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Connie Schultz
November 18, 2017 7:48 am
Connie Schultz is a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist and professional in residence at Kent State Universitys school of journalism. She is the author of two books, including and His Lovely Wife, which chronicled the successful race of her husband, Sherrod Brown, for the U.S. Senate.
Like so many women in recent days, Ive discovered a renewed interest in who and what I was at age 14.
My freshman portrait in my high school yearbook is smaller than most forever postage stamps. What a skinny, wide-eyed scaredy-cat I was back then. You could fit everything I knew about the world in one of the cups of my starter bra.
That was 1973.
Six years later, it was Leigh Corfmans turn to be 14.
She says thats when Roy Moore sexually assaulted her.
Moore was a 32-year-old assistant district attorney in Alabama at the time. Corfman says Moore pursued her stalked strikes me as a better word for it just days after meeting her with her mother.
From The Washington Post, which broke this story:
He picked her up around the corner from her house in Gadsen, drove her about 30 minutes to his home in the woods, told her how pretty she was and kissed her. On a second visit, she says, he took off her shirt and pants and removed his clothes. He touched her over her bra and underpants, she says, and guided her hand to touch him over his underwear.
I wanted it over with I wanted out, she remembers thinking. Please just get this over with. Whatever this is, just get it over.'
Whatever this is.
Anyone even tempted to suggest she was a consenting child needs to absorb the meaning of those words. At 14, she didnt even know how to make sense of what this man, who was more than twice her age, was trying to do to her.
You and I know.
Look away all you want. You and I, we know.
That same Washington Post story chronicled the accounts of three other women. They told the Post that Moore pursued them when they were between the ages of 16 and 18. One of them, Wendy Miller, says she was a 14-year-old Santas helper when she first caught his eye. She was 16 when he tried to date her.
Moore is now 70 and Alabamas Republican nominee in the Dec. 12 special election for U.S. Senate.
He is hoppin mad at these women.
From his initial written statement: These allegations are completely false and are a desperate political attack by the National Democrat Party and the Washington Post on this campaign.
Dont you love it when they try to swap out me with this campaign? Yeah, neither do I.
Besides, his campaign said in a later statement, if hed really gone after these minors, this would have come out years ago. Fake news, he added.
A reminder: If its news, it isnt fake. If its fake, it isnt news.
This week, another woman Beverly Young Nelson came forward to say that she, too, was a 16-year-old victim of Roy Moores.
In an emotional televised statement, Nelson described how Moore offered her a ride home from her waitressing job but then pulled his car to the back of the restaurant.
I was alarmed, and I immediately asked him what he was doing, she said. Instead of answering my questions, Mr. Moore reached over and began groping me and putting his hands on my breast. I tried to open my car door to leave, but he reached over and he locked it.
She added this: I thought he was going to rape me. I was twisting and I was struggling and I was begging him to stop.
Moore finally gave up with a warning. He was an important man in Etowah County, and she was just a child.
He told me, he said, Youre just a child, and he said, I am the district attorney of Etowah County, and if you tell anyone about this, no one will ever believe you.'
Nelson revealed her decades-old secret after Moore mocked his other accusers. She added that she voted for Donald Trump, to make clear that she was not politically motivated in going public now. Im bone-weary of those fellow liberals attacking her for that. I dont know why she supported an admitted sexual predator for president, but I dont need to know. I hate what happened to her when she was only 16 years old.
The national Republican machine is finally pulling out of Moores race. Many GOP leaders now call for him to step aside. Quite a sight, that one, watching those Republican members of Congress discover their spines. Without anesthesia, even.
So far, Moore refuses to budge.
And so we turn to you, voters of Alabama. Your country needs you.
Imagine the message for every girl in America if Roy Moore is elected to the U.S. Senate.
You know the right thing to do here.
You and I, we know.
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http://www.nationalmemo.com/country-turns-alabama
Full article posted with permission from Creators. -- Don
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(135,874 posts)dalton99a
(81,570 posts)Alabama, do you want that?
questionseverything
(9,659 posts)seigleman was the gov, he has struggled for years to get his story out in Alabama
what chance did children have at truth when the gov is ignored?
Former AL Gov. Don Siegelman Says Media Ignoring Details of His 'Electronically Stolen' 2002 Election
Has Given Story to 60 Minutes, Dan Abrams, LA Times, WaPo...All Have Failed to Report His Allegations While Covering Other Aspects of His Story...
http://bradblog.com/?p=5889
from the article...
Mark, I mention the vote stealing in every interview. 60 Minutes cut it out. Don Abrams didn't want to go there either. I have told the story to the Washington Post and LA Times.
he hook is Rove's fingerprints are found there too. First, in that Rove's friend Jack Abramoff hires Dan Gans,was in charge of " electronic ballot security" in Baldwin County, Alabama,where the votes were stolen. Gans, working for the Alexander Strategies Group, claims credit for the win on his website, which he then takes down when Abramoff gets arrested. The second is Rove's business partner, Kitty Mc Cullough (a/k/a Kelly Kimbrough) is given credit for the electronic vote switch by the state Republican Party.