Kentucky GOP lawmaker indicted on assault, accused of strangling woman with ethernet cable

[Maraya1969]

Earlier this year, a woman said Goforth, 44, strangled her with an ethernet cable to the point where she had trouble breathing and threatened to “hog tie” her, according to a police report reviewed by the newspaper.

The charges have renewed calls from local Democrats for Goforth, a staunch supporter of President Trump who had previously been accused of sexual assault, to resign from his seat. Neither he nor his attorney, Conrad Cessna, immediately responded to requests for comment from The Washington Post.

The Army veteran and pharmacist quickly made a name for himself in the statehouse by championing socially conservative causes, including proposing a “heartbeat abortion” bill that would have banned abortion as early as the sixth week of a pregnancy. As reported by the Louisville Courier-Journal, he also voted in favor of SB-70, a bill that reclassified strangulation as a Class D felony charge and added it to the definition of domestic or dating violence.

---------------------He was also accused of sexual assault twice in the past.


https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/09/21/kentucky-goforth-indicted-arrest-gop/

Link for people who don't have a subscription to WP - https://wfpl.org/state-rep-robert-goforth-charged-with-strangulation-assault/

[mikeysnot]

1. American psycho

[Nevilledog]

2. He seems nice.

[MagickMuffin]

3. It appears he has a thing for strangulation

As reported by the Louisville Courier-Journal, he also voted in favor of SB-70, a bill that reclassified strangulation as a Class D felony charge and added it to the definition of domestic or dating violence.

Goforth to prison psycho killer!

[lostnfound]

4. He needs major therapy before he goes to jail for murder and leaves three kids as orphans

This could easily have turned into murder.
He strangled her over an argument because she wouldn’t unlock her phone.

So..a control freak in some type of paranoid or jealous rage trow s to strangle the mother of his own children?

Tries to snuff out a life that he did not create, did not nurture, did not own?

While being the kind of legislator that tells other women what they can’t do to their own bodies?

I sure hope she doesn’t go back to him, but the article said “she attended with her husband”

[MineralMan]

5. What? A Republican interested in inflicting pain and humiliation on someone?

Oh, wait...never mind.

[Initech]

6. Very fine people on both sides.

[volstork]

7. Quelle surprise...

Psychopaths, every last one of them.

[Bettie]

8. This is who the Republican party is now.

What we are seeing is their core people, the true believers.

And they are the worst elements of our society.

[demosincebirth]

9. Seems like it's always republicans who do bad things to women.

[not_the_one]

11. I had to read this several times....

Why would Democrats for Goforth...

"renewed calls from local Democrats for Goforth, a staunch supporter of President Trump",

and why would they staunchly support the turd?

A simple comma after Democrats would have made it MUCH clearer.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

12. What's the matter with Kentucky?

[dalton99a]

13. Kentucky State Rep. Robert Goforth (R)