Nashville Mayor Megan Barry Apologizes for Affair with Former Head of Security: ‘I’m Flawed’
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Nashville Mayor Megan Barry admitted to an affair with a police sergeant who had been assigned to protect her.
“Today, I have acknowledged publicly that I have engaged in an extramarital affair with the former head of my security detail,” she said in a prepared statement. “I accept full responsibility for the pain I have caused my family and his. I am so sorry to my husband Bruce, who has stood by me in my darkest moments and remains committed to our marriage, just as I am committed to repairing the damage I have done.”
The 54-year-old Democrat also apologized to the citizens of Nashville, promising to “work hard to earn your forgiveness and earn back your trust.”
In an interview with The Tennessean on Wednesday afternoon, Barry identified her paramour as 58-year-old Sgt. Robert Forrest Jr., who is also married. She apologized “for the harm I’ve done to the people I love and the people who counted on me.”
The affair between began in the spring or summer of 2016, shortly after she entered office the previous fall, reports The Tennessean.
God will forgive me, but the people of Nashville don’t have to. In the weeks and months to come, I will work hard to earn your forgiveness and earn back your trust. https://t.co/z5tNpBhjrW
— Megan Barry (@MayorMeganBarry) January 31, 2018
“We had an affair, and it was wrong, and we shouldn’t have done it,” Barry said. “He was part of my security detail, and as part of that responsibility, I should have gone to the [police] chief, and I should have said what was going on, and that was a mistake.”
She continued, “People that we admire can also be flawed humans, and I’m flawed, and I’m incredibly sad and sorry for the disappointment that I will see in those little girls’ faces. But, what I hope they can also see is that people make mistakes, and you move on from those.”
Forrest, a 32-year veteran of the police force, according to WKRN, submitted his retirement papers Jan. 17 and served his final day on Wednesday. The mayor said she has no plans to step down.
Barry explained herself to reporters for about 15 minutes Wednesday night at a press conference, telling them she’s embarrassed and sorry.
Though she declined to say when the affair ended, Barry stated it was “over.”
Forrest also apologized in a statement provided by his lawyer, David Raybin, to The Tennessean.
“I deeply regret that my professional relationship with Mayor Barry turned into a personal one,” the statement read. “This has caused great pain for my wife, my family, friends and colleagues. At no time did I ever violate my oath as a police officer or engage in actions that would abuse the public trust.”
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The outlet also reports Forrest accompanied Barry on trips to Paris, Athens, Washington, New York, Denver, Oakland and other cities over the past year. He racked up around $33,000 in travel expenses. He also earned more than $50,000 in overtime in 2017 on top of an $84,500 salary.
During the press conference, Barry said “every single” trip was business-related and that Forrest’s overtime pay matches her “aggressive schedule.”
Metro Councilman Steve Glover said, “If the Metro Budget and Finance Committee needs to look into this, we can look into it and find out if any money was spent properly or improperly.”
“This is a bad day, and there’s going to be more bad days, but this is not my worst day. And I know the difference between a mistake — which is what I made and I fully own — and a tragedy. And this is not a tragedy. And I want to regain the trust of Nashvillians. And I will continue to serve,” she said.
“God will forgive me,” she also tweeted and stated. “But the people of Nashville don’t have to.”
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Poland Tries to Curb Holocaust Speech, and Israel Puts Up a Fight
February 2, 2018 by admin
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The current measure passed the lower house of Parliament on Friday. The move, on the eve of Holocaust Remembrance Day, seemed planned to provoke a reaction.
It got one.
“The law is baseless; I strongly oppose it,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a statement released on Saturday. “One cannot change history, and the Holocaust cannot be denied.”
Yair Lapid, leader of a centrist opposition party in Israel and the son of a Holocaust survivor, wrote on Twitter, “There were Polish death camps and no law can ever change that.”
The Israeli journalist Lahav Harkov wrote a tweet simply repeating “Polish death camps” 14 times.
Poland was invaded and occupied by Germany in 1939, but unlike in neighboring countries, there was no collaborationist government in Warsaw. Roughly three million Polish Jews were killed in the Holocaust, and another three million Polish citizens died.
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Several international organizations have been quick to condemn the law, including Yad Vashem, Israel’s official Holocaust memorial; the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum; and the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles.
The United States has asked Polish officials to rethink plans to enact the bill, arguing that it is a threat to freedom of speech and to Poland’s international relationships.
But even as international condemnation poured in, the Polish Senate, took up the measure for debate late Wednesday. The body, controlled by the governing Law and Justice party, moved swiftly, ignoring all of the opposition’s amendments. The legislation passed 57 to 23, with two abstentions.
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But even some Law and Justice lawmakers thought it was reckless.
“How is it that nobody had foreseen that it was a terrible idea to accept this bill on the eve of the anniversary of International Holocaust Remembrance Day?” Senator Anna Maria Anders, the daughter of a Polish war hero, asked during the debate.
“We could have done it a week, two weeks later,” she said. “And now we have a terrible, terrible international crisis. The crisis is not just in Poland and Israel. The American Congress has begged Poland not to pass this bill. This is so unnecessary. Why didn’t anyone predict that this would be the reaction?”
The deputy justice minister, Patryk Jaki, responded that Poland “could not have predicted this reaction because the Israelis had never expressed any criticism in regard to this bill..”
Donald Tusk, the president of the European Council and a former Polish prime minister, suggested in a Twitter post on Thursday that the Polish government was guilty of the very thing the law was intended to fight.
“Who spreads false accusations about the ‘Polish camps’ damages Poland’s good name and interests,” he wrote. “The authors of this bill have promoted this slander all over the world, and have been successful in it as no one before them.”
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