Austin In His Underwear

Time For Some Truth

I have been silent for long enough. This is the story that I should have told a year ago, but against my better judgement and the begging of some Republicans I haven’t said anything. I didn’t want to be the one to “damage” the image of this person and I didn’t want to be responsible for his loss. The person I am speaking of is Terry Roland, the Republican nominee for the District 29 Senate seat.
The incident and my subsequent sellout occurred about this time last year. The Political Cesspool radio show which I was CO-hosting at the time was hosting a fund-raiser. We were looking for venues to host the “Freedom Forum” and the Bartlett Performing Arts Center was on the short list. The auditorium there seats about 350 people and we knew we wouldn’t be able to fill it with out some help. After the August 3, 2005 Political Cesspool program which Terry Roland had CO-hosted with us we knew that Terry was just the person to help fill the seats. He had agreed to do a fund-raiser for both the show and me after we had gotten off the air on August 3 so we decided to take him up on the offer. The phone call was made and Terry had agreed to help.
During the weeks preceding the event we confirmed all of our speakers and Terry Roland was the last one we added. Our keynote speaker was Ezola Foster. Mrs. Foster was Pat Buchanan’s running mate in 2000. Along with Mrs. Foster we had Tarry Beasley from the Sons of Confederate Veterans, Mike Morrison, Arlington, TN alderman, Mitchell Morrison, trade expert, Frank George (Francisco Jorge), illegal immigration activist, James Edwards and me. Right in the middle was Terry Roland and that was right where he didn’t want to be.
Angelo Cobrasci from the Defenders of Freedom and a good friend of ours sent out an email with the scheduled speakers listed. He placed Terry Roland right beside Tarry Beasley and Terry Roland went ballistic. He called me cussing and fussing about the Angelo putting him right beside the f*cking SCV. He was so worried the blacks would be offended he asked me to take his name off of the list. He said not to worry that he would still speak and he would still bring his folks, but he couldn’t afford to be listed on the program. I had already printed the release, but respecting his wishes I threw them all out and asked Angelo to retract the email he had sent out. I figured everything was fine after that.
The next day or so after that Terry calls me again worried to death. He told me I had to call the Commercial Appeal and tell them I had made a mistake and that he (Terry) had never promised to speak. He said that the Commercial Appeal wanted to “come to my house and interview me”. He then stated that he couldn’t have the Commercial Appeal coming to his house since they would see some things on his walls that would offend some folks. I found out later from other sources that these offensive items were Civil War memorabilia and that Terry is quite the collector of Confederate items. This has not been substantiated by me, but through other sources close to Terry Roland. This entire time Terry was still promising to speak. Well, when September 11 rolled around Terry Roland was nowhere to be found.
I have kept quiet for the “good of the party” as some have suggested. I should have never agreed to do what I did when I called the Commercial Appeal. I turned into what I had never wanted to and I am sorry for it. I do know I had to set the record straight and here it is. Please contact me if you would like anymore information and I will be glad to provide it.

posted by Austin Farley Your Hero @ 6:37 PM