----- Original Message ----- From: Dave <dkuehne at erols.com> To: The Grip <kirk1 at jps.net> Sent: Monday, November 06, 2000 9:49 AM Subject: [The Grip] Gore Witness Blows Lid Off Wild Night
> Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2000 01:49:26 -0500
> From: Dave <dkuehne at erols.com>
> Subject: Gore Witness Blows Lid Off Wild Night
>
> Source:
> NewsMax.com
> http://www.newsmax.com/
>
> Prompted by Dem Dirty Trick, Gore Witness Blows Lid Off Wild Night
> http://www.newsmax.com/showinsidecover.shtml?a=2000/11/5/120953
>
> Sunday November 5, 2000; 1:00 PM ET
>
> A Tennessee minister, outraged by the 11th-hour release by Democrats of
> Texas Gov. George Bush's 1976 DUI arrest record, has come forward with
his
> firsthand account of a wild night in 1971 that featured sex, booze, guns,
> drugs and presidential candidate Al Gore.
>
> In an e-mail to Nashville talk radio host Phil Valentine Thursday night,
> Pastor Ray Hudson cited an episode where Gore, while a reporter for the
> city's Tennessean newspaper, was assigned to do a story on the Death
> Angels, a notorious local motorcyle gang.
>
> Pastor Hudson, who now ministers to the homeless, was a Death Angels
member
> in good standing at the time - and tipped Valentine that Gore's research
> for the story included spending a night with the gang.
>
> During the hours between dusk and dawn, the vice president got drunk,
> smoked pot, shot a club member's gun and had sex with one of the club's
> girls, the biker-turned-minister contended.
>
> Hudson said that what he saw flies in the face of Gore's family man image
> (Gore had married Tipper 18 months earlier), making his campaign's attempt
> to smear Bush over a DUI ticket even more outrageous.
>
> On Friday, Pastor Hudson went public with his story on Valentine's WLAC
> talk radio show.
>
> VALENTINE: Now, tell me what happened when he came to do the interview
with
> you guys.
>
> HUDSON: Well, he hung around a couple of days and we wanted some good
press
> so we treated him well. He spent one night with us, or a big part of the
> night, partying with us. And during that party he smoked dope with us, he
> drank a lot. We had a door there that had some weird trim up over the
door
> and we took a couple of pot shots at it and...
>
> VALENTINE: With a gun.
>
> HUDSON: With a pistol.
>
> VALENTINE: Al Gore was shooting a gun inside of a home?
>
> HUDSON: Yes. It was an illegal firearm, even back then.
>
> VALENTINE: OK.
>
> HUDSON: And he missed. He's not a straight shooter.
>
> (VALENTINE CHUCKLES)
>
> HUDSON: The reason that I had, you know, contacted you to begin with was
> that, you know, he portrayed himself, as I seen it on the national
> convention, back about that time they showed pictures of him and his
> family, he's been this great family guy, great husband and all of
> that. That night, other than the things I already mentioned, he was given
> one of the club girls there and took her into another room.
>
> VALENTINE: Now, this was in November of 1971. It needs to be noted that
Al
> Gore and Tipper Gore got married May 19th of
> 1970.
>
> HUDSON: Yeah.
>
> VALENTINE: So, he'd been married about a year and a half.
>
> HUDSON: Yeah.
>
> VALENTINE: He gets one of the biker girls and goes to the back room and
has
> his way with her.
>
> HUDSON: Yeah.
>
> VALENTINE: So, this is the Al Gore that is now, his campaign is throwing
> this mud at George W. Bush for getting a DUI in 1976?
> This guy's smokin' dope with a motorcycle gang and going back in the back
> with a biker chick in one of the back rooms?
>
> HUDSON: Yes, well, you know, everybody deserves a blast from the past
> sometimes and this is his. I didn't want to, 'til this DUI came out I had
> thought about it but I said 'naw, I'm just not gonna say anything.' Then
> when this came out about a DUI and making such a big deal out of it on the
> news, I said 'well, I'm gonna, you know, let somebody know about it,
> anyway.'
>
> VALENTINE: By the way, I read the piece he wrote on the Death Angels. It
> is a puff piece.
>
> HUDSON: Oh, yeah. It was great. We loved it. We bought a good article
> there.
>
> VALENTINE: No kidding! All you had to do was supply him with a girl and
> some dope and let him shoot your gun a couple of times and the guy writes
a
> puff piece for you in the Tennessean.
>
> HUDSON: You know, I'm sure we all have some things we have we wish we
> hadn't done. I don't know how he is now. I don't know him now other than
> what I see on TV and some of the stories he tells. But I do know this is
> one incident I know about firsthand.
>
> VALENTINE: And this goes hand-in-hand with what John Warnecke, who was a
> friend at the Tennessean, a fellow reporter, has told us on several
> occasions that has not been reported by the national press.
>
> HUDSON: Well, you know, I think that it's a shame that people try to make
a
> big deal out of something that isn't but then ignore some more serious
> things in the news and it just seems, well, one-sided to me. I think both
> sides need to be heard.
>
> VALENTINE: Well, I would say that smoking dope, shooting an illegal
firearm
> in a house and bedding down with a biker chick when you're married trumps
a
> DUI any day.
>
> Valentine told NewsMax.com Saturday that Gore's Tennessean report on the
> Death Angels includes quotes from two of the motorcycle gang's women.
>
> "As evening passed into morning, Cortez was saying...," Gore wrote,
> revealing that he'd spent at least several of the overnight hours in her
> company.
>
> A recent revelation by Gore himself suggests that he indeed did have a
> taste for the motorcycle gang lifestyle. Just last week he told talk show
> host Queen Latifah that in his younger days he enjoyed playing drinking
> games, riding his own motorcycle and outrunning police.
>
> Since Hudson's revelation on Friday, the mainstream press has ignored the
> story and the Gore campaign has had no comment. But on the campaign
trail,
> Gore allies continue to pound away on the Bush DUI story.
>
> Gore backer former Nebraska Sen. Bob Kerrey engaged in some particularly
> ugly rhetoric Saturday, telling party faithful at a campaign stop:
>
> "[Bush] didn't want to tell us the truth. He said, 'I didn't want to tell
> you the truth because I was concerned about my daughters.' Governor, you
> remind me of that old song of Willie Nelson's - 'Who you gonna believe,
you
> gonna believe me or your lyin' eyes?' Governor, we're gonna believe our
> eyes."
>
> "You're covering your rear end. You're protecting yourself, "Kerrey
> shouted to the crowd.
>
>
>