[quote=njtosd]I’m not saying that I am sure about the dementia theory. However, symptoms of frontal lobe dementia begin in the 50s to early 60s.[/quote]

In my hometown of a small, mostly inconsequential town in Indiana, there was a well respected guy that owned a shoe store in town that ended up a very major player in the Indiana Republican Party. His major claim to fame was being one of the people that got a guy named Dan Quayle to run for a representative spot that was in play, and after a few terms he was one of the people that saw Birch Bayh as vulnerable and got him to run for senate. We know the rest.

I wasn’t necessarily into his politics, but we had a lot of nice talks, and I was good friends with his youngest daughter. Certainly one of the more respected adults I knew.

Anyhow, this guy ended up, along with being the district party chair, the local trustee – a party gift position. Nothing controversial about that, but one of the things this position dealt with was welfare recipients. Out of the blue, a few accusations of him asking recipients for quid pro quou sexual favors emerged, and it blew up. Lost his position (naturally), ended up divorced, and ended up in prison. They let him out when he was clearly in his last days, and he died a few months later – pretty much in disgrace.

For all I knew, this guy always had a secret life, but I just dodn’t see it being a teenage doof. However, most people, and I guess I, think that he had some sort of brain cancer/tumor/whatever completely mess him up.

DeMaio – the gay thing was not a factor, but I do think that he could have been concerned that people would start digging into the history of his Balboa Park lily pond destroying partner. I found it interesting how they took Fletcher apart because they thought he was less beatable than Slobberin’ Bob.