The Congressman Taylor sex rumors you never heard about.

[brainshrub]

Below is a 1997 court document where the plaintiff alleges, among other things, that Charles Taylor (R) of NC District 11 watched one of the managers of his bank have sex with her.

Not knowing what to make of this, I confirmed that the amended complaint was real and even interviewed the plaintiff, Janet S. Guthrie.

What's interesting to me isn't the allegations of sexual misconduct. After all, this amended complaint was denied and the original complaint was dismissed. Anybody can sue anyone for anything - so a court document in-and-of-itself proves nothing.

No, what is interesting is the absence of media attention on this case when it was going through the courts nine years ago.

So, for the public record, I'm simply going to post the court documents here today and you can come to your own conclusions.

Original post with more details here.

[BOSSHOG]

1. Knock me over with your subject line

My Congressman is Gene Taylor (D) Mississippi.

I am just so incredibly impressed with republican family values.

[ncrainbowgrrl]

7. I know- I immediately thought of Gene Taylor and gulped hard.

He's (Gene) not as progressive as I'd like, but he's one heck of a speaker when he gets going.

[DURHAM D]

2. Good God - what a pig.

Why was it dismissed ?

[brainshrub]

3. My understanding is that she waited to long to bring charges.

Also, ultimately it was a "my word against yours" case.

I'm hesitant to say more because I'm not a lawyer. I have the docs, but I'm fearful that I will misread them.

[Doctor_J]

4. Imagine if this were a Dem

Rush, Sean, Bill, Laura, G, Ollie, Tweety, Andy, 24/7 innuendo and slander. As it is, ...nothing

[KoKo]

5. Have you posted this in the NC Forum?

This is very creepy.... Someone there might know something.

[Generic Brad]

6. What a Chauncy Gardener!

He likes to watch. Ewwww. That poor woman.

[KoKo]

8. kick.........

[MrCoffee]

9. Hold on a minute...the Complaint was dismissed...that means

that the Plaintiff couldn't even produce enough evidence to show that, with the benefit of the doubt, her story was even remotely true.

Why should this get press? If someone makes up some story and can't produce enough evidence to back it up on the lowest possible evidentiary standard, that means it was worthless to begin with.