At the risk of opening old wounds, creating chaos in the universe... what the hell, I'm going to do it anyway...

It appears the Governor of our great state has been caught in an affair with the wife of a musician, one Philip Frye, a bass player in the Kanawha County area of the state. Now I really don't care about the affair (no, I mean REALLY) but the below quote made my day.

This is from the Charleston Daily Mail (www.dailymail.com/news/News/2003051238)

The following is a vastly truncated version of the story, but I had to cut it off at an appropriate quote:

Monday May 12, 2003

Gov. Bob Wise released a statement today saying he was "not faithful to my family" after his office was asked about allegations that he had been implicated in the divorce case of a woman who works in the state development office...

Wise's press secretary was contacted after a Kanawha County man confirmed today that his divorce case in Kanawha County Family Court alleges his wife has been having a relationship with another man, whom he identified as Wise.

Philip Frye, 40, declined to comment on specifics but said that his divorce case includes allegations that the man he identified as Wise and Frye's wife, Angela Mascia-Frye, had been having an affair for some time.

"I didn't come down with the last rain," Frye, a musician who lives in Hugheston in eastern Kanawha County, said. "I let this thing go on for months so I could get as much evidence as I possibly could.

"I had private detectives all over this thing. I've got pictures and documents -- all kinds of hard evidence."

Frye said he is going to withhold exact details of the allegations or a copy of his divorce filing for the time being, but said he placed much of the blame on Wise for failure of his almost seven-year marriage. Frye said he had had less success with his music career lately and the financial strain caused by the divorce was great.

"That little weasel-faced bastard," Frye said. "Typical Democrat."


(Disclaimer: I DID NOT MAKE THIS UP!)