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A Gadsden woman says Roy Moore groped her while she was in his law office on legal business with her mother in 1991. Moore was married at that time.
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At one point during the meeting, she said, Moore came around the desk and sat on the front of it, just inches from her. He was so close, she said, she could smell his breath.
According to Johnson, he asked questions about her young daughters, including what color eyes they had and if they were as pretty as she was. She said that made her feel uncomfortable, too.
Once the papers were signed, she and her mother got up to leave. After her mother walked through the door first, she said, Moore came up behind her.
It was at that point, she recalled, he grabbed her buttocks.
"He didn't pinch it; he grabbed it," said Johnson. She was so surprised she didn't say anything. She didn't tell her mother.
She said she told her sister years later how Moore had made her feel uncomfortable during that meeting. Her sister told AL.com she remembers the conversation.
A Gadsden woman says Roy Moore groped her while she was in his law office on legal business with her mother in 1991. Moore was married at that time.
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At one point during the meeting, she said, Moore came around the desk and sat on the front of it, just inches from her. He was so close, she said, she could smell his breath.
According to Johnson, he asked questions about her young daughters, including what color eyes they had and if they were as pretty as she was. She said that made her feel uncomfortable, too.
Once the papers were signed, she and her mother got up to leave. After her mother walked through the door first, she said, Moore came up behind her.
It was at that point, she recalled, he grabbed her buttocks.
"He didn't pinch it; he grabbed it," said Johnson. She was so surprised she didn't say anything. She didn't tell her mother.
She said she told her sister years later how Moore had made her feel uncomfortable during that meeting. Her sister told AL.com she remembers the conversation.
Politico calls it a “wrenching” decision. To attack North Korea? To fix the Obamacare exchanges? No: President Trump is flummoxed over the call for him to demand Roy Moore, accused by multiple women of inappropriate sexual conduct when they were teens, leave the Alabama Senate race.
The state of the GOP is such, and Trump’s own moral unfitness is such, that a no-brainer for any other president becomes a perilous decision for a president elected despite accusations (by more women than have accused Moore publicly) of sexual aggression, which allegedly occurred more recently than Moore’s alleged actions.
Trump could be repudiated by voters in Alabama, certainly no swing state, if they vote for Moore despite Trump’s plea. Other Republicans could blast him for giving way to some kind of vast left-wing conspiracy (one so vast as to include a cop who heard that a shopping mall banned Moore for bothering young girls, a fellow prosecutor who recalls him “dating” teens when he was in his 30s, multiple women and The Post). True, the Republican National Committee has ended a campaign fundraising deal with Moore, but that is a far cry from Trump declaring sexual predation to be disqualifying.
If voters listen to Trump and abandon Moore, who does that leave in the contest other than Doug Jones, whose election would move Democrats one notch closer to taking the Senate majority in 2018? Majority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) wants beleaguered Attorney General Jeff Sessions to run. That has no less than four problems: Sessions would have to quit immediately; Trump would pick a new attorney general who could fire special prosecutor Robert S. Mueller III or impede his investigation; Sessions might not win; and Sessions would be a free agent, no longer deterred by any executive-privilege restraints in either testifying before Congress or spilling whatever he knows to Mueller. And there is a fifth — Trump would reignite debate about his own accusers and the merits of their claims.
Republicans demanding that the previously accused harasser demand the accused sexual predator to get out of the race make fools of themselves. Trump allegedly groped and assaulted multiple women who detailed their accounts. Teen pageant contestants said Trump barged into their dressing room while contestants were changing — but Hillary Clinton was less fit to be president, these Republicans insisted. Their newfound faith in women accusers is convenient but would prompt them to answer tricky questions as to why they did not demand Trump step down in favor of Mike Pence. (Democrats should demand both Moore and Trump leave, if we are now arguing that sexual misconduct is disqualifying.) This would not be so nearly entertaining if not for the Republicans’ constant resort to “whataboutism.” (Yes, Trump, but what about Hillary’s emails! Yes, Trump, but Bill Clinton’s affair with Monica Lewinsky!) For those of us who favored impeachment for Bill Clinton, believed Trump unfit (not solely because of his alleged sexual conduct) and find Moore monstrous (not only because of Moore’s accusers), it is small satisfaction to see the GOP tied up in knots.
The only GOP principle is to win at all costs, defend any member of the tribe — until he is a threat to the tribe. Too bad Republicans didn’t realize Trump was such a threat to the GOP (not to mention the country). Whether they lose the seat or win it with Moore, they face the wrath of many voters, especially women convinced these people are unfit to watch their daughters, let alone hold office. And if Sessions, the man of so defective a memory as to raise questions about his capacity for such a high post and who has gone after immigrants without a shred of humanity, were to be pushed out of office, well, that would be political karma on stilts.
We have much more in common than differences. Neither side supports what we do.
What's funny is how we go after other members for political views.
As far as Dr Scally, I remember what this board was like before he got here. There is a lot more knowledge here now. He has done a lot for our board. He doesn't think trump is fit for office. Who cares. This is s steroid board. He deserves respect.
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A sheriff in Texas is looking for a truck bearing a profanity-laced anti-Trump sticker and said authorities are considering charging its owner with disorderly conduct — a threat that immediately raised alarm among free speech advocates.
Fort Bend County Sheriff Troy E. Nehls posted a photo of the truck Wednesday on Facebook after, he said, he’d received several complaints about the display from unhappy people in the Houston-area county.
A graphic on the rear window of the GMC Sierra reads: “F‑‑K TRUMP AND F‑‑K YOU FOR VOTING FOR HIM.” (The profanity is spelled out on the sticker.)
“If you know who owns this truck or it is yours, I would like to discuss it with you,” the sheriff wrote. “Our Prosecutor has informed us she would accept Disorderly Conduct charges regarding it, but I feel we could come to an agreement regarding a modification.”
The Houston Chronicle said the truck’s owners have no plans to remove the custom graphic, which they ordered after Trump’s election.
“It’s not to cause hate or animosity,” Karen Fonseca told the Chronicle. “It’s just our freedom of speech and we’re exercising it.”
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The Texas chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union offered to help Fonseca — and provided Nehls with a “Constitutional Law 101″ lesson: “You can’t ban speech just because it has [f‑‑k] in it.”
Texas penal code describes disorderly conduct as “intentionally or knowingly [using] abusive, indecent, profane, or vulgar language in a public place, and the language by its very utterance tends to incite an immediate breach of peace.” Making “an offensive gesture or display in a public place” is also prohibited if “the gesture or display tends to incite an immediate breach of peace.”
But the ACLU cited a 1971 Supreme Court decision, Cohen v. California, in which the high court overturned a man’s disturbing-the-peace conviction after he’d gone to a courthouse in Los Angeles wearing a jacket that said “F‑‑k the Draft.”
Trump tips his hand in changing ivory ban
You have to watch the news carefully these days for clues to the ultimate Trump plan. He throws up so much chaff and so many red herrings that it’s enough to make you sick … sick enough to throw up chaff and red herrings yourself.
In his barrage of outrages big and small, no area is safe from the stubby, probing, malevolent fingers of the occupant of the White House, sometimes ironically referred to as the president of the United States. He apparently can’t wait for his climate policy to wipe out all the struggling major species of wild animals that are left; he apparently feels the need to unleash rich hunters to accelerate the process. He is opening a loophole in the ban on ivory to allow hunters to bring back their elephant trophies.
But appearances can be deceiving. Why would a president stoop to such a low level as this? Okay, it’s Donald Trump. But still, is there political gain to be had here? Mother Jones writer Kevin Drum thinks it’s simply part of an effort by Trump to rescind every single thing that Barack Obama did in office. While there is plenty enough evidence for this theory, think again. What larger interest could Trump possibly have in elephant trophies?
That’s right! He’s after the biggest one of all! He has been stalking the Republican Party since his glide down his escalator into the GOP nomination process, and has been wearing out the beleaguered beast ever since. Just yesterday, he was silent about the Roy Moore situation, as silent as a hunter creeping ever closer for the kill. The elephant itself doesn’t know quite what to do about this.
A smart elephant would run as fast and as far away from Trump as its soon-to-be-waste-basket feet could carry it. But not this elephant. This elephant is tired, and hungry. And Trump has set a large table of delicious tax cuts for the rich just ahead in the clearing. And there is a steaming side dish of repealed Obamacare, too, and a big sign reading, “This is not a trap.” What to do?
Republicans try to console themselves by asking, why would Trump kill his own party? But that’s just what he wants them to think. Because it isn’t his own party. Yet. Think back to what Trump has always done: put his name on things. Yes, the Trump Party is what he wants, and he will be head of it in the big white Trump House on Trump Avenue, (the avenue with the big Trump Military parades), in Trump, D.C. Make that Trump, D.T. And what does the elephant get to be head of?
Of the big trophy over the fireplace.
