Tweet by CNN Reporter quoting source: "It was common knowledge that Roy dated high school girls...."
Source: Alexander Marquardt CNN on Twitter
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Fmr Dep. DA Theresa Jones, who worked alongside Roy Moore, tells CNN: It was common knowledge that Roy dated high school girls, everyone we knew thought it was weird...We wondered why someone his age would hang out at high school football games and the mall..."
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BootinUp
(47,393 posts)StevieM
(10,503 posts)GOPers will excuse anything when it was one of their own.
mgardener
(1,843 posts)Not done till the kitchen goes up in flames!
monmouth4
(9,771 posts)More_Cowbell
(2,193 posts)Talk about arrested development.
Iggo
(47,723 posts)DBoon
(22,521 posts)In the same way he could dominate and control a child.
This isn't about sex, it's about power, the power white republican men think they should have over everyone else
DallasNE
(7,420 posts)And that is still the case to this very day.
I'm sure this will have no impact with men. Southern women generally follow the lead of their man but I'm wondering if they will this time. The story this time is a little more compelling than some of the other sex and politics stories.
TexasBushwhacker
(20,363 posts)and didn't want to be around a control freak. That was my experience. The men in their 30s who were attracted to teenagers wanted someone who looked up to them, who would do what they told them to do. The older and more educated women didn't put up with that shit.
trof
(54,268 posts)DallasNE
(7,420 posts)So he would have been 38 and her 24. If he started dating her 2 years before that he would have been 36 and her 22 when they met - and that would have been just 4 years after the episode with the 14 year old.
Ligyron
(7,700 posts)It will cause chaos in the Senate and give us a big stick to beat up the GOP with.
get the red out
(13,468 posts)It would fall to the wayside soon enough and be embraced by the Rs like every other crook and pervert in their party.
Pope George Ringo II
(1,896 posts)You think Trump has rehabilitated his predecessors? You ain't seen nothing yet, folks.
To be clear, I think the best-case scenario is that the write-in campaign for Strange peels off the more moderate Republicans being held hostage by the Bannon wing--or that they simply stay home in disgust--and that this puts Jones in the Senate.
LisaL
(45,037 posts)Yikes.
cab67
(3,057 posts)....so will Louis Gohmert.
christx30
(6,241 posts)Someone that would fight marriage equality that hard is going to be the darling of the right. I've been reading posts from the right making all kinds of excuses for him. "He was being romantic", as if that is better.
moonscape
(4,681 posts)pedophilia to be a line in the sand for everyone regardless of politics.
TomCADem
(17,393 posts)Be careful what you wish for? Like Trump, electing Roy Moore may just end up changing what Americans think is normal.
calimary
(82,025 posts)Well so be it. I put it to all his followers and fans: So you're okay with this? You're okay with him? WHAT DOES THAT SAY ABOUT YOU, THEN?????
OWN it, you assholes. This is YOU. HE is YOU. And YOU are HIM.
RKP5637
(67,112 posts)calimary
(82,025 posts)They're okay with this shit? Maybe THEY'VE been doing it, too, then.
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WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)14, I was in NINTH grade.
Moore didn't "date" his accuser.
Cal Carpenter
(4,959 posts)I get older, they stay the same age... "
eta: that's a quote from Wooderson in the movie Dazed and Confused. It just occurred to me that there may be people who don't know that. But I'm sure I'm not the only who thought of that quote...
Ugh.
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)Iggo
(47,723 posts)LisaL
(45,037 posts)Grammy23
(5,820 posts)Couldnt she have talked to one of her colleagues about the gossip. Maybe done a little more than gossip since they thought it was odd? Done a little investigating?? Something besides talk and snicker. As a person with more than average legal understanding she should have had a curiosity enough to do something. Just saying...
They talk about it NOW. Way too late for any girls he may have molested.
Iggo
(47,723 posts)TeamPooka
(24,470 posts)shadowmayor
(1,325 posts)I'll bet he requested a "special" kind of girl when he ran the brothels. He's so obviously a sick fuck, but it's his adherents that make America so truly exceptional - exceptionally dysfunctional that is. Conservatism is a development disorder and Roy boy is their poster child.
lark
(23,366 posts)njhoneybadger
(3,910 posts)zentrum
(9,866 posts)...is 16. The problems in this state run very deep.
efhmc
(14,768 posts)a prepubescent female and an adult male. What it means is a creepy older man attacks a young girl.
Bob Loblaw
(1,900 posts)that Jodie Foster was one of the underage girls?
GulfCoast66
(11,949 posts)He want to insure his wife was a pure virgin. Not kidding.
L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)Maybe we should be checking his DMV records.
Berlin Expat
(951 posts)Loyd
(309 posts)..."Roy Moore," translated into Old High German, means "Humbert Humbert."