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Sen. Toomey says Roy Moore should step aside over sexual allegations
Sen. Toomey says Roy Moore should step aside over sexual allegations
WASHINGTON — Republican Sen. Pat Toomey urged Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore on Sunday to drop out of the race, adding to the party’s growing disavowal of the controversial judge in a pivotal election following allegations that he initiated sexual contact with a 14-year old girl decades ago.
Toomey said Moore’s explanations have been inadequate so far in response to The Washington Post report last week and that Republicans should consider current Sen. Luther Strange as a write-in candidate to run against Moore.
“You know, this is a terrible situation, nearly 40-year-old allegation, we’ll probably never know for sure exactly what happened,” said Toomey, R-Pa. “But from my point of view, I think the accusations have more credibility than the denial. I think it would be best if Roy would just step aside.”
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Re: Sen. Toomey says Roy Moore should step aside over sexual allegations
He may not have to as he well might outright loose the election.
He is, however, a huge embarrassment for the GOP no matter what happens.
"Do not confuse motion and progress, A rocking horse keeps moving but does not make any progress"
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Re: Sen. Toomey says Roy Moore should step aside over sexual allegations
I listened to his interview on Hannity.
A friendly interviewer gave the guy 4 opportunities to categorically deny it, and Moore just couldn’t do it
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Re: Sen. Toomey says Roy Moore should step aside over sexual allegations
Roy Moore was reportedly once banned from an Alabama shopping mall for bothering teen girls
Roy Moore was once banned from a shopping mall in Alabama for bothering teenage girls, according to a report from The New Yorker published on Monday.
Moore, the former chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court, was born in the small town of Gadsden, Alabama. He frequented the Gadsden Mall in the 1980s, New Yorker reporter Charles Bethea wrote, citing his conversations with more than a dozen Gadsden locals, including former mall employees, members of the local legal community, and a major political figure who shared their recollections of Moore.
Greg Legat, a former employee who worked at the mall from 1981 to 1985, said that Moore had been banned from the shopping center: "It started around 1979 I think," Legat told the publication. "I know the ban was already in place when I got there."
The report said that Gadsden law-enforcement officials could not confirm whether Moore had been formally banned from the Gadsden Mall, however two unnamed officers said in the report that they had long heard stories about Moore's alleged activities there. "The general knowledge at the time when I moved here was that this guy [Moore] is a lawyer cruising around the mall for high-school dates," one of the officers was quoted as saying.
Another officer told the publication that although it was possible that Moore may not been "legally banned" from the mall, Moore's presence in the mall was seen as a problem.
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