Horndog Jim

Then she rallied. Her passion for vengeance overwhelmed her.
Over the phone, she warned Stapley if he didn't leave her alone, she would make her dossier public.

Jim Stapley recorded her phone conversations.
Then Joan Payne went on a local radio station and called Stapley a "pervert in polyester" and "Mesa's answer to Bob Packwood."

"He's not a nice, old gentleman," Payne said. "He's a dirty old gentleman, and the public should know that."

I don't like Joan Payne's needy, in-your-face attitude. And I sure as hell don't like her politics.

But I think she is telling the truth about Horndog Jim.
And he seems to think so, too. That's why he decided to sue her.

--Greene Sterling

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