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https://www.politico.com/story/2017/11/09/roy-moore-teenagers-report-fundraising-244761
Moore fundraises off of report alleging relationships with teenagers
By DANIEL STRAUSS
11/09/2017 06:13 PM EST
Alabama Republican Roy Moore sent a fundraising email Thursday afternoon asking for donations to combat the "Obama-Clinton Machine's liberal media lapdogs," hours after The Washington Post published accounts from four women who said that Moore pursued relationships with them when he was in his 30s and they were teenagers.
A defiant Moore, who faced calls from fellow Republicans to end his Senate campaign Thursday, cast the story as a political conspiracy against him and called the story "lies," asking "God-fearing conservatives" to help him carry on.
"The Obama-Clinton Machine's liberal media lapdogs just launched the most vicious and nasty round of attacks against me I've EVER faced," Moore wrote in the fundraising email. "I won't to get into the details of their filthy and sleazy attacks."
The Post reported that Moore, then age 32, initiated a sexual encounter with a 14-year-old girl in 1979. The Post quoted the woman, Leigh Corfman, as well as three other women who said in multiple interviews that Moore pursued relationships with them while they were teenagers.
"The forces of evil will lie, cheat, steal even inflict physical harm if they believe it will silence and shut up Christian conservatives like you and me," Moore continued in the email. "Their goal is to frustrate and slow down our campaign's progress to help the Obama-Clinton Machine silence our conservative message. That's why I must be able to count on the help of God-fearing conservatives like you to stand with me at this critical moment."
The email then asks for an "emergency contribution" to Moore's campaign.
Moore goes on to say he's "planning to slug it out with the Obama-Clinton Machine with everything I've got over the next four weeks before the December 12 Special Election."
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babylonsister
Nov 2017
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samnsara
(17,622 posts)1. the obama clinton machine??......wow we are powerful! ha!
greymattermom
(5,754 posts)2. Ok Alabama
is this what you want folks across the nation to think about you? Is Kentucky the home of a gigantic Toyota plant? Or is it the place where folks don't wear shoes? Think about this, Alabama.