Talk:Victor Ashe
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--A. B. 23:50, 5 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] "Alleged homosexual"
Kelly's assertion that Ashe is homosexual is already cited in the main body of this article and does not need to be restated in the summary. I don't think it is especially relevant to his performance as Mayor of Knoxville or Ambassador to Poland and therefore should not go in the summary. If some editor wants to add more to the summary, I would think Ashe's former state legislative experience or his U.S. Senate race against Gore would be more central to a description of his career than a discussion of Ashe's personal reproductive choices. This is especially true since the homosexuality stuff does not seem to have been picked up in any major media outlet, just Kelly's highly controversial book.
The wording, "alleged homosexual", was also a bit odd, even archaic; it seems to make homosexuality sound sort of criminal. It makes me wonder about 75.7.22.220's motives.--A. B. 05:46, 7 July 2006 (UTC)
- A Google search turns up no reputable news media confirming or even mentioning the Kelley allegation. In particular, the Knoxville news media, both pro-Ashe and pro-Ashe and anti-Ashe have never addressed the topic, notwithstanding Ashe's often controversial 35 years in Knoxville politics.--A. B. 20:29, 17 July 2006 (UTC)
I removed the "alleged homosexual" section; it cited no sources and I have never found a reputable source, as you say, for this rumor. Additionally, Ashe's romantic involvements, real or imaginary, have no bearing on this article.Acantha1979 03:25, 20 September 2006 (UTC)Acantha1979
Knoxnews is rather biased, they had to heavy ties with Ashe to defame him.
- Perhaps, but Metropulse never published anything, nor, to my knowledge, did any of the conservative alternative newspapers that have come and gone over time. Such rumors were never even printed on flyers stuck under doors anonymously just before elections. It just never came up to my knowledge in Knoxville. Victor Ashe had no shortage of enemies in Knoxville. When he was a legislator, he was especially disliked by many of his colleagues. In other words, there are plenty of people in Tennessee that wouldn't scruple to exploit this if they thought there were any substance to it.
- My sense is that this rumor is really more about striking at Bush than about striking at Ashe. --A. B. 18:23, 3 November 2006 (UTC)