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Two more women describe unwanted overtures by Roy Moore at Alabama mall
https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/two-more-women-describe-unwanted-overtures-by-roy-moore-at-alabama-mall/2017/11/15/2a1da432-ca24-11e7-b0cf-7689a9f2d84e_story.html?tid=ss_tw&utm_term=.2908155818a3
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Kayla McLaughlin, left, and Gena Richardson worked together at Sears in the late 1970s. The pair is seen in this image from 1977. Richardson says Roy Moore, then in his 30s, visited her at Sears and that Moore later called her school to ask her out. (Provided by Kayla McLaughlin )
Gena Richardson says she was a high school senior working in the mens department of Sears at the Gadsden Mall when a man approached her and introduced himself as Roy Moore. He said, You can just call me Roy, says Richardson, who says this first encounter happened in the fall of 1977, just before or after her 18th birthday, as Moore, then a 30-year-old local attorney, was gaining a reputation for pursuing young women at the mall in Gadsden, Ala. His overtures caused one store manager to tell new hires to watch out for this guy, another young woman to complain to her supervisor and Richardson to eventually hide from him when he came in Sears, the women say.
Richardson says Moore now a candidate for U.S. Senate asked her where she went to school, and then for her phone number, which she says she declined to give, telling him that her father, a Southern Baptist preacher, would never approve.
A few days later, she says, she was in trigonometry class at Gadsden High when she was summoned to the principals office over the intercom in her classroom. She had a phone call. I said Hello? Richardson recalls. And the male on the other line said, Gena, this is Roy Moore. I was like, What?! He said, What are you doing? I said, Im in trig class.
Richardson says Moore asked her out again on the call. A few days later, after he asked her out at Sears, she relented and agreed, feeling both nervous and flattered. They met that night at a movie theater in the mall after she got off work, a date that ended with Moore driving her to her car in a dark parking lot behind Sears and giving her what she called an unwanted, forceful kiss that left her scared.
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JDC
(10,135 posts)This guy is toast. A Southern Baptist Preachers daughter and while she is in HS Trig class! WTF?!
nycbos
(6,039 posts)The bible thumpers are dubbing down.
KelleyKramer
(8,985 posts)nycbos
(6,039 posts)They are trying to force him out.
I think that when push comes to shove Moore will win. "Values voters" don't want to admit that they will support a predator.
KelleyKramer
(8,985 posts)Or you will be very disappointed come Dec 13
Moore is toast
nycbos
(6,039 posts)For the record I recently donated to Jones.
Orrex
(63,234 posts)No matter how shocking or egregious the Republican candidate's wrongdoing, the Republican voters so often seem to find a way to vote for them anyway.
I will believe that Moore is toast when he gives his concession speech and he abandons his bullshit quest to sue the media for finally reporting on his vile, predatory nature.
Until that day, it is entirely reasonable to discuss Moore's efforts to remain relevant.
Ilsa
(61,707 posts)then she's too young.
If you have to ask her mom or dad, she's too young.
If she's too young to have a drivers license, she's too young.
If she's avoiding you by hiding in Sears, then she's not interested.
If everyone knows you troll for teenage girls in malls, then you need to see a psychiatrist.
nolabear
(41,999 posts)pstokely
(10,531 posts)?
sarah FAILIN
(2,857 posts)He may have pretended to be her dad or the office worker assumed the only grown man that would call her at school would be her dad
VOX
(22,976 posts)Republicans can never, NEVER, EVER play the "morality" card again. They've lost their mock-outrage privileges.
Mariana
(14,861 posts)They're still convincing themselves all these women are lying. The yearbook inscription is a forgery. It's a huge conspiracy to take down this wonderful man of God. The Devil along with the Democrats, the media, and even the Republican Party leadership are all in it together, enticing the women to lie, persecuting Moore because he's such a strong Christian and a champion of the faith. But, the Lord and Roy Moore will prevail against the forces of evil and secularism, just wait and see, and then the USA will be blessed like never before.
VOX
(22,976 posts)Right-wing media and web-based agitprop have filtered and distorted what should be a genuinely observable and measurable reality for so long, theyve finally conjured up an entirely different reality. And, of course, its not pretty.
I just read today in the New York Times where the Kochs are softening their initial objections to a Trump presidency. The Mercers have given millions to Breitbart and Steve Bannon.
Hard not to get down when you know that most of the big money out there is held by Republicans. And apparently theyre okay with with having Roy Moore hang in.
No more morality lectures from the right. Ever!
WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)longship
(40,416 posts)That guy belongs in prison for the rest of his life.
Disgusting!
d_r
(6,907 posts)These two ladies are in addition to Tina Johnson on al.com
http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2017/11/new_roy_moore_accuser_he_didnt.html
so I think numbers 6, 7, and 8?
Kirk Lover
(3,608 posts)Sneederbunk
(14,314 posts)rainlillie
(1,095 posts)At this point they should be looking at cold-cases of missing teens. Clearly this guy had a problem. His urges were so strong he called the school.