family and he's not a lawyer. That is a different Stewart from Winchester. Now I get to vote for him without feeling any sense of division at all.

[MrSlayer]

4. Who is fucking this guy?

Christ, some people are incredibly hard up.

[SunSeeker]

7. Repulsive, in every sense of the word.

[skeewee08]

8. Gross...

[Skittles]

9. someone had sex with that?

[DonRedwood]

12. three throw-ups in a row!

Is there an award for that? I'll make it four...

[DollarBillHines]

16. I was going to reply along those lines...

but I did not want to appear "catty".

Thanks for doing it for me, Skittles.
DBH

[Wednesdays]

18. Well, he's a doctor... and probably has lotsa money

You know what's important in Repuke land.

[Skittles]

19. YOU COULD NOT PAY ME ENOUGH

SERIOUSLY

[wordpix]

20. me, neither! As my girlfriend says about dating men, "As long as he's not repulsive..."

This guy IS

[TheMadMonk]

10. Bloke is obviously a toad. However, an ankle injury is not...

...in the same class as the sort of life or death illness or injury (or psych issue) which an exploitative doctor might use to take over a patient's life.

It's still technically an ethics violation, but not a career ending one, or even one that warrants a suspension of his licence to practice.

There's still plenty about the relationship to provide reason to put the boot to the "good doctor", but the actual fact of the relationship is not really amongst them.

[Lars39]

31. Of course he needs to be investigated and suspended if allegations are true...

Coercing sex for payment of medical bill is a possibility.

[Odin2005]

11. I doublt the "conseual" part.

Who would want to have sex with that THING???

[DonRedwood]

13. He admitted to FOUR affairs....

though I don't know if they were all his patients.

[louis-t]

26. Or if they were all human....

[southernyankeebelle]

14. He is a bagger. I didn't vote for him in the first place. I never vote repub. This guy Stewart

that is running against him came to our area along with other for different offices and he and another repub didn't come. They made excuses. Scheduling problems. Right? Liar. I'll be voting for Stewart. Pretty good dem.

[meow2u3]

15. DesJarlais' "pro-life" views summed up on one sentence

Life begins at conception, unless it's that of your mistress.

[AnotherDreamWeaver]

17. Did he give them some kind of drug to have sex with them?

Like, did he put them near coma first?

[wordpix]

21. "did he put them near coma?" He's a doc, not hard to imagine

[Uncle Joe]

22. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, DonRedwood.

[southerncrone]

23. IMHO, he should loose his medical license.

What a slime ball.

He is one of the 2008 Tea Baggers......ya gotta love 'um.

I believe he can be beaten. This district is very rural & largely agricultural. They don't like this kind of activity. It is also quite religious, so all that "forgiveness" stuff might sell, or might not. These are mortal sins in the eyes of many there. His oponent has deep family roots in the district which should help us. However, he is rather young, which could work against us.
( I lived in two different towns in the district in the past, but live in another TN district now.)

This is also the district where in 2008 the incumbent (Lincoln Davis--blue dog) was not allowed to vote because of the voter purge. He made a big stink over it, but it was too late.

Here is our candidate: http://www.votestewart.com/home

[Blue_Tires]

28. definitely...

if there's one, there are probably others...

[crim son]

24. Four women agreed to sleep with this man?

:shudder:

[southerncrone]

25. Probably bartering for medical care cuz of lack of insurance.

Or they were drugged by him? There are some pathetic women out there who will do anything for attention. Plus he is a medical doctor, so he has some money & the prescription pad......

[crim son]

27. No doubt you're right.

I think I'd rather just live with my illness...

[southerncrone]

29. Me, too!