From Raw Story:
A report in this morning’s Roll Call shows that Norm Coleman, Sr., the father of Minnesota Republican Senator Norm Coleman, was arrested after he was caught having sex in public in St. Paul, Minnesota, RAW STORY has learned.
Coleman’s father was arrested for lewd and disorderly conduct after he was found having sex outside a pizzeria with 38-year old Patrizia Marie Schrag. Norm Coleman, Sr., is 81-years old.
Senator Coleman released a statement declaring “I love my father dearly. I do not condone his actions or behavior, and I am deeply disturbed by what I have learned. He clearly has some issues that need to be dealt with, and I will encourage him to seek the necessary help.”
Coleman, Sr., was a constant presence during his son’s 2002 Senate campaign, in which he ran neck and neck with Democrat Paul Wellstone until the incumbent died in a plane crash. A November 3, 2002 article in Minnesota’s Star Tribune reported “Coleman’s father, Norman Sr., travels with his son these days, campaigning. The mayor holds him up as a hero, a veteran of the Normandy invasion and the Battle of the Bulge. “He’s the smartest man I know,” Coleman said.”
They are so good at trying to legislate values into our nation, yet we always hear that them or a member of their immediate family are the first to violate these values. Typical GOP propaganda and any one in the Christian right that believes these people truly live by their words are sadly mistaken.