An aide to U.S. Senator Jeff Sessions, a Republican from Alabama, wrote a love letter to her boss's constituents last week. The missive was inadvertent. The aide, whom Sessions' office refused to identify, intended the letter to go to her boyfriend. Through some computer snafu, she also sent it to a number of the senator's constituents in Alabama, many of which had written 'get-well' wishes to Sessions after his recent surgery for prostate cancer. Sessions' Chief of Staff, Armand DeKeyser, told Michael Brumas of the Birmingham News that the senator, recuperating at home, was 'dismayed' by the error. Dekeyser said he would not discipline the unnamed staffer until an investigation was complete.Y2K In Paradise
If the Y2K bug should wreak havoc in his home state, Michigan Gov. John Engler will be riding out the storm in sunny Florida. He'll be in the Sunshine State to see Michigan State University play in a football bowl game. Engler told Mark Hornbeck of the Detroit News"Things are going to be fine. Michigan is prepared." The governor said his 5-year old triplets want to spend as much time as possible at Disney World in Orlando, where the family hopes to greet the new millenium.
Jesse "The Ref" Ventura
A referee at a Minnesota Timberwolves basketball game so offended Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura last Saturday, he jumped from his seat and demanded the official be thrown out of the game. Ventura, who himself officiated at a World Wrestling Federation event in August, said the ref made a rude gesture toward a female fan. "They have no business making any sort of gesture to a fan," he later told the Associated Press. "Arrest the official," Ventura reportedly yelled from his seat about 20 feet behind the basket. Fans responded with cheers of "Jesse, Jesse."
For Texas, 32 Executions And Counting In 1999
Two days before he was scheduled to be executed, Texas inmate David Martin Long attempted to take his own life. Long, who was sentenced to death for using a hatchet to murder three women in 1996, was sent Monday to a prison hospital in Galveston, Texas, after swallowing a toxic dose of anti-depressants. His attorney sought a stay of execution, pleading his client was incompetent, but a judge denied the motion, the Dallas Morning News reported Thursday. "The desire to cheat the hangman or thumb your nose at the state does not mean you're incompetent to be executed," Judge Ed King said. Long was flown back to the death chamber in Huntsville Wednesday where he was put to death by lethal injection.
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