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OTOH, when you reject him you're likely to suffer politically as well. In other words, once the party got in bed with Trump, it is entirely (and predictably) screwed for thew foreseeable future.

 

I've had my wrist slapped for saying that it was common knowledge that Roy Moore was banned from the Gadsden Mall for hitting on teenage girls. Looks like professional journalists have heard it, and it's being mentioned in print now:


"This past weekend, I spoke or messaged with more than a dozen people—including a major political figure in the state—who told me that they had heard, over the years, that Moore had been banned from the mall because he repeatedly badgered teen-age girls. Some say that they heard this at the time, others in the years since. These people include five members of the local legal community, two cops who worked in the town, several people who hung out at the mall in the early eighties, and a number of former mall employees. (A request for comment from the Moore campaign was not answered.) Several of them asked that I leave their names out of this piece. The stories that they say they’ve heard for years have been swirling online in the days since the Post published its report. “Sources tell me Moore was actually banned from the Gadsden Mall and the YMCA for his inappropriate behavior of soliciting sex from young girls,” the independent Alabama journalist Glynn Wilson wrote on his Web site on Sunday. (Wilson declined to divulge his sources.) Teresa Jones, a deputy district attorney for Etowah County in the early eighties, told CNN last week that “it was common knowledge that Roy dated high-school girls.” Jones told me that she couldn’t confirm the alleged mall banning, but said, “It’s a rumor I’ve heard for years.”

Greg Legat, who is now fifty-nine and living in East Gadsden, was, from 1981 to 1985, an employee at the Record Bar, a store that was in the Gadsden Mall. By the early eighties, Legat told me, the mall was “the place to be. There were no empty stores. And lots of kids came around. Lots of teen-agers. You went there to see and be seen.” Legat met his wife, Jo Anne, there. She worked at a restaurant called Orange Bowl. Legat remembers that parents dropped their kids off at the mall, typically unchaperoned. Teens filled the place.

Legat says that he saw Moore there a few times, even though his understanding then was that he had already been banned. “It started around 1979, I think,” Legat said. “I know the ban was still in place when I got there.” Legat recalled a Gadsden police officer named J. D. Thomas, now retired, who worked security at the mall. “J. D. was a fixture there, when I was working at the store,” Legat said. “He really looked after the kids there. He was a good guy. J. D. told me, ‘If you see Roy, let me know. He’s banned from the mall.’ ” Legat recalled Thomas telling him, “If you see Moore here, tell me. I’ll take care of him.’ ” Legat said that his boss, Eddie Hill, also told him to look for Moore. A phone call to Hill’s number was not returned.

Reached by phone on Saturday, Thomas, who lives in the nearby town of Southside, declined to discuss the existence of a ban on Moore at the Gadsden Mall. “I don’t have anything to say about that,” he said. A former manager of the mall, who began working there in the late eighties, confirmed the existence of a ban list, but did not recall Moore being on the list during the manager’s tenure there. Barnes Boyle, who is eighty-six, also managed the mall, from 1981 to 1998. His wife, Brenda, told me that Moore was a longtime acquaintance of his—they went to the Y.M.C.A. together often—and that he planned to vote for him. The recent allegations against Moore, the Boyles thought, are likely liberal propaganda and, as Brenda put it, “a sign of the times.”


There is more, but that's the guts of it. Locals Were Troubled by Roy Moore’s Interactions with Teen Girls at the Gadsden Mall


It is also touched on here:
"Gadsden locals say Moore's predatory behavior at mall, restaurants not a secret

I hear that it was mentioned on a couple of morning shows today but I didn't see them.

I need to nail down the details, but Moore's wife is in the same yearbook class with one of the original four accusers as a sophmore, which would tend to lend credence to the entire story, I would think.

 

The Danny teams were Tark's least favorite, and he said so publicly. I'll add that the Hot Rod Williams Tulane beat the Danny team in the 1982 NIT quarters, in Vegas, overcoming an 11-point or so deficit in the 2nd half.

 

I'm embarrassed for Roy Moore's lawyer.

Roy Moore’s Lawyer Just Sent a Grammatical Apocalypse of a Letter Threatening Local Media

 

If that twat is the same goober who was on with Don Lemon, fuck him with a splintery two by four.

 

You’ve lost Oberkommando der Wehrmacht

 

Son of a middling Politburo member.

 

Same twat. His firm bio is entertaining. It's all about how he played football at Troy and got their asses handed to them by Miami and Nebraska.

 

Troy? That figures. UAB fans know not to park in Pike county lest someone leave a Troy diploma under the windshield wiper.

McConnell proposes Sessions as a write-in to replace Moore - CNNPolitics

Idiot that he is, Sessions would get elected in an eyeblink. That is doubly true now since he'd be getting the R's off of the Roy Moore meathook.

 

Sessions has said he's not interested. His word is hardly his bond, and he might jump in and say, "oh, I forgot I said that," but I can also see why he wouldn't want to jump into the middle of a civil war in his own party in his home state.