Mugshot of CA State Sen. Roy Ashburn Sacramento County Sheriff’s Department.
It’s not often you see the NPR loving/Huffington Post types cheering with the Fox News/Drudge Report demographics over a single incident. When Californian State Sen. Roy Ashburn was arrested for a over the limit D.U.I, driving back from a Gay Nightclub, with an unidentified man in the passenger seat of a State Government car, the left grinned with scandal with a R at the end of it’s name.
When the staunch Republicans of Kern County heard of the incident, they took relish in seeing their local representative fall. Still reeling from Ashburn voting for massive tax increases to end the 2008-2009 California budget crisis. Even Bakersfield talk radio station KERN cancelled his ‘Roy Ashburn Show’ and removed his show profile from their website’.
When the left and right both hold hands together and sing Kumbayah, then its called ‘The Ashburn Factor’.
Craig Edwards
Tags: Bakersfield, California, DUI, Kern County, Roy Ashburn, The Ashburn Factor
“Family Values” California state senator representing Kern County, Republican Roy Ashburn (guess how he votes on gay issues?), goes to a gay bar near the Capital, picks up a scantily clad buddy, gets drunk, drives and receives a DUI. In my opinion the Republican Party has been taken over small portions of the republican party of “birthers, baggers and blowhards” (people who love to push their beliefs on others while trying to take away rights of those they just hate) and that’s who they need to extract from their party if they real want to win. Good Luck, because as they said in WACO, “We Ain’t Coming Out”. They are good at “Follow the Leader”. They listen to their dullard leaders Beck, Hedgecock, Hannity, O’Reilly, Rush and Savage and the rest of the Blowhards. The world is complicated and most republicans (Hamiliton, Lincoln, Roosevelt) believe that we should use government a little to increase social mobility, now its about dancing around the claim that government is the problem. The sainted Reagan passed the biggest tax increase in American history and as a result federal employment increased, but facts are lost when mired in mysticism and superstition. Although most republicans are trying to distant themselves from this fringe they have a long way to go. I guess Ashburn is the first on the list “2010 Republican Summer of Love”. Remember last year list of “2009 Republican Summer of Love”: state assemblyman, Michael D. Duvall (CA), Senator John Ensign (NV), Senator Paul Stanley (TN), Governor Mark Stanford (SC), SC Board of Ed Chair, Kristin Maguire (AKA Bridget Keeney). Do I hear Tammy Wynette, “Stand By Your Man” playing in the background? I remember not so long ago that other Orange County song favorite, “Stand By Your Tan” (for Tan Nguyen). But that’s another Orange County fool.