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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAbout that Trump Dating site
See the grinning couple in the photo?
Well...
Its only fitting that the poster couple for the self-described specialized dating site administered by Friends Worldwide is Barrett and Jodi Riddleberger, who helped found the tea party-inspired Conservatives for Guilford County political action committee, or C4GC. Among the many candidates C4GC helped elect was US Rep. Mark Walker, formerly as associate pastor at Lawndale Baptist Church, where members of the PAC met...
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Likewise, the Riddlebergers provided a textbook example of how political ambitions and paranoia can result in self-inflicted wounds that Trump would probably appreciate. When the Riddlebergers friend, Jeff Hyde, ran for chairman of the Guilford County GOP in 2011, concerned associates worried that his candidacy would be torpedoed by revelations about Barrett Riddlebergers past conviction of indecent liberties with a child, stemming from a videotape of him having sex with a 15-year-old girl when he was 25. Most journalists would have hesitated to break the story considering that Barrett Riddleberger was a private citizen and not running for office himself. They didnt have to: Convinced that Greensboro City Councilwoman (now mayor) Nancy Vaughan had unearthed Barretts conviction and passed it on to GOP establishment friends so they could leak it to the media and torpedo Hydes candidacy, Jodi referenced the incident on Facebook. The unfounded and disputed allegation against Vaughan forced the episode into the public...
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Likewise, the Riddlebergers provided a textbook example of how political ambitions and paranoia can result in self-inflicted wounds that Trump would probably appreciate. When the Riddlebergers friend, Jeff Hyde, ran for chairman of the Guilford County GOP in 2011, concerned associates worried that his candidacy would be torpedoed by revelations about Barrett Riddlebergers past conviction of indecent liberties with a child, stemming from a videotape of him having sex with a 15-year-old girl when he was 25. Most journalists would have hesitated to break the story considering that Barrett Riddleberger was a private citizen and not running for office himself. They didnt have to: Convinced that Greensboro City Councilwoman (now mayor) Nancy Vaughan had unearthed Barretts conviction and passed it on to GOP establishment friends so they could leak it to the media and torpedo Hydes candidacy, Jodi referenced the incident on Facebook. The unfounded and disputed allegation against Vaughan forced the episode into the public...
https://triad-city-beat.com/conservative-activist-couple-greensboro-portrayed-trump-dating-site/#appvid=E6732ADF-6DF0-4F95-A7AC-A7E887DC8435
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About that Trump Dating site (Original Post)
blogslut
Feb 2018
OP
serial adulterty, strippers, porn actresses, lie cheat steal defraud. choicest of the choicest nt
msongs
Feb 2018
#1
Did she just give him two black eyes, or is he just that fucking ugly on his own?
ProudLib72
Feb 2018
#3
msongs
(67,453 posts)1. serial adulterty, strippers, porn actresses, lie cheat steal defraud. choicest of the choicest nt
The party of gawd and family values.
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)3. Did she just give him two black eyes, or is he just that fucking ugly on his own?
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demmiblue
(36,898 posts)5. K&R