The case of former Mississippi Congressman and soccer dad Chip Pickering refuses to go away. Pickering, the family-values-Republican accused of attacking a soccer coach whom he said was verbally abusing his son, faces a misdemeanor assault charge and wants to clear up the matter by sitting down with his alleged victim, Chris Hester, “man-to-man” without lawyers to shake hands and “set a good example for the kids.”
AP reports that Hester, who claims to have undergone neck surgery a few weeks before the incident, responded, “Funny, he wants to put the burden on me to stand up and be a man, but what kind of man attacks a man in a neck brace?” Hester’s attorney, Mac McCool, – really, that’s his name – added that he has not been contacted by Pickering’s lawyers about a resolution.
The soccer contretemps is the second legal embarrassment of 2009 for Pickering. In July his estranged wife filed an alienation of affection suit against his alleged mistress, Elizabeth Creekmore Byrd, claiming that Byrd ruined the Pickerings’ marriage by carrying on an affair with her husband while then Congressman Pickering lived in a Christian residence in Washington, D.C. operated by the Fellowship Foundation.
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