• February 13, 2012
  • MEANWHILE IN EX-KENTUCKY STATE LEGISLATOR NEWS: “State police have charged former Kentucky GOP lawmaker Steve Nunn with violating a protective order after his former girlfriend was found shot to death in downtown Lexington.” So… Nunn/Santelli ’12? [AP]

{ 53 comments }

SomeNYGuy September 11, 2009 at 2:44 pm

He was under protective order not to shoot her? I thought that goes without saying.

mephistopheles jefferson September 11, 2009 at 2:47 pm

During court testimony in March, Ross alleged that Nunn struck her four times in the face Feb. 17 and threw her against a hallway lamp, breaking it. She said he then threw a cup of bourbon in her face.

But Nunn said Ross blocked his path to prevent him from leaving her apartment.

Nunn said he “struggled” for 20 minutes to reach the stairs. He described Ross as “stocky and strong like a bull” because she worked out with a personal trainer twice a week.

***

Yeeeeah…he’s guilty.

Darkness September 11, 2009 at 2:49 pm

See, this is why we need assisted suicide. Since Nunn didn’t care if he died, why not help him kill himself first and save the lives of anyone unfortunate enough to know the bastard?

SomeNYGuy September 11, 2009 at 2:50 pm

A Nunn with a gun? What fun!

Min September 11, 2009 at 2:51 pm

That AP headline is extremely misleading.

Darkness September 11, 2009 at 2:51 pm

Nunn was found shot in Barren County,…

Nunn has not been charged with the slaying.

Is he dead or not, or injured or what? What a badly written article.

rambone September 11, 2009 at 2:54 pm

If only Meg McCabe had been around to call her publicist, all of this could have been averted.

Brendan M. September 11, 2009 at 2:56 pm

Okay, Nunn acted inappropriately, but Obama provoked him by calling Republicans liars first!

GreatOldOnesParty September 11, 2009 at 2:58 pm

[re=409190]Darkness[/re]: if you follow the links to the “full story” (3 iterations from AP) it plays out like a bad game of “telephone”

shortsshortsshorts September 11, 2009 at 2:58 pm

So all you need to do is get a protective order to shoot somebody? GOD BLESS AMERICA.

9/11 9/11 9/11.

Better American Than You September 11, 2009 at 2:58 pm

News you can use: the neighbor who reported it was Analy Scorsone.

Sounds suspiciously like a California lobbyist to me.

Come here a minute September 11, 2009 at 2:59 pm

He who fucks Nunn will later join the church.

blackdontcrack September 11, 2009 at 2:59 pm

The ex girlfriend was shot dead. then Nunn was found shot, possibly self-inflicted?

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics/AP/story/1228906.html

she was 29. he is much older.

Scarab September 11, 2009 at 2:59 pm

Gee, I wonder if he’s a chubby, white guy with a sense of entitlement?

Death Panel Wagon September 11, 2009 at 3:00 pm

Maybe he killed her to prevent her health care from being rationed/given to illegal messicans?

SayItWithWookies September 11, 2009 at 3:00 pm

He’s never going to get any further up in the Republican party with a crappy attempt at covering his tracks like that.

AbstinenceOnly Ed September 11, 2009 at 3:04 pm

Nunn/11 – Never forget.

Darkness September 11, 2009 at 3:05 pm

[re=409202]GreatOldOnesParty[/re]: Ah, yes, that does help. Thanks.

ambulances were dispatched to Cosby United Methodist Church near the Barren County-Hart County line on LeGrande Highway. The church’s cemetery is where Nunn’s parents, former governor Louie B. Nunn and former first lady Beula Cornelius Nunn, are buried.

Aw, how sweet. Kinda like Voldemort, goin’ to the graveyard where the ‘rents are buried and spilling some blood on the ground.

SomeNYGuy September 11, 2009 at 3:07 pm

Nunn was simply unclear on the rules. Nobody ever told him it was illegal for Republicans to shoot people. It’s a pretty common misconception.

finallyhappy September 11, 2009 at 3:14 pm

off topic- but I have to leave town this weekend so I cannot see the hot teabagger riots in DC. Please make sure Wonkette covers it. Give Riley a Joe Wilson T-shirt and a baseball cap that has an eagle and a flag and make him wear a teabag.

jesusbutter September 11, 2009 at 3:15 pm

[re=409181]mephistopheles jefferson[/re]: it’s amazing how many abusers use this logic, really. My ex said in court there was no way he could have beaten me since I’m two inches taller than he is.
I’m still unclear as to why he was charged with violating an R.O. but not charged with a homicide?

T-thyme September 11, 2009 at 3:17 pm

[re=409221]SomeNYGuy[/re]: Nobody ever told him it was illegal for Republicans to shoot white people.

I think everyone else is still fair game.

slappypaddy September 11, 2009 at 3:20 pm

this is all part of the repub party’s scandal-a-day health initiative. “a scandal a day keeps the reform away.” keeps both the media and the masses distracted, killing two birds with one stone (or two fools with one gun, the metaphor doesn’t matter). too bad real people have to die every time a repub goes apeshit.

SomeNYGuy September 11, 2009 at 3:20 pm

Joe Scarborough is SO MUCH BETTER at this sort of thing.

SomeNYGuy September 11, 2009 at 3:22 pm

[re=409231]T-thyme[/re]: No, no such limits on Republican privilege; they can even shoot each other with impunity. See Cheney, Dick.

Lionel Hutz Esq. September 11, 2009 at 3:24 pm

Nunn didn’t violate the protective order, the bullets did. Why do liberals always blame the gun and the guy using the gun?

the problem child September 11, 2009 at 3:24 pm

[re=409219]AbstinenceOnly Ed[/re]: How topical!

T-thyme September 11, 2009 at 3:26 pm

[re=409236]SomeNYGuy[/re]: See Cheney Dick who?

hobospacejunkie September 11, 2009 at 3:27 pm

[re=409209]Scarab[/re]: Now, now, let’s not jump to conclusions based on a picture of a chubby white guy. Who was “found shot.” After the object of his obsession was found shot dead. I’m sure there’s a perfectly reasonable explanation for all this that doesn’t involve him shooting her and then shooting himself. Although that would explain things pretty well.

Come here a minute September 11, 2009 at 3:27 pm

I want to know if she was really “stocky and strong like a bull”.

T-thyme September 11, 2009 at 3:31 pm

[re=409241]Come here a minute[/re]: She had to be to haul around her awesome lady parts that hung down a good 9 inches.

hobospacejunkie September 11, 2009 at 3:32 pm

[re=409206]Come here a minute[/re]: As for whether this was death or glory, I think we can safely put this in the death column.

JamesMichaelCurley September 11, 2009 at 3:32 pm

[re=409229]jesusbutter[/re]: Most likely an R.O. permits jail now until a hearing. Arrest and jail him on a charge line assault (without more positive evidence of homicide) will allow this GOPerp to out in hours with a halfway decent lawyer and bail bondsman.

queeraselvis v 2.0 September 11, 2009 at 3:32 pm

[re=409181]mephistopheles jefferson[/re]: This sounds like standard Republican foreplay, only without somebody forgot the safe words.

SayItWithWookies September 11, 2009 at 3:33 pm

[re=409240]hobospacejunkie[/re]: Turns out he didn’t shoot himself. Guy had a gun on him, but slit his wrists:

Nunn placed mementos on his parents’ graves, moved several feet away, then cut his wrists, Eaton said….
Eaton said Nunn initially told the sheriff that he had shot himself, but “he does not have a gunshot wound whatsoever,” said Eaton, who rode in an ambulance with Nunn to The Medical Center in Bowling Green.

http://www.kentucky.com/latest_news/story/930998.html

queeraselvis v 2.0 September 11, 2009 at 3:36 pm

[re=409249]queeraselvis v 2.0[/re]: Self-edit, you eejit.

Jim89048 September 11, 2009 at 3:36 pm

“He’s talking and stuff like that.”

Not guilty, obvs.

hobospacejunkie September 11, 2009 at 3:37 pm

[re=409237]Lionel Hutz Esq.[/re]: Guns don’t kill people. People kill guns. From outlaws…Anyway, it’s all there in the letter.

hobospacejunkie September 11, 2009 at 3:39 pm

[re=409250]SayItWithWookies[/re]: Jesus, what a buffoon. A martyr in his own mind.

the problem child September 11, 2009 at 3:43 pm

[re=409250]SayItWithWookies[/re]: This is all just a little too sordid and a lot too sad to be the wonkette weekend thread. Say it ain’t so, wonkette overlords!

the problem child September 11, 2009 at 3:46 pm

[re=409266]the problem child[/re]: And it ain’t. There is now a Potomac piracy or terrursm or something story.

PrairiePossum September 11, 2009 at 3:47 pm

The GOPers get all upset over a few itty bitty death panels, but they are perfectly comfortable allowing asswipes like Nunn walk the streets with all the guns and ammo they want.

McDuff September 11, 2009 at 3:47 pm

[re=409250]SayItWithWookies[/re]: Best part of article — “Nunn disputed Ross’s assertion that he threw her into the lamp. Rather, he said, Ross threw him into lamp and then made him vacuum up the mess.”

I think the reporter’s original sentence ended with “while wearing a diaper and ball gag as she watched in her best leather thigh-high boots, whip in hand.” Damn editors always redline the best stuff.

Better American Than You September 11, 2009 at 3:49 pm

Is it just me or does the photo indicate a rosy, drunkard’s glow? The restraint story indicated that he was a Bourbon-tosser, and you’d have to be quite sauced not to know how lousy you are at self-inflicted shooting.

Death Panel Wagon September 11, 2009 at 3:50 pm

maybe this thread needs an injection of a little mike duvall?

Better American Than You September 11, 2009 at 3:56 pm

[re=409275]Death Panel Wagon[/re]: Steve Nunn + Mike Duvall + Addison Graves Wilson = A triumvirate for our Nova Romanum — or a Romanian Nova.

widget09 September 11, 2009 at 4:32 pm

I think there’s a clause in Kentucky’s laws, that if the man was wearing his wife beater shirt, no charges should be filed.

Come here a minute September 11, 2009 at 5:05 pm

Nice tie.

PsycGirl September 11, 2009 at 5:25 pm

[re=409270]McDuff[/re]: I think this is the best part:
Nunn said Ross offered to let him leave if he let her strike him in the face. She did so, cutting his face with her ring, he said.
When I was single, I was always keeping men trapped in my apartment until they let me strike them in the face. Good times, good times.

One Yield Regular September 11, 2009 at 5:31 pm

[re=409381]Come here a minute[/re]: Nice “You LIE!” gesture, too.

OzoneTom September 11, 2009 at 6:06 pm

Another GOP hope for the future shanghai’d by the Obama Death Squads.

LoweredPeninsula September 12, 2009 at 1:55 am

[re=409340]widget09[/re]: [re=409404]PsycGirl[/re]: There is not much to laugh at in a situation like this, but those got me.

I want to laugh at the story Nunn has given, himself, but I just can’t find any funny in it because it’s so ridiculously sad and incoherent. “stocky and strong like a bull”? Threw him into a lamp and then made him clean it up? Yeah, sick fuck.

gurukalehuru September 13, 2009 at 12:37 pm

I’m guessin our boy Nunn wasn’t gettin’ Nunn.

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