Major Prop 8 Donor Doug Manchester Dumps His Wife
By Logan Murphy Friday Aug 14, 2009 11:00am
From San Diego CityBeat:
In July 2008, hotelier and developer Doug Manchester donated $125,000 to help gather signatures for a proposition that would ban same-sex marriage in California. The early money was crucial to getting the initiative—which ultimately passed—on the ballot. At the time, he told The New York Times that he made the donation because of “my Catholic faith and longtime affiliation with the Catholic Church,” which preferred that marriage remain between a man and a woman. Indeed, the Catholic Church has vehemently opposed gay marriage. Then again, it’s also not too keen on divorce.
On Oct. 9, 2008, Manchester ended 43 years, eight months and nine days of marriage to Elizabeth Manchester by moving out of their La Jolla abode. The couple spent the next several months trying to reach a quiet settlement on how best to distribute millions of dollars in cash and other assets. In July, those talks totally broke down, and Doug started playing financial hardball with Elizabeth, allegedly draining the couple’s shared accounts and stealing her mail. On Aug. 6, Elizabeth filed a petition for redress in family court. All of the information in this story comes from those petitions. CityBeat contacted attorneys for both parties, but neither returned calls by press time.
This ardent defender of traditional marriage didn't just try to cover his buns in the divorce, he downright abused his wife of 43+ years:
In March, Doug told Elizabeth he’d no longer maintain the bank account the two shared to pay her expenses, and that she should submit her bills to his office. She followed this procedure, but was surprised to get a call from AT&T saying her bill was past due.
“Doug began dragging his feet on paying my expenses,” she writes, “refusing to pay certain expenses until I accepted his demands regarding our property division. I believe Doug did this to squeeze me financially.” Read on...
Now THAT, my friends, is what real, heterosexual, traditional marriage is all about! Snark/ You gotta love those GOP family values...
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Bet you this pile of cultshit is a "Traditional Family Values" rightard extremist, one of these hate-spewing "Promise Keeper" cultists who share the same ideologies as their Islamic extremist colleagues.
My opinions only and only my opinions, as always.
Keep your opinons outta MY opinions wouldja?
Can't tell whose is whose now ya big galoot!
I think I saw that movie: "Addams Family Values" IIRC.
How long before we find out he left her for his gay lover? :)
the first thing that came to mind when I read this!
Same here. Only I also thought methamphetamine would be part of the equation too. ;)
..what if she was the one with the gay lover?
No woman in her right mind...oh yeah...nevermind.
We're talkin about a repub male here....I'm suuuuure he's a real tiger in the sack...
30 seconds of clumsy foreplay and all that..
I can't see why she would want to stray.
He's Catholic. They aren't supposed to have foreplay. Sex is only for procreation, not for enjoyment and foreplay would mean enjoyment.
What a crazy religion!
NO foreplay! Damn that!!!
I'm surprised they're even able to procreate!
No wonder the catholic women I've dated were so kinky.
a bit long...but funnier'n fuck!
Watch it!!!
http://www.atheistnation.net/video/?video/011...
That was hilarious. There will never be another show like Mr. Show.
I'm sure his marriage fell apart because of all the gay marriages that happened before Prop 8, and that they weren't annulled. Just goes to show you how destructive Teh Gays are. /s
They're always talking about how same sex marriage will ruin the sanctity of marriage.
...who is so clearly a HUGE patriot be the asshole described here? I mean, take a look at the picture. American flags everywhere, so he's gotta be a great patriot, right?
see?
Nary an eyebrow to be seen....CLEARLY the sign of an asshole.
...have missed the obvious? I feel so...used.
asshole.
And another tell-tale sign are his pig eyes and that reagan-esque hair-style...I mean come on! They just SCREAM asshole.
eeeeeeewwwww! pig eyes and crappy loser old-guy-tryin-to-loosk-young hair!
It's kind of creepy actually.
If it were due to "chemo" or something, he'd have no hair on his head either. Since that's not the case, one has to wonder if he shaved them off?
seared right off due to his proximity to the backsides of the health insurance indust...I mean his "constituents"...
..how much money in the budget for botox, doug?
his wife's share of the joint account... lots of money for botox and hair dye!
All these homophobic, Reslug hypocrites, don't even believe or care in the santity of their own marriages. How long until we find out he was cheating and just can't keep their pants on either, like all fake religious assholes in the Right-Wing.
Because you know them Family Values Guys demonstrate how much they understand "In Sickness and In Health" by leaving their spouses as they fight for their lives in their hospital beds, ala New Gingrich.
How much you want to bet he comes out of the closet in the next 12 months?
I wonder who is his latest boyfriend???
..but really stoopid about it. He should have gone against Prop 8, because after all, why should only heterosexuals be allowed to abuse their legally-wed spouses? To be truly consistent, he should salivate at the possibility of all people - gay, straight, bi, black, white, mauve - being able to be complete assholes to one another. He's not just a selfish turd; he's a short-sighted selfish turd.
why ANYONE would want to get married...gay, straight, lesbian, whatever...
Don't they know that marriage is THE leading cause for divorce?
Criminy!
That's quite a statement LNM. I'll need to see some proof!
If ya don't get hitched in the first place...then divorce isn't even an issue.
...there is that I guess. Doh!
You have never been married ? .
nope never been divorced either .
..be they straight, gay, transgendered, cross-dressing has a right to be just as miserable as the rest of us, dammit!
I know, old joke! Well, I'm an old joker!
nonetheless
Christian family values.
Means never having to say you're sorry when you turn your back on the tenets of your faith and leave your family behind to have uninhibited freaky circus sex.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_C0b1Rx6j0
YSB...
Not even close.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K242lDMX4k0
have a family...and, therefore, family values??? Tune in tomorrow for the next question.....Was Mary Magdelene married to Jesus or just engaged??/
Inquiring minds need to know... okay, we don't really need to, but it'd be nice.
HA!
..not heterosexual divorce.
after 43 years plus, what a hypocrite.
... constitutes "abuse." I highly doubt she's been rummaging through garbage cans at one of their six vacation homes while arguing about how many millions she should get in the settlement.
He supposed to pay her bills.
He's hidden money from her so she can't get access to it (read the full article).
After 43 years of marriage, she deserves not to have her phone cut off because her asshole ex-husband wants to dick around and not fulfill the terms of the divorce he wanted.
..but unless she's in a ex-mrs.gingrich situation where she can't take care of herself, she has to be ready to deal with this a-hole and deal with guns-blazing, metaphorically speaking. The courts will work this all out in due course. The guy is a DB to leave or she is a DB for wanting him to leave, what about the children, grandchildren, etc. You would think with all of the culture and wealth that surrounds these people, if they weren't happy together, they'd come to some mutually acceptable agreement about separation and divorce. I've no sympathy for either just yet and will reserve judgme...wait a minute, I could care less what they do and do to each other.
In particular, I noted:
I take allegations filed in a divorce petition with more than a grain of salt. There is no divorce settlement. There are only papers filed by someone trying to get the best division possible.
And I still doubt she's begging for change. Or has any problem retaining the best legal counsel available. Somehow, she'll make it through.
She never said she had her phone disconnected; she said she had a late notice. A late notice is abuse? She should try Sallie-Mae sometime.
.."Elizabeth petitioned the court to guarantee that she have sole use of the La Jolla residence, that he return the mail (which was returned) and that he restore the $100,000 so she can meet her monthly expenses of $131,625. These include nearly $20,000 on clothing and jewelry, $7,000 in electric bills, $1,700 in groceries, $4,901 in household supplies, tuition at three private schools for some of the couple’s 10 grand children, $7,500 in salary for the full-time groundskeeper and housekeeper, $1,200 in membership dues for the La Jolla Country Club and money toward the hundreds of thousands of dollars in travel expenses the couple was accustomed to spending."
But what about her health care, Doug?
Rich people have special problems like where to buy $20,000 worth of cloths every month. must be nice! sheesh
It's not my lifestyle either, even if I had a ton of money.
But to sneer at her trying to get a fair settlement in light of how she's been treated is unfair.
That 20K seems like peanuts in terms of a 8.2M TAX REFUND, doesn't it?
..fair and equitable but you would think at this level, there should be some civility between them. 43+ years and all.
I'm not sure I've racked up $20K in clothing purchases in my entire life.
shopping with me! I'm certain over my lifetime that I've met this total...
I don't feel too sorry for her either.
I'm disabled. Disability payments are $12k a year. That's what I have to live off of.
She has monthly expenses of $132k?
$20k a month on clothing and jewelry? I'm sorry... but anyone who would spend $20k a month on clothing and jewelry is immoral.
If I were found to be Bill Gates' long lost son and suddenly found myself a billionaire, I could never spend $20k a month on ANYTHING, TOTAL. If I had $20k a month and chose to spend it on a diamond-studded jock strap instead of charity, I would just be a despicable immoral piece of shit.
Amen comrade,amen.
...in all of this are the lawyers.
need help
OMFG...
It's LEATHERFACE!!!
of marriage!
Sue the piss out of him and take away his money. Then he will be no longer good to the Right Wing.
He's got that goin for him at least.
they outsource them.
She's just another (marriage) union slacker who couldn't hack the competition and the invisible foot of the marketplace kicked her to the curb.
Creative destruction...
Good for the economy...
And so forth.
are of absolutely no interest to me. If they were I would watch soaps.
except for one little thing: he arrogantly believes he has the right to dictate to others how, when, and whom they will marry. That's why he's being pilloried in disgrace...
Isn't divorce the only real threat to marriage?
...all!
There's also annulment.
thread, I think Green Day's "Minority" is perfect for this one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atQoZiQ0TTs
Down with the "Moral Majority" indeed....
and signed a pre-nup 35 years ago (and they weren't common then), she should be fighting off the lawyers willing to work for a %20 contingency fee to take this greasy shitheel to the cleaners.
What's with the guy? Looks like Fetal Alcohol Syndrome.
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has gotta be hard on ya...
You said HARD.
Now there's a real American.
Dumped wife.
Flag pin on the lapel.
Flag decorated tie.
Dyed hair.
Obvious plastic surgery.
What's the going rate for a Papal dispensation? Methinks ol' Dougie might be able to swing it and that would certainly pave his way back into heaven. Pity teh gays don't have it so easy.
i would assume and i don't think wrongly so that we all have said one thing and done another...then again, most of us are not in the limelight or on a soapbox rallying the troops when we do so.
Wow... I can assume now that it doesn't matter how many FLAG PINS you wear on your lapel or tie, if you were an asshole before, you will STILL be an asshole.
In spite of this, right-wingers will still say gay marriage -- not divorce or adultry -- is the biggest threat to heterosexual marriage.
I guess Prop 8 was too late. All those gay marriages destroyed his. (\sarcasm)
Typical do as I say and not as I Do Rightwinger. but but... marriage is so holy and sacred
that you automacticly take her side. how do you know that she isn't as big a right wing asshole as him? After all she stayed married to him for 41 years.
Good. Now maybe he can afford some eyebrows.
of all the gay harrassers who wanted to get married. The strain they caused on this guys marraige was the final straw. Perhaps now they can understand the harm they cause when they want to be included. Those gay non-sluts!
after reading all the comments. Could someone direct me to the John Edwards site?
The rich are nothing like us and thereby deserve no sympathy, only our derision. They are most likely both complete, entitled assholes. Fuck both of them.
$125,000 would have went to a better cause or to actually help someone or some people in today's economic troubles. But clearly this man cares so much about "protecting" marriage that he...dumps his wife?
Umm...whaaaaaaaat???
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