Or lack thereof...

Megan Barry is the mayor of Nashville. Not that it matters but she's a Dem. She recently admitted to an extramarital affair with Sgt. Robert Forrest who's the head of her security detail.

This adulterous affair apparently began quite a while ago. This past week the Nashville-Davidson metro council voted 30-7 to investigate possible misuse of public money.

Nashville council approves investigation into public money related to Mayor Megan Barry's affair

Last March Mayor Barry and her chief of security traveled alone. The affair had already begun at that point.

On March 22, 2017, shortly after returning from that trip, Mayor Barry spoke to Belmont University's Student Center for the Public Trust (Student CPT).

Mayor Barry Speaks on Role of Ethics in Government

Quote:On March 22, Belmont’s Student Center for the Public Trust hosted Nashville Mayor Megan Barry to discuss the importance of social responsibility and ethics in both government and business. With a professional background as an ethics and compliance officer for several companies and membership on the Ethics Advisory Board, Barry spoke about the role ethics plays in various situations.

She began her discussion by stating that “people have to have faith that their government is ethical.” Without this faith rooted in the community, everything else can easily fall apart.

And that is the problem.

I DON'T have faith that our government is ethical. At any level -- city, state, or federal.

We have reached the point in the American political structure where we can no longer assume the people who serve us do so ethically.


I (unfortunately) assume every elected or appointed official has some level of corruption. And I don't give either party the benefit of doubt.