Category: The BruceV Blog

Oh, this is going to be interesting. The National Enquirer, which has a good track record for breaking sex scandal stories (John Edwards, Tiger Woods, Jesse Jackson), has dropped a bomb on GOP presidential contender Ted Cruz.

The Enquirer claims Cruz had affairs with five women, and included their pixilated pictures in the story. Though the Enquirer has not yet named names, the Internet has been doing that work for them. There are now published claims that one of the women is current Donald Trump spokesperson, Katrina Pierson, and another is a former Carly Fiorina staffer.

Twitter and other media outlets are jumping on the story. Conclusions are no doubt being jumped to, but this is a lot of smoke for there to be no fire. And the political ramifications are potentially huge. If this story is true, Cruz will have to drop out of the race and go home to “spend time with his family,” leaving a nice bundle of delegates without a candidate. Does this bring Marco Rubio back into the race? Or the Mittster? Or does Kasich now become the great establishment Republican hope?

Here’s a good run-down of events, so far..

Andy Holt

Rootin’, tootin’, hog-farmin’, muslim hatin’, militia lovin‘ State Rep. Andy Holt has done throwed down the gauntlet to President Obama about the president’s executive orders on gun control. It’s a long, tough-talkin’ diatribe, but the gist is pretty simple: “Come to Tennessee and try to take our guns and see what happens, you big pussy.”

Below is the full text of Holt’s letter, complete with a lovely molon labe hashtag.

Tennessee State Representative Andy Holt caused quite a stir yesterday by tweeting his support for the armed takeover of a federal facility in Oregon by protesters led by the sons of Cliven Bundy.

Holt has since deleted the tweet, but not before it started a firestorm of angry responses. Holt’s Twitter feed is full of his repartee with “liberals” and others who don’t understand the Constitution as well as he does.

Holt’s subsequent tweets compare the armed occupation in Oregon to protests of police shootings in Baltimore and Ferguson, Missouri. Then, bizarrely, he insulted a gay Chattanooga city councilman named Chris Anderson, who tweeted criticism of Holt. Holt called him, “girlfriend,” then even more bizarrely, invited him to lunch.

Holt has garnered a reputation as an outspoken Tea Party-type Republican, and is notably the sponsor of Tennessee’s “Ag-Gag” bill, which would prohibit whistle-blowers from reporting on livestock abuse. Holt is also, notably, a hog farmer.

If you were a Griz fan watching the Grizzlies take on the Warriors in Game One of their playoff series, Sunday, you were no doubt amused by Tony Allen’s spaced-out walk through the middle of a children’s dance routine during a timeout.

Suffice to say, Griz fans loved it. It was the most Tony Allen thing ever. (Warriors fans, on the other hand, hated it and booed Allen’s every move thereafter.) In fact, Griz fans loved it so much that they created a hashtag on Twitter — #TonyAllenWalkingThroughThings — and let their creativity run wild. Here are a few of their better efforts:

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