Big Government has pointed to the many holes in the story behind Tammy Chapman’s bizarre allegations targeted at prospective Republican gubernatorial candidate, Missouri Lt. Gov. Peter Kinder – Exclusive: Sex Smear Targeting Kinder Doesn’t Survive Scrutiny.
We’ve also looked at accuser Tammy Chapman’s inability to keep her story straight: Kinder Accuser Tammy Chapman Can’t Keep Story Straight.
Chapman’s long-time association with Democrat John Ross, his links to the attempted smear, as well as a media outlet involved, put Ross right in the middle of the bizarre effort to push allegations from 16 years ago. He’s also involved in the disappearance of her cell phone, effectively wiping out any evidence that could get to the bottom of the story.
John Ross is a Democrat, he ran for US Congress against Jim Talent in 1998 in the St. Louis area. Ross has been friends with Tammy Chapman since 2004. He has a tell-all story of his friendship w/ Chapman here. There is also a YouTube video where he sings to her about vulgar things he wants to do to her.
Chapman has claimed she went to a St. Louis NRA event in 2007 and told a friend the story, claiming Kinder was “creepy” in 2007. That friend was John Ross. They are pictured together at the event here. That’s when Chapman saw Kinder, and (from the RFT penthouse article) pointed him out to Ross. (quote from article.”[Chapman] saw him four years ago at an NRA convention: Their eyes locked, and Chapman confided to a companion that this was the creepy guy she’d told him about. But the two never spoke.”).
That matters because one year later, in 2008, during Kinder’s Lieutenant Governor campaign, Democrats start carrying posters w/ pics of Chapman saying “Who is this woman?” at events including speaking events in Missouri. The same photos used on those posters are displayed on Ross’ website. As previously reported, nothing came of the story, evidently the media realized there was nothing to it. Fast forward to this year, as Kinder prepares to run for Governor.
The story breaks at the River Front Times, where John Ross occasionally writes and also posts several comments on the actual stories. Some seem to even defend Kinder, while also covering for Chapman on her not sending the totally innocent picture around. (part of his quote on 2nd story: “This anonymous bartender is being massively disingenuous without actually lying. Peter Kinder has been to Verlin’s exactly ONCE. And though it shouldn’t matter, he drank tonic water and Seven-Up. The photo was taken with Tammy’s iPhone at her and/or Kinder’s request and she sent the photo to Kinder’s phone and his phone only. I’ve seen Tammy’s phone’s log. Whoever sent the photo to the RFT got it from Kinder or someone he sent it to.” )
On Chapman’s Facebook page, the two are still as thick as thieves today. So, why would he be defending Kinder, who Chapman alleges is unfit to serve in government? It makes no sense given their on going very close friendship, unless Ross simply wanted to cover for Chapman, while appearing to be pro-Kinder. It has to be a charade of some kind.
And now, per Chapman’s Facebook page, we learn that she claims to have lost her cell phone – the one item that could prove it was her who sent the image to Democrat John Ross – and who was there to save her? None other than Democrat, John Ross.
Yay!!!! So I lost 400+ contacts & 2,700 pictures, had to get a new phone!!!! ;(…, ;) John Ross is my Savior!! Thank you Honey!!
What these facts strongly suggest is, the allegations were first raised by Democrats during Kinder Lt. Government campaign after Chapman and Ross happened to bump into Kinder at an NRA event. They gained no traction, as there was nothing to them. They were ignored by the media. Over three years later, Kinder innocently enters a restaurant where Chapman was working, she asked him for a photo with her – hardly a thing a woman does with a man she accuses of being overly sexually aggressive with her in the first place – then she either sent the photo to Ross, or the River Front Times directly for publication, purely as a rationale for raising a 16 year-old smear with nothing to it.
Now, due to a pending Governor’s race, suddenly the media has some interest in it. This isn’t journalism. It’s dirty politics, pure and simple. And Chapman can’t even produce her phone to prove her innocence because it just happened to get lost. But, as is typical throughout this bizarre tale, Democrat John Ross was right there to promptly bail her out.
This whole non-story smells worse than week old fish. And newspapers running with it would be put to better use wrapping it, then calling themselves journalists, at this point.
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