JACKSON, Miss. (AP) -- The withdrawn helpmate of ex- U.S. Rep. Chip Pickering claims in a lawsuit that the Mississippi Republican had an occurrence that ruined their matrimony and derailed his factional career.
Leisha Pickering said in the lawsuit filed this week that her retain and the mate dated in college, reconnected and began having an beeswax while he was in Congress and living in a erection where several Christian lawmakers reside on C Street near the U.S. Capitol. Chip Pickering is the third Republican with ties to the structure at 133 C Street SE to discern his bodily pungency making headlines in new weeks, after Nevada U.S. Sen. John Ensign and South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford.
Leisha Pickering is seeking unspecified damages in the alienation of regard lawsuit she filed this week against Elizabeth Creekmore Byrd of Jackson. The Pickerings filed for part in June 2008, but it is not complete. Chip Pickering, 45, was elected to Congress in 1996, retired in January and is now a lobbyist in Washington for Cellular South, the throng Creekmore Byrd's classification owns. The lawsuit does not voice when the incident started.
He said in a utterance Thursday that his coupling is irreparably damaged. "I still assume it is in the best kindle of our five boys if our differences are resolved privately and before the earmark court and not in the media," Pickering said. He hurl himself as a defender of decency, markedly on boob tube and the Internet, and was mid House members urging then-President George W. Bush to decree 2008 "the National Year of the Bible." Another lawmaker who lived at the C Street house, Ensign, a fellow of the Christian department Promise Keepers, stepped down from the Senate Republican governorship in June after admitting he had an concern for much of pattern year with a mistress on his push staff.
Just days after the testimony broke, South Carolina Republican Gov. Mark Sanford admitted an interest with a the missis in Argentina. He manifestly never lived in the house, but has said he turned to "C Street" for advisor and reassurance while having the affair. The building, registered in levy records as a God-fearing and commercial building, is associated with a Christian assortment that sponsors the annual National Prayer Breakfast attended by the president, members of Congress and other dignitaries.
Both Democratic and Republican members of Congress physical there. Leisha Pickering's lawsuit also says that when Republican Trent Lott resigned from the U.S. Senate in December 2007, Mississippi Gov.
Haley Barbour offered the capital to Chip Pickering, who declined. Barbour spokesman Laura Hipp said Thursday that the governor only offered the Senate enthrone to U.S. Rep. Roger Wicker, who accepted it.
The lawsuit contends that Creekmore Byrd gave Pickering an ultimatum, saying their relation could not prolong if he became a senator because he would have to reside married. "Ultimately, Creekmore Byrd gave Pickering the choice to endure a societal serving-girl or become a undisclosed denizen and endure relations with her," the lawsuit says. The vent to dispatch crate at Creekmore Byrd's house was built Thursday and messages left-hand for her disunion attorney were not promptly returned. The 45-year-old is a colleague of Mississippi's in clover Creekmore family, founders of the Cellular South phone company.
She and several relatives and Cellular South executives donated to Pickering while he was in Congress, and he had persuasion words for the entourage at a 2007 subcommittee hearing where invited speakers included Cellular South president Victor Meena. He announced in August 2007 that he wouldn't beg another term. After leaving berth in January, he joined the lobbying inelastic Capitol Resources LLC, in which one of Barbour's nephews is a partner.
The firm, which counts Cellular South amongst its clients, lists Pickering as a associate of its Washington and Mississippi teams. In the House, Pickering specialized in telecommunications issues, including one dear to Cellular South: making stable Congress took into explanation the interests of cellular companies serving bucolic areas. Creekmore Byrd and her husband, Dr. Douglas Byrd, were married in 1990 but stopped living together in June 2006.
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