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This guy is a piece of work. A Tennessee State Representative, DEMOCRAT, gets caught driving drunk (makes a complete fool of himself during the arrest), and again with his pants down, having an affair with a lobbyist. So what does he do? Cry and complain on the floor of the House, threatens the press (and 'those things called "blogs"'), with sanctions if we can't behave. From Kleinheider's new digs...

“The right to a free and open press though comes with a responsibility, and from my experience over the past year, that responsibility is not being lived up to,” Briley (D-Nashville) said from the main House podium.

“We used to talk about the politics of personal destruction. Well that’s no longer what’s going on. It’s the publishing of personal destruction, and we owe it to ourselves to do better than that. We owe it to the rest of our society to do better than that.”

….Briley said that government needs to be “as open as possible.”

“But the press needs to understand that if they’re not responsible with that information, that they’re not going to have access to it anymore,” Briley said.

What a flaming anal pore!

This guy should never have been elected in the first place. A scion of Beverly Briley (Metro Nashville's first mayor), Rob must have thought that last name would shield him from scrutiny and give him more free rein than an 'ordinary' Rep should have.

He's gone, now, resigned.

Let's hope his political future stays as dim as his reasoning.

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h/t Insty

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