Furthermore:
Controversially, in 2004,
Ryan's staff had Justin Warfel (a campaign worker) follow his opponent, Barack Obama, throughout the day and record everything he did in public on videotape.[5] The tactic backfired when Barack Obama and others, including Ryan's supporters, criticized this activity. Ryan's spokesman apologized, and promised that Warfel would give Obama more space. Obama said he was satisfied with Ryan's decision to have Warfel back off.
[5]
Campaign demise
Ryan married actress
Jeri Ryan in 1991; together they have a son, Alex Ryan, born 1994. They divorced in 1999 in
California, and the records of the divorce were open but their custody documents were sealed at their mutual request.
Five years later, when Ryan's Senate campaign began, the Chicago Tribune newspaper and WLS-TV, the local ABC affiliate, sought to have the records released.
On March 3, 2004, several of Ryan's GOP primary opponents urged release of the records.
[6] Both Ryan and his wife had agreed to make their divorce records public, but not make the custody records public, claiming that the custody records could be harmful to their son if released.
[7] On March 16, 2004, Ryan won the GOP primary with 36 percent to 23 percent against
Jim Oberweis, who came in second.
[8] Obama won the Democratic primary, with 53 percent to 23 percent against
Dan Hynes, who came in second.
On March 29, 2004, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Robert Schnider ruled that several of the Ryans' custody records should be opened to the public.[9] The following week, on April 2, 2004, Barack Obama called on Democrats not to inject them into the campaign.[10] The Ryan campaign characterized Obama's stance as hypocritical, because people they alleged to be Obama's backers had been emailing reports about the divorce records prior to Judge Schnider's decision, and urging the press to seek to open them.
[10]
On June 22, 2004, after receiving a report from the referee, Judge Schnider released the files that were deemed consistent with the interests of Ryan's young child. In those files, Jeri Ryan alleged that Jack Ryan had wanted her to perform
sexual acts with him in public in
sex clubs in
New York City,
New Orleans, and
Paris, although no sex occurred. Jeri Ryan described one as "a bizarre club with cages, whips and other apparatus hanging from the ceiling."
[12] The decision to release these files generated much controversy because it went against both parents' direct request, and because it reversed the earlier decision to seal the papers in the best interest of the child, who had special needs. On the same day, Jim Oberweis, Ryan's defeated opponent in the GOP primary, commented that if the allegations were true, "it would end the candidacy.".
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Jack Ryan (politician) - Wikipedia
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