# U.S. Attorney Strom Thurmond, Jr. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 7, 2001, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-attorney-strom-thurmond-jr/48880 "2001-01-07T18:51:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![SuaSponte](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/67e7ee/32.png) [@SuaSponte](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuaSponte)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2001, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-attorney-strom-thurmond-jr/48880/1 "2001-01-07T18:51:15Z")
According to the NY Times, it looks like Strom Thurmond’s 28 year-old boy, Strom Jr., is going to be nominated as the next U.S. Attorney for the District of South Carolina. Hello? My opposition is both genetic and professional. Genetics: 1. Nepotism is a bad way to choose officials. Just look at both Dubya and Algore. 2. I’m no geneticist, but if you’re 28 and your father is 175 (approx.), I think you are likely to have chromosonal damage. 3. Again, I’m not geneticist, but if you’re 28 and your father is Strom Thurmond, I think you are highly likely to have chromosonal damage. Professional experience: This boy has been out of law school for at most three years. According to the article, he worked for a few years as an assistant district attorney and now is a partner (!) in a Columbus law firm. Gah!! That’s plennnnty of experience to be the U.S.'s legal representative in all federal criminal and civil matters that arise in South Carolina. :rolleyes: But maybe I’m being too harsh. After all, a former co-worker in the D.A.'s office is quoted as saying Strom Jr. did a good job in the “5 or 6” felony cases he handled. Well, that’s plenty of experience. I got friends in the Brooklyn D.A.'s office who handle that many cases in a month. Maybe I should nominate one of them for God. The worst part is is that it appears Strom Sr. is arranging this so Junior will have something on his resume when he runs to replace his father in 2002, when pa steps down. Just what this country needs - another 143 or so years of a Thurmond groping interns and, oh yeah, “representin’” in the Senate. Stop the insanity!! Sua ---
**Author:** ![sorrel554](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/91b2a8/32.png) [@sorrel554](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sorrel554)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2001, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-attorney-strom-thurmond-jr/48880/2 "2001-01-07T20:59:33Z")
> [@](#): > > This boy has been out of law school for at most three years. According to the article, he worked for a few years as an assistant district attorney and now is a partner (!) in a Columbus law firm According to today’s paper, here in the state’s capital, COLUMBIA ;), South Carolina, Thurmond Jr. is an assistant solicitor in Aiken County and graduated from law school in 1998. > [@](#): > > The worst part is is that it appears Strom Sr. is arranging this so Junior will have something on his resume when he runs to replace his father in 2002, when pa steps down That’s kind of the buzz here, even in the press, although Strom Jr. has gotten the okay from the state’s Democratic party chair and various other Democratic figures. Go figure. ---
**Author:** ![Gadarene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Gadarene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gadarene)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2001, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-attorney-strom-thurmond-jr/48880/3 "2001-01-08T00:07:51Z")
> [@](#): > > That’s kind of the buzz here, even in the press, although Strom Jr. has gotten the okay from the state’s Democratic party chair and various other Democratic figures. Go figure. Blue dog Democrats. No surprise there. ---
**Author:** ![sorrel554](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/91b2a8/32.png) [@sorrel554](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sorrel554)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2001, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-attorney-strom-thurmond-jr/48880/4 "2001-01-08T00:17:10Z")
You’re right. I think it’s a matter of bowing to the inevitable, and hoping the GOP (which has just taken over the state Senate for the first time in over 100 years) will remember that the Dems didn’t give Stromboli a hard time. ---
**Author:** ![Arden\_Ranger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b487fb/32.png) [@Arden\_Ranger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arden_Ranger)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2001, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-attorney-strom-thurmond-jr/48880/5 "2001-01-08T00:24:09Z")
Oh. Ew. He BRED!? The old fart found someone to sleep with that was young enough to bear children 29 years ago? Gross. I need to go disinfect my brain now. Ugh. ---
**Author:** ![sorrel554](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/91b2a8/32.png) [@sorrel554](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sorrel554)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2001, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-attorney-strom-thurmond-jr/48880/6 "2001-01-08T00:34:35Z")
> [@](#): > > The old fart found someone to sleep with that was young enough to bear children 29 years ago? It’s worse than you think! He had four children in rapid succession with his second wife, whom he married in 1966. She was, IIRC, 22 at the time, a former Miss South Carolina. His youngest child is my age, or perhaps a year older (24 or 25). He and his wife are still married, although they’ve been separated for 10+ years. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2001, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-attorney-strom-thurmond-jr/48880/7 "2001-01-08T01:44:51Z")
I think I need a soak in some Clorox and a manhattan… ---
**Author:** ![Arden\_Ranger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b487fb/32.png) [@Arden\_Ranger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arden_Ranger)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2001, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-s-attorney-strom-thurmond-jr/48880/8 "2001-01-08T02:07:38Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by D Marie \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > The old fart found someone to sleep with that was young enough to bear children 29 years ago? > > It’s worse than you think! He had four children in rapid succession with his second wife, whom he married in 1966. She was, IIRC, 22 at the time, a former Miss South Carolina. His youngest child is my age, or perhaps a year older (24 or 25). He and his wife are still married, although they’ve been separated for 10+ years. \*\* Eeewwww! Not once, but four times! :: shudder ::