From the too hilarious to be true files:
But it is true:
Former Las Vegas City Councilman Michael McDonald will be the first to tell you he has never been charged with a crime. That alone may qualify him to become the Nevada Republican Party's next chairman.
He's considered a favorite for the job, recently vacated by Amy Tarkanian. The fact McDonald is still interested in politics after all the battering he has absorbed over the years makes me suspicious of his mental status.
After all, it's not as if he re-enters the arena without a certain, ahem, colorful history.
A prime example of that history?
Although it was a brief encounter back in October 2008, the deposition McDonald gave in the litigation of Kirk and Amy Henry against Rick Rizzolo and former wife Lisa Rizzolo is an example. The deposition isn't damning so much for what it says, but for how McDonald responded to the questions of Henry attorney Donald Campbell. The Henrys are suing the Rizzolos to recover the $10 million the topless mogul agreed to pay them to settle a civil claim after Kirk Henry was nearly killed in a beating outside the Crazy Horse Too topless club.
In short, McDonald pleaded the Fifth Amendment against self-incrimination. By my count, he took the Fifth 10 times in 10 pages of transcribed deposition.
Good thing (for McDonald's sake) that he's not going for that GOP chairmanship
in South Carolina ... but he might want to take a low profile when it comes to moralizing against birth control along with his other pals in the Republican Party.