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Gallagher's family values take hit with revelations
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| Contributor | RP |
| Last Edited | RP Jun 20, 2006 11:53am |
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| Category | Scandal |
| Media | Newspaper - Miami Herald |
| News Date | Tuesday, June 20, 2006 05:40:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Tom Gallagher, the Republican state chief financial officer running for governor on a platform of family values, admitted Monday that he had an extramarital affair that led to his 1979 divorce and said he used marijuana before he was elected to public office "many, many" years ago.
The revelations come as Gallagher courts religious conservatives, who have embraced him, in part, because he is married and has a 7-year-old son. They see him as more of a committed family man than his GOP primary opponent, Attorney General Charlie Crist, who remains single after a divorce in 1980 following seven months of marriage.
The divorce documents, as well as additional court records obtained by The Miami Herald, show that Gallagher's ex-wife, Ann Louise, kicked him out of their Miami home in 1979 when she discovered he had been having a yearlong affair with a Tallahassee legislative aide.
After Ann Louise filed for divorce in 1979, an allegedly intoxicated Gallagher returned to their home and tore a screen off the house, the court documents say. The next day, he returned and took the dog. Ann Louise Gallagher asked a judge for a restraining order.
The apparently sympathetic judge, Milton Rubin, told Tom Gallagher: "You're a public figure. You don't need any adverse publicity." |
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